Honestly so excited about this for a corporate drone perspective as we play cat and mouse to lock people out of copilot and others. New vibe coded updates seem to have some spectacular failure every patch Tuesday. The computer has suddenly started lieing and it's microsoft's fault.
Why am I excited? because this system is becoming untenable and doing the fuckers unbelievable reputational damage. The best is part how Microsoft will never backdown from this madness. I don't think it's the terminals that scare people but change does. Microsoft is forcing that change relentlessly on something their livlihood relies on. The selling point there is that you can run the same version of rocky linux for 10 years.
Let's be real too. Your relatives aren't going to be buying new hardware. Very few of us are going to afford it now. They are going to be amazed how fast and efficient even a KDE desktop is and it's going to give them fuzzy memories of Windows 7.
European centerism isn't doing so hot either. Freikorps of street thugs do whatever they want, while the politicians test the waters with increasingly racist rheotric. The European council is the turning journalists and activists into non-people by cancelling their passports and bank accounts with sanctions originally brought in for "Russian oligarchs".
You've got to rupture yourself from any nostalgia before it destroys you. The old word is decaying all around us, while a new one struggles to be born. The best thing you can do is find and enjoy the intentonal. Embrace things like the bewildering or dull scribbles in a public toilet. Better still is to scribble some nonsense on the toilet doors and walls.
Just not running out of fuel and not that limitless really. It's just another reactor boiling water. Likely scaled to 1.9GW for the biggest steam turbines and transmission infrastructure available today to be remotely economical. Would still be another painstaking massive civic engineering project, access to large bodies of water that isn't too hot because of climate change and alot more electricity inputs then starting a fission reaction.
Unless you are swindling venture capitalists. You need two fuels - deuterium and tritium. Deuterium is extremly ambudent and energy dense but tritium can only be produced in large quantities from lithium. David MacKay's "Lithium Fusion" feels like a more honest representation. That author's own estimate is 10KWh/d of sustainable energy per person. I hope somebody can challenge this because comparing it with 2008 consumption that's 1/6th of what the author estimates is required under best circumstances for improvements in efficiency that still have to be realised.
edit: kind of disingenuous of me when the figures improve from lithium sea mining. I just have a knee jerk reaction to pop science journalism. I also think it's sad we held out for a the holy grail of fusion or le thorium epic bacon molten salt reactors when the PWR was perfectly fine.
It’s nice for everybody who can just install Linux but in the corporate world we just got to suck it up as our idiot managers just extend their licensing budget and cut everything else back.
All black and brown immigrants I have encountered were beyond polite. More than often incredibly kind and accommodating with my limitations. But the rich Japanese kidults ride their e-scooters into me and leave their cigerette butts everywhere.
Seeing nostalgia bait online of people getting upset that kids don't have the carbon copy childhood that they did. Then mentally pushing back against that as hard as I can. That's not how anything is supposed to work, change is part of life and we owe it to our all our ancestors to adapt to whatever hellish conditions are around the corner as they did for billions of years.
The question is who inherits the new earth. My conspiracy theory is that bougeoise despise us so much that climate change is more of a force multiplier to wiping us out. Everything is irrationally being put into AI and androids to eliminate the need for a lower class. Parts of the earth will be kept habitable through careful site selection and geoengineering to keep a few thousand people alive.
I am not a very sensitive person. It's honestly been such a blessing the last few years. But I am kept going through spite and resentment. Even if it's just a few hundred women and a sperm bank. The proletariat must be who survives.
don't worry hollywood will sue them and totally not try to commandeer the technology
vote with your dollar
That's not enough. Tech companies need a total collapse in confidence. We need something like linux user groups but for moving people to the fediverse who feel overwhelmed by the process.
Honestly so excited about this for a corporate drone perspective as we play cat and mouse to lock people out of copilot and others. New vibe coded updates seem to have some spectacular failure every patch Tuesday. The computer has suddenly started lieing and it's microsoft's fault.
Why am I excited? because this system is becoming untenable and doing the fuckers unbelievable reputational damage. The best is part how Microsoft will never backdown from this madness. I don't think it's the terminals that scare people but change does. Microsoft is forcing that change relentlessly on something their livlihood relies on. The selling point there is that you can run the same version of rocky linux for 10 years.
Let's be real too. Your relatives aren't going to be buying new hardware. Very few of us are going to afford it now. They are going to be amazed how fast and efficient even a KDE desktop is and it's going to give them fuzzy memories of Windows 7.