Really easy: don't argue on the internet. The approach has many benefits.

Multiplex the sensor?

Split the laser into 7 ish spots and read all of them at once?

That doesn’t sound that hard…

The USA has contracted a bad case of stupidity.

It has always bothered me that by "spectrum" they mean not the sort of continuous thing that spectra actually are, but instead some disjoint set of "colors" any one of which might describe a person. That's called a partition, and its in an entirely separate thing.

When I tell this to people they understand immediately that I am in fact on that "spectrum".

I start to genuinely wonder where the place for us humans are in this. All I see is human beings being crowded out. Capital via LLMs taking the place of humans.

Do you feel the same way about VFX (marvel etc) or animated movies (pixar etc)

Maybe it is better to de-tech a bit. Go back to some older decentralised stuff.

Like buy cd's and blu-rays instead of digital/drm locked/streaming service shit. Be an owner again instead of a renter.

Abandoned? When? I still use this pretty much everywhere to create HTML tables. Do people use something else now?

Where did you get your free GPU from?