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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Everything is awful because the people who went to business school figured out how to fuck us over as hard as possible.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  The ruling class thanks you for hating their designated scapegoat. You will continue yelling about their pawns, paying your taxes, accepting their inflation, and voting for their chosen candidates and parties.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Plex’s crackdown on free remote streaming access starts this week - Ars Technica⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  That'll be one hundred and fifty dollars, please.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Plex’s crackdown on free remote streaming access starts this week - Ars Technica⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  That's been my experience too.

  Plex came with my nas, and we never used it because it it was really fiddly and wanted to show everything except my content.

  By contrast, my jellyfin is linked up with the jellyfin for android tv app on the big screen tv, and if nobody told you it wasn't a regular streaming service you'd probably never know because it's so straightforward. My wife is not techy at all -- she still daily drives her Android phone from 7 years ago because she doesn't want to change to her new one from 2 years ago -- but she can pick up the remote and play a movie at any time.

  I use it every night on my phone to play videos that help me get to sleep, and the app works well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"Worthless Regression" S2 Ended with Chapter 106⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  "Announcement Season 2 Final Announcement 25.11.06 Hello. This is Kidari Studio.

  We would like to thank our readers for enjoying and for your continued support.

  will be on hiatus for approximately one month. Please note that Season 2 will conclude with Episodes 105 and 106 on December 5th. After this, we will be on hiatus to prepare for Season 3.

  Please look forward to the further growth of the main character, Lee Sung-min, in the next season, and we ask for your continued support for the hard-working writer.

  Thank you.

  -Kidari Studio Dream-"

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨TRIGUN STARGAZE sets official January premiere⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  To be fair, it seems like Stampede starts prior to the trigun anime. It goes through the events of lost July but not the fifth moon incident. Therefore, it could be that Millie can come in later as a bernardelli insurance girl and still fit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Crunchyroll is Officially Ending Its Free Ad-Supported Streaming Service on December 31, 2025⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Seems like they've been getting less and less of the good anime every season.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨FACT FOCUS: Trump says tariffs can eventually replace federal income taxes. Experts disagree⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  To be clear, there was once a time that there was no federal income tax and most income came from tariffs and excise taxes. It was just prior to world war 1.

  But it's going to need a fundamental change to the way that people look at the federal government. Constitutionally, a lot of what the federal government does makes absolutely no sense. In spite of the general welfare clause, it should be self-evident that federal government was supposed to be about providing for the common defense and dealing with conflicts between states. The idea that it would take a federal program to provide for example food stamps is really bizarre. The EU has a lot of things that people criticize it for, what is a similar amalgamation of states, it doesn't directly fund government programs like that.

  Of course, changing what the federal government does does not necessarily mean that those taxes go away entirely. There are states was very low internal tax rates that are only able to be so because they rely on federal government funding, so in the event that they stop getting that revenue source they would have to start taxing their own citizens for the services that they provide.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ageing populations a 'ticking time bomb' for GDP growth, says EBRD⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Unfortunately, it's going to get really bad. People don't realize how much competence is about to die of old age in the next 10 years.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Price correction "worse than 2008" coming to US housing market—analyst⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, and they're unlikely to drop to where they should in the near-term. Even the 1990s housing crash was really mostly the market going sideways until inflation caught up.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Price correction "worse than 2008" coming to US housing market—analyst⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  In my own country of Soviet Canuckistan, house prices in some markets have already faced 50% drops from the peak. Not all, of course, but we're in bubbles that make US housing markets look sane.

  Thing is, all the things politicians try to do to make housing "more affordable" just make it more expensive by making more money available to drop on a bid. Higher interest rates result in lower prices because people can't afford to bid as high for the same monthly payment.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨NoAuthority.social Goes Down After Hardware Failure⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Always sad to see a site down like that.

