Its early adoption problems in the same way as putting radium in toothpaste was. There are legitimate, already growing uses for various AI systems but as the technology is still new there’s a bunch of people just trying to put it in everything, which is innevitably a lot of places where it will never be good (At least not until it gets much better in a way that LLMs fundementally never can be due to the underlying method by which they work)
I mean the alternative is to be like octopi, intelligent but forever stuck in the beginning of the stone age due to a lack of ability to aggregate and accumulate knoweldge over time.
But that’s the strength of society to begin with, no one person knows how any given complex system works because its impossible for one person to know, we come together in specialised groups to create these systems over time with the collective knoweldge of many people.
Hell no, that setup describes nazi germany too depending on the ideology. You’d live in permament fear of accidentally breaking some rule you didn’t even know about or that the regime came up with yesterday.
It was a good show though it irks me that one of the major premises for the setting is that an advanced (later portrayed as wise) elder race just assumed some uncontacted aliens must have the exact same social norms they do and then initiated a genocide over a single incident with no further attempts at contact.
I ended up liking the Centauri simply because they’re at least very relatable assholes who actually seem to appreciate alien cultures despite being an imperalistic society.
Not to mention a beam that powerful is naturally a highly potent weapon with potentially interstellar ranges, that’s a lot of power even for a government.
An alcubierre drive is literally folding space around the ship, ST warp drives are more or less a primitive version of the concept. And do currently have an issue (as much as a theoretical technology can have issues) that we don’t actually know how you would accelerate such a bubble of folded space.
But with more brass and some elaborate power distribution network involving focusing beams of light and pupming water in place of electricity
Honestly solar steampunk with big crazy arrays of glass lenses to focus sunlight onto tanks sounds like a hell of an aethstetic.
Speeds are consistently slower than service contract though notably hub > pc speed is a good chunk slower than hub > net speeds (a good 30-40%) Looking at that site I have the legacy ADSL hub which is more than 10 years old at this point.
They actually tried to send me a replacement once upon a time but the one that arrived was a lemon (wouldn’t even power up) and customer support is less than fantastic.
Would something like this work? https://www.tp-link.com/uk/home-networking/dsl-modem-router/archer-vx1800v/#specifications
From what I’m able to discern it still supports wifi 5/.ac standard which is helpful since not all pcs in the house can handle wifi .ax standard and should be a damn side better than an ISP provided router.
Nevermind despite having Modem in its name it cannot actually function as a modem according to their own tech support forum. Back to square one.
This is why we need to teach the kids that if you find a mysterious air vent or hatch out in the wilderness you fill it with mud or pile rocks ontop of it.
Rom, Garak, Nog, Garak again?
Don’t forget a bar, there’s literally a whole episode about how much trouble everyone on the station is willing to go to in order to continue having a place to drink.
Got Linux on my laptop, literally just waiting a year to put it on my desktop (Linux does NOT like brand new hardware)
In most of the world its participate in capitalism or go to jail, not like you can just go live in a tent in the woods without being dragged out. (Unless you live somewhere like the US which still has really big woods.)
True, however there are different ways to do it, I think its Denmark? that gets more than double the yield/acre than the world average utilizing a lot of greenhouses and what amounts to pretty much hydroponics lite. If half of agriculture land suddenly didn’t need to be used that way it would be huge.
You completely forgot:
“Actually just monetizes somethign that already existed for free”
Though I guess Ads is already the free space.
Which is a good thing, perfection is subjective and humans could never buld a Utopia for the same reason ants could build one.
Unnamed shuttle sized craft #3, just two of which are consistently capable of disabling any feddration vessel no matter how well prepared.