The art is in 3D, except when it isn't, but you're not there to stare at a device are you? Pretty much any Android tablet has AR features now, so there's tons of hardware that can do what you would expect a museum guide device to do.

I have a 4060 Ti, but I'm not honestly sure if they're using different algorithms on different GPUs or if they just run faster on newer hardware. Both H264 and H265 were very fast, but for a given bitrate the H265 just craps on the H264. I did not compare to other encoders, though. I was just finding something I could live with that would play on my TV.

Concrete won't necessarily kill you, depending on the engineering, but it will sustain expensive and possibly even unrepairable damage which will doom it in the long run.

I think we should be using a lot more metal. I'm not even fully against timber structures, but they should at least have metal roofing, and be clad in nonflammable materials. For example, metal siding, and rockwool external insulation. (And just riffing, I wonder if you could saturate the rockwool with water and have it act as a phase change fire barrier? Haven't really thought that one out yet.) And also while we've got them, we should use up these stacks of shipping containers clogging the ports. You could place layers of tall and short containers, and build services into mezzanine levels so as not to use up interior space. Well-engineered container structures are extremely quake-resistant.

The past is prelude, the future is now, America has never even had a parade of guillotines and this is one of the most armed and drug-crazed countries on the planet. It's amazing to me that this powder keg hasn't gone off already. Not enough French, maybe.

My problem with most thin clients is that they are artificially limited in the memory department. Even a machine with a single SODIMM slot can be expanded far more than most of them allow. I get that's not their point and they fear that they will cannibalize sales and so on, but that still leaves them irritating to me. I don't like to have swap space, I find it offensive. Having lived through the time when the memory was the expensive part of the computer, I would rather live in the now, where I can have 64GB. Or in something small, at least 8 GB. Any less than that, and I'd better be using it as a microcontroller, and it ought to have an even smaller power budget than a thin client.

I know, I'm spoiled. Frankly it happened to me early, when I bought a used Sun 4/260 with 24MB RAM at a time when most people's PCs still had 4 or maybe 8MB from a dude who had the loft above a sporting goods shop in Soquel, and had it stuffed with weird old machines he was selling. Don't want to pay for the power for a big bastard like that now... and those square feet of DIP-packaged DRAM.

"Capitalism provides everyone the means to save themselves."

That's a load of shit. It provides people with capital the means of controlling production, that's it. In the absence of a meaningful system of rule of law, it is first and foremost a vehicle for depriving others of agency.

Corporatism is just a type of capitalism. It is not a wholly different thing. And it is also arguably a natural phase for capitalism to achieve on its way to self destruction.

People think capitalism means a lot of things which it flatly does not. It does not mean a single thing except capital controlling the means of production, which corporatism is certainly an example of, only with extra steps.

"Then I considered there are countries one would not consider particularly capitalistic who are among the biggest contributors of greenhouse gasses."

But there are not, unless you include very stupid people easily confused by marketing in your group of people, and nobody should be looking to them for advice on anything.

"Windows 365 Link, which was announced last November, is a device that is more easily manageable by IT departments than a typical computer"

Thin client grade mini PCs already exist and are typical, so no it isn't.

I can't speak to every codec because I haven't tested them all, but Nvidia does a great job with H.265. I was disappointed with their H.264, but the 265 is peachy.

Cyrix 6x86, 65% of the performance at 70% of the price

Intel didn't provide them with hard standards until after the first failures

The first P54c melted its socket...

I do, as I was an Amigan then, but today I mostly think of cybertrucks in memes labeled "Incel inside"

A lot of home insurers have actually left California. They didn't want to operate in a market where they couldn't sell worthless insurance to old people.

It's not working out great, but they do have a point. Our building and zoning laws allowed people to build a bunch of flammable structures close enough to each other that they could easily catch one another on fire. In large part this was done to enable our lumber industry. Instead of the broken window fallacy, it's the burnt shit shack fallacy. I live in one of these logging towns now. The mill can do no wrong. They were allowed to continue operating after chipping three workers in a debarker due to LOTO failure. The mill or their massive piles of sawdust catch fire regularly. Sometimes it's the sawdust they haven't bothered to push out of the mill. I know a guy who worked there as a millwright until the work he was ordered to do resulted in slag falling in the pile, for which they fired him. They still let it pile up.

ANYHOO our building codes are protectionist shit and people are surprised when they don't work... Speaking of which, how come Florida has been letting y'all build so much in floodnado territory?