For as long as I live, I will always beat a bot at Chihuahua or Blueberry Muffin.

It depends if we ever have to face selection pressure again.

Counter-strike 2 is still one of the most played games. It's ancient.
I still play Baldur's Gate 3, Skyrim, and Morrowind more frequently than anything else in my library. These game companies aren't going to make a lot of money off me if I'm still playing 20 year old games. I probably play Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri about 5 hours every year, not the main thing I play but it's a 25 year old game that I still go back to from time to time.
Online games tend to be very long-lived as long as the servers are kept up. I used to play ESO a lot, and it looks like it is still fairly active today but it's fallen off the top 100 of the Steam Charts.

Technology is so great that we don't have to adapt or change our behavior.

I might get excited about Passkeys when Linux support improves. Right now, when I try and add a passkey for my Google account on my Linux laptop (the machine that I actually trust) it tells me that I need to try a different OS.

No thanks. I only keep secrets to accounts that I care about on a machine where I am root. Unfortunately that doesn't include my phone.

The idea of using public/private keypairs for logging in appeals to me. I have been doing that with machines and accounts that I care about for decades at this point. However, if the implementation requires that I use someone's sooper special vault that doesn't come with source code then I am going to give it a hard pass.

so fewer injuries. also no worker's comp insurance necessary.

Authy is 2FA, Passkeys are different. If you are looking for a 2FA solution to replace the desktop Authy client i would strongly suggest KeepassXC. it will do what you want, and you can keep your database on the devices that you want it on. Also, it will generate QR codes so that you can export your 2FA secrets to other devices (like Google Authenticator).

Coincidentally KeepassXC will also do passkeys, which makes me think that perhaps I could use them for some sites.

Hopefully we can avoid learning any language. An AI can translate a series of gesticulations unique to the individual.

sorry! I was poking fun. both at the AI hype and my own ignorance.

While I've seen some really interesting applications for AI. Like for translation and more natural sounding speech synthesis.
There is also a lot of stuff going on that smells like a solution searching for a problem.

For data processing. I'm not sure I trust it unless I can verify the results or methodology. Since AI systems are a black box, I can't really examine the methodology used to arrive at the result.

As a programmer, I don't want to provide instructions to my computer in English (or any natural language). I need a subset of human language that is precise and unambiguous. I don't want nuance and multiple meanings to trip up the interpretation of my instructions.

Part of the court room discourse is a ritualized performance that is designed to keep laypeople at arm's length from the domain of JD's. But another aspect of legal language is that lawmakers and lawyers need a industrial sub-language that is well defined and can work as a shorthand for more complex concepts.

Another complication is that the US's legal system is rather complicated. As each State is a mini-country with its own constitution and subtly different legal system. With some states having a corpus of statute that fills multiple bookshelves. And unlikely that any one person could hold the whole of the legal code in their head.

There's a market for this? No wonder I never understood AI.

I used to live in a town got it right. It was a small town near a major city. Two parking garages at either end of the main road in town (free parking). Lots of shops and restaurants and bars. A short walk from the parking garage was a light rail station to get you to the downtown of the major city. Shopping center and movie theater a short walk or a single bus stop away from the main street. I left because the rent got too expensive. Too many rich people lived there.

but ... garbage collection!

Is it true that Linux is still limited to a total of 16TB in swap partitions max? I really need the kernel patched so I can use this new hardware for running Java.

We've only been trying laissez-faire capitalism out for 250 years or so. I think we should at least give it an even 500 years before giving up on the idea. If that doesn't work we should revert to mercantilism or feudalism until we can find something better.