“wHy MuH gAs So ExPeNsIvE?”

Dawg, you’re driving around a tank, that’s why. And you’re not impressing anyone else except other chuds.

It actually might be a fundamental principal of the universe like the Fibunnacci sequence. It shows up everywhere, there’s a great old vsauce episode on it.

It was 50% at the end of 2024. They’re probably closer to 55 - 57% now with inflation, doge firings, wars, tariffs, and off shoring

You actually can use a minipc. Minisforum has their NAB series and those have a slot in their internals for an SSD and they have an NVME slot in the motherboard. I found a NAB9 with an NVME, SSD, and 16GB of ram for around $310. So I would look for used NAB6s (cheaper than NAB9) on EBay. You should find some for under 300 with the Data SSD and NVME.

I think RHEL and Fedora did first, could be wrong though

I have a self bound rule to never do the multi-tile single image ones. Fuck those so much, they’re always wrong. I will refresh for as long as it takes to get a grid of smaller images that may also be hard but I at least have some better grasp over.

I actually hear you and greatly sympathize with this. I absolutely need days when I just don’t pay attention to the news or politics, outside of my local community organizing and action. I really look forward to a world where politics means what the etymology does “the dealings of the city”, and not catastrophic, firehose levels of information about every single thing, each one of which is existential. I look forward, and work towards, a day when either I or those who come after me (don’t have kids and won’t) live in a society where politics means mostly things like planting community gardens, neighborhood groups, and distribution of commodities in a local environment. Where even the bigger issues are amazing, like high speed rail and massive green energy projects, space stations, and megastructures that benefit all, not just the elite.

I really want you to know that I really feel where you are coming from, and I desperately want this torrent to stop. It feels so inundating and all encompassing. I applaud you for taking days where you recharge and take a break. In a sense, there is a privilege involved to those of us who can afford to do so, but also I will use that privilege for that, so that I can then go and also use it to fight back and make a change.

LOVE Maine!! I need to visit Arcadia some time. I remember the first time I saw a full grown, wild moose was in Maine along a highway, we were pretty far north (probably about halfway up the state latitude wise), and she was HUGE. She had her fowl with her, and the baby was still the size of a freaking great dane.

I just wish the neolib gun laws weren’t so insane. They know it’s treating a fever when the person is dying from sepsis, and they know capitalism and hyper-individualism is the disease, but these politicians make SOO much money off the system. They also know they can ausage the fears of NIMBYs and suburban white libs with some simple platitudes, get reelected, and continue making bank.

BTW, I’m not advocating for handing every person who walks into a shop a gun immediately, but as a leftist, I am against disarming the working class.

You’re in New England aren’t you? BTW if this ends up being true, I actually didn’t stalk your profile to see. I am originally from MA and one of my favorite things about NE, and specifically MA, is that even the most rural spaces have pride flags and very progressive. It’s actually the suburban sprawl areas that are more purple, but not enough to turn any part of the stage red.

I fucking love the Berkshires and some day I am moving out there, that’s a promise I will keep to myself no matter how chaotic life gets, obviously so long as I am able to control it (eg, not drafted, don’t have to flee the nation, am not abducted by the modern S.A (ICE), etc)

So glad you get to live in a world where you get to ignore politics. Also, I’m assuming you live in another country, and that’s why you’re frustrated things default to the US. So do I. I fucking hate that the US Empire has Earth by the balls, though that is ending (thankfully).

And unfortunately, anything billionaires do here is often a sort of trial run for other countries. These assholes (Tech Asshole Billionaires, Heritage Foundation and theocratic asshats, Trump and Wallstreet, etc) want to carve up this entire fucking world and enslave us, like full on chattel slavery. That is, those of us they haven’t sent to death camps. We need to do everything we can to stop this.

You might not be a leftist, so the term endstage capitalism may or may not mean anything. But we are living in those times, and a few outcomes await us. One of them being techo-feudalism and surveillance dystopia, or a better world where we break this shit apart. Either way, politics is quickly affecting every single aspect of your life, because these assholes want to privatize every single minutia of your life if they can.

Maybe one day we can sit back and ignore ‘politics’ (as they are defined now), but until then, I believe we have a LOT of work to do.

Maybe… There have been so many times we’ve said x event was the Reichstag Fire. And sure, I’m not denying it could be this time, but I don’t think we should automatically call it such yet.

I’m willing to admit they’ve tried to make other events be that catalyst, but thus far, it has largely failed. At least in the sense of the transition to complete autocratic dictatorship they want. They’ve absolutely made enough progress and damage to be very dangerous in other ways, but they are clearly wanting a full dictatorship.

The land billionaires are salivating to carve up, log and develop? That land?

EDIT: I realized that this comment seems a little to pessimistic and doomer. I didn’t mean it to sound like we should just roll over and accept that these beautiful areas are taken from us and others. We absolutely need to fight back, and you’d be surprised, that even most conservatives (save for the ultra-MAGA people) actually care about this land too and are deeply against it being privatized.

Now… Does that also say something about them caring less about POC than land, yes. But this is one of those issues you really don’t have to push very hard to get people to care about. Even if they’re not annual park visitors, a very large chunk of citizens in the US seem to care about this.

I like using libreddit front ends. I don’t think they’re all called libreddit, but it’s a privacy front end that is really nice to use when I need to look at reddit for something.

It would be really nice too if they implemented Brave’s fingerprint randomization, which is obviously not perfect and I’m never going to expect Tor like anonymity, but is far better than most other browsers. Where Mullvad and Tor try to make everyone look the same, Brave randomizes nearly every important fingerprint.

And I know Firefox does this pretty well already, but from the research I did, Brave’s fingerprint vector randomization is another level.

TankieJerk was a fun sub at least.

You literally need community as a great ape of a social species. It doesn’t have to be huge but something fundamental is missing when we don’t have community.

The moment billionaires coopted the internet was when it went downhill. They knew the threat it posed, the vision of the early cypherpunks, and made sure the internet wouldn’t do that to their power.

Decentralization and accessibility are good things. Elitism and exclusionary practices do nothing good.