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  • My view on the versions of Windows:

    • 95 to 98: decent experiences because of a lack of competition back then, but bad at security and stability, but no one really bothered that much back then about such things
    • ME: basically 98, just a low-effort cash grab
    • 2000: promising new platform based on the superior NT kernel, but not mature yet for widespread consumer use
    • XP: probably the first widely usable consumer OS, decent, but it took until SP2 to fix security and stability problems
    • Vista: beta version of 7, sold as non-beta
    • 7: the last decent Windows version. Windows dominance starts slowly dying after this one
    • 8, 8.1: basically still 7 but with an UI experiment gone horribly wrong, plus the first beginnings of unwanted cloud integrations
    • 10 (First Windows version with Nadella as CEO): okay so we just need to not do weird UI experiments and then we're probably fine. Oh, by the way you can actually put spyware into everything with some opt-out options and not really get into trouble for it, and this will give us extra profit? Let's fucking go!
    • 11: okay so this spyware and cloud integration stuff went great overall, so let's push even more! Also let's add AI stuff which is also even more spyware and cloud integration stuff
    • <next version>

      : will feature even more AI and cloud integrations and thus even more spyware that will be even harder to circumvent. It's likely that at this point or the very next version afterwards, that your Windows will likely turn your once "Personal" Computer into a fully Microsoft-owned and operated one.
  • In 3 to 6 months,

    <AICompany>

    CEO says that in 3 to 6 months, AI will be writing 90% of the code software developers were in charge of. It's always right around the corner. Just like Tesla's flawless full self driving. In the meantime, please buy our stuff or invest in us, pretty please? It's a very future-proof investment! Just wait a small eternity while spending money on our semi-useful products.

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  • German here. These are some cultural and day-to-day differences compared to the US:

    • Sundays are officially a day of rest and so most shops and businesses are closed that day, with several exceptions like high priority stuff, restaurants, tourism/event-related stuff and so on. But you can't go to a regular supermarket or expect a package delivery on a Sunday. Although some sundays are also different, it's like an "event" where regular shops open sometimes. But that's rare.
    • Cash is still very widely used (and you also should generally use it even if it's less convenient because it's probably the most privacy-preserving payment option), but other payment options are also available almost everywhere
    • There are tiny fees of around 1 € you probably need to pay when e.g. going to a public toilet or using a shopping cart (but for the cart, you get it back when returning the cart). You also need to pay extra for bags, or bring your own.
    • Tip culture is very different, Germans usually pay very small tips compared to the US and no one expects you to, but in restaurants it's common to tip something like 2 € for a bill of 25 € for example. Or you simply round up the number to avoid the hassle of small coins.
    • Prices always include taxes already
    • Water isn't free and usually you can't order tap water, although tap water is drinkable generally
    • You can drink alcohol with fully visible labels/bottles in public
    • For bottles and cans, there's a "Pfand" which is like an extra deposit. So a bottle of water usually costs slightly more, but when it's empty you can return it to get the extra deposit value back. It's to encourage recycling.
    • Germans are more reserved in public and might do less small talk, and are usually more direct, but that doesn't mean they're unfriendly. This also applies to customer service! Personally I like this more than obviously fake and exaggerated politeness.
    • You should be more quiet in or near residential areas between like 10pm and 7am
    • Punctuality is highly valued, this is actually not exaggerated or a myth. Public transport might not wait for you if you're 1-2min late. People will assume that something's wrong when you're a couple of minutes late to an appointment. Although there is one well-known exception: trains aren't always punctual or reliable. But other public transport usually is.
    • Highways have no speed limits in parts but you still probably shouldn't drive much faster than 130 km/h. Pass other cars only on the left lanes, never on the right lanes. Also don't drive on bike lanes.
    • Basically all streets or public spaces are safe to walk around. Also children don't need supervision.
    • Most Germans have very good English skills, except maybe very old generations
  • "No one is above the law" and other jokes you can tell yourself to feel better.

  • They can't think that far ahead. Their plan is just to aid the economy make rich people richer short-term. Nothing else is of concern to them.

