It was pretty good 10+ years ago I’d say, then it slowly got worse and worse

I’ve had the same experience you did but didn’t feel like writing it all out. Thanks !

I meant to steer the conversation on amazon being worse quality than it used to, not quite to aliexpress…

I’m familiar with it, I’ve ordered more than 100 items off aliexpress.

And I feel like the modern amazon experience got worse and is closer to the intense searching required to find the good stuff at the right price from aliexpress.

I wouldn’t say aliexpress stuff is good, but rather that amazon stooped down to aliexpress-levels of quality, to which we got ourselves used to.

Am I only one who immediately loses respect for hashtag abusers?

Upgrade to grapheneos

Using VLC is easy. Having good musical taste and finding the time to renew your library so it doesn’t grow stale is hard.

I know, I used to download all my stuff and now I just get YouTube music started on a piece I like and let it autoplay forever while I work, do a tabletop campaign, play videogames… I find that this way, I find the music it plays to be in the right mood 98% of the time.

It disgusts me to say it but it just works and saves me a lot of time.

I’ll let other go at it, I’m out of ideas

Good start. How are you launching the game? Some infrastructure might be running their own glibc…

I’m thinking about lutris or bottles. Maybe those have EAC settings too.

Did you ensure that your game is using the correct glibc? (Saying this naively, never had to use it)

Oh, of course.

But that’ll help make AI more expensive to dev and lighten the load on smaller sites that are crumbling under the AI load.

I hope cloudflare’s competition makes that available too to make sure cloudflare doesn’t have all the data and the leverage that goes with it.

Humm… Who are telling this to?

If you’re talking to businesses, if this were true, all the tax optimization and fraud would disappear overnight, I almost wish it were true.

And if you’re talking to citizens, how about labor organization, revolts, resistance?

Either way, that looks awfully reductive

Just when cloudflare were starting to be the good guys by making AI crawlers pay…

I think they host wine/proton releases at least, maybe more

What’s the exclusion zone of rare earth mines ? Of the terrible chemicals required to extract those products ? Same question with the batteries. What’s the impact of the shade on agriculture ? How about all the steel, concrete and composites on the environment, how do they degrade ? Is it in micro plastics ?

I didn’t say nuclear energy was good, just that solar panels are worse. The perfect energy source doesn’t exist but currently all the data I’ve come across points to the direction that nuclear is significantly better than all other renewables and don’t require significant battery storage.

Also if anti-science ecologists hadn’t blocked so many fast neutron reactors, we’d be further along to a tech that can burn existing thorium stockpiles for 8000 years without further mining and while producing significantly less dangerous waste than current reactors. I guess we’ll just buy the design from China and Russia who didn’t stop the research and have currently operating reactors right now.

That’s a major security breach.

Imagine a piece of malware using that same API to spy on other programs…

There’d need to be a way for a user to tell the kernel which app can do that, and that’s a lot of trust to put into a fleeting app that’ll stop working when too few micro transactions are being done and too much trust to put into a user which may may be giving this permission to random programs, which may sometimes be evil.

Even for offshore wind, you gotta add the necessary battery capacity for a reliable power grid…

https://docs.nrel.gov/docs/fy21osti/80580.pdf

I’m using table 1.

PV panels alone produce 43g/kWh, batteries 33.

Nuclear (light-water or pressurized) are at 12.

We’re talking complete life cycle analyses.

This is still more polluting to mine than going nuclear, even accounting for nuclear waste.

You’re right, although I’d be considering narrower cards and maybe blowers. This is a server build, not a main rig. So I’d get a GPU that’s as close as possible to a glorified encoder ad possible and pocket the power savings. I don’t have ac where I live…