And yeah, for me, 48 years old was the big downslide. So many small things start going wrong at the same time. And the maddening thing is, you still feel young inside. It's just that you slowly give up on stuff because the body doesn't follow. It's like seeing opportunities disappear and doors closing. Not fun...

they can give some to me. I'll relieve them of the burden.

I guess it's the whole industry's "stupid choice" to sell products on Amazon then. When I worked for an online toy seller in 2010-2019, Amazon's marketplace service provided an Excel spreadsheet with macros used to perform local preflight validation before sending a product listing or inventory change file to the server. You'd put in product listing information, and it'd tell you what you would probably need to change before the server would accept the file. This was optional but highly recommended to reduce server-side processing errors at least until I wrote my own validation routines in Python. Excel could run the macros; LibreOffice Calc could not.

It's true that the other sync options are pretty good. My fine summary stated that most titles will not receive major improvements. This sync option is better for some titles, as you say, which I see as positive. You also say it has positive effects for some titles. Thanks for agreeing.

AMD is doing nothing special whatsoever for cooling. It's got the same kind of intermediate spreader that people remove when they want the most cooling as Intel. What they are possibly better at than Intel is controlling creation of heat by throttling subcomponents, but that's not the same thing no matter what the well known troll author of the sibling comment to yours claims. It's in the same ballpark, but that's the most generous interpretation you could make of it. It's not just missing context, it's outright false.

Are turning to Linux and proton because the compatibility with Windows 11 has gotten so bad for older games

We will all go together when we go...

Is watching the, don't tell me how to raise my child, crowd screaming for shit like this.

I didn't particularly care if my kid looked at internet porn and they turned out just fine. I also sat them down and made sure they understood how to handle sex so I didn't have to worry about grandchildren coming out of nowhere.

That's how I raised my kid and I don't particularly like my government butting in on that. Never mind the hundreds of other reasons not to allow the government to directly censor the internet this way.

I mean but our entire civilization is collapsing so... What pisses me off is that all it took was scaring a handful of midwesterners with the prospect of their kids turning queer and the threat of them getting fired from their jobs if they drink a few too many beers and drop an n-bomb in public... Two incredibly stupid moral panics and that's it it's over.

I mean we got a lot of mileage out of Mortal Kombat and heavy metal music but damn, compare to that modern mortal panics are crazy

From the press:

"plays piano acceptably".

Of course there are constraints. But they can address them with other constraints, for example they could permit high power use only during times of high solar production. Their central control makes it feasible. Or they could just tell other users to f off when they want to do some training.

That, and that they are or were also arcades, should be enough.

We have had numerous discussions about this franchise on Slashdot in the past.

You're not part of that 60%. You had a long successful life, or at least a very short very very successful life.

You represent the top 10% of the economy. The problem is people are bad at math so they don't understand that having a few million bucks in an account and some social security and some kind of pension means that they're in that 10%. Everybody thinks being in the top 10% means you're a Rockefeller.

Good luck with your diagnosis. Cancer sucks.

That's people with full-time jobs and no homes.

We have had 50 years of non-stop automation mostly in factories and we're about to do that same thing to White collar work.

The ruling class are dependent on consumers to maintain their wealth and power and they damn well know it and they damn well don't like it.

Guys like Peter thiel and Elon Musk are hard at work, I mean as hard as any of those fuckers ever work, to create a techno-feudal hellscape where they continue to be God Kings and the rest of us live in the kind of poverty that's 75% of the world lives in today.

I think it's too miserable and unpleasant a thing for anyone around here to be willing to think about. The idea that Civilization does not progress on a line and does not always improve.

The scary thing about it is that unlike when the Roman empire collapses I don't think there's any way out of the techno feudalism that's being planned here.

There are 8 billion people on this planet. Mathematically life is actually worse.

We have more than enough of everything but we also still have a ruling class and without the constant threat of death by starvation you can't really maintain a ruling class.

And because we grew up with a ruling class we don't want to let it go because it was there when we were 12 so it better be there when we're 60 fucking five.

Of course you're also ignoring the fact that our civilization does not need to continue to progress. There's absolutely no reason why things can't go back to just as terrible as they were for 99% instead of one quarter living well.

I think it's safe to say the techno feudal hellscape that guys like Peter thiel are planning for you is going to look a lot like those dark ages you're thinking of. But hey you're an old fart right? You'll be dead before it happens probably. Probably.