If I remember correctly, Blizzard games like Starcraft originally did the actual multiplayer game state synchronization as direct communication between the players, Battle.Net just did the matchmaking and chat which is pretty low bandwidth.
Maybe they can rewrite their netcode to be more like that.

Such as freetaxusa. Search around. Turbotax is so lame and overpriced. Rant: we should just have some basic withholding percentage, tariffs, and then a similar basic flat percentage from all corporate revenue. No funny deductions, no net profit games, just revenue almost like a federal sales tax. IMHO if these were some reasonable level it'd be fine, we could then fund the rest on deficit spending (like we're so prone to do anyways.)

I put one camera up(not ring and locked down) because my 80 year old neighbor was snooping. I got video of her walking onto our porch staring through the windows and trying the door she then step off the porch without a step and walked away. She can barely walk if she took that big step down onto soft garden dirt and fell her head would have bounced off brick walkway.

  I have since put up two more cameras to cover the doors of my home as I also had footage of her walking around our backyard when we were not home.

Going into your neighbors property especially without fences is okay if you are retrieving something, walking to a specific point etc. if a fence goes up thatâ(TM)s different.

I already blocked updates and managed to stop the update nagging after the AI features were announced, I'm not undoing that.

I look forward to the end game where we have no taxes. No corporate taxes. After all they just pass it on to consumers. No income taxes. Just pay for it on import tariffs. Skip that too, why not? We already run a large deficit. All the spending sits on the ever expanding national debt. Now no one has a say except those who sit on massive piles of cash that faces risks of devaluation. Sounds awesome. Even foreign holders of cash/debt. They matter more than the citizens after all. Power to the powerful!! After all, they're already in charge.

In 1940 the world had a population about 2.3 billion

It is currently about 8.3 billion. In less than a century we tripled the planetary population.

Even if every country has a 3 decades of negative growth it will be 60 years before we drop below 7 billion people.

Or three times the population we had in 1940
The rapidly rising population is what drove the growth of everything. A slowly declining population will drag everyone down for decades

LLMâ(TM)s have legitimate useful business cases that can save employees hours.

Guess where LLM isnâ(TM)t being applied rapidly?

An LLM tha can scan a pdf and then either create database entries or an importable file that creates the database entries would save workers hours a week.

  Think scan a pdf and import it into the ERP software database. Think scan a packing slip or order acknowledgement pdf and import it.

It isnâ(TM)t sexy it isnâ(TM)t ground breaking it can save small busineesss. 10-120 hours a week. And now it is like $0.30 a page. When it needs to be $.003 a page.

Also it isnâ(TM)t really ai yet. AI is coming these might lead to limited pseudo intellect but ant colonies and ravens have better problem solving skills

Llm only works when someone else has given the answer or at least parts of it.

What a travesty! What a waste! Hippy nonsense! Do you realize how insane your comment is? Of course, water should reach the sea. Water should replenish aquifers. We should be careful when choosing what and how to dry land farm and what to irrigate. But we aren't, humans are wasteful and greedy.

I really enjoy my E-ink-based reader (jailbroken Kindle Oasis).
It's pretty close to printed paper with the option to use a front-light.
It has about the same weight or lighter than a mass market paperback so I can hold it comfortably in one hand.
It has physical buttons to flip pages so I don't have to screw around with touch gestures and just leave my thumb on the next page button, more convenient than turning physical pages.
I can essentially take as many books as I want with me in one small package.
I can use the dictionary function to look up terms I'm not familiar with.
And there's a display for how many pages are left in the chapter so I know how long I have until I can take a break or go to sleep.

Sure, but then you have to explain that fact in case people don't know, which takes longer.

AI is killing bitcoin

The bitcoin data centers can make more money selling services to AI. While they will operate in parallel for a while I expect that to be displaced over time.

Bitcoin after 15 years has no easy practical use. Venmo is more useful than bitcoin. Even the big blockchain programs have mostly wound down or have collapsed in scope. There are still a few but all are now small time or specific use cases.

Once mining becomes unprofitable bitcoin will collapse. By design bitcoin is set to be unprofitable. (Halting event) bitcoin by design is deflationary meaning it is supposed to lose value.

They were called the Bush tax cuts as a disparaging term. Bush campaigned on eliminating the debt, so fast. But the economy hit a road bump, so he cut taxes. We even then went to war and didn't pay for it. So yea, he gets to wear that. Typical fiscal-cough-cough-conservative. We've been living in his dystopian "the economy sucks so keep taxes low" world view ever sense. Even the democrats couldn't buck the trend. Which is a damn shame.

Almost zero coffee is grown at n the USA. Only a couple of small farms in Hawaii can grow it.

All coffee and tea is imported. Have you started breaking your coffee.habit yet? That is a huge part of regionalization. Wait until conservatives find out no more coffee and tea.

Best I can tell there's already a classic book in this space: Earl Mindell's Herb Bible. Its a neat coffee table book. You can just read parts at a time and it is enjoyable. Super fun to look out for the herbs that specifically warn they're unsafe during pregnancy ;-) Made me wonder just how effective a cocktail of these would be to induce a miscarriage.

How about a temp regulating bed so in the winter it is a nice warm and on those extra hot summer nights it is nice and cool.

They need multiple sensors and such to regulate the beds temp vs your bed heat at the time.

What they donâ(TM)t need is an internet connection?