Well, we’ve artificially inflated the price of steel, electronics and consumable resources like fuel and electricity required to build cars in the US. I can’t imagine that we would even be competitive building anything right now.

I stopped asking myself what the meaning of life is, and started asking what I want my impact on this earth to be.

I keep coming to the same answer. I want to live a quiet comfortable life with the people I love, and when I die, I want my only legacy on this earth to be memories.

Currently falling way short of that last goal. I make a lot of trash, currently have a conventional house with a lawn, which takes ridiculous resources to maintain. Ultimately, I’d like to build an earthship that can provide food, water, and comfort for me and my wife for the rest of our lives. I want to own things that care for me, instead of being owned by things I need to care for.

A container of sweet stuff that you get stuck in.

Basically, a system full of juicy looking data that takes forever to collect and process… And then it was all fake data the whole time.

Plus, you can hide some real info, like the name of the machine compromised, or info about the attacker’s system in the data, and then when it gets compromised, sold on the black market, and eventually published, you can reference the leaked data to see exactly which system the hackers got into, and get some insights on how they did it.

Are you really being “left behind” when everyone else is going the wrong way?

I’m really baffled because this is super easy to fix.

Step 1. Pull all the AI bloat out of Windows 11. Make a clean, compatible, and user friendly OS out of the Windows brand.

Step 2. Spin CoPilot into it’s own OS. Go crazy with your “Every app is just a different AI presentation of your data.” Make the AI in there all powerful. Allow users to remote to the OS and run the same AI regardless of the platform.

Step 3. Print money

Hear me out. Your car, your phone, and these days, the streets themselves practically track you everywhere you go. They are creating a pattern profile for you, and for everyone else. I’m not saying this is a good thing, but the silver lining is that we know about it.

Wanna be invisible for a day? Throw your phone in the car and have your partner or friend drive around with it. The logs for that day will show you being a happy little drone driving around like normal. Here is the thing… As the surveillance state gets more and more toys to play with, they forget the important basics, the primitive tools, the personal skills, and the willingness to do the legwork that actually matters.

If it makes you feel better/differently about the effectiveness of surveillance. Some guy kidnapped Nancy Guthrie, got captured on camera, sent a ransom note, and we still don’t know who the fuck he is.

I’m seems pretty reasonable for a cloud PC.

I just ran the costs through the Azure calculator, and a D2asV6 system with a 100GB drive and licenseing running 16hrs a day, 30 days a month would cost approximately 1200 dollars annually, so 99 bucks a year seems like a steal.

And a D2asV6 is not a lot of compute power. 2 cores, 8Gb ram.

In summary, Azure is fucking expensive if you are keeping VMs online all the time.

It’s not a piping bag. It’s a specialized piece of lab equipment called a… Ummm… Oh no…

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cheap drone flies conductive dust to the air conditioning systems? Like powdered metal dumped somewhere very sensitive, where it can be carried to sensitive equipment by the air pumps? Or fire/smoke at the intake?

Wouldn’t work. Dust is a major problems for data centers, and they already have pretty strict air-handling controls to prevent it.

Your main ways of disrupting one is by taking out the power, the HVAC, or the structure. I think out of the 3, the HVAC would be the easiest to disable from the outside. That being said, datacenters are not inherently problematic, so make sure you know what you are trying to destroy before you actually destroy it.

The funny thing is… I can see about 6 WiFi networks from my neighbors, despite being in the basement right now. What do you need those cables for again?

We’d need a routing protocol that can use way more hops. IPv4 only supports up to 255 hops, so if I ballpark the average distance between houses at 100 feet, I’d only be able to access stuff hosted within 5 miles or so of me. There are some other functional considerations, but I’m sure you could drive entirely across most cities and see WiFi coverage the whole way.

It has a cleaning mode, just like the watch and phone use to eject water from the speakers.

I got an Insignia from BestBuy a few years ago. There was a smart version that was 2 inches bigger for 25 dollars less, and I opted out of that. To say the salesman was floored by this decision would be accurate.

Number 2 is an electric vehicle.

Number 1 is a non-smart TV

Honorable mention; The Apple Watch SE 2 I bought for my wife so she stops thinking she’s going tachy or having a heart attack 9 times a year. Considering the cost of an average ER trip, and the hit to my sanity when these things only happen at like 3 AM, I’ll gladly upgrade her to the pro version or whatever when the SE kicks the bucket.

Can’t hear them snoring if I’m asleep too.

Not even close.

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I see serrations/combo blades on a knife and I just want to vomit.

You missed out on windows fucking up drivers for some SSDs a few months back. I had a MSI machine for a client that was unrecoverable on 11, and to re-install from scratch.

I switched my mom to Linux because teaching her how to use Linux as her daily driver was easier than trying to unfuck windows on her computer.

Back up your data and then go nuts.

That just reporting on one study by the pew research center. Which may be non-partisan, but they sure as hell aren’t unbiased.

I think we have to settle with the fact that all oil deposits are going to be extracted and used by humanity. I’d prefer if we used it slowly to grease turbine bearings rather than just burning it all the time.

Also, until fairly recently, we were using whale oil for lubrication in a lot of things. As fucked up as it is, that shit is renewable. There are alternatives for lubrication that are slightly more expensive than petroleum products.

You can haul or tow pretty well with a van. Unless you need a hookup for a goose neck… But those are rare, even for truck bros.

Not really.

First of all, because we would need the DNA of those animals. Sure, you can cobble some shit together, to make an animal that looks like that extinct species, but it would not actually be that extinct species.

Another issue is the biome/niche that species lived in. They either went extinct because of changes to their environment, or, they went extinct, and that caused changes in their environment. So if you want to bring the species back, you also need to make sure they have a suitable environment to survive in.

You also can’t just bring back one. A population needs generic diversity to adapt and survive. So to de-extinct a species, you need to bring back like 25 generically varied examples. Much more work than just creating a single specimen.

Behavior matters for a species as well. If orcas went extinct in the wild, and we brought them back with a breeding program in zoos and aquarium and just released those solitary orcas into the wild, do you think they would act like orcas? Would they hunt with the same techniques? I think the pack mentality would be gone, their “language” would be gone, and I don’t think they would survive.

The reality is, extinction is a permanent thing. We may possibly have the ability to bring a species “back” but there will be permanent, population-altering irreversible effects from going extinct in the first place.