Did you read TFS?

You... realize... most people... don't have that kind of luxury... right? Also congratulations on being retired.

Purist-non-gamer trying to sound smart. Linux gaming is all but solved except for things like Riot Games with kernel level anti-cheats, to which I say good riddance and will play something else. That any game runs natively on Linux is more of a "cool!" factor than anything else; they will work all the same.

Not going to lie, I almost spat out my morning coffee when they mentioned Notepad++

Maybe, or maybe not, but are you able to see why someone would come to such a conclusion?

It's hard to read tone, and nobody (except for some truly obsessed individuals I'm sure) know you well enough to read your tone in this case.

I see a lot of these arguments, and I've definitely come to similar conclusions while looking into such systems for my home, but there seems to be a lack of projection... e.g. every quarter the power company here applies for rate hikes. It's easy to see the numbers not being worth it *today*, but I'm curious what real projections look like (obviously on a per-area basis since we're not all alike).

You'd probably have to build a range of potential scenarios since it's hard to predict these increases but it feels like a lot of people are just running the maths against their *current* electricity pricing.

What are you even replying to? No housing crisis was mentioned. Are you schizophrenic?

I don't fully understand this sentiment. Is that really how the average person feels?

The issue here isn't automation. We're on Slashdot so the average reader very well understands the incentives of automation. It's what do we do when automation displaces far too many people so fast that society can't keep up as it currently operates.

At an average of 100k per employee that's "only" $130 million. Let's assume $200 million paid out in total compensation to executives (let's say they had a really good last few years). At 0.1% we're only getting 200k, so unfortunately not even close.

Even at 10% of their total compensation (and good luck prying that out of their cold, greedy, hands), you're "only" at $20 million. You can keep the over-achievers I guess but morale is going to tank. You'd have to cut total compensation for executives by 65% to cover these employees in this imagined scenario.

Now, I'm not arguing for the executives, I'm all about less compensation for them and more for those that are on the ground churning out real products; I just can't help myself with some good ol napkin maths.

... we used to be able to get bored? Just sit there and not really do anything. Now we can hardly go for a walk without taking our phones out 100 times. None of this is surprising; I experience it myself. Reading a book *today* is a mental gymnastic I desperately need to sharpen again before it gets even worse.

No assumptions necessary. https://github.com/tanbiralam/...

Let me just stop you right there.... https://www.youtube.com/watch?... [Louis Rossman on New York's Attempt at Pushing 3D Printing Laws]

How does one resolve the bolded-text as a bet though? I'll happily make a few dollars on your side of the coin for the 2029 prediction, but you can't realistically make the second statement then tell people who disagree to "just go bet against me on Kalshi".

I feel like there's this other technology that's just been a few years away for the last 50+ years... Any day now...