  • Why this is happening: right-wing extremist propaganda on popular proprietary social media, and random people believing it and radicalizing themselves. Of course it's going to spawn more radicalized right-wing extremists, everywhere the propaganda machine turns its head towards (they managed to ruin USA, now they're trying to ruin Europe). Normal people will become more radicalized in the process. It's like a global cult and its propaganda distribution mechanism is the internet. Not everyone will have enough education or media literacy to resist this. China and Russia are the big benefactors of a divided and in-fighting West.

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  • Collapse will definitely come. Our way of living on this planet is not sustainable, especially now where everyone who would have the power/influence to change things does literally and openly the opposite (e.g. USA turning their back on climate friendly research/technologies for example). So I think it's kind of over, I'm kind of an optimist but time is simply running out, we had the Paris agreement and all that jazz like 10 years ago and almost nothing really changed (the only time something changed for the positive was during 2020/2021 but that was involuntarily!), in fact it's now probably worse than it was back then, so it's kind of over. Sure you can and should individually continue fighting for it because every small improvement will at least delay the collapse a bit which is useful, but I'm not going to naively believe that we will be able to counteract this anymore. It's too little, too late. And that's not even taking into account the possibility of a WW3. And rich/powerful people probably know this as well that the geological and political situations become increasingly unstable which is why they are building luxury bunkers. I would build one too, if I had the spare change.

  • 1 (2012)

    How to Wagon your Dragon

    Soldier (Platoon)

    Something quiet on the Western Contested Spot

    Raindrop Man

    Shaun of One Body

    D.T. - The Default Terrestrial (E.T.)

    Star War: Appearance of a Jed

    Indiana Jones or the Only Crusader

  • One ring to rule one person.

  • 1 Ronin

    Plan 1 From Outer Space

    Buena Vista Solitary Spot

    Clover

    One-dimensional Point 1: One-dimensional Point

    District 1

    Eye Narrowly Shut

    Edward Scissorhand

    Gremlin 1: The New Item

    The Langolier

    The One Grassleaf Mower Man

    The Ending Chapter

    Monty Python Or The Holy Grail

    Planet of one ape

    Policeman Student

    A Tale of One Sole Sister

    South Park: Small, Short & Cut

    Joined

    The Limbguard

    47 Ronin

    Plan 9 From Outer Space

    Buena Vista Social Club

    Cloverfield

    Cube 2: Hypercube

    District 9

    Eyes Wide Shut

    Edward Scissorhands

    Gremlins 2: The New Batch

    The Langoliers

    The Lawnmower Man

    The Neverending Story

    Monty Python And The Holy Grail

    Planet of the Apes

    Police Academy

    A Tale of Two Sisters

    South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut

    Split

    The Bodyguard

  • By the way, ignoring as much of this big tech corpo crap as you can also makes you live an easier life.

    Whenever I see a story of "some guy who relies on

    <big tech account>

    working loses access to it and suddenly can't do anything anymore" I think "this can never happen to me". Which means there's a whole category of problems you're suddenly never going to see. It also means you're less naive. So just don't vendor-lock yourself in. Don't put a log-in for an account which you don't control in front of important things you need to do. Simple as that.

    On top of that, you'll also leak less private data about yourself and probably others as well. So you even make yourself less of a target when it comes to data protection laws or something. I know, these get routinely ignored. I'm just saying, if you don't even use the problematic stuff (or almost never), you'll also have potentially less legal troubles at hand. And you never know, legel troubles might not appear for a while but they could lurk far in the future. For example, many Nazis got into legal trouble for their participation in Nazi Germany, even decades later.

    I know, the guy from the story probably only needed that account to ensure he can compare some stuff with how MS Office is behaving compared to LibreOffice, or things like that. So it's probably not a big deal. But generally speaking, you really shouldn't vendor-lock yourself in.

