The way I see it, there's more money in everyone not having computers in the traditional sense, but having low powered, cheap devices that need replacing every couple of years, and all compute is done through cloud services and AI platforms. So there's currently profit in data centres eating up all the available hardware, increasing the price of those components to the end user, and eventually pricing everyone out of owning any device that can actually compute until our only option is another subscription, and another, and another.
It you've not seen it, there a fan fiction play starring Alexander Siddig and Andrew Robinson which finally addresses it. Worth a watch: https://youtu.be/3Tq8zaSObWU
I just moved house, and several boxes lost structural integrity during the move, but one that finally gave out, I've had for over 25 years. It was originally the box for a CRT computer monitor, and it was a very good box.
I'll say it again, because I think the idea is a practical solution to the issue: electricity and water usage should be charged at reverse volume, the more you use, the more expensive it becomes.
This would actually incentivise companies to reduce their usage, to question if they actually need that new AI data centre that will eat up all the gains in renewable electricity production and require fossil fuel plants to continue running, it'll reduce the crypto miners as well, and encourage everyone to try to reduce their usage.
The knock on effect of this is that electricity actually becomes cheaper for everyone.
I've used "I know something you don't know" far too many times, along with "I don't think that means what you think it means." They're far too useful in conversation.
It's not stupid if you're an oil company trying to increase profits, then it makes perfect sense to make your oil guzzling death machine as big, bulky and inefficient as possible.
I use swag, which is a pre-configured nginx with hundreds of sample configs for a lot of docker apps. It also has certproxy installed for letsencrypt and some added security. Worth looking at, imho.
I was just thinking electricity should be charged at reverse volume, the more you use, the more expensive each Gw is. It'll never happen, but if we wanted to tackle this issue, it's what we should do.
I've been using Manjaro with Cinnamon for about a month now. It works great on an old Lenovo with 12gb ram. Probably going to stick with it when I build my desktop.
Family values are those values that don't include a woman's right to her own body, that don't include our queer bretheren, our trans siblings, our immigrant neighbours in a world of immigrants.
Isn't it funny how family values exclude so much of real families?
The way I see it, there's more money in everyone not having computers in the traditional sense, but having low powered, cheap devices that need replacing every couple of years, and all compute is done through cloud services and AI platforms. So there's currently profit in data centres eating up all the available hardware, increasing the price of those components to the end user, and eventually pricing everyone out of owning any device that can actually compute until our only option is another subscription, and another, and another.