As long as it’s plastic coated metal it should still be capable of shielding any wavelength larger than the squares. So you would still need to put your WiFi antenna on the outside I think.

Speaking of ADHD getting in the way, despite the previous commenter saying mobo I was still imagining it the other way around. That makes way more sense.

(Ugh, the number of times I’ve cut myself trying to get the Ethernet shield out of the way)

Real answer: it serves two purposes. First it ties the ground shielding from the ports to the grounding plane of the case itself so that static discharge is dissipated there rather than the motherboard. Second it completes the RF shield created by the case, this was way more important in earlier in computing and is also required to comply with that FCC rule about not interfering with other devices that you see printed on the bottom of things still sometimes.

Back in the day there was no backplane and the only port on the mobo was the AT keyboard port so that was the only hole in the case. The rest were punchouts for parallel and various serial ports that would be connected to the mobo via ribbon cable. When the first ATX mobos came out they kept the punchouts for the backplane but that required all the manufacturers to use the same port layout so that lasted all of like 2 years before the pop-in shield became the norm.

How are the new ones getting around the different port layouts?

That ‘the fans will partake regardless, we need to attract the masses’ attitude is literally what is wrong with all media right now. Basically every major franchise now not only needs to exist across all media types but has been generalized to the point of unrecognizable blandness.

Trying to remember if they left themselves turned on.

Wait until you find out how they used to fit shoes…

This left vs liberal bullshit really needs to stop. The only people I have ever heard complain about architecture of housing projects are rich people.

The fact that you think it’s bad at one thing in your list but adequate at the others is part of the problem. It’s bad at all of those things, because it’s a chatbot. Admittedly a very advanced chatbot, but still just a chatbot.

The most important take away here is what of your list was impossible before LLMs? Because the reality is that absolutely everything that you mentioned was possible before LLMs. All that LLMs have added is the chat interface part.

Granted, the technology that allowed LLM’s is likely to be very useful and already has been in places like protein folding, but that happened before LLMs.

You didn’t actually say what you think LLM’s are enhancing. Just that you feel that they are. Honestly I think that’s the biggest part, they’re big shiny things that look like they’re doing a lot. But they actually aren’t. LLMs are chatbots and they will never be anything more than just chatbots.