  I've got redundancies and backups, but shit can always happen.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve makes almost $50 million per employee, raking in more cash per person than Google, Amazon, or Microsoft — gaming giant's 350 employees on track to generate $17 billion this year⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Does Microsoft have less money than Valve?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve confirm the Steam Machine will be priced like a PC with similar specs, rather than a console⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Unfortunately, during the pandemic we discovered what happens when things are underpriced. Effectively, if you don't have the original company pricing their products according to the market, the scalpers all swoop in and buy up all the stock and resell it at market rates.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Open Source Developers Are Exhausted, Unpaid, and Ready to Walk Away⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Big question or not, we can only control ourselves.

  Everyone always stares at other people's resources and imagine how great it would be if those resources were used how we like, but at the end of the day, we control our resources.

  So is it a big question if it doesn't really matter because we can't do anything about it?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UK wind farms generate a record 22.7 GW of power on a single day⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The only ones that seem to not be like that are hydroelectric and geothermal, since they're baseload. Which is why they're the two I advocate for the loudest -- why not use stuff that works?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Open Source Developers Are Exhausted, Unpaid, and Ready to Walk Away⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Big question is: how many of us are funding foss projects?

  It isn't difficult, and with how popular some are, it wouldn't be long before the projects could hire one or more full time devs at good rates.

  I support a few big projects I use every month through liberapay.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Open Source Developers Are Exhausted, Unpaid, and Ready to Walk Away⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Big question is: how many of us are funding foss projects?

  It isn't difficult, and with how popular some are, it wouldn't be long before the projects could hire one or more full time devs at good rates.

  I support a few big projects I use every month through liberapay.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wendy’s to close hundreds of restaurants as struggling customers cut back on dining out⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  With capitalism proper being a decentralized system, the alternatives are all forms of central planning, so it is reasonable to assume that central planning is what is being referred to when someone says capitalism is a failed experiment. Rejecting decentralized coordination leaves planning as the remaining category.

  If you think anything I wrote is a non sequitur, that simply shows you are missing the conceptual scaffolding behind the argument. The purpose of any economic system is to allocate scarce resources among humans who have effectively unlimited desires. Scarcity is the starting condition. Allocation is the problem. Economic systems are different strategies for dealing with that problem.

  That scarcity does not come from capitalism or from any human institution. It comes from physical existence itself. There is finite matter, finite energy, finite space, and finite time. Scarcity existed long before humans ever appeared, and it will exist long after. Showing that scarcity is universal rather than human-created is not a tangent. It directly addresses the foundation that all economic systems must operate on. No system gets to escape trade-offs, because the trade-offs are not created by the system. The system exists because of them.

  The system we live under that forces people to live with limited means is reality. Capitalism is one method of dealing with those limited means. Central planning is another method. Both are attempts to solve the same basic coordination problem. One distributes decisions through prices. The other concentrates decisions in administrative structures. Neither one abolishes scarcity. They only differ in how they respond to it.

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Preparing for the hardware market disruption⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Glad I upgraded before it was too late.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How A Blast From The Past⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ran windows 95 on a thin client a couple years ago.

  I forgot that you could just end up with a broken install from the word go. I had to reinstall twice until it was stable. I didn't do anything in particular different, it just didn't take that time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wendy’s to close hundreds of restaurants as struggling customers cut back on dining out⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The system is called reality.

  The problem we face is that there is unlimited desires, but limited resources. That problem was written into the laws of the universe when the big bang occurred and a finite amount of energy produced a finite amount of matter.

  Before a single homonid existed on earth, there was a limited amount of material on earth, a limited amount of energy available, a limited amount of space. Before a single homonid existed on earth, animals required food, shelter, heat, cool, and clean water.

  The Oxygen Catastrophe is an amazing extinction event where most life on earth was photosynthesizing CO2, and in spite of the early earth having about 20 atmospheres worth of CO2 the Earth effectively ran out and afterwards the atmosphere was composed of mostly nitrogen and oxygen. Amazing to think that there was a resource that abundant, that was effectively completely used up by life, before multi-cellular life even began in earnest.

  That extinction event killed almost all life on Earth, and ushered in an ice age that killed even more. That's life, and it isn't fair. Much of the life that remained had to adapt. Much life adapted to utilize this new oxygen waste. You and I utilize that waste material. Some photosynthesizers still exist, adapted to high levels of oxygen and low levels of CO2. Today, we live in a world that cycles between O2 and CO2, that's the only way we can survive.

