It would make more sense for government to accept digital copies for any book, and share the out-of-copyright ones. In the United States, we have a Library of Congress who could do it if a law were passed with funding.

Differentiated pricing is a future concern, but states are preventing that for now. The article did not raise any alarms for me about how my data is being used.

It did fine on my usual benchmark about configuring old Sparc hardware, maybe output slightly faster than before. Even included something new to check in the firmware.

My memory is that McD drive through was worse before, and less people used it. Go to a Burger King drive-through if you wanna go back in time.

Inside, similar number of customers, and inexplicably fewer employees serving them. I blame the management decisions more than the data it's based on. Probably the numbers are telling them to punish the indoors customers, and they aren't using their brains about how that's going to be a long-term problem.

Speaking of data, you can ask the app to "anonymize" you as Valued Customer. Your name doesn't really matter to McDonalds.

You can't buy a non-Sony PlayStation, I guess they'll argue it's similar.

People have legitimate complaints when they are built within audible distance of housing.

"Prior to deployment, smartphones must be processed to remove all but the motherboard, which contains the core compute functionality. Note that the motherboard is responsible for the largest fraction of embodied carbon (approximately 50% based on internal carbon footprinting assessments), so this effort targets the most impactful components."

And they accomplished the author's first goal to run real GNU/Linux on the phones.

https://research.google/blog/a-low-carbon-computing-platform...

The new AGI goalpost will be "able to deploy Linux on everyone's old phone with drivers for all the hardware ".