Rule of thumb in open source and honestly even in closed source, the more users there are, the more funding there is, the better the result is. Linux has a ton of like highly niche projects being run by like one guy on his free time with zero funding.

Even in a worse case I still think the effort is worth it for someone who wants to pull away from the iron clasp of the data overlords where they can. In this life it is rare we get something without giving something in exchange.

That said now that you know you also gained valuable knowledge and skills you can apply to anything else you want to do. That is it wasn’t like you wasted time completely.

Yeah one of the distros I listed above which I haven’t used personally is literally just enough Linux to run kodi. I mean installing Kodi also only takes seconds. Now to be clear we’re talking about billion and trillion dollar companies vs a group of people mostly volunteering their time for free. On one side you get no privacy or flexibility but amazing customer service and UI. On the other it’s isn’t as polished but far more free, private, and flexible.

When making deals with the devil things are usually nice at first until he comes to collect later. That’s the whole gimmick. Get people by the nuts by making it so easy for them to walk into your grasp.

Hours? Running Fedora and enabling DRM on Firefox ain’t that complex, neither is installing the waydroid flatpak. I think you’re really blowing the situation out of proportion. Assuming you already have the iso probably like 30 minutes to get set up including a full install.

Most definitely, it’s essentially a full Linux PC. You could do a lot of things with it.

You buy one from the internet, any hardware that can run Android Open Source Project (AOSP) like the Ugoos AM8 Pro, Generic Amlogic Boxes. You could use certain arm and x86 hardware and run waydroid on top of Linux or install android like LineageOS, BlissOS, PrimeOS AndroidTV-x86_64, and FydeOS. You can use like an SBC like a raspberry pi or an old laptop or something. In short there’s. A lot of pathways to get this done that doesn’t involve sending all your data back to the TV or streaming box manufacturer.

Maybe the easiest way is just using Linux and waydroid on really any hardware. There are specified Linux OS’s like LibreELEC, OSMC (Open Source Media Center), LinuxMCE, but it’s not necessary you run a specified OS. Also easier to slap a hard drive on that badboy and get a media server going with Plex or jellyfin and host other stuff like kiwix, pinhole, nextcloud and so on. Just pair with a Bluetooth keyboard trackpad combo and you’re good to go.

Never connect it to your wifi and use an open source Linux or android media box instead. If you can buy a tv or projector without any smart device baked in.

It’s possible if the problem has a narrow solution space that’s well defined, something like alpha fold but otherwise it’s not yet currently possible to sufficiently replace workers, we don’t actually have AGI yet, much less AGI that costs less than a flesh and blood employee.

Exactly and that’s why you want judges who are compromised or just downright loyal to you and not the country.

Yeah the Epstein files, panama papers, and Snowden leak kinda paint a particular picture of the global elite and the countries they own and operate.

The head of the executive branch should really do something about this, lol.

You need to start early with kids.

No but it does make things easier.

At minimum how would the heat be managed? Also as someone else said, just getting the material from the earth into orbit is currently possible but why?

It’s not that difficult anymore, gene splicing is now something that can be done at home. Probably the hardest part is getting one’s hands on the material. There was that biolab that was just busted this year in Las Vegas.

A clandestine group using a model to aid in developing a nasty disease seems like the most likely uh oh scenario right now. Either that or an accidental scenario where AI was used somewhere it shouldn’t have been.

You don’t need a deity to get decent instructions on how to make a pretty nasty disease in a clandestine home lab.

Where are you? Nurses make like $150K+ here.

Wouldn’t it be the not spreading that’s the issue? Aka only some people have access and others do not.

My concern is a mass depopulation when there are sufficient robo-slaves to take up the slack of maintaining society and producing technological progress. Although it’ll likely be temporary. I’m fairly sure humans when digitized will grow in number or similarly when we start space exploration and colonization in earnest. Without FTL some faction could always just go somewhere else if they want to do society another way.

It’s funny to watch people catch up with what’s been happening for years and what was foreseeable at least since 2020. The moment I saw an early version of chatGPT in 2019 I knew pretty much the whole story, although I didn’t account for the massive infrastructure build out backlash because I seriously underestimated the resource consumption.