Reggie’s wife could learn a thing or two.

The way I see it, there’s more money in everyone not having computers in the traditional sense, but having low powered, cheap devices that need replacing every couple of years, and all compute is done through cloud services and AI platforms. So there’s currently profit in data centres eating up all the available hardware, increasing the price of those components to the end user, and eventually pricing everyone out of owning any device that can actually compute until our only option is another subscription, and another, and another.

1999, and a new Vib Ribbon for me.

I couldn’t continue reading after seeing that they’re trying to build 36 gigawatts of compute. That’s enough to power 27 million homes. Fuck the climate, amirite?

I like this one more than the real one.

If you’ve not seen Color Out Of Space, that’s got some great, practical body horror in it. Very unsettling.

I just moved house, and several boxes lost structural integrity during the move, but one that finally gave out, I’ve had for over 25 years. It was originally the box for a CRT computer monitor, and it was a very good box.

With that caveat that those preconceived notions were instilled by decades of right wing press that has propped up that same self serving troglodyte.

I’ll say it again, because I think the idea is a practical solution to the issue: electricity and water usage should be charged at reverse volume, the more you use, the more expensive it becomes.

This would actually incentivise companies to reduce their usage, to question if they actually need that new AI data centre that will eat up all the gains in renewable electricity production and require fossil fuel plants to continue running, it’ll reduce the crypto miners as well, and encourage everyone to try to reduce their usage.

The knock on effect of this is that electricity actually becomes cheaper for everyone.

Such a great series, Toby Jones is so wonderful in this.

Twice. Once at the end of Final Fantasy IX, realising who was monologuing the ending at what that meant.

Second one was at the end of What Remains of Edith Finch, pretty much for exactly the same reasons.

I’ve used “I know something you don’t know” far too many times, along with “I don’t think that means what you think it means.” They’re far too useful in conversation.

It’s not stupid if you’re an oil company trying to increase profits, then it makes perfect sense to make your oil guzzling death machine as big, bulky and inefficient as possible.

Let’s go!

I was just thinking electricity should be charged at reverse volume, the more you use, the more expensive each Gw is. It’ll never happen, but if we wanted to tackle this issue, it’s what we should do.

We also use “I’m trying for a baby” as a euphemism for sex. In fact, my favorite euphemism is “just dropping the kids off at the pool”

I’ve been using Manjaro with Cinnamon for about a month now. It works great on an old Lenovo with 12gb ram. Probably going to stick with it when I build my desktop.

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Possibly a bacterial infection, I get them somewhat regularly due to hyperhydrosis, it’s easy enough to clear up.

Trim and shave your armpits and use an anti-bacterial body wash, a medical grade one from the pharmacists. I use Bactiscrub, works great. Leave the body wash on your skin for 3 minutes, then rinse. You should be good to go, no stinky pits, at least for a few weeks. If you start to feel stinky again, just repeat the steps above.

That case is gorgeous, what is it?