Slight correction: Two-party, first past the post democracy means that only 51% of the population decide which dumbass fucks the country while the other 49% effectively get zero say or representation in government.
They will steal it anyway. Stuff like this doesn't matter.
People still steal and (successfully!) sell stolen iPhones despite them being locked to the owner.
Decreasing the bikes future usefulness to a thief doesn't matter to you right now because you still lost your bike. Even if the thief eventually just dumps it in a bush somewhere... you still lost your bike.
Bike theft prevention happens at the bike rack, not when it's in already in the hands of the thief being ridden away.
I wonder if we'll see a shift towards graphical stagnation with upcoming game releases. With RAM and GPUs being so expensive, there will be a lot fewer customers that can afford the hardware to play upcoming, graphically-demanding games and so targeting that demographic is economically unwise.
It sucks that this is the situation we find ourselves in, but I'm actually kind of interested in what will happen. A new age of hyper-optimisation would be so awesome.
There's guiding foreign politics with an invisible hand behind closed doors and there is this... openly threatening and attacking anything that moves.
The US will have a fantastic time occupying numerous hostile countries at once, dealing with nonstop 24/7 guerilla attacks. US empire collapse speedrun.
The majority of phone reviewers (and modern tech reviewers in general) get their review units for free so they lack that feeling and awareness that comes with spending $1000+ of their own money on a new device.
So what they feel are issues and what everyday customers feel are issues becomes skewed. Quite often I have seen reviewers ignore major software issues because they personally feel they are not that significant... on a device worth hundreds of dollars.
Or you get the opposite where they get hung up on something that most people aren't going to care as much about. They can't feel ripped off because they got the phone for free so they have to find something else to complain about. Phone wobble is kind of annoying but I forget about it like 10 seconds later.
I use an electric bed heater (goes on top of the mattress, under the sheet) and use it to preheat my bed before I get in. My bedroom doesn't have any source of heat so it feels so goooood.
Goddamn the misinformation surrounding LLM's is so nauseating. They do not think, they do not feel, they do not exist as beings.
A LLM is a large amount of powerful computers doing a bunch of statistics on its database(s) and then guessing on what the proper output should be given the input. That's all they are and also why they so often guess incorrectly. They are not intelligent and never will be because that is not how are designed and built.
They have absolutely zero contextual awareness unless directly prompted to do so which is why every input you make into a chatbot includes the entire previous chat log every time you hit enter. LLM's are not aware of anything and remember nothing.
Prions are absolutely wild. There is no cure, no "vaccine" - not that that would even be possible because they're not viruses, bacteria, or even living things from outside your body. They're just a faulty version of something that already exists in your system and they make your body self-destruct.
Unfortunately Rockstar is up there with Nintendo in the list of companies that could murder a baby on stage and livestream and people would still salivate at the mere thought of getting the chance to buy their overpriced products.
Keep fighting the good fight, though. Fuck Rockstar.
Now is a great time to invest some time and effort into offline hobbies, whether they be on your computer or otherwise. Limiting or eliminating your time online these days is just a straight net gain for your mental health, especially if you can fill that gap with some other fulfilling activity.
Got a 4b running Pihole and Tailscale. Love it