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>I'm probably way off the mark here, but my instinct tells me there's nothing intrinsic about the human condition that makes it the exclusive vessel of thought. I'm in your boat. M…

I hope this is true! Consumer credit is a serious problem. How much better would it be if only corporate entities could take on debt? That goes for school, home, and car loans too.…

If it's a VW, pick up a Ross-Tech VAG-COM + VCDS, locate your Telematics unit (OCU, online communications unit) and remove it; mine was behind the instrument cluster. Then use VCDS…

Cloud is an unnecessary evil, in the Stallmanesque sense.

I really like Mullvad Browser, which is Tor Browser -Tor +uBlock Origin, for clean & ephemeral browsing.

Sponsorblock (FF extension) is neccessary for YouTube, as well as Seal (GUI for yt-dlp) + BravePipe (fork of NewPipe, integrated Sponsorblock) for Android. Also, adding `Before: YE…

I use Mullvad Browser, which is Tor Browser -Tor +uBlock Origin. No you don't need Mullvad VPN to use Mullvad Browser.

Margins for consumer were wider vs HBM before killing Crucial, and still is today. Something else is going on...

Better stated than my ham-fisted attempt. Thank you. :^)

There is a limit on production efficiency, life is full of logistic curves which feel exponential at first until the inflection and leveling off phases. It's going to hurt when agr…

CPI replaces steak with hamburger or chicken once steak becomes unaffordable. It understates inflation.

I'm sure it applies to Xbox too, but I priced out today's PS to the PS1 and it closely follows the inflation rate that M2 has undergone. M2 expansion is the prime driver of prices,…

Nothing irritates me more than the advertising industrial complex having financially and algorithmically coerced r*pe[d]/grape[d] for rape[d], k*ll[ed]/unalive[d] for killed/murder…

I differentiate nerd from geek as a heirarchy, geek to me being a sub-nerd. These are geekisms: >super heroes >fantasy books/movies >Pokemon >Magic the Gathering >Star Wars >Lord O…

... then there's Qubes OS, which beats the pants off AOSP isolation using Xen. Feels like the labelled desktop of the Trusted Solaris days! If one wanted to utilize SELinux in Temp…

I love NX (10-12), it feels very intuitive to me and it's absolutely rock solid compared to Inventor, Solid Edge, and SolidWorks, and it seems like it could run performantly on a l…

Nice. I'm an over-40 year old wannabe engineer too, except I didn't get as far as you on my little pet project: designing a 'universal' gear, based on professor Jack Phillips' work…

... and you end up being the donkey they can pin the tail onto, when they feel like bilking you again.

Maybe a nice 50%-200% tax on recurrent revenue streams could force things back to sell-once + no spying...

Best you can do is get familiar with peer-to-peer acquisition, and teach others. Starve the enshittifiers!

If we ban the FED from conjuring new Dollars for buying debt and securities, and the only way fresh printed Dollars enter circulation is if apportioned to every citizen equally (de…

I think CPI is a poor measure, because it's a moving meter stick that understates inflation. When beef is overpriced, hamburger switches into the basket. When hamburger is a luxury…

M2 outstrips it. My favorite way to gauge historical prices/data is to scale it with M2: (TradingView): M2SL[0]/M2SL*TICKER Replace M2SL[0] with the latest M2 value. 23.05 T should…

Can't stop the bittorrent, won't stop the bittorrent! There's also I2PSnark, Hyphanet, and others!

Nice! I hope to see continued liberation of these locked up SOTA models. Cloud is a virtual prison, since other people's policies on what they think a user should and should not do…