Saving for months ≠ using money earmarked for necessary expenses. I saved for months to buy the parts for my PC, and all of it was discretionary income.

But I otherwise agree that you should not spend your necessary funds on unnecessary expenses.

Unfortunately, I tend not to play anything that pushes the power needs above 12W—usually something 2D, so it’s possible that I just don’t do anything that would make a noticeable change. Take my experience with a grain of salt.

I have not noticed that. What have you been playing? If you’ve been playing the same games, and they’ve had updates, it’s possible those updates are unoptimized or just heavier to run at the settings you had previously.

Forking isnt a magic bullet.

No, but good projects have come from forking away from bad decisions.

It was and has been thus far. Has a lot of great features, but this might be a good reason to fork the project.

Fair enough. I’m just hopeful I’ve given them a little spark of doubt and a reminder that multibillion dollar companies aren’t in the business of telling the objective truth.

This is not a good source. This is effectively, “We’ve investigated ourselves and found [that AI is a miraculous wonder].” Anthropic has a gigantic profit incentive to shill AI, and you should demand impartiality and better data than this.

I haven’t played this one, specifically because people say there’s no map variety. Same path, same events, same puzzles.

Once they have some procedural generation, then it will go into my rotation with friends.

I don’t see a question in there. What are you asking?

Cool, know what job could easily be wiped out? Management. Sam Altman is a manager.

Therefore, Sam Altman doesn’t do real work. Fuck you, asshole.

And they were a lobbyist. They weren’t just a pretty functionary writing emails and getting coffee for the people in charge. They were actively and knowingly advocating for the abuses Meta is infamous for.

I mean, they used to work for a company that quite literally is built upon the practice of stealing people’s data and selling it to the highest bidder. Surely, that means they are the best person to know how to counter that, right? Right?!

/S

It’s resistant, though, specifically because you can fork it. Don’t like where things are going? Like the features of a previous version? Fork that version and run with it.

It does mean extra work for somebody to maintain that forked version, but the option is nonetheless there.

That won’t matter. VPNs typically use a known set of IPs, and services like Reddit that are run by surveillance capitalism companies simply block those known ranges (see also YouTube, for example).

I don’t use it, but I knew someone who did, and for them, it was about min/maxing their software. Because everything is built from source, everything is optimized for their specific system in theory.

I’m not aware of any comparisons on speed, but I would suspect that it’s negligible in real world use cases, but it’s still important for some.

Cool, and I bet it will be just as trustworthy as WhatsApp (i.e. not at all).

It’s one of their best pieces of software, hands down

Based on my rough guesstimate, you would be able to use about a 1" x 2" (2.54cm x 5.08cm) piece of 20ga silver to make something that’s about 3.8g. You could possibly go thinner up to 24ga, which would give you more to work with, but I wouldn’t go beyond that; you might run the risk of deformation with use, otherwise.

Good luck! Smithing is fun, no?

If we Americans can’t sensibly regulate ourselves, seems like the reasonable thing to do.

PIA does not have WireGuard configs available. To get those, you have to use third-party tools to capture and generate the necessary info. Otherwise, you have to use their client, or else no WireGuard.

Users have been asking for years (since 2018, I think), and they’ve never provided them.