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I hate the sound of Disk Drives spinning up and clicking

Well, before 2026 it was. Now prices are bonkers and PBS is being defunded.

The catch is: this is 90% of what they will make for the next three years, now.

Why can’t the master race take these guys down?

Hell yeah SDL!

Hmm, I’ve never seen someone directly link conservatism to the entire concept of society.

I didn’t know considering societal conditions was conservative. But I guess conservative leaders in the US did implement a lot of environmental protections. 🤔

Where does the line actually fall, do you think? I assume I’m over extending a bit here. Making assumptions about what you mean.

Nice

How clean is your garage? Do you have one? Just curious.

There can be multiple factors.

People with garages big enough for a nice car that also have it stuffed with things probally have money too. Right?

There are lots of factors that lead to people of her generation ending up like this. It’s really common.

One factor for some people, is not wanting to face how wasteful we are. It’s putting off the reality that it’s all landfill. Just one of many reasons. And I think it might be common with people who are not exactly hoarders, but also manage to hold on to so much.

Sure, they could donate it… but the rationalization could spin up again knowing that’s just another cope, because most of it will go from the donation place to the landfill.

lol, this totally makes sense to me. It can’t be the only reason. But my lived experience tells me it’s not insignificant.

Ok, that makes a bit more sense then.

eGPUs got pretty good support on Intel Macs in the years leading up to Apple Silicon. And that transition started 5+ years ago. And now all Apple Silicon Macs have no eGPU support.

I find it weird that you cite eGPU support since hackintoshes almost always have PCI slots. And the eGPU support still comes from Apple (at the driver level) even on a hackintosh. AFAIK.

Because of this transformation, our sense of who we are is assembled in a strange and tangled fashion. The machinery of ordinalisation attends carefully to individuals rather than coarse classes or groups. By doing so, it appears to liberate people from the constraints of social affiliations and to judge them for their distinctive qualities and contributions. It promises incorporation for the excluded, recognition for the creative, and just rewards for the entrepreneurial. And yet this emancipatory promise is delivered through systems that classify, sort and, above all, rank people with ever-greater precision and on a previously unimaginable scale. The resulting social order is a sort of paradox, characterised by constant tensions between personal freedom and social control, between the subjective elan of inner authenticity and the objective forces of external authentication. It gives rise to a certain way of being, a new kind of self, whose experiences are defined by the push for personal autonomy and the pull of platform dependency.

Sounds like their point is we were emancipated from being defined by our social connections and place in society. This is being done by data identifying our intrinsic properties that exist without our social connections.

This is in line with the west’s (North American) ever increasing individualism. A trend that many suggest has gone too far, and is harming individuals, along with the rest of society.

“Don’t just go with the flow in your community and family! Each and everyone of you have the potential for more! Break free! Buy our product, and show everyone who you really are!”

This is just my take on your question.

You can get devices that connect to home assistant for that too! (Just a comment, not a suggestion that you are doing anything wrong.)

The big reason to make a hackintosh was to use eGPUs?

eGPUs were not supported natively? And now they are?

What timeline are you talking about here? Is it all back 10-6 years ago?

And those were just assumptions about if it was recording. People should make similar assumptions about someone holding their phone or carrying it in their shirt pocket.

All I’m saying is the fact we already have recording devices everywhere (our phones) means the transition into acceptance for glasses will happen. As long as the usefulness of the glasses is high enough.

The usefulness of Google Glass was basically zero. So it went away quickly. The whole project was just intended to be a stunt, so Google could look like they were ahead of the curve. I’m convinced of that.

I don’t think I’ve read a clearer illustration of how red states would fall apart without money from other states. But that’s on me.

Thanks for posting this.

It’s a foundation for future bullshit. I’m sure.

It’s funny how this might seem like Wyoming being super modern and progressive. When it’s really tip of the spear libertarian bullshit.

All they need to do is access one of the multiple backups they have. Right?

They don’t treat it like non-essential data, right?

When your AI buddy actually has your back, and wouldn’t tell on you…