  • The "Borat" actor (forgot the name)

  • Meine persönliche Theorie (muss nicht alles stimmen) ist, dass sich in einer sich stark verändernden Welt (Klimawandel, Geopolitische Situationen, ...) diejenigen Kräfte, die versuchen, entweder das Traditionelle/Historische oder das bisher Gelebte weiterzuführen, besonders attraktiv sind für den Durchschnittsbürger, weil es die "bequemste" Option ist wo man sich am wenigsten verändern muss für (obwohl das ins Verderben führt, weil wir dann nichts mehr fürs Klima unternehmen und weiterhin Raubbau an der Erde betreiben nur um im Hamsterrad des Kapitalismus irgendwie "weiter"zukommen... aber das ist in den Augen des Durchschnittsbürgers ja weit weg und alles nur "Panikmache").

    Menschen, die sich besser mit der Materie auskennen, inkl. so ziemlich alle Wissenschaftler weltweit, warnen dagegen vor dem "weiter so" und drängen zum Umdenken, zum Verändern hin zu mehr Klimaschutz, zu nachhaltiger Wirtschaft, zu veränderten Konsum- und Lebegewohnheiten, zu elektrischen Autos, zu Sparsamkeit bei Energie/Wasser/... das klingt aber alles total unbequem für den Durchschnittsbürger. Deshalb wählt der lieber was "Konservatives", denn die wollen ja das Bisherige behalten und immer weiterführen, bis es kracht und die Natur literally brennt und der Durchschnittsbürger plötzlich kein günstiges Schnitzel mehr futtern kann. Dann bricht auch für ihn seine heile Welt zusammen... aber dann ist es schon viel zu spät noch irgendwas umzulenken. (Das ist es vermutlich auch jetzt schon, trotzdem sollte man natürlich versuchen, den Kollaps so weit wie möglich in die Zukunft zu drängen und so stark abzufedern wie nur möglich, denn jedes Zehntel Grad weniger Erwärmung hilft schon).

    Dazu kam auch noch 2020+2021 die Corona-Pandemie, die war auch so unbequem... soziale Kontakte beschränken, Maske tragen, mehrfach impfen lassen, ... das gefiel dem Durchschnittsbürger gar nicht. Und die Rechten machen sich das zu Nutze, indem sie gezielt konservativ spielen und ihre Propaganda entsprechend verpacken als würden sie "die Normalität" verkörpern. Sie tun so als wären sie die Partei der """Normalen""", der Mitte, der Durchschnittsbürger. Dabei sind sie extrem rechts mit genau dem selben ideologischen Gedanken"gut" wie die Nazis vor 100 Jahren. Eine rechtsextreme Partei darf natürlich niemals an die Macht kommen, ganz egal wie sie sich darstellt. Denn ein heutiger Neonazi ist genau das selbe wie ein Nazi vor 100 Jahren. Wer genau hinguckt, erkennt natürlich an jeder Ecke, dass die AfD eine gesichert rechtsextreme Partei ist. Aber für den Durchschnittsbürger wirkt sie wie eine konservative Partei die erst mal primär daran interessiert ist, die Bequemlichkeit beizubehalten, die man die letzten paar Jahrzehnte vielleicht genossen hat. Die Linken und die Grünen wollen ja ständig irgendwas verändern und dem Durchschnittsbürger fehlt die Information oder die Nachvollziehbarkeit, warum das überhaupt sinnvoll sein sollte. Deshalb wirkt das total sinnlos und unbequem auf ihn. Die BILD-"Zeitung" hat dieses BILD dann noch weiter gefestigt mit ihren Propaganda-Artikeln, dass die Grünen eine "Verbotspartei" wären, und solche Dinge. Und die korrupte FDP wurde quasi eingekauft, um die Ampel-Regierung von innen zu sabotieren.

    Und so erstarkt die extrem Rechte. Supported wird sie dabei von der Wirtschaft, wirtschaftsfreundlichen Parteien (insb. CDU jetzt gerade, aber natürlich auch AfD und FDP sind sehr wirtschaftsfreundlich) und von Über-Reichen (Faschismus und Kapitalismus ist extrem gut kompatibel zueinander! Quasi ein Traumpaar. Das war auch schon vor 100 Jahren so), die auch gerne bloß keine Veränderungen haben wollen, weil das kostet ja Geld! Klimaschutz kostet richtig viel Geld, Strafen aufgrund von mehr Regulierungen kosten potenziell viel Geld, das ist alles ziemlich uncool für so einen "Ewiges Wachstum"-brainwashed CEO. Fast jedes Kind kann nachvollziehen, dass Ewiges Wachstum auf einem Begrenzten Planeten gar nicht funktionieren kann. Aber diese Message kommt bei solchen Elite-BWL-Absolventen ja nicht mehr an. Die sind ja auch keine Kinder mehr. Die kümmern sich um den Ernst des Lebens, also des Geschäfts. Wenn der Rubel rollt, ist alles knorke.

