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Powerline Networking is what you are referring too.

Still available today, and has worked well for me when I've needed it.

Maybe I missed it, but the introduction doesn't explain the point that "Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon" is just a play on "Six Degrees of Separation".

Also, people don't casually swing by my house and start using my electricity.

So my powerbills are predictable.

Whereas traffic spikes to websites are not.

This age of abusive AI crawlers and the non-revenue generating traffic has been a very real problem for me!

Another up-vote from me for Plexamp.

I find the mainstream subscription players to be excruciating to use to play what I want at the time.

Feels like only a matter of time with Plex doesn't it!

I've got the lifetime pass, but it really does feel like a Sword of Damocles situation...

>It is already on par with senior programmer if the instruction/prompt is right.

It's magical to me as well, but I don't feel like it's AGI.

Because in my experience a Senior Programmer does not need the right prompts to deliver the right outcome! :-)

I'm more of an optimist!

We've been here before with Windows and IE dominance!

IE peaked at ~95% market share, and windows peaked at ~97%.

Broadly it seems to me that Google is behaving much like MS did.

But who knows, everything is the same and different this time around.

My guess is that it wouldn’t be TB sized files.

It’s probably files that, over the course of a month, add up to multiple TBs.

Which would suggest that a 1Gbit fibre connection would be adequate. For serious commercial usage, multi Gbit fibre is available in many places around the world.

Although being video files, they could easily be in the TB range. In which case, it would be interesting to know!

And there I was wondering about used missiles!

Apparently, I googled, “expended ordnance” is the term.

Cot.

Chain of Thought?

For a school laptop it’s a unfortunate omission IMHO.

Cheap wired headphones are the default choice in the classroom, in my experience.

Bluetooth headphones that need charging aren’t really what you want.

It’s easy enough to get cheap USB headphone adapter, but still, I t would nice if it was built in.

Apple knows what they are doing sometimes it seems! :-)

This is my current use case.

My reading of what Google are saying is that yes, that feature is going away.

Gah!

But one of the key benefits of this is obscuring what my actual Gmail address is!

I don’t want to use my Gmail address as my main email address. Even if it’s just for personal usage.

I don’t want people knowing what my Gmail account is.

And what happens if I do use my Gmail for everything and Google decides to lock me out of my account….

So are Google wrecking peoples Gmail account setups just to push people into paying for their Google Workspace product?

This industry wide obsession with squeezing revenue out of every little corner of services is exhausting and exasperating.