4% of wealth in America is owned by billionaires.

Utility computing can go many years without a hardware refresh, and intensive tasks need not be shared where they degrade performance on a main machine.

Gaming is completely discretionary and parts may be bought at leisure if one already owns a usable machine.

I buy multiple business class PC cheap after liquidations push them onto Ebay. Linux frees me from needing Windows, a few applications excepted which can run in VMs on Linux hosts or on a cheap secondary PC I remote into (KVM switches are also an option).

Owning multiple used PCs (because ever being one-deep on hardware invites downtime) and not discarding working hardware makes life easy. They take up little space hung on walls (my server hangs on a few cents worth of lag hooks) or stacked on shelves or hung from them to leave shelves free for other use.

Home lab enthusiasts solve the business hardware use and space problems with trivial effort making their systems worth a look. They're a friendly supportive community.

Other strategies include not caring about cosmetics where a few scratches or replaceable minor hardware usefully lower prices. Thinkpad enthusiasts were building notebooks from wrecks back when new ones were too expensive. My first A31 was assembled from bartered ewaste along with two old HP servers reused as desktops.

When you have a techy problem, respond techfully! If you really do need a peformant machine to make a living be glad they're still cheap compared to gearing up for vehicle mechanics, serious woodwork, welding professionally etc.

Those days are over.

*sigh*

Because Spirit Airlines failed at BEING AN AIRLINE. Google isn't trying to use the data to become an airline, they're adding it to the meat grinder with which to train Gemini.

If you let out apartments and houses, you're also going to have to make your properties "greener', or you get penalized in some way. For instance in Belgium you can't raise rent with inflation unless your property reaches a certain level of compliance.

Glad we don't have to deal with that type of overregulation over here in the US.

I mean, it's great if a property owner wants to do it and it is feasible for them.....but I don't like the govt mandating crap like that.

Being so utterly tech-ignorant in 2026 should be shameful, but the adult choice to be incompetent is completely normalized.

The death of competence was inevitable because the majority of humanity are not intelligent and intelligence is not a choice.

People don't know what right looks like, and PBS is a bastion of old people who should be removed from the levers of power because they're unable to learn.

There are still a few primaries coming up: https://www.fvap.gov/guide/app... [fvap.gov] If you don't see a DSA candidate see who Bernie recommends https://www.youtube.com/@Berni... [youtube.com]

Sorry I'm just NOT for dismantling the US like the DSA is promoting.

I don't want to get rid of the senate (although I would vote for making them appointed by state governments instead of popular vote like they used to do)....

I don't want to get rid of prisons.

I don't want to get rid of ICE and open our borders to anyone....

I don't want to stop deporting people that are here illegally.

I don't want to get rid of the Supreme Court.

I don't support govt taking over the means of production.

There's a LOT I don't want to do that leads to the complete upheaval of the US and how it was set up by the founders.

There is only so much an individual 'needs" when the needs of others are considered.

Why should I consider the "needs" of others?

I mean, aside from myself, family and friends.....why should I give a fsck what others need when considering my purchases and the support of my preferred lifestyle?

I don't purposely try to hold anyone back, but I certainly don't pause to think "what do others need" when I'm saving for a necessity or even a fun purchase that will buy me something I WANT...not need, WANT.....

Who the fuck stops and ponders others in this manner in life.....?

Where is that?

Financing is available for solar installations.

Failure to ignore that has never not been idiotic.
If your data matters own at least two copies and verify them.
Not hard.

Well they've done 95% of the work required to make the books available to everybody.

Perhaps they could be persuaded to do the last 5% after some competitive advantage latency?

If I had to choose between preserving the physical book and allowing access for a billion people, I would sacrifice the paper.

"It belongs in a museum" is really dated and felt to be wrong today.

Why isn't anybody else making these books available? That's the bigger question.

Granted, modern Copyright Law is ruinous to society.

The Google Books project has many of the older ones. There is no moral case against duplication for books that are impossible to purchase but still "protected" by Copyright.

I would like to know the average price of these books. If they are $7 that means something very different than $700.

Thank you, full (no mod) points awarded.

Anyway, the actual reason why China is doing so well here is that they have a proper plan that doesn't keep changing, a realistic timeline for it, and are putting in the resources. They have methodically built up the technology they need.

This is easier to do in what is basically a dictatorship where the people have no say in the government and what it does....

Well, I' glad to see that somebody somewhere rants about one of the most demented and dangerous people on the planet. I can only hope they manage to actually do something to oust him before it's too late.

So, you're PRO allowing Iran to fully develop nuclear weapons and the means to deliver them balistically?

So, you're for open US borders to let most anyone in and you're against deporting those here illegally? (I mean, even Obama was for deporting illegals).

So you're against the drop in crime across the US, especially in cities where the Nat'l Guard had to be deployed temporarily?

Yeah...so demented.

I don't really like the guy as a person,BUT I very much appreciate many if not most of the actions and accomplishments he's managed to do since election. I don't like it all, but most of it I support, I voted for...and hope he can finish doing the job.