...wacky ideas, so if it keeps his orange nose out of pressing issues, I deem it good.

Did you mean to write "free"? I'm pretty sure it's included in the cost, rather than free in any meaningful sense. Perhaps you meant to write "Unwanted", or "forced"?

Typical AI shill answer (and the word "agentic" in the sentence is a dead giveaway too).

Wrong logic: a person's job should be gone if your "agentic" thing does the job cheaper AND at least as well.

As always, AI shills conveniently forget to factor in the quality of the work produced.

The reality of AI is, while it might be cheaper than real workers, it also enshittifies the entire world. And that's a fact.

Does it work without a Facebook account and 24/7 creepy corporate surveillance?

Oh...

Could you hook the hardware up to a Linux system and then get that data to your applications some other way? Looks like Linux still has firewire support, and you can connect to pipewire with ffado.

That's typically disingenuous. Yawn, yawn, yawn.

There's no sobbing in vibe coding.

Just bullshit on top of more bullshit.

The USB-A should be relocated between the Centronics and RS-232 ports. Save space by mounting it vertically!

bizarre as it sounds, try Walmart's house brand, Onn.

they'er the only brand (other than apple itself) that I've tried that consistently works (and I've tried most if not all of the major brands).

They usually last until I do something stupid (leave behind, catch in hinges, drop laptop cable first, etc.). And the price is right, too--most are $6-$10.

>I'm hoping to see the first recycled reactor core! ;^)

c'mon, now.

*everyone* knows that reactor cores blow into a fireball of plasma when you eject them, as soon as they're far enough out that the writers think the ship can (almost) plausibly escape! :)

hawk

What was functionally worse about the XP fisher-price skin? It didn't change any behavior, only appearance.

AI has already made just about anyone who knows how to use it vastly richer. You can get (often better) medical diagnosis without taking time off from work, navigate a will and a tax return without having to hire a lawyer, figure out how to structure investments without hiring a financial manager, learn exactly what steps to take and what you need to buy to do a home repair. Have an idea of something to sell? You can offload a lot of figuring out market fit, advertising, business structure, etc. People who want to be entrepreneurs have a lot less holding them back.

As for killing economic activity, I realize you view all of those all as net losses to society since no six or seven figure salary professional gets to send a massive bill in the mail. But for my part I am buying **more things** things because AI is helping me find out exactly what I need - often solutions I hadn't realized were available. And I am engaging **more** services for the same reason - not every home repair is feasible with AI help, but I can use it to find out when and what professionals are needed, expected cost, and who is licensed and well-reviewed.

Effectively having an auto-shopper buy all sorts of stuff for me and hire services I previously didn't have time to verify would be a net benefit is supposed to "reduce" economic activity???

If we even buy into the theory that humans or some group of humans will be completely sidelined by the AI economy, to the point they don't have jobs - might not those extraneous humans still want to eat? And might not they turn to finding ways to produce their own food? And wouldn't some of them need to work on the necesssary equipment? And isn't it conceivable they would start trading skills and material for food, mediated by some agreed upon means of exchange? And if some portion of that food or material might be even the least bit useful to anyone in the AI economy, might not they trade with them as well?

There is not going to be an end to economic activity. Economic activity isn't whatever is leftover for humans to do after the machines finish, economic activity is whatever humans (A) want and (B) can obtain. 'A' is limitless; 'B' only increases over time.

Admiral Ackbar: "It's a trappist!"

Yes, airships make sense here, while airplanes do not.

All it takes is just one soft spot on an improvised runway to demolish a larger-and-therefore-more-expensive-than-ever-before cargo airplane either on takeoff or landing.

You actually believed that the world's largest cargo airplanes are going to land on an improvised runway? SMH.