Aside from budget and time overruns it looks like they overshot the target of "futuristic" and landed in the middle of dystopian...

There should be an external hard drive full of portable game installs in some drawer that fits the time period.

Should easily kill a week.

Currently:

• VR
• Uncategorized

Soon to be added:

• Linux (tested/works on)

I'm with you on LLMs being over hyped although that's already dying down a bit. But regarding your claim that LLMs cannot "understand context", I've recently read an article that shows that LLMs can have an internal world model:

https://thegradient.pub/othello/

Depending on your definition of "understanding" that seems to be an indicator of being more than a pure "stochastic parrot"

Zur besseren Findbarkeit: Es heißt "Lateral" with Tom Scott, von lateral thinking - Quer- oder um die Ecke denken, aber ohne die Konnotation, die Querdenken seit Corona hat.

Wow, that sounds like a decent start for an architecture.

I'm tempted to spin up a few Jellyfin instances to see how it might work...

Teenagers and a dog sound like Scooby Doo. No idea how specific the rest is.

To a certain degree, yes. If someone at Google decides to wage all-out war against ad blockers they have a good chance. But if that costs more money than it generates, odds are that someone will stop it. Google / Alphabet is publicly traded after all and that means profit above all else.

No, No, they don't understand everything and nothing!

Funnily enough, wikipedia has the answer

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Database_download

I built a custom app to do it since I couldn't manage to fire the relevant intents from an adb shell without root.

I lifted the code from AAAD

Specifically the InstallAPK method in MainActivity.java

Intent intent;

            if (Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= Build.VERSION_CODES.N) {
                intent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_INSTALL_PACKAGE);
                intent.setData(getUri(file));
                intent.setFlags(Intent.FLAG_GRANT_READ_URI_PERMISSION | Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_NEW_TASK);
            } else {
                intent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW);
                intent.setDataAndTypeAndNormalize(Uri.fromFile(file), "application/vnd.android.package-archive");
                intent.addFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_NEW_TASK);
            }

            intent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_NOT_UNKNOWN_SOURCE, true);
            intent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_INSTALLER_PACKAGE_NAME, "com.android.vending");
            getApplicationContext().startActivity(intent);
        } 

Basically you construct an Intent ACTION_INSTALL_PACKAGE with data pointing to the APK file and the extras EXTRA_NOT_UNKNOWN_SOURCE=true and EXTRA_INSTALLER_PACKAGE_NAME="com.android.vending" which tells the installer that this APK is not sideloaded and it's the play store asking to install it.

You might still need to enable unknown sources in Android Auto developer settings (separate from phone developer settings).

If I remember, I'll try to pull the code for my app from my PC and post it.

IT changes usually affect management as well, while "cost saving" in production doesn't.