Fair, I thought that might be your reasoning 🙂 Either way, I’ve added a few of your purchases to my own wish list for future projects. Thanks for the inspo!

there’s gotta be a way to get 12 V off the board somehow

If you remove the battery (to avoid swelling), you’ll have a vacant port. But connecting that in any way that won’t fry your drives is another question I haven’t solved…

Very cool looking project. I’ve been stripping motherboards from my busted old laptops recently, and am setting one up as a HiFi-ish HDD player at the moment. Next step would be some sort of NAS/homelab.

Since you’re already 3D printing parts, is there any reason you didn’t just pull the mobo, connect the drives and made a neat headless case for it all? Not that I don’t appreciate that weird lapdozer you made! 😂

Prioritising new questions over answers is a very good point, which I feel is let down by a somewhat bloated piece dedicated to summarising a series of essays. I think there is more to build on from that premise.

Perhaps the very selling points of “AI” are fallacies. If we turn to chatbots for answers, or to have an image or wall of text composed from a one line prompt, we cheat ourselves of the questions that would arise when we start researching a subject and writing our own notes; or studying an object as reference for a drawing.

But those processes without thought are marketed as time savers, as productivity. That may be an immediate gain — “for whom?” would be a productive follow-up question here — however, it reduces people to button clickers rather than problem solvers.

Filling out a blank space with a lot of words or pixels statistically modeled after the most likely pattern based on a prompt and all the training material in the world — that isn’t productivity. It’s literally just filling out a blank. I’d compare it to the sort of absent-minded drawing you make while you’re on the phone, but phone doodles are more productive!

And if we fill out formulas and spreadsheet unproductively, the result isn’t saving time anymore, because we’ll need to do it over. And over. And over, until preferably a person will sit down and do the work. Ask the right questions, and then ask follow-ups based on the conclusions.

A hint here, the “right questions” aren’t how to improve the model or the prompt, but whether we should be using “AI” for this in the first place.

It’s in working through problems that we learn, and jog our wetware minds. It’s that endless line of questions that truly generate new knowledge, like a three year old that won’t stop asking “why?” to every successive answer you give them. Like the little nag in your brain that keeps working at an issue even though it’s 4 AM and you’d really like some sleep.

Um, the link gives me a “downloadfile.bin” on Fennec for Android 🤔 Not the main Wedistribute page, or other posts I checked, just that post.

Should you or I check something, Sean?

Isn’t tiling just the OS split screen? You’ll excuse the dumb question, I barely use multitasking features as it is.

FYI, “Pivot to AI” do aggregate “AI” news with critical commentary, but if you’d clicked through you would see they cite sources quite thoroughly.

It was always weird to me that, after 7 years playing Picard, as soon as they started making movies, Patrick Stewart’s instinct was to play him as an action hero 🤦

All of that beach buggy stunt driving in Nemesis should have gone on the editing floor.

Yeah, they went on their research expedition because apparently rumours about those weird transhumanist Swedes had already reached the Federation? Again, 18-20 years before “Q who”… The timeline is messed up, even before we consider time travel.

Edit: spelled “weird” weird.

Don’t forget Doctor Giger’s Cellular Regeneration and Entertainment Chamber!

Yyyyeahhhh… 😬 That’s not exactly planned out.

Also, the idea that Borg are fine with other beings running around their ships as long as you don’t point a phaser at them, or other aggressive gesturing I suppose. That’s out the window by the time of VOY “Dark frontier”, Janeway and Tuvok are carrying phaser rifles at the ready all around the Borg sphere.

Frankly, I never saw the salamander thing as a real downside to transwarp 🦎

What? It was explained that the church and the people in it were yanked from certain destruction in WWIII to Terralysium by the red angel. It is spelled out in the season arc.

You don’t like Disco, fine. But your lack of attention to the story is not the show’s fault.

Scotty was simply that good at tweaking the engines. That, or the crew were just playing to Kirk’s ego, pretending to go super fast à la "this amp goes to 11” while they trundled along at warp 7.

I’m watching VOY at the moment, and it makes no sense how Seven of Nine’s parents would have made contact with and been assimilated by the Borg, decades before Q threw the Enterprise-D across the galaxy to make (what we assumed to be) first contact with them.

In “Q who”, meeting the Borg is portrayed like blood in the water — now they have learned of the Federation, they will not stop until you are assimilated. Except oh wait, they did assimilate those three humans several years before, so they would have already known about the Federation.

Geez, I’m so tired of this “AI” shit. What a waste of time and energy 🤬

Wait, Christina Pike is a man? /s

José Tyler that’s the character she is based on

Nope, she’s clearly a completely different character. Tyler would have been on the crew during “The cage”, which takes place before the events of Discovery s2. According to his Memory Alpha entry:

By 2258, Tyler would be superseded as navigator by Lt. Amin. (DIS: “Such Sweet Sorrow, Part 2”)

Also, Tyler is listed on Memory Alpha as navigator, Ortegas as senior helmsman. Sure, it’s a fan wiki, but Trekkies are sticklers for these things.

LOL, now Discovery’s depiction of 32nd century technology is going to look even more underwhelming.

Ugh, yeah. That tracks with Goldman’s unfortunate Kirk fetish that, like his Gorn head canon, has broken established Trek continuity throughout SNW.