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I still think the best bang for your buck is an old desktop PC. Something like an i5 with 8GB RAM and an SSD will suit 99% of home server uses with capacity to spare. Even in this …

A group which has been known to collectively make a mistake or two

Cities in Australia consistently rank in the top 5 most expensive real estate indices and we ain't short of space here, it's just not many people are interested in living in a dust…

Money is a factor, but not the only one, and for some, not the most important one. Beyond a certain point, there are diminishing returns. Does driving a car that costs twice as muc…

The profit motive is the reason that most of the things that are shit, are shit.

Here's a step by step guide on how to gene edit rice https://bio-protocol.org/en/bpdetail?id=1225&type=0 Mostly it's just heating and cooling tiny volumes of liquids

It's "just a blog", but if you're after positive and uplifting, that does exist https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/ I like to check this every so often as a palette cleanser for the e…

On Android I use super dim, as someone who enjoys low light situations, even the darkest brightness setting can be too bright sometimes

Depending on just how much more cost effective sodium battery tech gets, that might not be a questionable proposition

Make education free. I'd love to study something like philosophy or art history but there's just no return on that investment. Unless you're already wealthy, it doesn't make sense …

Why are the tech oligarchs all such dweebs...

The most baffling thing is that this is not (as I had assumed) about giving agents control of a mouse cursor, instead it's finer-grained text editing skills. The word mouse has had…

Forums handled this by bumping old threads to the top when a new comment was added. This post sorting method could play nicely with tree style comments

If there was to be a small silver lining out of all this, then a way to verify human comments would be nice. But it's not worth the privacy impacts and chilling of free speech.

Isn't depreciation the financial system's way of acknowledging that physical things deteriorate over time?

Not just outsider artists either, Vincent van Gogh is one of the most widely known artists in history and he was dealing with increasingly severe mental health episodes over the ye…

FUD existed before them. So did the word crypto, as a matter of fact. That's two things they ruined. While we're at it, I think them claiming the term Web 3.0 is very self-aggrandi…

Wow, that is one of the best use cases for AI I've seen. I wonder what the cost of all that was.

"on the device itself"

One look at enterprise will tell you Windows is not a dead platform

Rolling up headphone wires (or any wires) works best when you create a looped bundle and alternate between overhand and underhand. It stops it from getting twisted and tangled. Whe…

My position is that war is a blight on humanity, and people waging war are committing evil acts. Russia's actions in Ukraine reinforce my view. I am fortunate enough to live in a c…

It absolutely is sinister. Everything about the military is, when you decouple the rhetoric from the actions and consider what it is that those organisations actually do.