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Strangely, some episodes actually have an optimistic ending. Maybe kinda bitter sweet, but still.
Anything even remotely positive suddenly feels very good in this context where the baseline is a total nightmare. When you think a character has hit rock bottom, Black Mirror shows you how things can always get 10x worse. What you thought was bad, was just a warm up lap.
Yeah, it’s one of those works of art that aim to make you uneasy. Gotta say, they nailed it. It’s a horrible show in more ways than I dare to count.
Here are the relevant episodes where digital minds get tortured.
S2E4 White Christmas: A human mind is copied to a computer that runs home automation systems. The copy is essentially coerced into slavery. When the copy refuses run the automation system perfectly, it is tortured with sensory deprivation over an extended period of time. So, basically slavery, customer satisfaction and quarterly profits are the “justification” here.
S4E1 USS Callister: A guy with some serious issues loves to larp in a digital world with copies of other people. His idea of fun involves abusing the copied minds. It’s sort of like mental torture for the copies. He is bullied in real life, and this is his way of getting back to the people he hates. Just plain old revenge transformed into mental abuse, if you can call that a “justification”. Hey, I never said the reasons were good.
S4E6 black museum: A museum has a copy of a human mind stuck in a toy. This counts as psychological abuse as the mind is unable to act like a normal human in such a restrictive body. You can also get to electrocute a copy of a murderer’s mind, which is just literal torture. Sadistic people pay for it. In other words, money “justifies” torture, again. Actually, money justifies just about anything on this show. On the other hand, they are torturing a convicted murderer so… Oh, but the murderer could be innocent, but we don’t really know so… This series just doesn’t give you an easy way out.
There are also other episodes that feature copied minds, but they don’t involve blatant torture. However, that doesn’t make those episodes any less awful, because the writers as sick as they are creative.
Well that’s black mirror. It’s clearly meant to be disturbing. Doesn’t have to make sense to be messed up.
Bright future ahead. Robot dogs will hunt you down and cut you to pieces. Before you die, your brain is scanned, and the copy will be tortured as long as the machine has power.
So, is this the second or third stage of enshittification?
The total ad volume remains constant if you decrease W11 ads and increase Bing ads to compensate. It’s the law of ad equilibrium. Perfectly balanced, as all things should be.
MS is a corporate clients first type of company. They really don’t care about consumers, let alone gamers. A huge chunk of their income comes from corporate licences and cloud services.
Oh wow. Someone really put the effort into this scam. Imagine putting the engine of a fiat punto into a ferrari.
If your processes require RAM, it’s fine to use it. Windows obviously has many processes like that and reserves lots of RAM.
A Linux system can also have RAM-heavy processes if you choose to install and run them. In that case, a high RAM usage indicates that these processes are functioning correctly. Conversely, very low RAM usage suggests that the system is running as intended, assuming you haven’t installed unnecessary applications.
While RAM usage numbers can tell you something about installed and running processes, they don’t necessarily tell much about system performance. High or low values alone don’t definitively tell you whether the system is running well or poorly.
Life is complicated, so summarising such things into a single number or a sentence comes with compromises. People just love to generalise and categorise things, no matter how feasible that really is. These summaries just scratch a very specific itch people seem to have.
It’s a CPU thing. Most games tend to require lots of GPU and very little CPU. Compiling shaders during runtime is usually fine.
I think mine was on by default. It maxes out the CPU for several seconds.
As long as you’re using cat5, you should be fine.
Of yeah, the ending did involve some sort of psychological torture. Totally missed that one. In that case, a human committed a crime and a copied mind gets to pay for it too. Messed up “justice”…