The conspiracy theories are still just that

The real issue has been the same since the 80s

The ultra rich are getting richer and that makes everyone else poorer.

Once they have accumulated enough wealth to price normal people out of being able to buy anything, society will be forced to reconfigure to serve only the ultra wealthy.

Then we’re all in slums with relatively few options to ever fix the situation.

We need to tax the billionaires out of existence before their simple existence breaks everything.

Everything else is a distraction.

A stylophone is more of a toy than an instrument, really

If you want a small synth that you’ll actually be able to use to make music and learn, I’d say look into the Korg Volca series. They’re only around twice the price of the stylophone, and are much more powerful in terms of what they’re capable of.

There’s about 10 of them now and are very affordable for what they are, which is a combination sequencer and synth. They can also be connected together to sync up, so you could have one doing drums and another doing a bassline or something.

Look into YouTube videos about them and decide which you think would best help you make the kind of music you’re looking to make.

I know what I did

“good morning, I’m about to destroy the backend” is exactly the energy I’d welcome from a colleague frankly.

I think the outage that followed as we fumbled to replace it would probably be cheaper than the ongoing maintenance after a few months

It’s probably an intentional or unintentional reference to this

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DagwoodSandwich

That’s not the same unless something has recently changed. The scheduling just stops it from scheduling them during the day, it doesn’t make sure everything downloads in a single night.

And even then, that’s not a “do all it right now” button

Now it would be nice if they could add a download all updates button (if only for Steamdeck)

Going into that download screen and telling 20 games to download now before I’m going on a flight or something is a pain in the arse

Something geared towards finding out what they do in their free time. Generally a quick way to find stuff in common

I saw an article about a cleaning robot that can climb stairs that’s just come out, it’s a quadruped thing.

Aren’t these all chiffchaffs?

Maybe bottom middle and top right are something else

Ba*man

Nu-metal & Nu-rave purely to see what they call it

Tarantino & Nolan already got shouts in the thread, so:

John Carpenter for some of the best practical effects in cinema history

You’ve also got the likes of Stanley Kubrick & David Lynch, of course

Talking of Davids, David Fincher feels like he has enough good to make the list

I feel like you could go on a great journey through 80s-00s cinema with films having either Bill Murray or Arnold Schwarzenegger in the cast

There’s probably a lot I’m forgetting

but I figured, why not? And left my likeness open to everyone, just like Sam Altman.

Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.

Honestly about as bright as posting your credit card details on social media.

Privacy is something you can’t really get back once you give it away. Your likeness is just another part of that

when they’ll finally take the power

This has still not happened.

Boomers are still a massively oversized voting demographic, so vast quantities of political energy are still spent on them.

They’re also typically more susceptible to modern propaganda techniques than any subsequent demographic.

The bulk of modern propaganda is trying to stop people from seeing and tackling the issues causing the problems. If people get angry at immigrants, they’ll not point their fingers at the ultra-wealthy who are actually causing all the issues pricing them out of living their lives.

The people in power are predominantly boomers and gen-Xers with views that align with boomers. There’re practically no millennials in any position of meaningful power across most of the world’s politics. The more radical gen-Xers were never let into the establishment parties, so they languished in the political cold unable to get enough votes under FPTP based systems.

No one can really change shit until the generations go back to being roughly the same size as each other. Hopefully it’s not too late to fix things by that point.

6ish, I’d like 8 but I can’t really fall asleep until after midnight unless I’m truly exhausted, then work means I usually need to be up around 7ish

Are we talking time or space complexity?

Not necessary preppers as that is someone who’s motivation is to mitigate some hypothetical future bad thing happening

I think most self-hosters are doing it out of a combination of technical exploration and mitigating real issues that exist today, e.g. cloud service outages or market exits causing something previously bought to be useful to become a temporary brick or permanent e-waste. Well, and cost in some cases, no one particularly enjoys having an extra bill for hosting.

Sea horse, …pommel… Horse…?

Where someone is found wearing these entirely determines the level of threatening that everyone in the vicinity experiences