Kids wake up from forced bedtime ... the intention would be not to turn the AI scumbag back on again.

You run the one or two Windows programs that you need on a Windows LTSC VM running in a nice, padded VirtualBox cell.

I'd rather have a 9 to 5 in person, especially in a country that mandates a certain amount of vacation time and sick leave. At least I'm done at 5pm, can go home or go out for a drink with cow-orkers first to vent about work. I'm not tied to work via a mobile device or laptop once working hours end.

Is being a landlord any different from any other rental business (cars, music/Spotify, etc)? If anything, it requires more physical work to keep a property properly maintained than other rental businesses.

Because there's no fucking way in Hell that I'm installing employer spyware on a personal device. At the very most, it will be the cheapest, least secure Android phone that I can buy, and which will stay in a desk drawer (or get turned off/Airplane moded) outside of working hours.

Can I MIC U shut up, you AI clanker? My only thought when I see an AI prompt (generally with annoying multi color circle logo) is "how can I hide the motherfucking thing so it stops nagging me with its very existence?"

Frankly, society would be better off if the Web were much more limited, and not in everyone's pocket all of the time ... if we end up with a Carrington-level geomag storm (sun's active recently) that kicks tech back 50 years overnight, humanity would be improved for it.

It's scum being pushed by dweebs like Altman who should have been shoved lockers more in HS.

Might be cheaper to find a different wyfie. "Pay for it yourself, HONEY, if you want it so badly" is also an option. Men need to learn to tell them no.

I wish I could at least get Alexa to respond to "Hey! You! Nosy bitch over there!" :D

Same, except Linux laptop and media center PC.

Actually, the best fridges are the "white boxes" designed for scumlords who replace their tenants' appliances every 25 years. I'm not joking in any way, either.

By that argument, maybe the solution is to flip the table ... EMP the Earth, so NO ONE will get to that stage for the next 100 years since we'll be too busy rebuilding from the Second Dark Age.

They have a lot fewer nukes than the US and Europe combined. Second of all, their economy is still heavily dependent on exports. Shut that valve off tomorrow and it will hurt them, a lot.

A few dozen EMP devices over the Eastern hemisphere (Yudkowsky solution) might fix that ASAP.

Who is "we?" Why is "we" spreading out into an airless shithole (space) and becoming part of the Borg a good thing? Butlerian now! Fuck the Cosmists.