They can, but just like real bees they lose their stinger when they do and die shortly thereafter.

Let's put it this way: If in our lifetime we can simulate the intelligence of a vinegar fly as general intelligence, that would be a monumental landmark in AGI. And we're far, far, far away from it.

I get what you mean here and I agree with it, if we're talking about current "AI", which isn't anywhere close. I know, because I've programmed some simple "AIs" (Mainly ML models) myself.

But your comparison to ancient egypt is somewhat lacking, considering we had the aptly named dark ages between then and now.

Lot's of knowledge got lost all the time during humanity's history, but ever since the printing press, and more recently the internet, came into existence, this problem has all but disappeared. As long as humanity doesn't nuke itself back to said dark ages, I recon we aren't that far away from AGI, or at least something close to it. Maybe not in my lifetime, but another ~2000 years seems a little extreme.

Whenever I hear someone say that something is impossible with current technology, I think about my grandma. When she was a kid, only some important people had telephones. Doctors, police, etc.

In her lifetime we went from that to today, and, since she's still alive, even further into the future.

Whenever someone calls something impossible, I think about how far technology will progress in my own lifetime and I know that they've got no idea what they're talking about. (Unless, like you said, it's against the laws of physics. But sometimes even then I'm not so sure, cause it's not like we understand those entirely. )

It's still possible and last time I used it, it was about as easy as can be.

When I last did it, you just downloaded the regular program, installed it, then you ran a patcher and that was it. This was a couple years ago now, but Adobe already had their current business model.

and then they break it and decide the cost of a repair isn't worth it

Yep, that was me with my previous phone, which I did indeed have for over 5 years.

But there's another major factor to it.

I use Android phones, which get official software updates for only a couple years (3 years for the most part). This includes security updates.

So when I got my current one it was one of only two I even considered, because only those two manufacturers promised 5 years of (security) updates at the time.

It has gotten better though, but except for Fairphone they're still all very hard or impossible to repair.

My Nexus account has a simplelogin email adress. Granted, it's one of the premium domains so the free ones may fail, but you could try that.

For the future and anyone else who reads this:

https://rentry.co/128bb

Next time, try "what difference does it make?"

In case you and others want the answer to that: If it's an allergy the restaurant will (or has to, depending on the jurisdiction) use separate pots, knives, pans, etc. for your meal to avoid cross contamination.

If it's just a preference they don't need to do that, because you won't die if any small pieces of the things you don't like end up in your food.

For anyone who wants to avoid fandom: https://getindie.wiki/

Redirects any fandom wiki to their Indie alternative which are in most cases the only ones actually being updated.

For every wiki where that isn't possible because they only exist on fandom, it redirects them to alternative frontends, which remove all the fandom crap.

They said on Twitter and in the comments of the linked post, that there won't be any bikes at all at release.

They'll very likely be a DLC.

Communities: Basically impossible, unless Meta/Facebook has a public list somewhere.

Instances: That will be public, because they have to register the domain somewhere and I'll also assume that they will actually want people to know which ones are theirs, so their users join those.

Same.

I wasn't convinced at the very beginning, but once they had the hangar demo out, with that insanely detailed, intractable spaceship, I was so impressed I spend about a hundred dollars on it to "help development".

At this point I've long since given up hope this mess will be finished in a reasonable timeframe. I'm just glad Starfield is coming up and from the trailers and interviews it's looking like a suitable replacement.

And since it's the creation engine again, any major or minor mistakes will have a mod that fixes them sooner or later.