That I cut a bit of slack for, because prior to the minicomputer let alone the microcomputer, the CPU would likely have been a large component like the whole system is for a desktop PC.

It’s not really complicated, it’s just that companies want to find (or make!) loopholes to shirk their responsibilities.

Yep. Or maybe closer to the top 10-25% based on this articles like this:

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-025-02325-x

Go go gadget defeatism.

We should do nothing because we’re doomed. Better waste everything we can to accelerate it!

I don’t disagree with that.

My opinion is that the top consumers need to cut down and likely more importantly this insane push for “the economy” to be wasting resources churning away and accomplishing nothing of substance. That’s the part that needs to end.

Along with the obsession with having more and more and more babies which will grow to consume even more resources.

Guess we all die then. :shrug:

Not really. Eternal growth is a dumb idea until and unless we can go interplanetary.

Need to find a stable equilibrium for the long haul.

Yes. You could use vlc or even as an iso file just open them as a virtual drive.

CTRL-tilde or CTRL-backtick?

Because it’s a common phrase and because one can accept that people have a name for their deity even if you believe that deity doesn’t really exist.

you subscribe to a belief wholeheartedly, even a crazy one, to the point where youd rather die than question it.

That’s what I said too, which is to say that the point is not the killing but the unquestioning nature of it.

It’d be so much better if that authoritarian fifth would drink the flavor-aid in the sense of killing themselves.

It actually works, without a bunch of insane weird behavior.

That’s not the point of the phrase — the statement refers to the true believers drinking poison unquestioningly, without entertaining the thought that it will kill them.

There are, but “long haul routes” are definitely better for a train.

What an incredibly infuriating waste of effort that would be so much better spent on trains, driverless or otherwise.

I’ll remember that in case I drop it into a boiler.

Well, see, Syria has land they want and people they don’t.

I think it’s funny darkly humorous but read the room, dude.

Which dystopian cyberpunk medium depicted this level of hell? This is echoes of Nazi Germany here.

I’d say it’s both, yeah.

But also user demand partly drives what the employer provides, and some people really like those k-cups.