  In about 250 million years, continental drift will form a new supercontinent, which will likely destroy most life on Earth. In about 750 million years, the luminosity of the dying sun will rise to the point that life on Earth will no longer be able to exist. A few billion years after that, the sun will run out of material, and will stop altogether. The solar system will slowly freeze for countless aeons. No life will survive that long. This is the end point of our reality.

  Systems that pretend reality doesn't exist, that this isn't the end point of everything, they're doomed because magic isn't real and every decision is a trade-off between multiple competing and true things.

  99.95% of life on Earth died in the oxygen catastrophe. 350 Wendy's stores might close, laying off all their employees. Unlike the life that died in the oxygen catastrophe, the employees of those 350 Wendy's can get new jobs, the real estate can be repurposed for new businesses that might not fail, and even capital equipment like ovens or deep fryers can be reused.

  Central planners like to pretend they can prevent catastrophe, but all it does is change the terms of disaster. Instead of "Which locations objectively sell enough product to justify their existence", often it becomes a war of nepotism, favoritism, lobbyists, and political favors. You can ask the empires of the Bronze Age Collapse how that worked out for them, but you can't because of them, only the ancient Egyptians survived, every civilization of the middle east fell. Some fell and were erased from history altogether by people who wanted to forget the horrors of for example the Minoans. New civilizations rose eventually in the same regions, but new ones that did things differently. Eventually, even the Egyptians fell to the Greeks under Alexander.

  Life requires suffering and limitation. Life requires constant adaption. Life requires successfully dealing with reality. Anyone who tells you differently, they're not telling you the truth, and any system that suggests you can avoid these truths will aways fail against systems that model reality more correctly.

  The positive thing is that a system like capitalism when it's working correctly (I'm not saying it does always, I'm not a modernist who believes you can fit everything in the world in one box) means that the Wendy's employees don't die, they just have to find new jobs, and perhaps that building will be bought by a new company that does things differently, or sells something different, and is more likely to provide enough useful goods or services that it can support itself. If it does, then instead of the result being a net human suffering, it'll be a net human positive. Perhaps that neighborhood actually needed a local restaurant in that spot. Perhaps it actually needed a book store. People who have an idea can take a risk and give it a shot, and maybe it survives and thrives, maybe it fails too and the cycle starts again.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wendy’s to close hundreds of restaurants as struggling customers cut back on dining out⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Normally I'd even go a step further and challenge the idea that capitalism even exists in the postmodern world, but honestly stores shutting down because they aren't making enough money to continue operating is capitalism working as intended, not the opposite. And for once, that's a good thing.

  Most forms of economic system, particularly central economic planning, would tend to choose stores based on metric other than whether they were actually cashflow positive, resulting in higher resource utilization, lower efficiency, and so worse outcomes overall.

  Because Wendy's won't be using that building any longer, a different restaurant could take its place, and see if it can build a profitable business in its place. In my city, a local business took over such a building, and they make the best burgers on locally made buns in the city.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ISO Project Ideas For Wyse 3040 & 5010 Thin Clients⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  When I'm looking at thin clients for use in my systems, I look at a few different things:

  1. Max RAM capacity
  2. Max storage capacity (and method of expansion
  3. CPU capability
  4. Communication methods

  It looks like the 5010s are the most interesting to start with. They seem to be expandable to 8GB of RAM. They seem to have a DOM plugged into a populated SATA port, so I'm thinking you might be able to use an extension cable to install a proper SATA SSD and have decent storage. The APU is AMD pre-ryzen which is horrible for most purposes but I'd say is quite interesting for homelab use. Get some memory and real storage in them, and they're good enough to be basically fully powered servers for whatever you want. Being suck on USB 2.0 means you're pretty limited in that front. With upgraded memory and storage, you're basically looking at something you can integrate into a proxmox cluster easily.

