holy fucking shit. I once programmed a mouse driver for an 8 bit computer with 32kb of ram. I don’t remember the exact size of the compiled driver but it was under 1kb.
Today’s tech companies probably couldn’t even figure out a way to make a hello world in python without it needing 100gb of storage, an Intel Core9/AMD Ryzen 7000 or better, an internet connection and an online user account.
No, but all the conservative evangelical “but suffering brings us closer to God” waste of space type people that want to live in the 1940s sure are having a hell of a hurrah though.
As long as they are becoming a dictator to enforce an ideology I believe in, absolutely. I’d definitely seize this opportunity to go after my enemies as well. The “golden rule” is treat others how you want to be treated and I’m sick and tired of being a punching bag, so it’s only fair.
The time to be nice about the state of our broken society ended a long time ago. The enemy gives no quarter and they won’t stop until we’re all slaves working for less than basic needs in return. If I got my way via S/O proxy dictatorship, life is going to massively improve for the average person anyhow.
If they were becoming a fascist, what else would I do, execute a double cross, steal some nukes and wreck havoc? I’d try to manipulate them into letting me life an easy life first but if they actually expected me to live like a evangelical conservative idiot, that ain’t gonna happen so cowabunga it is.
There kind of… isn’t. I’ve been battling heat with extreme prejudice my entire life. MAYBE the closest thing to a solution is to drink lots of ice water and then hopefully you’re not one of those people who can’t sleep if its hot (i am).
Try to “store” as much “cold” as possible. i.e. if you have a half working a/c unit, run it at 100% at night and once the temperatures get as low as they’re going to get, close all the windows, cover the windows, unplug fridge or whatever is producing heat you can afford to shut down and maybe if you’re lucky it will be around 1 or 2 pm before it heats up to utter bullshit temperatures.
If you have a way to get unlimited free ice (IMPORTANT: and NOT from the fridge in the living space you are trying to cool), you can use that to cool things down in the evening when everything is the hottest. If you have to buy the ice, just buy a ac unit because it will pay for itself in no time. And if you’re doing this because you can’t afford the electricity, maybe see about wiring up a solar panel and battery which, again, will pay for itself if you could’ve afforded to literally buy bags of ice every day. And if you’re doing this to protect the environment, get a ac unit that doesn’t contain ozone-layer destroying coolant (i.e. most of them). Buying ice for cooling is incredibly inefficient.
You can also take the ice-based cooling strategy further. Get a bucket. A fan. A big radiator (you need quantity(sq area) not quality, get a shitty heater core one and not a pc watercooling one). A pc watercooling pump. Some tubing, along with whatever barb fittings and pipe clamps you need. Make it so that the radiator is sitting in front of a fan while having water from the bucket being pumped through it. Add your ice to the bucket. This system will dump the “cold” from the ice into the room as quickly as possible, MUCH quicker than just setting the ice in front of a fan to melt by itself. If you actually have a truly unlimited source of ice this will provide nearly the same amount of cooling (while the ice is fresh at least) as an actual window ac unit. I do this irl sometimes and usually keep one mostly set up and ready to go just in case my a/c stops working.
It’s going to take time to find a cheap or free radiator if you’re living like this for financial reasons but bending some copper tubing around the fan also works decently. If you buy it at the hardware store its likely going to come coiled up in a box and already in the perfect shape for this.
At a certain point, obtaining the amount of ice you need to maintain this becomes a problem. If you REALLY don’t want to buy an ac unit at this point as maybe some kind of personal challenge or whatever, its time to science the shit out of it. Get a refrigerator. Put it outside, as leaving it inside will dump heat into the room defeating the purpose. Mod a bucket into the fridge and run 2 tubes out of it: an input and an output. Run this tubing into your living space somehow and into the radiator and the fan. You could alternatively put the fridge inside and find a way to attach a duct to the back of it to vent air outside which is may be more convenient depending on your living situation. Congratulations. You’ve built an a/c unit without technically actually building an a/c unit. Maybe in some countries this helps for tax purposes. I’ve never tried going this far with it before saying fuck it and getting an a/c unit so post pics if you do.
Frankly, I agree. I just want health insurance, weed to be legal and I want for employers to be stripped of some of the freedoms they are abusing to destroy the economy and this country as a whole. I don’t give a fuck who they bomb in the middle east in exchange for it. I just want to be able to live my life. Too bad not enough people voted blue no matter who.
Maybe not the right community to be posting this kind of thing, but I agree. (im just here because it was in my all feed) I mean if we all stopped having kids then the government and corporations would either be forced to start treating us better, or humanity would die out which is probably a win/win. Additionally, people who have a lot of money and think they can afford it sure are betting big time that life won’t get harder or worse later on. I used to have a good job. I am much worse off today than I was 10 years ago. It can happen to you too.
