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Oh so netflix stock goes down and now they hope to get on that AI pump?

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.

Imagine being so fucked up you drag a blind man through the street

I miss the keyboard screen series of Logitech stuff, I held onto my G510 a lot longer than I probably should have and only really retired it for something much nicer to type on around 2020.

If Logitech had released something like their G915 but with the screen, I'd have got it in a heartbeat. Even though game support had long dwindled, it was still good for media player feedback, system stats and IIRC there was a third party way of getting notifications from some sites to show up.

I guess smartphones kinda do most of that better these days... Well excluding the system stats, but that was always the fallback if nothing else was worth showing

I mean legally enforcing 51% ownership by nationals is a pretty simple and effective policy to implement if this is an issue, but political donors don't tend to like rules on ownership.

Cracks me up that HSBC is included in their list though, considering it stands for "Hong-kong & Shanghai Banking corporation". I'd be surprised if their owners weren't from that part of the world, frankly

Yeah agree, there's not really a better champion against anti-consumer business practices in tech

They're not necessarily quite up there with Wikipedia or the Internet Archive, but I'd say they're very much in the same wider category of "yes these may be American, but they're a fundamentally positive force for humanity that's worth protecting"

Oh I guess they must have been at the same parties

Lived in Liverpool and then Manchester from the age of 18, now nearly 2 decades of never needing to own a car.

The odd couple of times I've needed to move stuff around it's either enlisting the help of a friend with a car or just renting a van. Other than that public transport and taxis cover 99% of any journey I'd need to make, and ultimately cheaper.

The only thing I'll say is travelling across the country by train is forced into being something of a privilege at the prices of the tickets these days. The fact that if I decide to go to London for the weekend with my partner at short notice, that's going to cost me about £200 discounted with a Railcard, is patently absurd when I could rent a car for the weekend and get a couple of tanks of petrol for less.

Still, travelling by train for long journeys beats having to concentrate on driving anyway IMO, so I'll still pick the train.

I reckon we'd see a lot more people forgoing a car if more areas invested in their local public transport like the north west has, and if we can find a way to slash the prices of longer train journeys equivalent to equivalent prices in Europe.

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

This is kinda cope

Practically everyone's job is going to be automated away before long, the important thing is that production is socialised before practically 1 guy owns everything and has to pay no one.

At that point things end up pretty concrete.

These opinion pieces that pop up saying "ha-HA! Behold the petard they're hoisting themselves with!" Kinda miss the importance of preparation.

They falsely expect an easing to an exponential curve.

The cat leapt out of the bag decades ago, we all need to make sure we've got something left at the end of it all

Nice to get a moment to pull out a classic

Nah beard all the way, got a big head

I'd say that exactly meets the standard

That's totally going to be applied without bias

If a British person served that up in the UK we'd fire them into the sea

The hard boiled egg on a fry up is an absolutely feral choice

I was doing some awful manual patching trying to get some Linux TV kernel patches into a raspberry pi kernel I was cross compiling on my main desktop.

IIRC I had both repos cloned for quick reference/source of truth and then a third I was using to do the actual work on. I remember running a du summary on my working directory with it all in at the end, and it was somewhere between 40-50GB.

There was probably a more space efficient way to achieve what I was doing, but there was no need to worry about that

1. Something's got to give
2. Something's got to give
3. Something's got to give now.....

Edit: Huh, the first part is "nothing" not "something", I'd have totally remembered it the same (even if OOP did this deliberately)

I mean, this sounds like a pretty huge deal

Does anyone who knows this field better than me, know if this is as big as it sounds?

I wouldn't say a gamer is remotely exceptional, some modern games take up 200+GiB (which is ridiculous, but still reality)

If you're a content creator or hobbyist that does anything with video, photo or audio, that's gonna disappear in a flash. For example, I came back with ~30GiB of RAW photos from my last weekend away, and that's before any processing which will create some intermediate TIFF/DNGs. If it was a week away I'd not even be able to pull them all onto my PC to process.

Hell, I'd be worried about using most of that up by just cloning and compiling a Linux kernel, I think last time I needed to do that I ended up using about 50GiB

I'd say sure, the average web browsing, word processing user you're probably thinking of is going to be fine for a while, but all other use cases aren't exactly exceptional.

70GiB was a good amount of free space about a decade ago, not really at all today

Oh I was more saying that's quite a low amount of free space for an application to be putting a message like that up!

I think my desktop has something like 20TiB free out of around 60TiB currently and I'd just call that a comfortable place to be.

..... But I'd understand if a disk tool gave me some grief over it