People manage to do that at the supermarket. Either that or they walk up to the cashier and ask: "Excuse me, what's the most complex transaction I can possibly engage in with you?"
It's always fun when they open up another register and wave everyone over because they can see that this one customer probably won't be finished within the next five minutes.
To be fair, moving money between countries was not trivial before PayPal.
To use Europe as an example, SEPA became operative in 2008, about six years after PayPal first became available in Europe. Before that, all international money transfers had to go through SWIFT and the easiest way was probably to use a credit card (and good luck trying to send money to a someone who isn't a company with that).
Even with SEPA (or for domestic transfers), PayPal offered superior comfort over entering the recipient's IBAN into a homebanking software. Processing was faster, too.
Of course these days banks in Europe have to offer instant transfers, there's a QR code standard to read invoice data into banking apps, and they're working on a full-blown PayPal replacement to get the last comfort bits down as well. It'll be interesting to see how that works out.
I love obtusely named flavors hiding among obvious ones. Drink Hancock! We have flavors like lemon, orange, and sports!
(Relatedly, German chocolate brand Ritter Sport has a variety called "Olympia". Admittedly easier to remember than "yogurt honey crisp hazelnut with dextrose".)
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I could argue that experiencing the Groundhog Day bug builds character but... no. Nobody should have to deal with that.
Admittedly, a few tactics like filling your base with laser rifles to make attacking aliens spawn unarmed no longer work. But honestly, an experienced player treats base attacks like bonus levels anyway so it's not like much of value was lost. Besides, you also now get all the loot from big missions and not just the first 128 items.
Also, UFO now actually remembers your difficulty setting and doesn't revert you to Beginner after the first mission. That's different but better. I probably should've mentioned that separately in my first comment.
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OpenXcom for the first two X-Com games (UFO: Enemy Unknown and X-Com: Terror From The Deep). This reimplementation is insanely good.
There's really no reason to play the original DOS versions anymore.
The Filthy Rich
Yeah, most people develop other maladaptive patterns that haunt them for the rest of their lives. Psychological trauma and the responses to it have many faces.
In the case of Jackson, the trauma resulted from being forced to dedicate himself to performing on stage from age six and getting beaten for substandard performance. That's the point where had to grow up. I can kinda see why he longed for the time before that.
I had avoided it until late last year when I had to reinstall a friend's borked install after it had somehow managed to shred its registry hives.
Holy shit. That installer is an embarrassment. First it couldn't get past the first reboot until I found out that you can set it to use what looks like the Windows 7 installer for the first steps. Then I had to deal with a dog slow installer that needs half a dozen reboots for some unfathomable reason. Then an endless cavalcade of sales prompts, including one for an Office subscription where they try to hide the price from you. All to end in, well, Windows 11.
I simultaneously installed Fedora Kinoite on his old laptop. I don't think the Fedora installer is one of the better ones but it was so much easier and faster to set up the machine that it was almost comical.
Seeing both systems side by side really drives home just how clunky Windows is. And how Microsoft installers are barely better than they were 15 years ago, but now they have ads.
The Filthy Rich
Yeah, the most likely explanation for his behavior is that he basically had no childhood (which is known) and tried to have one vicariously by hanging out with children.
A Life of Crime
Free housing only solves part of the problem. Homelessness is usually caused by something beyond high rent and addressing that underlying issue(s) is also necessary in the long term. Lack of mental healthcare is a common factor, as are substance abuse (often brought on due to mental health issues) or external debt.
To provide a comprehensive solution, a lot of things are required, such as:
The nice thing is that each of those by themselves already help. There's no need to wait for the perfect solution; solving this piecemeal is effective.
Honestly, given that TV viewership is falling and people are increasingly using on-demand services instead of tuning in, I'd argue that 404 error pages and NXDOMAIN browser error pages are in the process of replacing the dead channel conceptually.
Es ist nicht so, als ob die CDU jemals auch nur was von VWL gehört hätte. Deren gesamter Kurs der letzten ~40 Jahre ist: "Infrastrukturausbau und Erhaltungskosten sind eine Lüge. Wir geben einfach gar kein Geld aus und wenn etwas kaputt geht oder andere Länder an uns vorbei ziehen, sind die Arbeiter schuld." (Ausnahme: Für Steuersenkungen für Reiche und Firmen ist immer Geld da.)
Ich bevorzuge sie immer noch geringfügig der FDP, die in VWL kompetent aber aktiv böswillig ist. Aber letztendlich ist es egal, ob Böswilligkeit oder Inkompetenz vorliegen; beide sind finanziell schlecht fürs Land.
