American culture warriors have decided that their ideology is more important - you see this a lot where their ideology’s goal becomes the “greater cause” worth sacrificing the mission: e.g. in journalism.

And the flat I live in… This stuff does not belong on markets to be sold for profits

But markets are why you were able to buy it.

Here in Sweden they do rent control with the first hand contracts system and it just leads to extreme corruption. So a few lucky people pay ~400 EUR a month in the city centre, meanwhile normally you’d pay 1800. They sub-let them illegally, and anyone moving in from outside the city (no 10 years on the city housing queue) faces an extortionate, unregulated black market.

Markets are the solution, not the problem. We just need freedom in construction too, so supply can match demand.

I never tried the Bose ones, they have great reviews too though.

Yeah, it’s a shame for passing on books I guess - like my dad had loads of books by Hugh Cook, an obscure fantasy / sci-fi author, and they’re out of print completely now.

At least in the future digitisation should stop that completely though.

Kindle - all the books, all the time.

Sony WH1000-XM3 (I guess newer models are still good) - excellent noise cancelling, perfect for flights

Steam Deck - play almost any games, anywhere, and with a full desktop mode too.

In the past I’d have put the Acer Aspire One, I loved the netbook form factor, now I use either the Vivobook or Steam Deck like that.

The Aeropress is also great for quick, simple coffee.

This stops them releasing a more powerful home version though. As SteamOS/Linux will not be able to support modern HDMI2.1 features.

The 2000s for sure - from early online games and MMORPGs to a lot of forums, when Slashdot and Reddit were good, the start of Wikipedia, etc.

There was more optimism around everyone communicating with eachother internationally, and fostering communities. Nowadays it feels everything is dominated by a few big monopolies, and there’s a lot more censorship.

But I don’t think that can manage 4k 60Hz HDR + Dolby Atmos, etc. that modern games consoles have?

The DRM is so stupid - now in the era of streaming you can get literally anything webripped day1.

DRM is obsolete (and it never really wasn’t tbh).

Tell Samsung that for my TV…

This destroys any chance of Valve making an Xbox-competitive home console with SteamOS :(

With that budget I find it hard to imagine you could beat the Raspberry Pi, but please post what you do find!

Splitters!

I think mobile development is best for this. Very technical, but still a lot of products and companies and not quite so spammed with bootcamps.

Pacman (and paru and the AUR) and chezmoi works fine, I don’t see any reason to switch.

The regulators are on their side… government is not your friend.

Sending fake emails with Telnet before Gmail existed.

&TOTSE:

Q: What is TOTSE all about, anyway?

A: A lot of people have some weird idea that this web site is a Bad Place, a place for hackers, software pirates, and anarchists. The reason that they think this is that there are informational text files on here about hacking, piracy, and anarchy.
However, there are also text files on here that discuss politics; democratic, right wing, left wing, libertarian, communist, and everything in between, but this is not a political web site.
There are files on here that discuss Jesus Christ, Muhammed, Buddha, Crowley, John Smith, and “Bob”, but this is not a religious web site.
There are files full of short stories, science fiction, humorous articles, and great works of literature, but this is not a literary web site.
There are files with information on rocketry, radio broadcasting, chemistry, electronics, genetics, and computers, but this is not a technical web site.
This web site is about INFORMATION. All sorts and all viewpoints. Some of the information you will agree with, some you will find shocking, and some you will probably disagree with violently. That is the whole point. In this society we go to schools where there is one right answer: The Teacher’s. There is one acceptable version of events: The Television’s. There is only one acceptable occupation: The pursuit of money. There is only one political choice to make: The Status Quo.
On this web site you are expected to make decisions all by yourself. You get to decide who and what to agree with, and why. You get to hear new viewpoints that you may have never heard before. On this web site people exist without age, without skin color, without gender, without clothes, without nationality, without any of the visual cues we usually use to discredit or ignore people who are unlike ourselves. All of these things are stripped away and the ideas themselves are laid bare.
You will change. You will transform. You will learn. You will disagree.
You will enjoy it.

It’s a shame now the modern internet has switched from anonymity to identity politics, from freedom to cancel culture.

And images in general.

It’s funny cause it led to a whole type of meme (where the bottom of the image is shockingly different) that never works anymore.

Yeah, this post is like “Ghost of Kiev” levels of nonsense.