100% buy for me at HALF this price, which sounds closer to what they wanted to release at if not for the PC components price spikes.

Even though I take an electric bike or electric buses and metros to get to work so I don’t need to burn it to go anywhere myself, but I know that lots of fuel is burned to get stuff to me, from farms and source industries, to processors, to the store.

I do like to travel internationally a few times a year so that really ups my personal carbon footprint and I do expect to get more expensive year-over-year and I may end up going less in the future.

In BC, flexible plastics are recyclable, and I’d even had my prior assumptions challenged by people on Lemmy that virgin plastics formed with by-products of petroleum fuel production (esters) would be too cheap and abundant for recycled plastics to be economical; the oil shock highlights how that may not always be the case.

We’ll need a bit of petroleum for lubrication (machine oil), cooling, jet fuel, a bit gor plastic etc., but we can, even today, replace a good chunk of it relatively quickly and reduce methane and CO2 emissions enough to make a difference and to ride out a shock like this. Synthetic glue took over the need to use animal products for all but the smallest niche of artisans. If electric vehicles, better mass transport, SAF, grid batteries are pushed for mass implementation, our dependence on oil can be massively reduced. Ironically, the biggest oil shills of the world have done more than any environmental activist could hope to accomplish, to show people why complete dependence on oil and fossil fuel is bad.

Personally, the local model seems to be the future for AI within FOSS, and I think it may be refined to have lower usage requirements for a specific capability to run on smaller machines, not sure how much better general purpose models will get but after trying them, I expect modest progress over the next few years.

I don’t trust the large frontier models and the push to build data centers, that’s a grift at the expense of spending that could be useful elsewhere.

I’m lucky enough to have bought a 3090 2nd hand when they weren’t insanely expensive in 2023. I’m trying “vibecoding” on my personal half-finished coding projects. My coding style is poor by most professional standards, but the edits I have had my local model (Qwen 3.8 27B UD Q4) and harness (llama.cpp and Opencode) spit out are reviewable to me, make logical sense, follows my existing conventions and does run correctly. I think it is by default on highest quality, which means writing one function takes 15m to an hour, but I’d rather it be slow and hallucinate in my code less. There are other optimizations I could make to have it run faster, but it’s not a big deal to me. I can code the functions myself in less time, but what I think it is best at is catching bugs and my mistakes.

https://www.techbusinessnews.com.au/news/app-store-age-checks-become-law-in-australia-from-september-9-with-fines-up-to-49-5-million/

Apparently a new legal policy in Australia that mandates app stores there to verify age somehow to access mature content took effect (end of grace period) a couple days ago on Sep 9 2026.

(With Paradox, expect endless DLC additions for the next decade 😅)

Over the various years growing up, I’m friendly with a lot of people, but I keep in touch with a select few from each time period, and they tend to keep me in the loop of the goings on in that circle.

And many of these good friends I am currently physically far away from, I try to make the effort to go and visit them, and invite them over if they ever consider coming to where I live.

Pretty much. Criteria is for you to judge, any post in a shitpost commumity generally have fewer restrictions on topic and it can be a news story.

Sorry I misread. I wonder is poptalk scrubbles is still active? Whatever you consider small I’m not really setting a strict standard

Many people had good suggestions

here were some of my favourites

Did you reply to the wrong comment?

I refuse to ignore you! You’re doing great, keep it up!

That piece of information seems like key context. 1Password didn’t just give money simply because they like the product. More or less, it’s product placement in return for funding.

I’m on the fence if that’s better or worse.

I was thinking of a sort of “bingo board” energy behind the idea, but since the win is making a line which is a little different of a goal. This challenge is a bit more like a stamp sheet, which I guess the bingo board format could suffice to represent. I’ll think about adding that URL.

For sure. There’s no specific way you have to track your progress for it to count.

You can ask the account @[email protected]. not sure if it can handle a Linux epoch time that far out in the future.

I’m not entirely certain. What I have tried is ordering custom massive hot balls of plasma in space for everyone, but I’ve learned the waitlist is a few billion years long.

Smallish and only occasionally active:

• [email protected]
• [email protected]
• [email protected]
• [email protected]

Very Small (~100 subscribers): [email protected] [email protected] - one of the comms basically only I’ve posted to in the last 3 years

How about… Copilot Microsoft Copilot Office365 Copilot Outlook (new) (Copilot web)?

1 person using this software will count as 4 Copilot users in investor metrics, of course.

Uhhh, it’s what I have in my virtual drawer.

Maybe the problem was with the wording all along. Republicans might be able to get behind an American Prosperity Fee (on wealth).