Better sources you say?

For those of us who really care about audio and video quality (there's 100's of us left!), nothing can compete with straight uncompressed blu-ray to play on one's home theater. The last thing I want is a bunch of jpeg artifacts showing up from the video compression, or plain stereo audio when I went to the trouble to put together a 7.1 surround sound audio system. Unfortunately, the size of blu-ray disks makes it unwieldy to have more than a few of them on your hard drive. I really wish I could get some sort of blu-ray carousel to store and retrieve them in a manner that's as convenient as movie files on a networked NAS (to make them universally accessible on my network), but the best we can get is just blu-ray players with large disk changers that can only output directly to hdmi. :(

Just you wait until teams of robots are deployed to build houses. The AI isn't always up to snuff on fixing/building everything, so the plumber/electrician tech needs to remotely log into the robot from his home VR harness to do the hard corner cases type work.

If you're paranoid about a "smart" speaker, I've got some bad news for you involving an always on, networked, portable, listening device that's been installed in your pocket for years

You also have to add some ridiculously huge loudspeakers rocking some heavy metal to give the peasants a few seconds warning to get the **** out of our way! Safety first, after all.

At least they used to. Roku has endangered their position as a neutral platform by deciding to compete with their own streaming services. Amazon had already killed their Twitch Roku app last year. Possibly more on the way if they see Roku Streaming Channel as a threat.

I just needed to log on to say THANK YOU, that is an amazing set of statistics you put together. To see those numbers spelled out for two races, and see that the police shooting rate is the same makes me happy. Of course it'd be nice if the police shooting rate was zero, but maybe we don't have to have race riots if everyone realized that we're being shot at the same rate by the police.

It sounds like you're giving out memberships to the club

You're not thinking very critically. When designing a robot, you don't start with a current human appropriate standard, strap on autonomy, and hope it doesn't kill anything. There are all kinds of "from-the-ground-up" redesigns that can be done because of the different size and time economies of robots, as well as safety considerations. Think small, light, and uses something more like a weed eater string as a cutting tool.

hey man, you ok? Did the iRobot run over your dogshit? That is a pretty nasty way to be turned off to our young robotic helpers.

That crowd is referring to government surveillance. FYI, there's none of that in this case

Ok, it's juvenile. But it's also kind of impressive how many different categories of webpages it can do specialized scraping for.

Adding to that, it was the famous Celeron 300A: https://www.anandtech.com/show...

Ah, yes. Overclocking my little 300MHz celeron to 450MHz with just a bios adjustment was glorious

I can confirm that it works great on 5GHz wifi. Even 2.4GHz works if you're ok with a little more lag and nobody's running the microwave.