I’ll never hear, or read, that phase the same again!

Makes me think of Children of Ruin by Adrian Tchaikovsky. 😀

No they work. It’s not like LineageOS. Both Bank apps I now need, work on GrapheneOS but did not on LineageOS. It is my compromise without being compromised.

To be fair, those selling AI spades make money from this AI gold rush. Like NVidia.

Classic podcast on why printers are terrible. Planet Money with none other that digital freedom fighter and SciFi author, Cory Doctorow.

https://www.npr.org/2021/02/17/968704526/why-printers-are-the-worst

The north wasn’t set to join up the Northern cities. Manchester, Liverpool, Leeds, New Castle all needs better connection. Going by rail East/West is terrible. Birmingham to London wasn’t even going to be much faster.

Not sure if you mean in the UK, but in the UK, I think it is hard. We had the politically lead Beeching cuts that messed up what we had. Then those lines had homes and shops built on them. So there a numerous places in the UK cut off from rail that are hard to reconnect without causing a lot of upset. Building new lines is very hard, see HS2 debacle. However, HS2 should have been focused on join up the north, not linking it to London. Also, there is a lot of improvement possible on existing lines. Though won’t get us to bullet trains.

The car is king is the problem. Which is dumb. Also, in densely populated Europe at least, with private property right, and hundreds, if not thousands, of years of legacy, environmental regulations, it’s hard to build train lines and stations. Also, the rich own so much of the country’s wealth and power, and they just fly, so don’t care.

I’ve ran LineageOS until two years ago from when it was CyanogenMod on my S3. Been a Debian user a bit longer. ;-)

What it’s got over LineageOS is it sandbox stuff out the box, so you can compromise with Google Maps and things like Bank apps run.

For work, I need a satnav with traffic in it’s route planning. No matter how good Organic Map’s maps are. Also for work, I need a Bank app. I’m not really happy with GrapheneOS, but I don’t have a choice. It’s my least worse option. Unless I keep a GrapheneOS phone for work and maybe try a Mobian phone for home… When it looks day drivable…

Edit: oh and transferring files, Nextcloud or scp in Termux.

So I’ve finished rereading the first one. Your right! It’s head is “generic human”. The joints for arms and legs are a mix of organic and nonorganic, but to pass, it needs a long shirt and trousers. Less human in looks than in the TV series, who we see in the nude to make it clear he is not a sex bot.

Edit:

In the second book: “I don’t know if there are any augmented human with enough implants to resemble a SecUnit. It seams unlikely a human would want that many implants, or would survive whatever catastrophic injury might make them necessary.”

So yes, the TV series has the body wrong even head is acceptable.

The series is the next book on my list, and I flew from them first time. Looking forwards to rereading (I never normally reread). :-)

We remember/interpret it slightly differently. I’ll be rereading soon. See what I second time round. 😀

But the whole point of the modifications was so it could pass as human. Which means beforehand, it was a struggle to.

Agreed. I hope they pull it back. It’s clearly where anyone would prefer to live!

After ART’s modifications. Other secunits would know from it’s gate and general movement, etc.

I remember it being a clear thing, but I’ll be rereading soon. It’s the book after the next one.

It was only after ART’s modifications that Murderbot was able to pass for a heavily augmented human. That was the point of them.

I hope they show the Preservation more seriously later. It was all vague at the start in the books. Though I will be rereading!

I think commercially, they needed a known actor and who can not only look genderless, but sound it? It is easier in books.

I do see what your saying, it is just the books have a secunit clearly not looking like any gender. They have skimmed over Muderbot’s disgust of gender and sex, but in the books it is constant theme. It’s visceral.

To have them be genderless is only half way, as secunits, in the books, also look genderless (and not human).

Skarsgård, for a dude, is doing as good a job as he can. Not many known actors could visually do what I’d have preferred, and also can do a ungendered voice. (Any?). I know it’s easier to do it books and realistically they needed a well known actor to pull people to the show.

It’s just…just… That’s not my Murderbot!

It’s an interesting point, and I agree with it politically, but in the books it’s made clear secunits look androgynous and non-human.

Some change between media change is always going to happen. I think Skarsgård is doing as good a job as can be done with his face. I’m making peace with it. Maybe the bigger problem is the dismissiveness of the portrayal of Preservation Alliance society. But we did live in the Corporate Rim!