Somehow these articles just add so much to the meme, especially with Politifact’s refusal to use the original verbage of “dick vein”

God forbid men have hobbies!

The problem with just deleting half of the living people is it does nothing to curb the systems that brought the planet to ecological collapse. In such a scenario people would almost definitely fill the void left with even more excess since there’s now more breathing room and resources to use excessively. It would not take long, probably less than a century to return to the exact same situation such a magical solution was used to solve

Hey it was only the rich assholes who’s heads popped, everyone else just participated in a world-wide brawl for like 60 seconds so hopefully most people survived that

I’ve said before, I expect we’ll see a future Windows release that’s just a Linux distro with a heavily proprietary userland. The more they can foist off to other projects and foundations for free volunteer labor the less they have to do in-house which is of course expensive

Funnily enough, android being its own ecosystem that happens to use the Linux kernel has led to quite a few improvements over the years in the kernel. Better scheduling, new filesystem drivers (exfat for example) better power management, etc. plus you can use some Linuxy utilities and tricks on Android because it’s ultimately just a Linux distro

So is eating a moderate amount of higher quality and more expensive chocolate. Its okay to enjoy a treat every once in a while

That was kinda the point I was making, needing a ton of land for solar panels to enable a transition away from oil wouldn’t be such a bad thing since so much land is used to grow corn for ethanol which…wouldn’t really have much demand following such an energy transition

It would be absolutely hilarious if in the very long term Proton or other Win32 compatibility layers just become a generic set of libraries that most games rely on for historical reasons despite every reason for their existence no longer applying

Farm Simulator has a bunch of tree farming content in the base game

404media is a super high quality new independent news source and they specifically broke this story as they’ve been breaking a ton of big stories (it seems like at least one per week) since they started up. It’s run by a bunch of former Motherboard (Vice News) reporters who broke tons of big stories for Motherboard back in the day.

It sucks that it’s paywalled but journalists have to eat too and as an independent media company they don’t have the option of operating at a loss that, say, Arstechnica can as a subsidiary of the behemoth Conde Nast which itself is (was?) a subsidiary of AT&T

Plus it’s pretty easy to simply shift the time of use to when there’s the most clean capacity online (and this is easily encouraged with variable electricity rates)

Well then it’s a good thing that there’s a lot more than 2000 acres currently being used to grow varieties of corn that aren’t even intended for human consumption but will just be turned into ethanol

Such a vaccine would be an incredible and life if not society changing medical advancement if it is in fact safe and effective. Such incredibly soughtafter medical breakthroughs of course require an equally incredible amount of skepticism and rechecking of data when one does come across them. Here’s hoping this is a major stepping stone to universal vaccination, because that would be incredible

Streamer mode is typically for one of two usecases:

1. The streamer plays their own music, so being able to silence all game music simplifies things
2. The game might contain copyrighted music by known artists, which can trigger automated enforcement. In most jurisdictions music used in a game is fine to stream/record because it’s covered by the developer’s/distributor’s license, but that doesn’t stop overzealous rights holders from placing bogus claims that can muck up your revenue, so it’s easier to just not play music that you don’t yourself have license to play

A steam outline engine if you will

I think at this point Mint is a brilliant option for mom or Dad’s laptop that’s still on Windows 10 and Microsoft deemed “too insecure” for Windows 11, but Bazzite and other newer Distros do so much better at being distros for gamers right out of the box that those are better to recommend to gamers

The price is irrelevant, because they aren’t for you or regular consumers. They’re already reserved and being shipped to AI data centers.

I mean this is the standard operating procedure for all top end data center products, they aren’t sold on consumer marketplaces but can be purchased by suppliers with existing contracts and relationships

As they ramp up yields larger capacity drives will slowly trickle into more consumer channels until eventually the 40+TB drives are like the 8-12tb drives are today

Higher gas prices might encourage some positive change in folks when it comes to their travel choices. In the short term possibly more choosing to walk/bike (or more realistically choosing to abstain from going somewhere that they otherwise would’ve driven) and in the longer term it’ll encourage more efficient vehicles. Energy has been way too cheap in the US for too long and it really encourages a lot of the waste that we see

Kinda how I see it, I just look at the numbers to make sure I can retire at some point and that’s it. Until a better system is available, I just have to play within the system that exists or I ruin my future while making no meaningful dent in these companies’ futures