I was gonna write a big long thing like the other posters but in the end I just decided to say, I despise the "humanized villain" trope. Because it all always feels like propaganda. It's all always about how they suffered in an unjust society and now they are rebelling against it. It all always feels like they are trying to train people to see anyone that wants to change the current system as bad.
I was my villains to be proper evil. Make them a mirror image of the actual oligarchy.
Capitalism creates a system in which the most greedy and evil humans will always make it to the top. And the west has created the perfect, and longest running "breeding ground" for it. Near endless resources. A massive tax base to leech from. 100+ years of public propaganda to protect the elites from scrutiny. A mostly docile, uneducated population with just enough rabidly cultish extremists that salivate at murdering people that disagree with said propaganda. It's all there. Perfect growing conditions for the parasites.
Not even really hacks. They are just copy pasting because the people that "redacted" these files don't know how PDFs work. Either that or they "didn't know" on purpose.
A few crashes is all it will take for these to immediately be heavily regulated, assuming they won't already be heavily regulated right out of the gate.
As a PC user, please for the love of fuck China, we need parts. RAM quadruple+ in price overnight. SSDs are close behind. Even recycled HDDs are getting hit.
Adding to my other comment, as far as archival "replacing drives every few years." Nah. A HDD can last a decade or more. New HDDs are tanks. If you take it and store in unpowered, the only think that will take it out is the eventual corrosion from the air which will take a long ass time. Vacuum seal it and it'll last even longer.
SSDs however, pretty much have a predetermined lifespan and any cell on it can only be rewritten a specific number of times before it dies. This is why doing stuff like a full format, an old school defrag or like, certain disk check functions on an SSD, is very bad for it. It's also one hypothesis as to why Windows 11 seems to be randomly killing SSDs. If something in the system is making it do a bunch of formats and disk checks on the SSD, it will burn it out.
Also SSDs will lose data if not plugged in for a long time. The actual need a small amount of current occasionally to hold the data. Idk how often, or how long before it can lose a ton of data, but they are not like HDDs in that you can't just shuck them away forever.
We are getting so small that it's literally just physics. That's a big deal with almost all of it now. Quantum tunnelling and stuff. I don't fully understand it but have ready about it here and there. Like we are getting so small that they only factor is that physics doesn't allow it anymore. Like the distance between atoms and such. How electrons can jump gaps and all their weird stuff.
Like, for instance, you know how processor makes will have levels of the same type? Like a new release of AMD Ryzen 3, 5, 7, 9, but all come out from the same model? They don't make those differently. They don't set out to make x number of 3s, y number of 5s etc. They start out all using the same templates, and how many errors there are in the process, is what defines the level. A 7 has fewer errors then a 5, for example. This is how it was explained to me anyway. So right now, with all this stuff, it's literally just reaching a sort of physical limitations of what's possible.
A startup called SPhotonix says its fused-silica 'memory crystal' has reached a deployment-ready milestone for cold data
made the announcement alongside details of its first round of external funding.
It's some bullshit claim by a tech startup. That just so happens to be making these grandiose claims at the same exact time that there is a massive hard drive shortage looming around the corner. They are trying to get some of that sweet AI investment money cause anything related to AI, RAM, and storage is getting pumped. Are we really gonna actually believe this crap? "How many futuristic sounding words can I slam I to a headline to get a bunch of money?" This will go absolutely nowhere.
SPhotonix says it has raised $4.5 million to date and is now working to move from Technology Readiness Level (TRL) 5 to TRL 6, which typically involves validation in relevant operational environments rather than controlled laboratory settings.
LMAO4.5 whole million? I'm sure they are about to really change the world.
I would say, in a lot of instances, damns can be pretty bad ecologically. The impact to migrating fish is a big issue. If other green energy can replace it I'm all for it.
They won't. They will die or become part of the mobs of people killing each other for what little is left. That's the intent. This is what the rich want. They want as many "undesirables" to die as possible they believe they can basically live in a mostly deserted world, In small pockets all to themselves. And either kill off or enslave the rest of us.
This literally is the exact display of how fucked the US is. Literally going in the opposite direct as the entire world in fossil fuel use. China's reduction in coal use is enough to make the net change from the entire world a negative, despite US trying to raise it.
My thoughts are, they know everyone else realizes their conventional military is trash, but are still swinging it around because the rest of the world isn't ready to start defending against nukes. The US it's at a point where they are robbing someone with a toy gun, but also have some bricks of c4 planted all over the neighborhood, and are saying, "you better take my toy gun seriously or I will blow up this entire neighborhood.
What's worse is, many of them actually believe they will survive a nuclear Armageddon. My personal hypothesis is, they want to be able to make it looke like we used nukes in self defense. I really think they expect there to be enough Americans left in the aftermath for them to rule over. And they want to be able to go to these people and say " we had to do it in order to save what we could. You should be grateful. Of we didn't destroy the world, the evil commonest would have killed all of us. "
I have no idea what any of this means but the Van Gogh paining looks better because it's a night scene with warm loting and an actual dark sky. The light he has casts shadows and ambient light keeps the area lit more realistically.
The left is like they tried to copy a night scene with warm light at the bottom... But then they make the sky bright white and light blue so it makes no sense? That's not how daylight works. The lights wouldn't put out that much warm yellow and orange color during the day either. There's also this sort of weird cutoff of light next to the chairs that wouldn't happen because the ambient light would still be there. It would be reflecting off the surrounding areas like soft lighting and the whole street area would still be somewhat lit up, like how Gogh drew it. It's like this person didn't realize how light works. It feels like they just wanted to have some high contrast thrown in and needed someplace to throw some dark blues. But those blues wouldn't be there because they are surrounded by what's supposed to be lights. Above it, and to the left of it.
We really need to steal more Hexbear emojis too. There's not enough pig poop balls being thrown around. Maybe someone can make an AI version to really stoke the fires.
I was gonna write a big long thing like the other posters but in the end I just decided to say, I despise the "humanized villain" trope. Because it all always feels like propaganda. It's all always about how they suffered in an unjust society and now they are rebelling against it. It all always feels like they are trying to train people to see anyone that wants to change the current system as bad.
I was my villains to be proper evil. Make them a mirror image of the actual oligarchy.