The internet is still relatively new. The generations that don’t understand it still govern.

I think the millennials will be its last hope, because they remember the world without it, were young enough to understand it when it became popular and aren’t yet old enough to have forgotten how much more fun it used to be.

If that nostalgia finds its way into meaningful regulations, it’d be nice.

If you think the human race as a collective organism, the internet is the nervous system. Suddenly we have eyes to see and ears to hear, we feel pain through it, we form collective thoughts and organize actions.

We have collective intrusive thoughts and impulses, we store our memories there and we train it to anticipate and predict using prior knowledge and reasoning, as we do.

We need to take care of it and feed it correct information or it’ll become erratic and stagnant.

I predict it’ll be splintered into pieces and from them something new will emerge.

Tech in general is peaking in performance and and so it must differentiate in features to be competitive

Great, now.i have to get a VPN to appear in Germany so that I can use the Firefox VPN

Toner is cheaper if you have a laser black only, lots of pages per refill.

At work I’ve installed 10 color inkjet epson L6460 printers 2-3 years ago and most of them I still haven’t refilled.

They come with 2 bottles of black ink and one of everything else, last forever, will print after 4 months unused if you do a print head cleaning (a few times in a row) and the Epson brand bottles are 8 - 12 bucks each.

For home use a cheaper Ecotank would probably serve you just as well.

You are now on a list.

Trump’s “Board of Peace” is intended as basically official world police and several countries have signed up for it because they want to actively enforce “peace” towards anyone they disagree with.

The UN will never succeed in anything useful unless their resolutions carry economic or military weight.

I assume that’s the same way people felt like in 1980, when IBM released the world’s first >1GB hard drive.

It was as big as a fridge and cost $100k in today’s money to buy, for a whopping 2.5GB of storage.

My astrophotography projects are several GB each, my phone can shoot 4k RAW video that eats up 6GB a minute and it’s all hobby-level.

I wouldn’t mind if those 44TB drives became more affordable in a few years, I’m already saving up for a 24TB NAS.

I’ve been happily sitting on my R5 2600x for so many years now lol. My MB is an MSI B450 Pro Carbon and it can easily handle a 5950x or 5800x3D or whatever.

Add another 2x8 gb ddr4 for 32GB total and I’ll be seeing some insane performance relative to what I’m already happy with, which will last me another 5 years easily unless the mobo dies.

It’s really insane how well designed AM4 is.

Ah, AM4.

At 10 years old, it’s still the platform that keeps on giving.

Definitely. I’d also check to buy used if the price is right.

If you’re into fun technology stuff, a raspberry pi can be a million different things for you.

In Greece they all seem to own or work at big stores that sell randomly branded clothing and low to OK quality tools, fishing gear, cooking pots, gardening stuff and a myriad of random electronic devices like flashlights, LED strips, chargers, selfie sticks etc, all sold dirt cheap.

Some of them learn the language at some point, but most don’t. They don’t seem to even hang out amongst themselves, it’s seemingly isolated families here and there.

They keep to their own and bother no one.

Just go to the house of any cyber security worker, or any sysadmin / IT worker and tell me how many internet connected smart devices you find.

The “S” in IoT stands for Security.