No more than any other thing that Apple created and became wildly successful with.

Apple also has a track record of letting you turn features off.

With Apple, we have increasing use of local ML processing for various reasons including privacy. Unlike Google, Apple sells hardware and software not you.

I'd agree. I've been using them for years and they've been generally good. The only thing I really needed Google for was some programming related searches, but over the years they even started getting bad at those so DDG wasn't as bad comparatively. Incidentally the AI results for programming searches are actually quite good now that they're citing sources and usually the link I want is among those. I haven’t used it for much outside of that, but if it works as well for other things, I can see why Google would want to push it after they screwed up their conventional search so badly over the past decade.

With respect to modest environments today, more practical and common would be an Apple Watch. It can locally use ML models to process voice and biometric sensor data.

Spin iron. :-)

Anaerobic life exists too, from deep sea thermal vents to inside the human body. O2 may facilitate the development of complex life.

It's more about the chemistry than what we observe on earth. It's that oxygen generates more energy, and nature tends to evolve towards the more efficient. Its also believed the aerobic is more likely to produce complex life. We're more interested in finding the complex life. Not that finding anaerobic bacteria wouldn't be amazing, but it would be seen more as a stepping stone to the more complex. An intermediary goal.

Also, life on earth was not always aerobic. Anaerobic still exist, from deep sea thermal vents to inside the human body.

The President is part of the law making process. Congress produces a bill, its does not become a law until the President signs it or the Congress overrides a veto.

Actually you need to take your own advice. There is a cartoon for elementary school kids called "I'm just a Bill". You may want to watch it.

It demonstrates the ability to complete a long, sometimes boring, bureaucratic process with some competence. So it was a screening tool for management trainees for many decades. On the job learning and performance took over at that point.

Nope. Observing the work of journalists over many decades demonstrates the problem.

Ironically, this describes you very well in this conversation.

You're the one with all the guesswork in this conversation.

Of course, but this particular tech is difficult to move to the lunar environment. :-)

The Pak-Lite 9V flashlight is also pretty good on those 9Vs as they come out of the smoke detectors, they have some life left in them.

I'll use eneloop rechargeables for things inside the house, or outside when not extremely cold. But for the things that lives in the car, or the garage (southern california), disposable lithium is better due to its handing of temperature extremes. Similar for cold weather outdoors. The rechargeables can take long term damage and discharge faster.

If we move away from cars, home power walls, etc and think about things like non-disposable tools. Flashlights, meters, testers and all sorts of other stuff in the toolbox. Then Lithium is a pretty good choice for AA, AAA, and 9V batteries. Less likely to leak. Handles extreme temperatures like a car interior. Camping lights when it's cold. Would be nice for that to get cheaper.

Look for things sneaked into the budget / payload manifest under rocket fuel manufacturing. :-)