And it’s downright fiendish that a 100% imaginary thing like money decides who lives and who dies, but that’s the world we live in.

It’s not that you’re wrong, it’s just that there are very few paths to a better solution. Perhaps the local people’s militia should take all children at birth and raise them? Until that time it’d be neat if parents had a simple, affordable way to stop their eight-year-old from seeing hardcore pornography.

These laws are stupid. If you want to protect kids, you should focus on getting parents the tools they need to lock down their kids’ devices however they see fit.

I don’t think that’s the whole story. Like with all of their products, the primary goal of big tech here is to maximise engagement. More engagement means more subscriptions. People are less likely to keep talking to a chatbot that tells them they’re wrong.

The situation would probably improve somewhat if AI companies prioritised usefulness and truthfulness over engagement.

Because your taste in music is bad and you should feel bad!

I’d argue ultimately most human conflict is caused by population pressure and limited resources.

Depends. If you use Google docs or the browser version of Office 365 (or whatever it’s called now) you’ll be fine. If you want to use an offline document editor, you’ll need to be technical enough to understand the difference between file formats like doc, odf and pdf.

If you receive a doc file, edit it in LibreOffice and send it back, the recipient might complain that the layout has shifted slightly.

If you need to be absolutely sure the recipient gets the document layed out exactly as you created it and they don’t need to edit it, exporting to pdf is a good option.

If you need to send or receive Excel/spreadsheet files you might have a bad time, I think. Though interoperability there may have improved since the last time I tried that sort of thing.

Before switching to Linux, download the Windows/Mac version of LibreOffice or OnlyOffice and see if it suits your needs. If not, it should be possible to run Office 365 on Linux using Wine or Winboat. However, Wine might not work or require too much tinkering for the average noob. Winboat should be more foolproof, but will increase the startup time of the application because you’re running it inside a Windows VM.

Robot, experience this tragic irony for me!

I don’t disagree and I definitely trust a Finnish company founded by former Nokia engineers a lot more than Google or Apple. But I think there is a lot of overlap between both the “buy European” movement and Fediverse users and those who prefer open solutions wherever possible. A lot of those people would prefer a solution where the userland and/or kernel and/or SDK is completely open source. They will have to weigh their options based on the fact that while SailfishOS is more open than Android or iOS, it is not fully open source.

By the way, it is also worth noting that unlike Google, so far Jolla has been moving in the direction of open sourcing more components of their OS. No one can predict the future, though, and some people would prefer to avoid any possible future vendor lock-in.

While SailfishOS seems neat, it’s worth noting that some components, like some drivers, the homescreen UI, the compositor, some QML components and the Android compatibility layer are closed source. The rest of the software stack seems to be based on open source components from desktop Linux. The package manager uses RPM.

In 4D space-time, assuming light travels a fixed distance for every perceived unit of time, I think that would slow the speed of light over time. Since light would have to travel further along the t axis, it could cover less distance along the X, Y and Z axis.

Disclaimer: I am not a scientist

Dead satellites do add a much larger risk than satellites that can be steered, sure. If we stopped steering all our satellites right now, I believe it’d only take a few days before a collision occurred.

However, every satellite in orbit adds to the risk, especially if a chain reaction starts happening and it becomes very hard to avoid the shrapnel flying around. Or if a once-in-a-century-type solar flare takes out a bunch of satellites.

Edit: Basically, the best way to prevent Kessler Syndrome from occurring, is to keep the number of satellites in orbit below the threshold where it could occur.

Only a few minutes left. See you on the other side, guys!

There’s another problem that nobody mentions. Putting thousands of additional satellites into space would seriously increase the risk of Kessler Syndrome occurring.

Better to use winget, though. That way you don’t even need to bother with Edge’s initial setup screens.

• A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms - A must-watch if you enjoyed Game of Thrones. My only complaint is that the episodes and the first season are too short.
• Star Trek: Starfleet Academy - Not the best thing ever, but I don’t hate it. Worth watching if you’re craving more Star Trek and have already seen everything else.
• Small Prophets - Decent British dramedy with a touch of fantasy/sci-fi. Pretty good, but if you want to watch British drama, I’d watch Adolescence, Baby Reindeer and Waiting for the Out first.
• The Beauty - Cheesy horror/thriller show. If you really enjoyed The Substance you might get a kick out of this. Would be more entertaining if it leaned harder into the body horror or cheesy dialogue.
• Strip Law - Adult animated comedy with a bit of absurdity and surrealism. Not bad if you’re into that sort of thing.
• Paradise - Really enjoyed season one. So far season two is ok, but hasn’t really grabbed me.
• Lord of the Flies - An ok adaptation of the book and the child actors do a really good job. The pretentious style of filming doesn’t add much and mighty put some people off.
• Shrinking - This show started out pretty well, but now in its third season it has completely lost its dark edge and leans too hard into the feel-good stuff for my taste. It also feels to me like everyone is more or less playing the same character now. Really enjoyed Michael J. Fox playing a small part in this season, though. Probably won’t keep watching.
• The Knick (2014) - Solid realistic drama about a fictional hospital in New York at the start of the 20th century. Lots of people dying from experimental surgery. Racism is also an important theme.
• Better off Ted (2009) - It’s got its moments, but after a few episodes I don’t really get the hype yet.

I really couldn’t care less about the whole gay aspect.

However, in my personal head-canon Jay-Den’s sensitivity and fear of public speaking doesn’t quite line up with how I imagine the mind and emotions of a full-blood Klingon would work. I feel like every Klingon would have the instincts and emotions of a predator/hunter and I haven’t quite seen that in Jay-Den. To me the character would make more sense if he was only part Klingon, like Alexander.

Then again, who’s to say to what extent stereotypical Klingon behaviour is defined culturally as opposed to genetically? I do think it’s interesting and refreshing to see a Klingon acting contrary to cultural norms and I do like the character. The only other Klingon character I can recall who wasn’t a full-blown warrior is that one scientist in TNG.

I say let’s have some broadcasting about American history worth celebrating:

• The foundation of America and the allies that made it possible
• The immigrants that built America
• How slavery was abolished
• The history of civil rights in America
• How America built an empire after WW2 using soft power
• Etc…

This is not a form of brainwashing!

There’s some money to be made in selling refurbished Lego sets, but that won’t make you rich either.

Do the writers and directors give you a lot of input into how to play your character and the direction of his story/development?

If it were up to you, what kind of scenes or storylines would you most like to play or see Jay-Den Kraag in?