This is why the pyrotechnics have been getting progressively more extreme, to compensate for the ships getting darker. All the energy not used for lighting has to go somewhere.

There’s also Syncthing Tray’s experimental android interface. You either need to install from apk, or use something like obtanium, but it may be less flaky than Termux.

I have much the same gripes about Voyager making the Warp 10 speed limit a universal hard limit, rather than something that the warp drive was simply not able to achieve.

At least Discovery’s could still pulled them back out of the rug with them not having to wring every single piece of dilithium for all it’s worth.

“If you go just a bit faster than the Voyager, the universe itself breaks, and all propulsion technologies are obsoleted past the threshold” is much harder to get around without something like Q shenanigans.

The cost has also shot up because a lot of the new frameworks are much more token heavy than the old ones.

So the original free plan might have made sense when people were only typing little questions into it, and using a handful of tokens, but is no longer cost-effective with things like modern agent pipelines constantly throwing tens of thousands of tokens at the service.

I tried running a little locally hosted agent thing on my computer the other day, and it was feeding a hundred thousand tokens at the model every few minutes, because it was keeping all the files in context. Sure, it hit the cache a lot, and so the effective cost would be less, but it’s still a lot more token usage than me poking the model with inane questions.

Sidewalking

They’re going when no-one has gone before, clearly.

Although the Enterprise in The Next Generation still takes the cake for nearly leaving the universe.

Voyager might also count if you include them jumping billions of years of time-distance thanks to Q meddling getting them tossed back and forth.

Look, their cure for the cold only evolved you into a spider once.

Mechanical Windows

As opposed to what, wireless windows?

The initial learning curve is very rough, since people might be used to commands from a newer editor like Notepad++, which doesn’t work in vim.

nano at least says which button combination you need to exit, for example.

It is easier past the initial hump, though.

You can also use :x to write and quit, from memory.

They’re also fairly versatile. y-i takes any symbol after. Space, comma, the letter p, you name it. If you can type it, it’ll generally work.

Which can be a bit faster than some graphical editors at times, where you might have to find and select the contents by hand. That can be a bother if there’s a lot.

It’s also an 8 gigaparameter model. That’s pretty tiny, even if they use it heaps.

Poor spider. :c

50 GB in memory for a visual studio/programming project being a bigger project seems like rather an understatement, unless you’re working on machine learning, simulations, or something of that nature.

On regular YouTube, the fact that they automatically make anything with music into a mix-playlist also isn’t great.

A lot of the time, I just want to listen to one track of something, and end up having to strip out the playlist argument from the actual link because I don’t want to get everything similar to it.

…But I sure DO miss storage media that makes a satisfying “Kachunk” when loaded, and could be forcefully ejected like a spent artillery casing.

Older computers just have a nice mechanical ambiance that newer machines don’t replicate quite as well.

I don’t miss having the time to go make a cup of tea whilst waiting for the computer to turn on, or having the monitor scream the entire time it’s on, but I do miss hearing the hard drive spin-up, and all the POST beeps and drive stepper noises when the computer’s booting up.

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They were also presented as being cheaper and more ethical. You didn’t risk being roped into paying a higher price because the cabbie deliberately took a long route, or be surprised by the price being different in person. You could order an Uber, and you’d pay only what was in the app.

On a related note, I personally hate the AI partner/friend ones as well, where it’s clearly preying on the lonely, insecure, or desperate. It’s dastardly, dystopian, and frankly, quite sad. How many children’s media show rich children as being quite miserable sods whose parents think that not having friendship can be resolved by buying their kids a friend?

You could easily see that being in a cyberpunk story, where you can rent a friend or partner from a megacorporation, but if you don’t pay the rent, they’ll be repossessed and deleted/destroyed. The data would be collected and used regardless.