    Ein fieses Detail dabei ist, dass die größten sozialen Netzwerke alle proprietär sind und deren CEOs nach Belieben den Algorithmus so tweaken können dass extreme Inhalte oder zumindest konservative Inhalte besonders viel Verbreitung bekommen. Weil die meisten Menschen es verrafft haben, ihre Kommunikation zu verlagern auf neutrale Plattformen (auch das ist unbequem...). Der Durchschnittsbürger wird also dann mit besonders viel auf ihn zielgerichteter Propaganda bombardiert, und die ist mindestens konservativ, eher aber rechtsextrem. Denn diese Inhalte sind auch noch besonders lukrativ, weil sie am meisten Engagement für die Plattformen bedeuten, und wenn die User besonders engagiert sind, und lange auf der Plattform aktiv sind, dann bringt das mehr Kohle ein. Abgesehen davon soll Propaganda ja funktionieren wenn man sie nur ständig wiederholt, und genau das wirkt dann halt auf proprietären Social Media Plattformen. Das ist wahrscheinlich der Hauptgrund, warum die Jugend immer weiter nach rechts rückt und dann auch rechte Parteien wählt - weil sie so viel Propaganda ausgesetzt sind auf Tiktok, X, und Co.

    Und auf diesen ganzen Haufen obendrauf kackt Putin dann noch seine russlandfreundliche Propaganda, die einzig und allein das Ziel hat, die westlichen Demokratien und die NATO zu zersetzen indem er aus den Durchschnittsbürgern solche macht, die extrem rechte Parteien wählen. Denn wenn der Westen schwach und gespalten ist (Spaltung der Gesellschaft steht übrigens als Punkt 1 im geleakten AfD-Strategiepapier), profitiert Putin davon massiv und kann seine größenwahnsinnigen Gebietsansprüche langsam vorantreiben. Mal abgesehen davon, dass Putins "Werte" auch noch gut kompatibel sind mit den "Werten" von rechtsextremen Parteien (Größenwahn, Diktatur ist geil, unbeliebte Personen gehören unterdrückt, ...).

    Demgegenüber stehen die meisten Wissenschaftler und wirklich normale Leute, die gerne noch eine lebenswerte Zukunft hätten, insb. für ihre Nachkommen, und führen dafür ins Feld... naja... die Wahrheit halt. Und rationale Vorschläge wie wir objektiv aus dieser ganzen Misere rauskommen könnten. Aber die Wahrheit geht in dem ganzen Müll da oben literally unter (ja - das ist auch ein Mengenproblem, wenn 9 von 10 Dingen Bullshit oder Propaganda sind, dann kommen die richtigen und wichtigen Messages einfach nicht mehr an bei den Zuschauern) oder interessiert den Durchschnittsbürger nicht. Und reiche Konzernbosse auch nicht. Und rechtsextreme Möchtegerndiktatoren auch nicht. Deshalb: weiter mit Vollgas in den Kollaps.

  • That's not so bad. The good news is that the game gets easier the farther you go. The endgame is the easiest part. The bad news is that you still need to know about a lot of the enemies, items and potential situations that can occur and how to handle them. The most important thing is to gather what's commonly called an Ascension Kit, which is an approximate list of items you pretty much should have in order to win the game because then you can deal with literally every enemy and situation (unless you make a stupid mistake). So you need to know what those items are, how to get them, how to identify them in the game and not waste them, and things like that. You can get somewhat far just through sheer luck but you'll never make it through if you play blindly (don't read any tips or spoilers) or just rely on luck.

