Not quite as I saw them, but I certainly saw it clearly not human. A composite of plastic, metal and flesh. Comfortable with the label it.
Though the counter to that, I'm sure the books mentions sexbots basically being the same platform as secunits, only with a gender and without built in weapons. With a combatunit being the same again, but with even more weapons (including cyber). Which does say maybe Martha Wells had the platform, without armour, as maybe more fleshly than we are thinking.
The TV series is good, but it's not as I saw in my head. Other than "Sanctuary Moon", which nails it.
I am surprised there hasn't been real unset by fans by giving Murderbot gender. They could have at least picked someone who didn't look binary. But Skarsgård has got the right character if not the right face.
Big US Corp is in bed with money and power. Right now, that means MAGA and that does mean fascism & Zionists. The tech itself can be ok. Though WhatsApp/Facebook isn't.
They could of at least removed his hair and put some clear cybernetics. In the books, you couldn't mistake Murderbot for a human. Even after ART's modifications (adding hair etc) Murderbot still could only pass as a heavily cybernetically augmented human.
Capitalism doesn't have to be anti-collective. Under a working legal system, the "Tragedy of the Commons" can be stopped. No country has pure capitalism. Everywhere regulates it. Yes, some of it falls to regulatory capture, but not all, and that waxes and wanes.
Same here in UK. So many people think of it like email. A universal communication system. They can't see the problem with it being a single, closed, for profit, provider. Now Meta feels people are locked in, they will be finding out. But they still won't see the problem until it ratcheted to really bad. Like frogs in boiling water.
If you do use an SD card, use an official one rather than a random one. Not all SD card are the same and the official ones have been selected for this use.
This helps with wear and the power loss issue, which is the biggest issue with them.
When SD write, they shuffle which block is which to share out the writes. If power is lost in the middle of this shuffle, you get a new type of corruption no file system can handle. This is why you must shutdown anything running from an SD card, not just yank the power.
I've been using it for over a decade. I use it to auto upload all my family photos from family phones. I use the calendars to organize. I use Notes on my phone all the time and pick them up my laptop. I use Passwords for all my passwords. I use Contacts to sync my contacts from my phone and Thunderbird. Then I nightly remote backup it to a machine I leave at my parent's. It's great.
And those tiny number of edges cases need to be highlighted to show it does indeed happen. With biology, there is rarely ever truely binary. Biology is too mushy.
If the US falls apart, it will be a bloody civil war. The only winner will be competing world powers. Of which, only the EU is really a beacon of light of enlightened values. In no way is that a good outcome for US citizens or the world. What is needed is a concerted effort to evolve the US from where it is. Two parties is not really a functional democracy. Law is bought and sold, and there is massive inequality.
Right to repair, and openness, is absolute must for devices being put into peoples bodies. The fight seams to not even started yet. Most people are completely asleep to issues right now.
Locked down means a power imbalance. The users are then just serf and will be abused. I want users empowered and the right to repair, repurposed and upgrade. Locked down devices mean short lived disposable devices, built as ewaste, that hoover up user data when used. It's dystopian.
Let alone where are tomorrow's developers coming from when they are growing up in such nutrient poor environment.
I rage against this dark serfdom future, but it's on law makers to regulate to keep consumers/user free. So I've monthly donated to OpenRightsGroup for over a decade and always telling people to read some Cory Doctorow.
Oh it may well get worse. FPTP could give them power. Rarely does the power in party have a majority of the population support. Labour need to ditch FPTP for good of the country. But they won't because they could win again, and it's party before country.
Still a lot of fascist idiots. Generally they are old, but that still a lot of people. Poll have changed more because Leavers are aging out, rather minds changing.
“Sex is for making children. Any man who has sex with women because it ‘feels good’ is gay. Oh my pee pee feels good this is great!”
Why any teenage boy would hear that and not unsubscribe is beyond me. They are the other way round. They don't want children, they just want sex with women. That's normal for a heterosexual teenage boy.
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Not quite as I saw them, but I certainly saw it clearly not human. A composite of plastic, metal and flesh. Comfortable with the label it.
Though the counter to that, I'm sure the books mentions sexbots basically being the same platform as secunits, only with a gender and without built in weapons. With a combatunit being the same again, but with even more weapons (including cyber). Which does say maybe Martha Wells had the platform, without armour, as maybe more fleshly than we are thinking.
The TV series is good, but it's not as I saw in my head. Other than "Sanctuary Moon", which nails it.
I am surprised there hasn't been real unset by fans by giving Murderbot gender. They could have at least picked someone who didn't look binary. But Skarsgård has got the right character if not the right face.