I have cars with very basic controls, but even then, one of them has a screen (and a number of basic controls for AC anyway).. I know foe sure that a phone in my hand with the map on it or with a YouTube channel (I listen, I watch the road) is much easier from point of view of reaction speed than the car's touchscreen. A phone I can glance at for a fraction of a second and control it from memory mostly, the car's screen is so much slower, it requires much longer time to deal with its interface Using a touchscreen in a car is more dangerous than a phone, for sure.

Put stereo controls on the steering wheel, even cheap cars often offer this as an option now anyway. Put physical climate controls below the screen. You might need to look to grab the knob, but you can look at the road while you turn it. With some of these screen-only climate control systems they have sliders or other stupid controls that require a lot of attention. And also a button to activate the camera since every vehicle has poor rear visibility now.

The problem I've had with Mastodon, assuming it's representative of fediverse microblogging, is that its search relies almost completely on hashtags. Full-text search is opt-in per post, and very few users have bothered to hunt for the switch to opt in and turn it on. Posts made before the introduction can't be found at all except through tags. And the users of Mastodon think that's a good thing because it protects vulnerable members of marginalized groups from abusive bigots searching for them.

This leaves users like me to play "guess the hashtag" all the time. I search for what I think is the right tag for a topic, and all the posts I find are my own. Or I write a post and nobody else engages with it because nobody else is searching for the tags I used. What am I supposed to do to get my posts seen?

'nuff said

Yes, exactly. Best Buy got Napster because they bought Roxio - the CD-Burning software company. LOL. "Roxio Toastt". Roxio was the first vulture to pick the bones of the original Napster, buying branding assets when the feds shut it down.

Invented virtualization.

The WWW is older than the EU, though the general public became aware of it in the same year the Maastricht Treaty was signed. The principle of hypertext is older than the WWW, though. I had hypertext software on DOS, it "only" didn't link to other computers. That's an obvious extension, though. And it literally is obvious, because people were doing similar things with Unix, via rcp and uucp. For example, there were automated UUCP info gateways. You'd send them mail and they'd send you dynamic data.

In what way is pointing out that Musk is a Nazi a defense of a POTUS who is also a Nazi?

" In some cases, the AI model will generate further copies by how it responds to prompts, "

In no cases, you mean. It creates some close variants which might be considered derivative works, though.

Evaporative cooling. The water is lost to the atmosphere. The total power budget for your query includes a percentage of the energy it took to train the model. Just serving your query isn't all that expensive, but the training time is.

For me, the game I cannot play is Rust. Yes you can run it just fine, and yes there are maybe a couple of servers you can play on, and they have anticheat disabled. There are popular anticheat systems which work on Linux, EAC being one of them, and I've got a lot of games with online components and anticheat which do work very well. I was surprised by the percentage of my various game libraries* which could be easily installed via Lutris and work just fine. Most of them have very good performance as well.

A handful of Steam games don't run and more don't run well without Proton-GE, but a lot of games work without any addons at all. And speaking of addons, they are mostly easy to manage using steamtinkerlaunch, which supports both Vortex and MO2. There are definitely game mods which don't work well with Wine or Proton, mostly ones which have very specific runtime requirements. Some of those don't run well even with the runtimes installed with wine/protontricks.

* For a while there, Humble Bundles were awesome, and a lot of those games were on services which I never would have otherwise patronized.

...all of them which don't involve human effort are bullshit, because only humans can suitably detect the hallucinations.

The comments here demonstrate a lot of AI Effect, to the point that most of it is clearly wishful thinking plus lack of experience with current-generation LLMs.

This whole debate is a little weird to me, because unassisted suicide is very easy, and cheap. Out of an abundance of caution I'll refrain from describing common cheap, painless, easy methods, but the information is very easy to obtain online. So it seems to me that the issue really only arises if the patient is already severely debilitated by their illness, such that they lack either physical capacity to carry it out. Those situations occur, of course, but they're far less common that the scope of the debate would seem to imply.

Thus, I think the first step any regulation should apply is to ask the question "Is the patient physically capable of unassisted suicide"? If the answer is yes, then no one may assist, except to provide information. This alone should filter out nearly all of the "greedy relatives" cases. If there's a case of an individual who says they want to die, and is physically capable of doing it but just can't bring themselves to... IMO that's a case of someone who hasn't really decided they want to.

I've lived all over, in all sorts of dwellings and properties. At the moment, I'm in the sort of neighborhood you have in mind.

FYI: On large properties — when you have private roads, culverts, shared fences lines, trees and other growth, property line issues, etc. — you do have to interact with neighbors. Repairs, maintenance and other issues come up, and this has to be coordinated with neighbors. Properties are often unoccupied, and neighbors rely on each other to deal with things. In the pricier neighborhoods, there are HOA officers that are in regular contact with property owners. In rural properties, where no HOA is involved, you and your neighbors are on the hook for everything, and everything has to be worked out among you.

When I've lived on smaller properties in dense neighborhoods, this is where I've had little to no contact with neighbors. Similarly when living in apartment complexes.

So I think our tech bro coastal city dwellers have a naive view of what goes on on all those pricey surburb and exburb properties they hate so much. It isn't what you imagine.