Overall, people should be free to spend their life doing whatever they want but it’s my opinion that rewarding our overlords with more children is the morally wrong thing to do until and unless life gets easier for regular people, not just the rich. Having to compete with people with masters degrees over jobs that pay $16/hr is a crime against humanity. Either fix it or send the nukes already but for fuck sake anyone who wants to “conserve” any of this can go fuck themselves.
the catch is the 2 years of maga rule that must happen first before anything can be put to a vote. Remember when the Florida state legislature set the pass threshold to 60% instead of 50% on all ballot amendments because they feared a marijuana amendment might pass some day? They’re openly not even doing democracy anymore. The apathy towards this when it happened was astounding its like no one was even upset about it. I don’t even live in Florida and I’m still seething about it.
By the time 2026 comes around, if Florida ballot measures are still a thing at all there will probably be a special provision to ban marijuana related ballot amendments.
I kind of wonder this sometimes too. Maybe not from an organ harvesting standpoint but enslavement. If I were captured/kidnapped and became a sex slave or a scam call center slave or something, my #1 goal would be to escape and if that’s not possible, go on a violent rampage and murder as many of my abusers as possible before they kill me (they’d just kill me when I outlive my usefulness regardless) and if that’s not possible, the s-word, as a last resort. Does this type of thing happen more often than they make it sound? Perhaps they are really efficient at going after the families of victims that don’t fully submit which keeps victims in check? Maybe victims are kept in holocaust-like conditions so they aren’t physically capable of anything in the first place, but then they wouldn’t be capable of work, so idk.
Human trafficking disturbs me enough that I try not to think about it.
yes but it was improving peoples’ lives by giving them an escape that doesn’t involve suffering and a hangover. Can’t have that in this Christian nation. Happiness isn’t a human need.
I wish there were more effective ways to fight with, fuck over and discriminate against people who support the war on marijuana. These dipshits seem to always get their way.
I thought about posting that here but decided not to because its too far-fetched and absurd ¯_(ツ)_/¯
Computer engineer here (well I have a computer engineering degree and have worked on several computer engineering projects at least). The only point of fucking with an i486 in 2025 for reasons besides “vintage computing” or playing MS-DOS games is that it’s probably the most powerful cpu that can still run on a cheap 4 layer circuit board. This cpu is also simple enough that a i486 chipset can be DIY’ed without ball grid array components. Electronic devices with 4 layer circuit boards are less susceptible to getting ruined by tariffs because they can be manufactured for a reasonable price in places besides just China. Ball grid array components require specialized equipment in order to put them on circuit boards. The easier surface mount (quad flat package) chips required to build a viable and performant i486 motherboard are simple enough that all you need is a cheap soldering iron and a steady hand to solder them onto a circuit board.
What I’m getting at is that prior to them dropping i486 support in Linux, it was possible to use cheapo microchips from Mouser, connect them to i486 cpu and singlehandedly DIY a modern-Linux capable computer, in theory at least.
With Linux dropping support for i486, the bar is now much higher. It’s still possible to completely DIY an ever more powerful, non-i486 based Linux-capable computer yourself if you REALLY know what you’re doing (and people HAVE done it).
I wanted to build one just for fun and maybe to use it like super high performance arduino but now there’s a lot less of a point so meh.
I don’t know, but I know of one thing citizens SHOULDN’T do to prevent their country enabling genocide. That is forfeiting their future by electing a dictator that might genocide poor people on the other side of the world a little less in exchange for giving up freedoms. I get it. Voluntarily making our lives worse/harder because it might help poor people in another country sounds like a grand and noble thing to do. But now they’re sending American citizens to concentration camps. If you think this was a fair trade, just block me right now. Don’t be like gen Z and swing voters in the 2024 US election. Sometimes you just have to choose to save yourself first.
I would say yes. Personally it is kind of against everything I stand for to pay a corporation for ai. With that being said: the only reason I personally have not yet set up a completely ai-driven self-hosted lan forum or lemmy instance meant to simulate the Old Skool ™ days of the internet is because a) none of the forum software has an api that’s worth a damn (phpbb for example. gnusocial is also lame and stupid and impossible to work with) and b) lemmy instances are actually pretty difficult to both set up and get ai bots to operate with.
I could definitely hack up some diy python-bottles or django thingy in less effort than it would take to actually pull off any of those other approaches but I currently have marginally better things to do with my free time so it will have to wait.
If I ever finish the mountain of “more important” personal projects I have then I probably would eventually get a completely fake self-hosted self-made ai social media hackfuck.
please no. If we elect another fascist in the off chance it might help Gaza i’m going to go fucking postal.
voters threw away their future so they could “help” the poor people in Gaza from getting bombed by “the evil democrats”. I SWORE UP AND DOWN voluntarily making things worse for us because it might help some poor people on the other side of the world was the wrong move and I was vilified for this opinion by everyone in existence.
Now Gaza is still getting bombed and they are additionally committing war crimes against American people instead of just Gazans. Fuck me. Even feral animals have the ability to watch out for themselves better than this season’s swing voters did.
How about do literally fucking anything to make it possible to work in exchange for a living wage, huh? I hope these fascists get sent to concentration camps themselves in the end they fucking deserve it, unlike the Jews did.
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