In the 80s the sky was the color of a dead TV channel and it was overcast.
In the 00s the sky was the color of a dead TV channel and it was clear.
Today nobody knows what a dead TV channel is supposed to look like.
It's also a medical devices being expensive in general issue. If you build something and you want it to get cleared for medical use you need to test the shit out of it and get several kinds of certification. And you need to do it all over everytime you make any change whatsoever. This can easily take two years for every change, even if you just change something trivial.
All of this is to prevent another Therac-25. For the uninitiated: That was a radiotherapy device that, due to design flaws on several levels, could inadvertantly be turned into a literal death ray. Several patients died because of this. In the aftermath, the regulations for medical decides were tightened considerably.
That's a major part of why medical devices are so insanely expensive. Much of what you're paying for is a titanic amount of certification work.
Unfortunately, this also makes it harder to implement a right to repair for these. Few people want to figure out who is responsible when e.g. a CPAP device that someone repaired themselves fails. The current approach is to make it damn near impossible for the manufacturers to screw up but that's a lot harder when the device can ever be in a configuration that hasn't been extensively tested and certified.
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I'd define post-cyberpunk as "building on cyberpunk but not quite within the genre". So maybe you have a world where technology is ubiquitous and people put cyberware in their bodies but it's not really a dystopia. Or you do have a dystopia but the story is focused elsewhere.
For instance, The Diamond Age depicts an ultra-globalized world ruled (more or less) by a cabal of corporate entities. But it's also technically a post-scarcity society and the novel is a coming-of-age story rather than a direct struggle of underdogs against an oppressive system. It's not really cyberpunk but you can tell that it shares some of its DNA. You could probably tell cyberpunk stories in that world but this isn't quite one of them.
I'd say that cyberpunk at its core is built around an unjust, corporate-dominated society with pervasive (and often intrusive) technology in which an underdog (or a group thereof) fights to resist the system in some way. If you deviate from that you either have post-cyberpunk (if the work is still relatively close to the themes) or something else with a cyberpunk aesthetic (if the core themes are barely referenced while the aesthetic is maintained).
Like always all distinctions are made up and all lines are blurry. When is something post-cyberpunk and when is it something else with a cyberpunk coat of paint? I can't give any clear answers here.
For example, would System Shock qualify as cyberpunk, post-cyberpunk, or neither?
The intro and basic premise are very cyberpunk: You are a lone hacker trying to steal the blueprints for a military-grade implant from a corporation. Then they catch you and a corrupt exec gives you a deal at gunpoint to disable his space station's AI's pesky ethical subroutines. That all tracks.
Then you wake up, everyone is dead and the rest of the game is a sci-fi horror survival shooter. While corporate mistreatment of people is referenced every once in a while, it's not really all that important. So I'd say it's probably not a cyberpunk story. But is it post-cyberpunk as its story springs from a cyberpunk premise? Or is it sci-fi action with a cyberpunk coat of paint? I can't really decide.
I can second that "This Is Not Molk" (I refuse to spell that as intended) is okay. I use a lot of that since I get it for cheap on clearance. I personally really like the cashew drink from dm, though. Unlike oat-based drinks it's actually tasty.
No idea how the price compares; it's probably on the expressive side at 2.25 €/l. But tasty.
Feeding any data anywhere is a concern.
German hacker association Chaos Computer Club found out that VW had collected location data on their cars on a badly secured system. That data was exfiltrated and it was shown that it could be used e.g. to determine where politicians lived, which schools they dropped their kids off at and which brothels they frequented.
Leaving data in the hands of a company subject to foreign jurisdiction is concerning but even within your local jurisdiction simple carelessness can lead to data leaks with potentially massive consequences. The best way to prevent misuse of collected data is to make sure the data isn't collected in the first place.
Or double down on AI. Then double down even harder.
Garuda has fans. A bit much for me.
When you take away the garish KDE theme the gaming spin ships with it's pretty much just an opinionated ready-to-go gaming Arch with a bunch of convenience tools. If that's what you want then Garuda is pretty neat.
It has Kinect Star Wars. And... that's basically it.
It's part of a wave of tech noir movies that came out of the late 90s, along with e.g. Gattaca, The Matrix, Strange Days, eXistenZ, 12 Monkeys... I'll also count The Thirteenth Floor, even though it's an adaptation of a 1964 novel that had already been adapted in the 70s (and very well, for that matter).
(One addendum: The Matrix feels slightly out of place but that's because it brought more action and innovative special effects to the mix and ended up all but ending the genre as audiences demanded more of that now.)
Those movies were good watchin'.