Like, you know he’s not personally involved in the design or manufacture of these things right

Not everybody does. I’ve seen some threads, mostly on insta, where people were fallomg over themselves to get on their fucking knees to slob on Elon’s nob. I get that the average insta user isn’t the brightest, but people like that do exist.

And it leaves a bad taste in my mouth, because there is a chance that the hard work of the engineers, laborers, and Shotwell will be used for Elon’s fame throughout history.

So yeah, fuck Elon. The tech is cool as fuck though.

Veritasium didn’t really give the full picture though. He was only really looking at rated based voting systems, but there are more systems out there than that.

Hopefully instead of turning into a bunch of e-waste, a bunch of “useless” desktops flood refurbishers, and refurbished desktops become even cheaper. I wouldn’t mind replacing my dying media server.

we’d like to shoot them down before US personnel are killed potentially escalating this even further?

So we’re sending more personal instead of getting them out of the situation? Gymnastics.

The Emperor protects

To be fair, some penguins aren’t exactly small

Not every GET request is simple enough to cache, and not everyone is running something big enough to need a sysadmin.

Near zero isn’t zero though. And not everyone is using caching.

It has nothing to do with a sysadmin. It’s impossible for a given request to require zero processing power. Therefore there will always be an upper limit to how many get requests can be handled, even if it’s a small amount of processing power per request.

For a business it’s probably not a big deal, but if it’s a self hosted site it quickly can become a problem.

The root problem is that there is a huge self capturing black market demand for drugs, which itself is a problem rooted in capitalist countries throughout the americas prioritizing GDP expansion over human wellbeing.

It’s the result of failing healthcare systems, the evaporation of 3rd places, the requirement of a car to survive, the failing housing system, the lack of job security and mobility, etc

No amount of military intervention can change that. Even if you somehow successfully destroyed every cartel with a button press, they’d all be replaced overnight because of the huge demand for drugs.

What can actually effect the demand is:

• food, water, housing, education and healthcare being well funded human rights

• mixed used development/relaxation of zoning laws

• transportation infrastructure that allows people to actually have a choice in how they get places

• unions, workplace democracy, worker protections

You get the picture. Life actually has to be worth living.

GET requests can still overload a system.

https://youtu.be/i8ju_10NkGY

Paramount’s video player is ass. I have to fight it to start the video by reloading the page and clicking exactly in the right places. Then the player doesn’t pause when the space bar is pressed. And to top it off, the progress bar doesn’t disappear unless you click inside the window then float the mouse away. Fuck that noise. It isn’t worth it. What’s the point of paying if the service is broken?

Yar har.

They aren’t, it’s just an excuse.

No, they need to have perpetually increasing profits.

The language certain politicians are using is plucked directly from the mouths of Goebbels’ and Himmler’s rotting corpses. How can they not see what lies ahead if they continue with this shit?

What’s even more infuriating is that when you try to point this out to others, they act like you’re insane/exaggerating.

Not at all, it’s just what I’m personally familiar with.

A dual USB C/USB A drive is always nice.

It makes transferring files from phone to phone or from phone to PC significantly nicer.

Shoutout to LocalSend if a purely software approach is applicable. Fills the same role very nicely, and is free.

just finished bioshock, wow!

Fantastic series, I’m glad you liked it, because I sure did as well.

I’m sure you’re already loaded up with a backlog of recommendations and games you bought but haven’t yet touched. But I’d highly recommend FTL: Faster Than Light, as well as Into The Breach. They’re both from the same publisher, and are both amazing games that arguably are a defining feature of modern gaming.

I hear there are cheats for call of duty type things that people pay subscriptions for. I don’t get it.

Yeah, I’m right there with you. Could not care less about subscriptions, let alone for cheat subscriptions.

Thanks for sharing your experiences mate.

Of course. Enjoy whatever is next on your list!

I will admit I’m making some strong, harsh statements. But I think that’s a pretty natural result of living in the U.S., a country who’s cops operate closer to a gang than Rescue Heroes. They kill minorities with virtual immunity. They racially profile people. The list goes on.

Somebody who intentionally joins a group like that does not have good intentions, or is ok with their buddies not having good intentions, or gets kicked out quickly for tattling on their fellow cops. So yeah, cops are never on your side, at least not here.