My tired arse interpreted first meeting literally and for a moment I shuddered at the idea of having to meet LLMs in person.

Ah. Perfection.

Very fair points have been raised. Offline music, maps etc. Makes sense.

with lots of storage

I never got this. We've reached phones having hundreds of gigs and I don't know what I'd be storing on my phone. Phones can be lost or break easily, so I wouldn't want to store anything valuable. The largest files I have tend to be photos and the like, and they're too valuable to just sit on a phone.

I don't think the solution to the predators being gone is for humans to fill the gap, rather to let the predators make a return.

Here in Sweden we're looking to shoot most of our wolves for no good reason. That is after a considerable effort to stabilise the population and bring genetic diversity back to it.

EA did this with TS3 for me years back. I had physical discs. 🙃

Me!

CSS has done a lot of catching up over the years.

I recently repurposed one of my old Pis to run LibreElec for me. It barely chugs along, and there are many issues. Thought I might buy a new one, not realising just how much they cost now. It's frankly absurd.

I could buy a much more capable NUC second hand for less.

Your son deserves better.

Only if you're a corporation! If you're a filthy worker then you have no rights.

Sounds almost like the corpos have a monopoly on email.