Wow. This is another level of doomscrolling. Very educational though

Please DM me, I need to know

Old Laptop actually sounds interesting to me, very nice form factor for my “inside the bookshelf” approach, but probably a lot of tinkering.

How do thin clients compare to a pi 4? I’ve heard most of them are worse in computing power and efficiency in comparison to the Pi.

Thanks for your detailed response. I thought about an old office PC, but I guess they’re not even close to <10W idle.

Another quick newbie question: What do you need PCI Slots for? Many SATA ports for Drives makes sense to me, but why PCI

Thank you for your super detailed response. That’s a lot of information 😅 Talking about codecs is only applicable to torrenting, right? (I’ve never seen a streaming site talk about the codecs they use).

I don’t really mind paying a bit (and hopefully supporting the creation of new media), but it’s unbelievable that Disney+ butchers a lot of the most memorable Pixar scenes, with terrible compression. (When a lot of snow, confetti or other particles are on screen).

PS: I live in the EU, so I’m not signing away my right to live by subscribing to a streaming service. WTF is going on on the other side of the atlantic. I can’t even believe what a capitalist nightmare some call the United States of America.

Thanks 👍

Do you have a favorite torrenting site?

Actually Hunter Gatherer Tribes spent just around 4 hours a day hunting and gathering. Including food preparation and consumption they spent 40 hours a week wich is less than modern humans (if you count work + cooking)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Original_affluent_society

Of course hunger, famines, illness, suffering and death were frequent occurrences (so I wouldn’t want to switch places), but for most of human history we had enough time and recourse for random shit like socializing, drawing, singing, dancing, sacrifices, worshipping gods and so on.

Is it just because I’m high, or is this Markus Söder as Shrek?

I really hate cars, I do. But I think in rural Finnland they actually might be the only viable means of transportation

Don’t know how credible this article is, but I will post this just in case: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/27/us/politics/trump-votes-christians.html

Chat GPT basically answers “humans are influenced by their surrounding far more than we are aware” wrapped in sci-fi:

"One intriguing idea that might challenge current human understanding is the concept of “Meta-Consciousness Interference.” Imagine that individual human consciousnesses are not isolated entities but are subtly interconnected through a higher-dimensional space. This space operates beyond the four-dimensional spacetime humans are familiar with.

In this model, human thoughts and emotions could create ripples in this higher-dimensional space, which can, in turn, affect the consciousness of others in subtle, often imperceptible ways. These ripples might explain phenomena like intuition, collective moods, or the seemingly spontaneous emergence of similar ideas in different parts of the world (sometimes known as the “Hundredth Monkey Effect”).

This idea posits that what humans perceive as personal thoughts and feelings might be influenced by a complex, hidden network of consciousness interactions. Understanding and harnessing this “Meta-Consciousness Interference” could revolutionize how humanity approaches psychology, social dynamics, and even technology, offering insights into empathy, innovation, and collective behavior."

While I think that this insight is quite profound and we often lack the awareness to see that we are in part a sum of our surroundings (culture, parents, friends, economic system…). I don’t think it is as revolutionary I hoped it would be.

Thanks, now I’ve got that cavetown song stuck in my head :)

Ecosia is also down, so I guess Bing has gone bang

Honestly it’s fucked up how our school system treats children. We need to talk about racism but also about how children are not to be seen as some sort of human clay that we need to form into whatever we see fit.

Can someone explain why this shark is so popular in Internet culture? I even saw an IKEA ad meming about it and I just don’t understand 🤷

Thanks for your kind words, but I have grown in the last few years ;) Today I would never ever want to get famous fast. I think it’s very tough to find any meaning and contentment for people that got famous “over night”

I remember when Billie Eilish got big with her album at age 17 and I felt so crappy still making bat shit music at 18

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I think pay what you can/want is a great concept, but calling it donation is kinda misleading