  • In Nethack, you can fully complete the game as a pacifist, although it's VERY hard and the game is already hard to get into to begin with. In that case, you are only allowed to indirectly kill enemies by having your pet(s) kill them or by using spells which make enemies attack themselves. Or simply by avoiding enemies completely. Playing as a healer or wizard is the easiest option, but still very hard. The game rewards this and other conducts (= supported "challenges") by mentioning it in the very end after you've ascended.

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  • The 5090 might most of the time draw like 350W but like many top-end cards (also from AMD) power draw can spike really high and can reach double that even for very short moments. So you need a beefy power supply regardless. For a 5090 in combination with a top-end 16 core CPU I wouldn't recommend anything under 1200W (so you still have some wiggle room. Power supplies are also at most efficient when they're not at ~95-99% capacity but at ~80%).

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  • Translation help from Fascist English to US English:

    • "activist" = a non-politician whose free speech we don't like
    • "allow all voices to be heard" / "free speech" = extremist/unconstitutional/propaganda speech which serves the interests of the current fascist regime must be allowed, while every other speech will be labelled as being activist/communist/un-American/...
    • "defend [...] all Americans" = at least the part of Americans which we tolerate or haven't jailed yet (subject to change)
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  • Some potential optimization opportunities:

    • Memory doesn't need to have RGB lighting (unless you want it for the optics), you can get the exact same thing without RGB for a little bit cheaper. IIRC, the non-RGB model is called "Flare X" or similar, "Trident" is the RGB one. Also, CL32 seems slightly slow... not up to date on this but you can probably get CL30 or CL28 for even more performance. 6400MHz seems OK, there are faster ones but there's also a trade-off to be made between stability and performance so I think 6400MHz is fine. It's important to ensure good compatibility with your mainboard. Also, 64 GB is still oversized for just a gaming rig. For pure gaming, you get basically no extra value with 64GB compared to 32GB. You only might need more than 32 GB for workstation-like use cases (video editing for example) and/or when you use VMs in parallel. Unused RAM provides no value and no additional perfomance.
    • A CPU with 16 cores could be slightly oversized for a pure gaming use-case as well, in most games you won't notice a difference compared to the 12- or even 8-core variant instead. Again, higher core count is primarily useful for workstation-like use cases or VMs. Sometimes, the 12core can even be faster for games if it has slightly higher clock speeds for example. You should look at some benchmarks to see whether the 16core provides any benefit for gaming.
    • Mainboard: the MSI Godlike is extremely pricey and there's very questionable, maybe zero additional value compared to a moderately priced one. The most important specs are probably the same anyway. You should take a look at a cheaper option here, unless you don't mind throwing out money.
    • Monitor: If the player isn't playing any fast-paced e-sports titles I think 240MHz refresh rate is overkill, but YMMV.
    • SSDs: not sure if PCIe 5 is worth the extra cash, could also go with PCIe 4 still, they're slightly slower but it's almost not noticeable and for gaming only affects loading times anyway (slightly!), it doesn't affect your performance in actual gameplay. Not sure if WD is a good NVMe SSD brand actually. Consider Samsung or SK Hynix maybe.
  • AI has some use but it always needs human oversight and the final decision must also be made by a human professional. If you use AI to speed up tasks and you know whether the output of the AI is valid or not, and you have the final decision, then you can safely use it. But if you let AI decide on and execute important tasks basically autonomously, then you have a recipe for disaster. Fully autonomous and mistake-free AI is a naive pipe dream which I don't see on the horizon at all.

  • Generally yes but it's not nearly always so clear cut that one is 100% the offender and the other one 0%. Which is why attention to details, context, sophistication, listening to both sides before coming to a conclusion, etc. Is so important. But guess what kind of things get lost when taking part in such a one-sided blame game on the semi-anonymous internet.

    Apps like this but also social media more generally allow for one-sided public naming and shaming of Individuals who probably don't even know about it. It's problematic because it can be deeply unfair.

    I get that there is also value in women protecting themselves against predators but more than likely most content within the app/service is probably one-sided public blaming and gossiping.

    And as we all know from right-wing propaganda, being the first to make a bold claim public and generate headlines with it is very powerful and spreads the message far and wide, whether true or false, and many will just believe it's true without further investigation.