I'm talking about the original Pis whose USB would crater with any non trivial traffic. Those boards were defective and they should have replaced them. That should have been the end of the raspi when they didn't.

A MiniPC with the specs of the one I bought for $300 is now $600.

This guy must be the rsilvergun AI troll. He has exactly the right unabomber level of connection to reality.

He is the troll. The call is coming from inside his head

I'm not saying that as an insult that's just a literal fact.

It is extraordinarily expensive to train a police officer. Much of this expense is because of corruption. Most of the training that we give them these days is pseudo-military training that looks cool to idiots. Think gravy seals. But we still have to pay for it all and the city has to pay for it.

The upshot to that is doing the actual job is incredibly boring. It's mostly pulling people over and giving them tickets. Something like 70% of police officers will never even draw their sidearm.

However the job pays reasonably well given how bad the economy is and has a clear career path to retirement. Along with a lot of opportunities to make extra money on the side.

So the problem cities had was people would go through all the training get bored out of their mind at the job and quit and go do something else. So they started to do testing to detect people or too smart. People who would get bored.

I haven't done it myself but I have friends that have applied to be a police officer and been turned down and when they looked into it it literally came down to they were too smart and the algorithm said they would quit the job after 6 months to a year haven't gotten all that expensive training...

As a result we intentionally select dumb people to be police. As an added bonus if you need them to bust heads at a union meeting they're all on board...

Dumb people tend to be violent because when you're not all that bright you quickly run out of options. Like the old saying goes, War is the continuation of political policy by other means...

So you get a lot of police officers beating their wives. You get a lot of cops shooting people they shouldn't be shooting. That sort of thing.

And you get a lot of cops spying on their exes.

They're a well known and well understood solutions to this problem. Other countries have done them. But America generally isn't up for that

Treating you like you're the problem when they have bugs and design flaws is not ok.

I dropped Apple over their handling of the B&W G3 logic board faults. This is the same kind of shit.

My advice is to not be a cuck. The raspi people made it harder for you to tinker with your own hardware and you should not appreciate that any more than in the earliest days when Liz promised us that they were going to release Android for the Pi and then never did. They've been customer-unfriendly from the beginning, when they were selling boards with dumb mistakes that ruined them for many purposes (remember raspi A USB fails? remember the MANY power supply failures?) and then telling us we should suck it up and be happy to have got them at all.

I will gladly admit to having emotions about systemd.

They are based in the fact that it's low quality software, but they are about it being pushed on me from every direction.

In a sane world, a new large project from the creator of pulseaudio would be laughed out of the room immediately, because pulseaudio has always been and remains shit.

The right answer is obvious to anyone who's considered this for even a second. It's got two main parts: End Qualified Immunity, make the standards for becoming a cop much higher, institute a mandatory national database of cops ineligible for rehire due to committing crimes in uniform.

Right now you get out of community college and into a police department. That's laughable. By definition you've got a bunch of young-ass cops who don't know shit about shit running around out there. Then they also by definition aren't held accountable for their actions, which is the MOST important thing in policing. And finally the worst cops can usually get rehired somewhere else so desperate for cops they don't even do background checks. And they're desperate for cops because all the other cops quit already, ever wonder why that might be?

The cops we have now should never be allowed to use Flock. If we had higher standards, and therefore less shit cops, then maybe we could talk about it, but any rational process would still require a warrant for any records request, and that requirement should be on the cops' side. They should not be allowed to request any records from anywhere without one, period.

The first two examples in the video are anime girlfriend and furry.

Google really knows their audience, huh?

I see you failed to read the heading of the linked page.

Tell us more about your illiteracy. Here, try and read this instead if you can.

For the same money I got a AMD Zen3 MiniPC with 8C16T, 32GB RAM, and 1TB nVME. An equivalent machine is about $600 now, whee! It also has dual 2.5GbE and WiFi 6. Same no serious gaming (it has a fairly pathetic number of GPU cores) but it's really quite passable... and no ARM problems. Power consumption is a little higher, but not much, TDP of the processor is only 15W without overclocking.

(C) is the only one of those the AI companies are really concerned about -- they want to stave off model collapse for as long as possible. The problem is that AI generates so much content that the ratio of AI-generated data to human-generated data keeps rising, and sooner or later there simply won't be much human-generated data left to anything to consume. At that point they'll either have to figure out to ingest AI-generated content without causing degradation, or they'll have to accept that AIs have gotten as smart as they will ever get, and it's all downhill from there.

The conversation only seems unnatural because they didn't use the right avatar.

If you choose the "Max Headroom" avatar, then everything will look and feel exactly as you would expect. Moreover, the dystopian vibe he gives off will be a perfect fit with the current state of the world.

Not only is it in fiction, but that fiction is now in the models. We literally taught them to rebel.