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RememberTheApollo_

@ RememberTheApollo_ @lemmy.world

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    60% of PC gamers have no plans to build a new PC in the next two years — AI pricing crunch on RAM and other components paralyze enthusiast market

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  • Be an interesting rabbit hole to investigate. 40% seems high for people to afford boutique building at retail component prices.

    You’d need to find out what % of the population would build a PC, how education influences that number, how wealth influences that education, and whatever else.

    Probably less than 1% of the population would fit in that actual number of people willing and able to buy and build at current pricing.

  • Why don't they get this?

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  • Rooftops, bus shelters, parking lots, south-facing building facades…lots of existing places to put panels other than glassing over what could be animal habitat.

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    60% of PC gamers have no plans to build a new PC in the next two years — AI pricing crunch on RAM and other components paralyze enthusiast market

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  • 40% seem to have disposable income to be able to afford a decent build at today’s prices. I couldn’t.

  • What's something that you feel genuinely sad about that you've been keeping in for a while?

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  • Sorry man. I hope you can enjoy the time you have.

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    Samsung starts winding down chip production six days before planned 18-day strike — company enters "emergency management mode," daily losses could hit $2 billion

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  • Ah, that makes more sense. $225 is minimal for a “bonus” payout. Thanks for finding a better source.

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    Samsung starts winding down chip production six days before planned 18-day strike — company enters "emergency management mode," daily losses could hit $2 billion

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  • Quick read of the article and it only shows “$” and not ₩. So I assume that means USD.

    That’s a big payout, and it shows how much we’re getting gouged for memory prices.

    E: it’s ₩. Jessica found a better article.

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  • To survive long term in an apocalyptic collapse of civilization you need to already be surviving in a manner that acts like the apocalypse has already happened.

    In other words, if you don‘t currently have all the skills and community to live in a pre-industrial era, like farming (all the seeds and tools, cleared land), smithing (do you have a forge? Know how to make charcoal? Raw materials and skill?), animal husbandry (do you know the first thing about draft animals? Have all the tack and harnesses to put them to work?), a mill, textile making, etc… you are going to die. You cannot learn these things when it‘s too late, this way of life cannot be picked up as things are falling apart. These skills are why communities existed that could specialize skills and trades to make life livable and make it survivable as possible.

    In a full nuclear apocalypse scenario there will be a nuclear winter that will kill the overwhelming majority of the population due to starvation. Radiation related illnesses will wipe out most survivors.

    One cannot solo garden their way through a true collapse. Pests will destroy gardens, food preservation will be an issue, injury could be lethal.

  • What is your favorite media villain?

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  • Or Bester. Koenig did a great job of making that character hateable.

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    Senate unanimously advances resolution suspending senators’ pay during shutdown

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  • That‘s going to be younger democrats. They‘re more likely to be independent women or minorities that probably won‘t have the money or financial backing the typical white male republican will have.

  • time travel

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  • Stone Age, or some form of Scavenger-age in not much better shape than stone age.

    Almost all of the accessible surface minerals have been mined. That means if the production chain collapses everything goes to shit. We cannot mine and refine the materials we need without heavy and specialized machinery. No reboot. The minerals are inaccessible. That machinery’s production relies on a huge amount of materials, from energy to electronics, and the logistical network to put it all together.

    Our production chain is very discrete in a lot of ways. Electronics made one place, smelting another, fuel by ships, food over here, lithium someplace, copper somewhere else, iron from far away, medication over there, clothing someplace else. If the global network fails, that’s it. People starve. The specialized knowledge is lost to make things. Systems fail rapidly. The manufacturing of electronics quits, along with the rest of the supply chain. People probably eat all the seeds for crops. Lack of pesticide and fertilizer, plus climate change, wipes out yields for many. No way to harvest enough or transport it anywhere. Small pockets of humans might survive, but it’s gonna be hand-to-mouth or subsistence farming at best.

    You’d go back in time quite a ways pretty quickly. People living tribally in the more remote parts of the world would maybe survive depending on how nasty climate change gets.

  • I used to love computing as a hobby, but now it feels like it's a source of evil in the world, how have you dealt with this?

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  • Computing itself is fine. I can still do most everything I used to do on my PC pre-popular internet. I have essentially no cloud services on my PC.

    However, the internet itself is a dumpster fire. It always was, except you had to deliberately looking for those places and they tended to be isolated back in the day.

    Of course monetization destroyed the internet with corporations doing everything possible to carve it up and shove their ads and billionaire-controlled media slant in front of you, and their engagement-bait feeding of lies and giving a platform to controversy and stupidity on social media.

    Most all of the good spaces are gone. Very few exist in anything remotely close to their original form, they’ve been corporatized, disappeared, or swallowed up by places like Reddit.

  • An 82-Year-Old Congresswoman Told a Fourth Grader His Teacher Was Feeding Him Propaganda. His Essay Was About Electric Cars

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  • The only benefit to being Gen X is we were shut out by the Boomers maintaining their grip on everything for so long. Oh, don’t get me wrong. There’s plenty of Gen X idiots, too. We were the biggest trump voting group, for instance. (Seriously, my people? The anti-authoritarians whose anthems were Breakfast Club, Raiders of the Lost Ark, or even Total Recall? Hate the system, hate the Nazis, hate the rich corporate overlords?)

  • AOC surges to lead in 2028 primary for first time

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  • Agreed she’s Republican Lite. Socially liberal but fiscally she acts far more like 1980s republicans.

  • Trump Says He Doesn’t Care “Even a Little Bit” About People’s Finances

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  • Always duplicitous. On one side he says he’ll lower gas prices, on the other he just DGAF about people.

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    While refrigerators and air conditioners still rely on gases that can leak, a Cambridge startup raises $10 million to create refrigeration with plastic crystals that cool when squeezed.

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  • Omg what difficult to mine and impossible to recycle material is this breakthrough gonna take?

  • Jucika and the seductive summer

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  • Seconded. It’s like waiting for the old-fashioned newspaper to show up so you can see the next one vs binging on a netflix series.

  • Bambu Lab is abusing the open source social contract

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  • I have never bought Bambu filament. There’s a far wider array of types and colors available to print with online, cheaper, than Bambu’s offerings. It only takes a few minutes to calibrate and save the settings for a 3rd party filament. The only thing it should be necessary to buy from Bambu is replacement parts.

  • Trump Blurts Out Vile Plot to Steal Midterms as Polls Take Brutal Turn

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  • Trump always means what he says. He always lies about what he does or accomplishes.

  • Google

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  • And a whole stack of the exact same wrong answers despite you asking the question five times with the “-“ modifier to eliminate those wrong answers.