Refills should be cheaper, but until large supermarkets start doing it there isn’t really a cheaper option. Would love to see aldi have a line of IBC tanks to dispense various liquids. 5 litres of honey please.

Pipe the coolant around yourself so it is more directly cooling you rather than the house. Exactly how is up to you. Could sit on cold a hose pipe, or send it through a heat exchanger with a fan pointed at you. Like a computer water cooling fan/radiator.

Never gets hot enough to need more than a fan here really, but similar ideas should still apply. Cool the person instead of the house. So I’ve bottle or a small heat pump (old fridge, aquarium chiller) to cool water and pipe it around you in some way.

Downside is condensation, but not sure how bad that is if you have low humidity as we are always high humidity.

Anker solix battery and some solar panels to charge it, you could do most of your house off that. Not sure which brand is best to go with but that at least let’s you look up some example products. That gives you a plug and play type of setup for the solar/battery system but it will may cost more than building your own.

How would you reduce energy consumption without using less energy? Not sure if this counts as obviously it is using less energy… Either way, turn the heating down for the house, even more in rooms you don’t use often. Then get a heated blanket or hot water bottle to warm your self up.

Firewood might be a cheap energy source to look at. Heat a bunch of water (or any large mass) with a short clean high temp fire and then let the water keep an area warm for a long time. Like a giant water bottle really, you could pump it through a radiator depending on the scale you want. You can heat yourself or an entire house like this if you want to but that depends on your DIY skills or what quality of workmanship you see as acceptable.

You can get easy to use plastic pipes and quick attach fittings that are very easy to use your self at home. Check their temp limit, 60c seems like a common maximum so I would heat up a water barrel that can take that or more and use a thermometer to check it’s not going over the limit for the pipes. If you go copper them you can go until it starts to boil.

I just hope I will be able to afford upgrading to something made in China.

Always need fresh leather and organ donors.

Targeting civilians can get them to support the war a lot more because fuck that guy bombing us.

Targeting corporate assets, especially if the people generally dislike the corporations? That is far more interesting. I don’t know if there are many good examples of that. I suspect you may see an increasing hatred towards government and corporations from the people while corporations will lobby governments to do more to defend their things.

Not always true. Sometimes things can be free in the hope to get someone to become a customer after using the free version. You also have FOSS which clearly doesn’t see you as the product.

What about non AI slop? Youtube has a shitload of that too.

Depends on the job, I do support for a proprietary SaaS product. Wtf use of AI do I have? They are trying to make an AI support agent, that isn’t me using AI, that is AI outright replacing some part of my job and I have no input in the process.

Using AI to write the ticket feels pointless to me, takes longer to verify its slop and correct it than it does to write a message myself.

“This is broken and we have raised it with the dev team” isn’t a phrase I need an LLM for.

Certainly well enough that jobs have been lost and will continue to be. Increasing the number of people applying to the smaller number of jobs that do still exist.

This will only get worse.

Dies, or is enslaved?

They still exist?

Not played enshrouded in a while, should play again sometime. Ideally play some coop too

I work in support for a SaaS product and every single click on the platform takes a noticeable amount of time. I don’t understand why anyone is paying any amount of money for this product. I have the FOSS equivalent of our software in a test VM and its far more responsive.

What is the point of your comment? Amazon is global and a good way to see an approximate price of something like this, I don’t know where OP lives so I can hardly recommend a specific local shop but I can encourage them to look for one instead.

Welcome to Linux on desktop a few decades ago!

I can see sets of 100 marbles for £6 on Amazon. Though I would recommend buying elsewhere if possible, just wanted to do a quick search.

I once saw one require you to print it out because a screenshot can be edited. They were perfectly happy your you to print the screenshot. What fucking morons make these policies?

While not exactly a war, it may be compared to Anschluss

Edit: If they go for a land invasion, I would replace my suggestion with Stalingrad.