I'm curious on the responses as potential long term strategy to stay in this hobby without financial ruin, but frankly I just got more creative sourcing parts.
Aliexpress mobile CPU frankensteined onto desktop micro ATX. Staying with 1440p. Buying used parts. Last gen GPU for 1440p has been fine. But that's Canada, I know Australia is even worse off with tech prices.
Humans don't plan ahead for preventables and get angry if you diminish current QoL for long term safety. We know this. Earth getting a direct hit solar flare ends civilization. There's no divine safety guard rails, we'd just be fucked. Probably not extinction though. Just a lot of violence, extremism, and starvation getting to that point of very diminished stability again.
I like your use of "when" because it is fairly likely to happen one day. It already has, and Morse code had just been invented IIRC. Not that long ago, just wasn't a big deal then.
Did you hear the news about definitive proof of rogue black holes? Billions of them exist in the milky way it is thought now zipping around fucking shit up.
I smoked for 11 years on and off, stopped for 1 again (I've stopped before) so far, and still get an urge now and then. Maybe it's lifelong or takes decades to never feel it again, never looked into it.
Easy to start smoking. Just live a life where you want to die every day for awhile and have somebody offer you a smoke during a break at work. Oooh, overly specific! I'm in a better place these days. Pretty easy to stop honestly the withdrawal isn't particularly powerful. Buuut it's persistently there waiting for a day of weakness. Much much harder to stay quit.
Or using "deport" with USA citizens getting sent to death camps with no due process. Or anyone not sent back to their home country. Still sane washing. It's not just the Murdoch rags.
Mmm personally I think it's the people making the AI in the countries enabling them.