Aggressive? Hell no. I’m just not being Pollyanna.

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Ahhhh, the old “I don’t see that” cope. Balance this against the hundreds of others that say otherwise.

Disagree. It is still a buggy mess. Many missing features that they promised. Lots of missing basic features of MMOs like no guild chat, no in game guild rosters, elevators and doors still don’t consistently work, they struggle to connect the game loops, game loops don’t consistently work, etc, etc.

Just 2 years, Turkish!

As for what is happening in Ukraine, he has a level headed take and cuts through the bullshit and propaganda of each side.

Actually, there are doctors that want AI. Just they may not want it like most tech firms are currently pushing it. Each hospital system has a huge database or two or three with massive amounts of patient data. Doctors have talked about setting up data scientists to sort through that data for more effective outcomes to various health issues. It turns out it is too much data for a team of data scientists to sort through. AI might help with that. Just not the LLMs that are being pushed today.

Some of the challenges: How do you pull that data without personal identification or payment info. Keep in mind John Doe in Somewhere, somestate might be the only person in that state with Obscure Condition, so would be easily identifiable. Because once you have data that may support better outcomes, you’d definitely want to share that with other healthcare systems and government health agencies. Also, how do you use it ethically, something none of the current mainstream AI companies are really going to help you with. How do you share this with insurance companies without them punishing individual patients?

But everyone overreacts to week 1. Most starters only have played a handful of preseason snaps.

Technically. But it has been that way for years and I find it useful, so I paid for it.

https://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2017/01/get-horse-americas-skepticism-toward-first-automobiles/

But, but, but, my science fiction reading says all AI is trying to kill us!!!

There is a lot of, “Get a horse!” out there.

It would be hilarious if Hyundai decided to just close the plant over the ICE raid.

The same people are saying the same shit as the first term.

Because there are more and better quality video content (TV, movies, etc) that is more accessible than the 1980s.

Reminder that your local library likely carries Blu-rays and CDs.

I went the IPTV route.

It would be a shame if a whole lot of behind the scenes dirt got exposed. A real shame.

I went the IPTV route for football season and likely will be rolling that into hockey as well.

DS does open up to new invites every now and then, that’s how I got in. Think someone posted about it here.

Follow up, my costs. YMMV

1. VPN - Proton, but I get it as part of the family package for email, calendar, VPN, drive etc. $500 every 2 years. Standard Pricing for just VPN is $10/month. Steeper discounts for the longer you pay up front. Plus there are plenty of good VPN providers out there, but you have to pay for them.
2. Usenet provider - I’m using NewsDemon and have the $80 unlimited for 4 years deal. For deals like this you have to hunt around a bit or maybe play the waiting game.
3. NZB app - I’m currently using SABnzbd+, free on my linux desktop. Will move this to an ARR stack once the NAS is built out.
4. NZB Indexer - I’m using NZBGeek, $6 for 6 months, $12 a year, $80 lifetime. I chose the lifetime option. Plenty of other options for Indexers, and some that are invite only. I imagine costs vary wildly.

How I use it for now: After securing all the subscriptions, I fire up the NAB app and configure it to use my Usenet provider. Fire up the VPN, head to my NAB Indexer. Search for what I’m looking for in the Indexer and download the NZB file it generates. Feed the NZB file into my NZB app and it heads out to my Usenet provider to pull what I asked.

When I get off my ass and built my homebrew NAS, I’ll run all this through an ARR stack.