Yup, that’s my dream too. I’ve started working on something like that, but it’s far from production quality. I hope someone beats me to it, because I haven’t been making near enough progress.

How well does that work though? My understanding is that there are still quite a few caveats, but it’s been a while since I actually looked into it.

If it’s an older x86 model, just install Linux on it.

I’d be interested in a “payback period” for modern chips, as in, how long the power savings in a modern chip takes to pay for its manufacturing costs. Basically, calculate performance/watt with some benchmark, and compare that to manufacturing cost (perhaps excluding R&D to simplify things).

Simple, we should all become Mentats!

Just go to Lemmy.world and try to criticize Kamala Harris and see how it goes.

I’m sure I have. I don’t pay close attention to which instances I post on, and I’ve certainly criticized Kamala Harris, perhaps more than Donald Trump, because there are so many posts from people who are obviously on Harris’ camp spreading disinformation and very few in the opposite direction.

Don’t get me wrong though, I despise Trump and believe he will be worse for our country than Harris, I just disagree that Harris is “good” in any sense of the word. She’s mediocre at best, and was dead last on my preferred list of presidential candidates in 2016 for the Democratic Party and Biden wasn’t much higher (Trump was dead last for me on the Republican side). My state is going to elect Trump, regardless of how I vote, so I’m voting third party to signal that I’m unsatisfied with either option. I voted for Biden last election though, because I thought he had a chance of flipping my state (I’m in Utah, and people here generally dislike Trump). But no, he lost by ~20% like most elections here, and Harris is even less likeable than Biden.

I, even as a non-tankie leftist

For reference, I’m a left-leaning libertarian. I support things like UBI/NIT, with the argument that it’s better than our overly complicated welfare system, which is hard for the people who need the benefits the most to actually use. I’m less motivated by “taxation is theft” and more motivated by “less is more” when it comes to government (i.e. I’m fine raising taxes, if it means government services are less complex/subjective).

So maybe I’m a bit less welcome than you, because I tend to push back on the general idea of “more government = better,” which seems to be pretty common among “tankies,” and I’m generally pretty skeptical of government in general. That said, I tend to restrict discussion to things we may be able to make progress on (i.e. UBI/NIT, abortion policy, etc), but even then I get a lot of pushback because I don’t agree with the underlying assumption that government is good.

Can I go to these spaces and offer a respectful dissenting viewpoint?

No, you’ll likely get banned.

I also appreciate alternative perspectives, especially if they can back it up with solid sources. I’ve consistently pushed against defederation on my own instance because I think seeing their posts has value. However, in many cases they’ll brigade posts to drown out topics they don’t like, or if it’s on their instance, they’ll push for the users to get banned.

I have friends from Iran and India, and I have a family member to lived in Kazahkstan for a couple years, so I’ve heard of it, but I couldn’t tell you very much about it. Just roughly where it is (east of the Caspian Sea). I couldn’t even tell you confidently what the climate or geography looks like, just a rough guess of “probably similar to Afghanistan?”

I somewhat agree, but I do think there needs to be some form of moderation.

I’m interested in individual-directed moderation, where you can pick your own moderators and have your feed be altered based on how people you trust have moderated content. My issue with moderators isn’t moderation itself, but with biases that I disagree with. If I could swap the moderators of my favorite communities, I think I would have a better overall experience.

Not in my state. In fact, you can’t even show underboob, because anything “the female breast below the top of the areola” is illegal. It’s legal in Alaska and a super conservative neighbor state, so why not my stupid state?

I played a bit of Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice last night for Halloween, and it definitely has that spooky Halloween vibe. Definitely check it out if you get a chance.

I’m not going to say it’s my favorite Halloween game (that goes to either Grim Fandango or Costume Quest), but it has been a worthwhile experience so far.

If you don’t like lemmy.ml, you certainly won’t like lemmygrad or hexbear.

Came here to say this.

I like me some horror games around Halloween, but this is by far my favorite actual Halloween game.

I do it because I know the NSA is listening. Hopefully a little politeness will keep me off the watch list.

t was a guarantee of having lack of identity frauds

I don’t think that’s true, it’s just indicative of someone who’s more stable. That said, I can put down anyone’s addresses and have mail sent to it, my family does it all the time (e.g. my SIL just got married, and they sent their combined bank statements to our house while they were finding a new apartment). All it means is that you can receive mail at a certain address, and that can be as simple as knowing the mail schedule and getting to the mailbox before the residents do (or going through their trash the next day if you miss it).

It’s technically illegal, but I’ve never heard of anyone getting charged w/ accessing someone else’s mailbox… So it’s a pretty low barrier for someone actually committing identity fraud to clear, and a pretty steep barrier for someone who is homeless.

some capitalists, both in business and in politics, encourage us to put our faith in future carbon capture

Sure, and others go completely against that and call it for what it is, because they have different profit motives (e.g. green energy companies). Legislators will do something in the middle, because they have other motives (i.e. campaign donations and appealing to constituents to retain their seat). That’s why it’s important to be an informed voter and voice your concerns, so legislators can decide which side to listen to.

Carbon capture should absolutely be something we do, but it shouldn’t justify expanding fossil fuel energy production, but instead help clean up what we have as we reduce our reliance on fossil fuels, which can extend the investments we’ve already made (for legislators, this means fewer people losing their jobs). Any solution we come up with will be a balance between immediate economic impact and longer-term economic and ecological impact.

In many cases, we prefer to pick the option that’s more expensive, but isn’t needed right now, and that’s for two main reasons:

• we’ll probably come up with new approaches in the future
• minimal rocking of the boat - big changes cause people to lose their jobs, which can change voting patterns

In any case, once we reduce emissions to something sustainable, the problem largely simplifies to spending money, and it’s a lot easier for legislators to spend money that make significant changes to our everyday lives. So as long as we can delay the worst of the impacts as people gradually adjust to more sustainable living, we can probably spend our way out of the ecological debt we’ve built up.

I don’t like it, but that’s the way things tend to work.

Why would they let bodyguards use tracking apps? Are we really that bad at opsec?

Exactly, which is why I don’t get the point of this article.

Yeah, even after we get emissions under control there will still be problems, and we’ll tackle those when we get there.

And since I have young kids, I don’t play with my homies much anymore. So single player and couch coop (with kids) it is.

Reminds me of this, but in reverse:

https://youtu.be/_0tVlLZLzeo?t=308