Nothing in life is risk free. Who are the fiat debt slavery banking cartel? Are they different to the gold debt slavery banking cartel?

The nominal amount of local currency increases.

I think that one day 'left leaning' (I don't subscribe to left/right rhetoric) subjects of the political continua of Europe and the United Kingdom will finally awaken once again to the fact that they have been duped into making mountains out of molehills, and molehills out of mountains.

You only really awaken to the oneway street nature of socialism when you and the rest of your once pretty good nation is grabbing the end of the shitty stick, for want of a better phrase. That is, after all of your fans no longer have the power to blow because of the doubling down on false premises of war rhetoric and faux-environmentailsm.

I was offered a job helping students with learning difficulties. I thought about the interview afterwards in which they explained that my role would not really be much of an educational capacity, yet the emphasis was to do so in the most basic sense, like encouraging them to notice things and learn through discovery.

I imagine the task would be a similar problem. Technology viewed from the outside is either workable, or seemingly insurmountable for some of us, but techniology is nothing more than discovery and the application of controlling the technology.

I imagine with certain candidates if there was an understanding of how basic technology can enable independance and the value that brings, the spark can be ignited to follow through to operate and get familiar with the capabilities of a device.

If it was my task to do something like this, I suppose I might try a workshop demonstrating some simple assembly of networked devices. If that can be established and enjoyed, build up from there with media or value exchange. Education is so stale, I almost feel this would be the way to go in most scenarios.

I voted for AMD, mostly because it was my surprise that a ~400US it does so much. Was expected some issues with a smaller brand nuc from HK. Minisforum is the brand, would recommend. Maybe the M1 seems to do much better for specific tasks like querying a local LLM. But I have rarely used that.

I'd say for SB computer, rasPi/ARM chips are not bad. Maybe not as cheap as they used to be, and now that there are so many more powerful competitors at the same price. But I just admire the form factor. They still make decent mini servers, lite desktops.

Sorta confused when I listen to these reviews, they seem to launch into it from the angle of a gamer. Still feel I don't know what it is that makes Ryzen win over Intel.

I'm torn between AMD and M series for which seems to be better for my needs (audio DAW, video rendering, compiling software.)

Mostly I find M1 chip is efficient (guess now a 2021 M1 is pretty old) and has never struggled with the modest tasks I throw at it.

Have AMD 6900HX/680M on my daily driver, and I push that a bit more. Seems to use more power and is a bit louder when busy, but amazes me that it can do a lot for the price point.

If macs had upgradable disks and memory, I'd consider a new M series, but don't like that prospect.

In fairness I've not even tried anything more powerful than an N200 Intel, which is pretty good with low power consumption. Maybe someone else can pitch in how i3, i5, i7, i9 run. Didn't some Intel series have some issues?

I'm on the tail of x. I once knew a peer who said he hated the use of the generation+letter terms as a method to group, or to divide, something to that effect.

What do I hate? I don't know specifically what, but the unfettered life and halycon days growing up pre millenium seems to have now almost been completely erased by glass buildings, swiping and inflation.

Going full tangental, it'd be remiss to say I hate politics. But I do hate the erosion of trust that was fostered in community. The misplaced trust in media. The misguided assumption that we should not strive to retain the optionality to maintain privacy, integrity and sanctity of our personal lives and private affairs. That our data should ever be vaccumed up on default settings for the whims of monopolistic quango-cum commercial arms of government, as artifacts for machine learning and surveillance.

/rant

You've gotta love intelligent policies and reasonable governance. I guess Czechia has learned from history how to encourage innovation and regain confidence of its public.

How do you like your coffee? *no need to answer ;-)

That was a good read. Thanks for sharing. Amongst all of the reasons given for the decline of Blizzard, don't think it really stresses the difficulties consumers have from 2000 to today. Not that any of the other things would have helped.

Thanks man. I don't mean to sound like an asshole when I asked that, just discern whether sth is worth readong before I go through I five minute fight with a legitimate tracking fest.

I appreciate it. I'm bookmarking archive! What an amazing thing it is.

Is this clickbait? I'm atlantic-curious ;-)

Good morning. Nice river. Do you know where it is?

Hilarious.

PR.China exports it's carbon intensive steel making, its coal use being at all time highs .. EU protests carbon production, use of it , regulating domestic emission, but buys cheaply made steel, smelt in the many coal-fired furnaces of the PR.China.

Well done EU. Well done.