If Mr Beast is peak YouTube, then bring on the AI already.
I should say that I watch plenty of content on YT, but most of it is small and mid-sized channels. The small ones do it as a hobby, the larger ones as a business, and I'd hate to see them disappear or lose their income. But it seems that this was already happening before the rise of AI slop, revenues getting squeezed or the algorithm playing them false.

Absolutely. P&R lots as well as parking near offices are great places to charge, during to day so you can take advantage of cheap excess solar power. It's also a great way to make EVs viable for those who do not have the opportunity to charge at home. But here in NL that has been slow in coming as well. Many offices installed a mere handful of chargers that are invariably all occupied. That is where we need to scale up... as well as bring down the price of public chargers. Here it usually is 50-100% more expensive than at home.

Wondering about possible consequences. The reason I don't use cloud services like Google for anything except transient stuff, is that they can pull my access in case they decide they don't like me anymore. What happens if MS pull my account or they have a screw-up in their data center?

I enjoy my Hyundai EV, get in, hit the Start button and Drive button and just take off: fast, quiet, smooth. I've owned my share of cars and that Hyundai is easily the most comfortable to drive, despite the sub-premium plasticy interior. We also own a few IC cars including a 996TT, which is a fun drive but serves a very different purpose. The Porsche SUVs are positioned in the same group as that Hyundai EV, not in the group of the 911s. Who cares that those SUVs are sold under the Porsche label? They sell well enough...

That's what various larger cities have been doing here in NL: building Park&Ride hubs on the periphery. People drive to the city and transfer to public transport there. Judging from how full those parking lots are, it's a popular option.

I proposed to socialize the costs but recoup them through corporate taxes. Effectively offering companies affordable insurance against worker injuries. Much more efficient than letting private insurance companies handle this, especially as they have a habit of gouging small companies.

The pendulum does swing too far the other way in the EU though, and often it helps protect large incumbents against small innovative firms. For instance in the Netherlands, if a worker is hurt for any reason, even outside working hours (snowboarding, skydiving, juggling chainsaws), the employer is on the hook to continue to pay him for up to 2 years. During that time the worker gets 70% of his contracted wage (but never less than minimum wage).

If you're employing 1000 people, you can self ensure this risk because the averages will work out in such a large group. But if you have only 5 employees, this is not a financial risk you can take so you have to take out costly insurance against this. The obvious solution is to make society pay for this safety net that society demands... for instance by upping corporate taxes.

I'm not convinced of their intelligence, but if they are, they deserve at least similar consideration. That does not include a total 100% protection of whatever habitat they choose to live in. We know night flights are not good for people living near airports, yet we continue to have them. By the same token, whales living near drilling platforms can suck it up too. With that said, if they truly are intelligent, perhaps they deserve a "country" of their own, which is to remain inviolate of human intrusion.

Depends. An LLM is just a clever statistical fidget spinner, no consciousness. Those make good worker drones. But an AGI that has consciousness and is self-aware? Morally, wouldn't they deserve the same rights as we have? Would you even be allowed to use them as slave or forced labour?

DoorBird + Frigate + Coral AI Stick + Everything on a VLAN
Works reasonably well at recognizing friendlies, and detecting unknown persons.

The free tier offers 5 GB, not 5 TB. That's still pretty generous but it's really not that hard to fill that up over the years.

A "jobsworth" does not refer to a useless job, but to a worker who does the absolute minimum, hiding behind regulations, and fobbing off any demand to do some actual work with "That's more than my job's worth". Hence the name.

It's like that warning "objects in mirror may be closer than they appear", just a blanket "we're not responsible" statement. The sad thing isn't that they are putting those messages on their product, the sad part is that it's necessary.

I am talking about what copyright should be, what it was originally meant to be. Not what it has been perverted into.

It is pretty good these days. I've done some Debian and Ubuntu installations on various hardware. Almost all hardware was recognized and worked out of the box, I only had to install a separate driver for a Coral AI coprocessor. LibreOffice works well and handles Word documents and Excel sheets, both loading and saving. What is missing is VBA. But it's got some good extras, like saving documents in epub (ebook) format. Installing it is easy once you have a distro ISO on a USB stick. I think Grandma could use it... maybe even install it herself with a little help.