Oh so now you care about displaced people when its impacting Americans?

Pretty sure its the asteroid belt, not planetary rings, that you don’t really need to think about when passing through.

And yeah, it shouldn’t be too hard and yet look at all the junk already up there. Hopefully they can just be required to keep to very low orbits that decay rapidly.

And how much space junk will end up there? Cleaning up afterwards costs more money and long term thinking isn’t something shareholders care about over more profit today.

The tech is interesting, hopefully governments across the entire planet regulate it well enough. Although at the same time, its not like we really need to care either. In our lifetime its not like any of us are likely to be able to afford to go to space anyway, but it would probably be a good idea not to ruin it if we have a choice.

IIRC it depends on how you count it, if you are counting water use for hydro power then it uses shitloads. But places that use hydro usually have plenty of water to do that in the first place and any other datacentre would be the same, AI isn’t special. Any kind of factory would also use a lot.

True, bottles are usually 500ml though. Its about the same either way. UK pint is also larger than a US pint.

How much of this is good income and how much is lower cost of living? Housing is by far my largest expense compared to everything else combined, and mostly because there isn’t much you can legally live in that costs less.

Yeah, how much is enough? The answer does vary a lot by where you live too. But it is interesting hearing people with 5x my income in the same country complain having no money left each month. Meanwhile I have always been doing fine even on minimum wage.

Wasn’t the Iraq invasion one of the most protested things ever?

Didn’t work of course, I think to stop a government determined on war you need to push even harder. Remove their ability to govern.

I find distance is mixed, only miles when its driving otherwise km usually. I don’t drive either so no reason to use miles. For a persons height yeah I do know some people that still use feet for that.

Pretty much, the only imperial unit I kinda use is gallon, but even that mentally I am using it to describe around 4.5L. Got 5L demijohns and with the headspace you are left with about a gallon. Fun fact of course UK and US gallons are different, its such a dumb unit, but there is something nice about saying you have a gallon of mead or cider.

Every SIM I have seen is free or close to it, unless you are buying it as part of a bundle where the SIM is usually free and its the stuff bundled with it, like data, that costs money.

Started EVE in like 2009, now I find it just ends up taking so much time to do anything. Never been into 1v1 PvP but do like small to medium groups, but that can take so much time to get and you might not even find anything.

So it ends up with you sitting there for ages with nothing going on, then When it does start to get interesting sorry gotta drop off to go to bed.

I think Anvil Empires might scratch a similar itch for me, while being a bit easier to drop in/out. Albion Online is one I tried too but barely even got into much PvP, maybe I should try again. I like cheap builds really, don’t want to grind for hours to lose it all in 1 go. Not sure how cheap you can reasonably go in AO.

Near best minimum wage on earth, free healthcare and a moat to keep the French out? Could be worse.

Willing to see a point of view that would see me or people I care for considered worthless and not deserving of life? Fuck absolutely everything about that. The only good fascist is a dead fascist.

I am ok with fascists being treated violently.

Well it still worked until this update, so few week old OS and driver was also good. It’s Arch so expect it to break. It will probably be fixable, we are Linux users.

People love to say Linux is great for old hardware. But not 10 series Nvidia cards apparently?

I don’t want to play AAA games now, why would I want to with 5 more years of further enshitification?

Yeah, I am looking at spending less than I did before though. But when will an under £200 card give like double the performance of a 2070? I don’t want to spend that much for +20%. Unless my current card dies there is little reason to upgrade.

Keep using it, you don’t need them to support it to keep using it. All old driver versions still exist.