  The 3040s are a bigger challenge. Limited memory (2GB soldered), very limited storage (8 or 16GB), and no immediately apparent way to upgrade them. On the other hand, the USB 3.0 port on the front means you can use a USB SSD or HDD to increase storage. With such a device plugged in, the Intel Atom X4 quad-core isn't a great CPU, but you can definitely do some limited fun things. As-is and without any mods, I'm thinking you could host game servers on these for older games without overtaxing them too much, or fun niche applications like gemini hosting or telnet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨MPV: The Ultimate Self-Hosted Media Solution You're Probably Sleeping On⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This really seems like an AI generated article to, in a very complicated way, describe of what was until fairly recently just the status quo.

  Until fairly recently, if you had network attached storage you could just play the media off of the network storage. That's just how it worked. People playing media through the command line is something people have been doing for decades. What happened later was the introduction of services like jellyfin that would streamline the process.

  Overall, other than the extremely hyperbolic language promising to completely change your life by letting you do things the way that they were done decades ago, it reads like "you may not like cars, but let me introduce you to an amazing new technology known as walking" presented without any irony.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The government shutdown is now the longest - and likely the most damaging in US history⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Americans really aren't good at civics, are they?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Allegations swirl as 24 transgender residents of Indore attempt mass suicide⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I'm so glad you dejargonified.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Top economist on the economy’s dirty truth: The only people who feel good are ‘making over $200,000’ and ‘have large stock portfolios’⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Bulls make money, bears make money, pigs get slaughtered. Usually it's retail investors who end up getting slaughtered.

  Even people going deeply into risky bets usually have a "barbell" strategy where they'll rebalance from the high risk high growth to low risk low growth so they can see growth but in a downturn they aren't facing huge losses.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon to announce largest layoffs in company history, source says⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I suspect that Amazon is starting to take advantage of the lead it got from being a loss leader in so many markets.

  Amazon the store is effectively a loss leader I think for stuff like AWS, since people go "Oh, if the largest store in the world uses this hosting, we can use it for our business/government/project".

  I've seen it a lot in the past 5 years, where things they couldn't possibly have been making a profit sending to our house (like groceries) went way up and now local stores make more sense. A lot of stuff where they still have a price advantage is basically just because they're a marketplace for direct factory sales from places like China.

  If people like me and a lot of others are correct, we might be facing a period of extreme uncertainty and likely big recession. Amazon would be quite sensible to get in front of that and start cutting now so they don't need to take the pain at the same time everyone else is. Ford made a similar move prior to the 2008 financial crisis and that ended up being a great move for them in the medium term since they didn't need to be bailed out like GM. I wouldn't be surprised to see more competition in the AWS space in such a situation because platforms like that are actually pretty expensive compared to a few servers. I know if I were a CIO or CTO and my choice was to keep my staff and spend some capital or keep using AWS, in a downturn I'd be looking pretty carefully at on-prem for a lot of things.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Scientists have been studying remote work for four years and have reached a very clear conclusion: “Working from home makes us thrive”⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I appreciate this as a balanced take.

  I've done a little work from home, and it's nice being home, but it's still work. If you're doing your job right, it's still your job.

  Unfortunately, I've also seen that while some people are great at WFH and even do better, a lot of people either don't get anything done, or look very "productive" because they're harassing people still at work with meaningless busywork like sending emails that don't do anything or asking other people to do parts of their job they'd be able to do if they were at work.

  I think that partially goes to the point of "what is productivity?" since someone can look busy but not be doing anything that actually does anything positive for either boots on the ground micro views or mile high macro views. "Oh, look at how many emails got sent" great, did that actually help the business run? And sometimes the answer is "yes, and we should let this WFH worker continue at all costs", and in others the answer is "No, and we need to get this person into the office or eliminate the position because either would be better than the status quo"

  It's a bit managerial in the way to look at it, but in order to justify WFH, the people working from home must be providing enough value to justify their employment, because too much overhead waste and the business ends, maybe every business embracing WFH ends, and then all that's left is the ones that didn't. To be clear, that's not a moral stance, but a purely pragmatic evolutionary stance: Those things which survive continue and those that die do not.