I may be off base but I think that might be referencing what the computer chips are made of…

It’s an acronym, it means “But It’s Not Good”

Car companies won’t be happy until cars become yearly upgrade items like phone companies have convinced us to do with mobile phones

But not as much on the lower end models… That’s what’s confusing to me.

I’ve got a few capacitive buttons in my car, none of them critical, but I’d gladly replace them with the physical buttons in the lower tier version of that car…

Like, how is this considered the nicer option? Hell, I think they’re actually cheaper for the manufacturer than proper buttons at this point…

But sure, I really want to have to try three times to turn the vented seats on because I don’t hit the exact right spot on the pad, only to accidentally switch it to the heated seats in triple digit weather while reaching for the AC knob (which actually is physical, thankfully)

So, if it’s so much worse than the old/current layout, they’re almost guaranteed to adopt it fully

googie can’t help but fuck up good things

Absolutely agreed on that… Got a fair number of companies I’d like to see taken over by the people working them or the communities they serve

Yep, not seeing any downside here, bring on the bling

And bling for everyone!

I see no downside here…

If regulation didn’t work, corpos wouldn’t fight so hard to dismantle them every step of the way. If they didn’t work, we wouldn’t see things get markedly worse every time they’re removed.

And ancap just sounds like all the worst bits of libertarianism taken to their illogical extreme and would produce one of the worst possible societies imaginable so why do any people here not hate ancap?

What the hell are you talking about? Where did I contradict that argument, and hell, where did I even make it in the first place?

I said that it will take far more resources to terraform and colonize another planet than to fix this one. I didn’t even touch on the pollution and use of finite resources (which is also an issue, mainly because of how much we’re doing it)

I’m all for space exploration, we have so many breakthroughs that are usable here on Earth through it that not doing it at all would be foolish. But you’re kidding yourself if you think we’re going to succeed in leaving.

This planet will be our grave, sadly. We might, if we’re very lucky and can actually change what we’re doing finally, make that be a very distant thing.

But settling another planet, as much as I would absolutely love to see it, is likely never going to happen just from the sheer logistics of it, not to mention the fact that we still haven’t managed to build a self sustaining and isolated ecosystem that can support humans indefinitely on this planet, where we can truck everything to the site rather than have to shoot it into space a tiny amount at a time and then have it spend 9 months to 2 years to reach the nearest planet

And unless we want to save a tiny population living under domes, we’d have to extend that to an entire planet that’s far, FAR further from our target than this one which already sustains life, and which doesn’t have a magnetosphere in the first place so even if we managed to give it a thick enough atmosphere with the right blend for us, it’ll simply bleed away into space anyway.

And unless you’re thinking of going to the hellhole that is Venus, the next nearest potential candidate is probably going to be one of the moons of Jupiter, which have plenty of their own issues.

We need to leave the planet? For where?

For a planet that’s completely incapable of sustaining life?

Do you realize that it’ll take many, many orders of magnitude more resources, time, and effort to make literally any other celestial body within several years of space flight of us capable of sustaining life than it will be to fix the habitable planet we have right here?

We’re not getting off this rock without stabilizing it enough to sustain us long-term first. And by then, we won’t need to leave. Either way, though, evacuating isn’t a viable solution.

And if you don’t believe me, go talk to some biologists.

Completely off topic, but I sang your username in my head… It really is weirdly catchy…

Password recovery is itself a weakness in the system

And I did call myself paranoid for it…

This is why I switched to Bitwarden, will probably move it to self hosted at some point as well

I’ve started putting mine into my Bitwarden vault as well as Google auth, mainly because I’m a bit paranoid I’ll wind up locked out of something by trusting a second factor too much

If you’ve got an external USB drive bigger than the laptop’s, and are willing to take the time, you could back it up by making a disk image with Clonezilla so you’re sure you have a backout option if you run into too much trouble getting Linux working

Where at? Not finding any that low on Amazon

Climate scientists: “do these things to fix climate change”
Everyone: “but that’s HAAARD and I don’t wanna!”
AI developers: create AI
Climate scientists: “AI is drawing massive power accelerating climate change, we need to stop that”
Everyone: “but it can tell us how to fix climate change so it’s going to be okay!”
AI climate model: “do these same things to fix climate change”
Everyone: “but that’s HAAARD and I don’t wanna!”

Yeah, I can’t see any way this could possibly fail…

And exactly where do you propose they talk about it and actually have people see it?