You don't own gasoline either, you refill your tank (oddly like charging a battery) and it's charge slowly goes up in smoke. It's a lot more like renting than you vink..

Those bots that auto-expire valid bug reports after only a week of inactivity cuts way down on wasting time fixing bugs and lets me review^^^^^^H use and fix^^^H release all the bad code the other AI bots are creating for me.

The world has changed, get over it. Cameras everywhere. They may be out to take your money but they are not out to get you - in fact they don't care about you unless you have money to spend. BTW you are still free to make faces at the camera.

The reason cameras are everywhere is because we tolerate non life threatening crime now, in fact the expense and loss from petty crimes are built into our economy.

You can set up a password restricted server? I am sure the game cloud industry would be happy to rent you one for a few days.

Back in the days of Quake3 modding there were conditions of input that were not humanly possible simply due to the way the math worked out - for a time it was possible to detect a cheat client simply because the turning movements were a distance of '1' when the human input device coding of the official client for the mod made the value start at '2'. You can design game mechanics that can only input distinct ranges of input and detect when that input to the server doesn't fit the restrictions of the design.

It is possible because it has been done. And yes, it is always a game of catch-up on the game designer's side.

Fine, let the professionals use a locked down computer system. But let the rest of us just play a game for fun without the risk of brick?/crash?/infecting?/sandbagging/spyware on our own computer.

Sure the user will no longer see the AI scraping their data, but it won't be off. Sort of like Google Sync.

"moving faster than everything nearby" doesn't have that marketing appeal. remember the Big Bang is still really just a theory. No one wants to read a big news story admitting "yea, well, we don't really know."

This could be an object that forms and reforms the universe as it speeds around. New stars forming and old stars being consumed. Forget the big bang, the universe is constantly reformed by speeding black holes.

So you will never plan to 'buy' a house? Those subscriptions/protection racket/er I mean property taxes never stop! Even after the mortgage is long gone you have to keep paying to play house.

It's also convenient for many reasons
You don't think they can manage to redesign a car that accepts a standardized component such as a battery?
Swapping can be a drive in, drop the battery and be pushed/pulled one car length forward to pick up the charged battery. Or the old and new battery are rolled under the car on a conveyor and the new is picked up by the car.
As the battery charger business they would not want not have customers stuck with a dead battery a mile down the road. Even your cheap phone knows the actual condition of the cheap battery.
Replaceable batteries are nothing new, unless you were born with an iPhone shoved up your butt.

You will buy a new EV without a battery, and start a subscription for battery swaps - the battery age won't matter since the next one will also be a short term rental, and the next, and so on. You won't actually own or purchase a battery, stop being obtuse.

The shortcut was to an online Copilot web page.

'Recipe creator' is not a job. 'Cook' is a job. 'Chef' is a job. 'Cook book writer' is a job, er well, until the AI consumed it and posted it on the google front page copyright be damned.

If drivers can't pass due to the design of the car, then dumb down the car. Constantly adding more electronics is no longer a race between drivers.

Cars don't need to be fast to be entertaining unless you are at a drag race. Nimble cars that can pass at any time when the other driver makes a small mistake are much more entertaining. By adding deploy-able wings in the turns they take almost all the chances for a driver to make a mistake in the turn completely out of the competition. Might as well be racing slot cars with all the tech in these things.