Take what I say with a big grain of salt because I’m just an onlooker, but from what I’ve heard housing is incredibly unaffordable in the desireable cities like Beijing and Shanghai, like $600000 for a 2bdrm when the median salary is $20000. It’s a speculative investment whose bubble has burst but prices are still super inflated.

True for bicyclists and motorcyclists.

We had most of this with Windows 7 and probably XP as well. Those used a fraction of the RAM, disk space, and CPU time for largely the same effect as today.

2024: What are you doing with 16GB RAM and 300% CPU at 5.4GHz?

• Running some random process introduced with Windows 11 that adds literally nothing to the users experience other than heat and fan noise

When I’m on the road, I want to be visible. On my red motorcycle I wear a bright yellow helmet and a jacket with hi-viz strips. The problem is that car manufacturers only offer boring colors and charge an exorbitant fee for a cool color if they offer them at all.

The problem is that if you actually have a fun spirited drive suddenly your insurance doubles because your car is selling your “hard acceleration and cornering” data to insurance companies.

This is exactly the reason why I want privacy in the first place. The surveillance tech kills all the joy and freedom of driving.

One road I drive on frequently is posted 25, but Google Maps thinks it’s 55, which is a silly speed for that road with many turnouts. Meanwhile, the next road over, is also 25 and Google sees that one correctly, but going 55 on that road is nearly natural, with nothing but the road and usually green traffic lights every quarter mile.

That’s why I keep advising people to buy used, and to be able to pay for any expensive toy fully in cash. It saves so much depreciation money, and causes you to not go into debt over an expensive toy.

100 times this.

I think I have a solid grasp of C++ and its manual memory management, but give me a build error and I’ll have zero clue how to fix it.

No joke, I’m tempted to buy a Steam Deck (or true Linux phone) because… It can run a local HTML/CSS/JS app on a browser with filesystem access and audio support. This is the power of having an OS that is not locked down.

Speaking of which, what would you recommend for me to run a local HTML/CSS/JS app on a browser with filesystem access and audio support? (No, Android is too locked down to meet that spec) Other required specs:

• Portable: Can fit in a pocket
• 16GB or more usable storage
• Bluetooth support
• Ideally low-cost

One thing to add is that you should factor in the costs of the games and other console BS. If you want to use a physical cartridge, you have to pay another $80. Then, most games are $70. There is a subscription for online content. These costs can easily go over $1000 in total, and remember a PC can be used for more than just gaming. In some cases, it can be fair to compare a $1000-$1200 PC to this $700 console.

Specifically, this is what the yearly road tax should be. It should scale faster than linear, and be agonistic to gasoline or electric powertrains (since road tax is already part of the price of gasoline).

Never heard of the former, and you don’t need to use porn to fap. Porn addiction is absolutely a real thing though.

Yep. Although it’s hard to abuse fapping because you run out of sperm lol. It can be a big time waster though.

It’s not even nofap, it’s no nut November. The former is a philosophy, the latter is a challenge.

I think people downvote nofap here because it makes some arguments that really stretch the truth and feed into bigger lies. In reality, there’s nothing wrong with not fapping, but there’s also nothing wrong with fapping.

NNN communities also get downvote brigaded, even though the famous Internet challenge is largely apolitical.

All kinds of EVs (especially e-scooters and other small fun PEVs), and computer hardware.

Unfortunately, gains with hardware are usually met with regressions in software performance.

I spent way too much time with Bob’s+Angel’s with SpaceX, 160h in and I just unlocked the final tier of modules and now I need to scale up the whole base to get enough science to make the millions of science I need to research everything.

I haven’t even started Space Exploration (which is very different than SpaceX = Space Extension), but I won’t have enough time to play that before the Factorio DLC comes out…

Why? That’s such a stupid move

I don’t know about Into the Breach but I have BTD6 with no Netflix account