Well, my phone battery doesn't last for days and never has. I have a powerbank for long workdays in the field, camping, or when I just want to charge something while using it - e.g. a game controller. Or my bike's lights when I'm nowhere near an outlet. You don't have to understand this but your lack of understanding doesn't make it less real.

Sure, but the industrial revolution took 100 years, AI in vombination witz robotics will be much faster - so there is a far greater potential for disruption. And, sure, LLMs won't be able to replace a lot of jobs, but it won't stay at LLMs (they seem already being replaced by "reasoning models"), and it's enough if they replace 10-30% of jobs within 10 years to male a digference. And, let's be honest, there are already a lot of bullshit-jobs out there where a LLM could at least replace the weaker ones today or in the near future, e.g. judicial assistants or psychotherapists

Should have read: "amount to killing intelligent life"

So, it's probably worth it to think about it beforehand.

Isn't it commom practice among the Five Eyes countries to have each extensively spy on the citizens of the others and then share that data to circumvent national rights?

Sure but chauffeurs will be far from the only ones that will be replaced by robots in the medium future. It has been absolutely predictable for some years that we're steering toward a big, fast wave of automation and job-loss. I'd measure future politicians on what they have done today to deal with that.

Slow, clunky UIs, pre-installed apps, lots of tracking. That's nothing new, that Samba tracking has been on Sony TVs even before they became "smart". That's one of the reasons I still got a non-smart-TV from Sony five years ago - hope it lasts a long time. I agree with the rest of the list, though.

I read a rumor that the Switch 2 might achieve around 3,4 tflops and have 12GB of RAM. Combined with DLSS, real world game performance could be closer to a ps5 than to a ps4. I'm not too worried about the magnetic attachment. There was a rumor of them using electropermanent magnetes and Nintendo usually offers quite sturdy hardware (although the especially old joycons weren't that robust), so that should be fine. I wonder if they ever considered calling it Super Switch.

I'd love to have something grating, like Baby cries or nails on a chalkboard.

It's around 7 Watts in standby. Individually that's nothing, maybe a dollar a month, tops. But if you combine all macminis, it's megawatts for nothing.

Yes, so why doesn't anyone sent them aid? "Anyone" includes Russia and Venezuela.

First it collapses (present tense) and then an earthquake hit it (past tense). English isn't my native language, but isn't causality a thing most languages share?

The world DOES need a laugh right now. It would be funnier, though, if this election could not have dire consequences for Ukraine the Middle East, Asia and the American people.

Nope, the $3 usb-reader won't read out the card fast enough that you can swap it back in when the other card is full - and back up that one. Nor won't a cable with usb2 speeds be fast enough. That was the point. Sure, in an ideal world cables don't break on the job and I should and normally would use a fast cable and have a spare. But shit happens and then you're standing in a field and can't shoot the action happening right now because your cards are full and you'd need another 30 minutes to offload them. ("Bring enough media" I hear you say, but when filming slow motion with 128 gb cards for $200 a pop that only hold 15 minutes of footage, that's easier said than done)

A lot of films are french only, so ymmv