Some interesting points! Not sure why you’re being downvoted for having an opinion, even if it’s not the same as some others, but I appreciate you taking the time to discuss the series. Such a shame he didn’t get to write more.

Great points on both sides, and I’m just happy to see people discussing his works :)

Not really, human agents are still highly valued, hence the combo of human+drone team. If what you said was correct then they’re have just used avatars for everything. Djan Seriy Anaplian for example was a fucking badass.

Yikes, how Draconian. Id be fucking pissed if someone came in and forcibly open sourced a product I had invested millions in developing.

All these authors and no one has mentioned the Known Space series by Larry Niven!

Personally I would start with Protector, then Crashlander, then head into Ringworld and the rest.

It’s a little dated in places and he’s not great at writing women, but it’s got some good heavy sci-fi ideas in. The Ringworld megastructure is a fun thing to contemplate.

Not my cow, I’m just here to hold the tail.

I see an “add attachments” that is crying out to be tested with a zip-bomb.

I pay for it.

The cost is worth the extra quality when working with others over screenshare etc. The community management features are useful. A large portion of my workflow is aided by discord and GitHub, both of whi h I pay for premium features.

I don’t expect them to provide these services for free considering the huge boost they give to productivity. Expecting them to be free is naive.

You can in fact insure things that it is possible to steal. Cars, bikes, household posessions, you name it. It’s quite common.

Streaming usage per person is available via one of the stats plugins, but it is admittedly crude and missing some info (such as bandwidth used).

I’m using the android app without issues, which didn’t require side loading, but my experience with other platforms is zero.

Effort!

I don’t usually want to contribute my own opinion. I just want to read other people’s and silently judge them if they disagree with me.

But I need my cuda :(

This is why I use Linux, the fingerprint device wouldn’t be supported so this wouldn’t be an issue /s