Ok the other hand, for people with painful period cramps they can actually help things quite a bit when installed (is that the right word here?) correctly

Depends on what you want to do, the model, and optimization or quantization.

A lot of LLM stuff that seemed pretty amazing a few years ago - chatbots and the like that respond to questions in plain language - can run in comparatively light hardware. Coding agents can take more, but could also be optimized against a particular language and spit out useful snippets.

Image stuff can be pretty complex especially at higher resolutions and detail, and creating seamless video segments gets expensive on hardware, fast.

Sinking the market for all the hardware hoarders is a good counter too. I’m fairly convinced that this move isn’t just about AI, but consolidation of resources into Cloud services that lets them squeeze out competitors and force consumers and businesses alike into a perpetual-rent model. AI is just a convenient way to allocate the money to corner the market

Just put the cat in a box with a radioactive substances. Scroedinger’s marriage.

Yeah. I generally don’t have an objection to pride flags but I could definitely see somebody stretching the same arguments to have a Confederate or MAGA flag (or just Trump’s face as he’s so fond of putting it on fucking everything)

Wasn’t the one used against the corner Japanese PM essentially a home-made blunderbuss?

Maybe it’d be like military service, except they sign up at 18, get shipped out at 70, and arrive… at 18

There are so many good literary possibilities with this. Imagine a ship of older such types sent to a distant planet. They not only start de-aging during the journey but also losing memories to the point where a bunch of very confused young people arrives at a distant planet where their most recent memory is fighting with mom & dad over being able to drive the car and no idea how/why they’re on a habitable but distant planet

Colonizing other continents was also both hella dangerous and expensive at the time.

I think there’s a lot of factors, including where the FTL transit time, potentia habitability of the destination, and conditions back on Earth.

There’s a big difference between “hey we’re sending you lot on a trip with at least a year transit time to a potentially hostile destination” versus “go ahead and start building, if you need anything call Tony and he’ll have a guy there by Tuesday”.

If FTL were a thing, or even near FTL with long-term habitability I don’t totally see something like the Mormon Ark-Ship (from the Expanse) being funded by a wealthy enough group.

Cheetahs sound fun until I consider how many cords my cats have chewed, furniture they’ve scratched, and litter boxes they’ve populated.

Then suddenly a giant tame housecat seems less appealing.

The 9th Gate.

I mean, other than it being kinda a crappy movie the whole “I ascend to power by literally banging the devil” just seemed … wow.

These guys priestly look like the characters that portray a racist, secret Nazi agent in a lot of movies

Ah yes. Getting a PC that breaks into the game market has always been a bit more pricey - though the Deck helped that - but these days the component cost is just insane.

Linux desktop marketshare is going up, though it’s definitely not huge. Windows 11 is not particularly popular, and very resource-heavy in a time where those same resources are exploding in price. I’d imagine that hardware companies want to hedge their bets a bit and supporting Linux is this manner is pretty safe.

It’s worth noting that HP is also one of the bigger hardware vendors and a lot of servers run Linux, so again firmware updates are probably a good thing you support.

Depends on what you play on PC. A lot of AAA decent releases are, but there’s stuff regularly on sale and it’s pretty easy to accumulate a backlog just from sales of good games.

There’s also reasonably priced releases like Silksong but that’s more rare

Amazon should not be able lock authors into exclusivity contracts with Kindle Unlimited either, but who’s gonna stop them?

Well, taking anyone who is willing to accept this entirely based on “faith” and often contrary to science, facts, or their own two eyes… yeah that’s pretty much exactly the type of follower a serial scam-artist would want.

I saw it in theaters and loved it. Made sure to buy the DVD just to show support/sales

Yeah it’s not about not paying for me, it’s about being able to host my own with my protections and controls

And yet even DVDs have a bullshit screen about “license to the content blah blah” and bullshit like region codes