leftascenter

joined 2 years ago
[–] leftascenter@jlai.lu 5 points 3 days ago

how would this work in your utopia?

Like it did in the US in the 1930-60s. Not gonna reinvent something that has proven useful and effective enough to create a superpower.

Seems difficult to raise capital that way.

Something something banks?

Would you put more large cap projects in the hands of a government? Things like power plants, large buildings, etc?

Power plants are a perfect example of infrastructure that need to be national and not private in order to be technically and financially efficient. Running them for profit either means you end up overlooking safety for profit (see David Besse) or hiking the selling price which is detrimental to both your industry and population.

Large buildings are just not on the same financial scale or are just uselessly tall.

[–] leftascenter@jlai.lu 15 points 5 days ago (2 children)

A desktop running a low usage wouldn't consume much more than a NAS, as long as you drop the video card (which wouldn't be running anyways).

Take only that extra and you probably have a few years usage before additional electricty costs overrun NAS cost. Where I live that's around 5 years for an estimated extra 10W.

[–] leftascenter@jlai.lu 16 points 5 days ago (3 children)

Clean the PC and change the fans. Fans make noise when old.

[–] leftascenter@jlai.lu 48 points 5 days ago (8 children)

I tried it, but ended on heliboard which has glide typing, Floris didn't at the time

[–] leftascenter@jlai.lu 3 points 1 week ago

Why the need for an extension in the browser? One can add max date to any search engine search terms and limit the results too.

Because it's not an extension or a tech tool. It's an art project, in the form of an extension. The purpose is not the tool, but the message.

[–] leftascenter@jlai.lu 22 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The reductions will largely hit product development, internal operations, and customer support,

So HP is geared towards buggy products and shit customer support.

[–] leftascenter@jlai.lu 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Booking is a nice search engine. Once you found the hotel, go to its own website using name and address as search terms, then book from there for cheaper.

[–] leftascenter@jlai.lu 1 points 1 week ago

Yes, with dosbox.

[–] leftascenter@jlai.lu 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Why would a billionaire fund billionaire-eating-and-incinerating ships?