This. Components would be overpriced and proprietary. Nobody wants that.

Building and upgrading a computer really isn’t that difficult. All the parts only fit in one spot. Getting compatible parts can be tricky if you don’t know what you’re looking for…but this problem could strike this idea, too, because there would certainly need to be different generation mainboards whenever CPU sockets or chipsets or memory speed or really anything else on the mainboard comes around.

So such a solution would likely lead to less choice and more proprietary vendor-locked garbage. Just now solely on the hardware side.

But wait…what games are compatible with this system? What games will run well?

This is something Valve has done really well…they built a benchmark system. This is the problem that’s been plagueing PC, imo. AAA games get built for bleeding edge tech, necessitating upgrades…while the steamdeck sets a bar that developers have to be playable on in order to tap that entire market. Could the game run better on better systems? Sure, probably. But it needs to be at least playable on steamdeck.

Nobody wants to ride bikes because everyone in the cars are too dangerous to be sharing the road with.

Nobody wants to put in protected bike lanes because everybody drives.

There wouldn’t be a need for an autonomous car to go on a freeway if we had decent intermodal public transit.

Just have cars like these patrolling the suburbs and picking people up for light/commuter rail, then a hub where you could get within a block of anywhere with no more than one transfer.

High Speed rail if you need to get to another urban center from there.

That’s the dream, at least.

Nobody wants to use public transit, because it’s starved dry. Nobody wants to invest in public transit, because nobody uses it. Everyone just drives, because everyone has cars. Everyone has cars because public transit is terrible.

But I do long for the day that this could pick me up and take me to the bus station/commuter rail stop.

I store all my passkeys in bitwarden so they are available anywhere I have bitwarden. Which makes it tough if/when I need personal accounts at work (like to log into electric company to check outage map).

Vinny Pazienza? The Pazmanian Devil himself?

My phone tells me every night that it’s slow charging and it will be full by [the time I have my alarm set for].

Pixel 8 Pro.

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Back to the Future 2.

Kids think whatever they’re exposed to.

Neither of my kids use their tablets anymore after having/getting access to a laptop. They were a little confused, at first, since the town uses touchscreen Chromebooks for K-1, but they got used to it, since none of my laptops have a touchscreen. Now they view touchscreens as being for babies. Like that kid in BTTF2 with the lightgun…“You mean you have to use your hands?”

My point is, you seem to think that the new way is better, with everything touchscreen. Just because it’s new doesn’t mean it’s better. People thought Teflon and cartridge razors were better too. Turns out they were just brainwashed.

Newer absolutely does not mean better.

This is why we are seeing a return to old household items. People are realizing that Teflon and cartridge razors and Tupperware aren’t really as great as we thought they were. We just grew up familiar with them because that’s what everyone used, so they must be better, right?

This is all because boomers and the “greatest generation” were really easy to market to when TVs came into homes. People weren’t ready for that level of advertisement.

I don’t think we’ll see a return to punch cards, but I don’t see keyboard/mouse ever going away.

Heheh that was my oldest a couple years ago. He’s 9 now but I let him use one of my laptops when he was like 7 to play Minecraft, and it eventually became “his” laptop.

He’s also using Tumbleweed.

He learned how to do all sorts of Minecraft console commands mostly “on his own” (as in, without my guidance, he saw some of the stuff streamers were doing and I explained what it was printed out a little cheat sheet for him and set him off on his own to mess with it. I haven’t taught him any Linux shell (yet), but he is getting pretty good at typing and keyboard shortcuts.

I don’t much care for the streamers. Especially a lot of the Minecraft streamers that pander to kids (cough Mikey and JJ). I don’t allow them in the house anymore. But I’m glad he got some inspiration out of it at least.

Care to name the comic? My kid likes going onto scratch and checking out other people’s stuff, and made a few little animations himself…but the whole thing is a bit overwhelming at first.

The problem is, the real money is in either the data that it acquires or in recurring monthly costs.

Unfortunately, making a good, reliable product with no MRCs and no spying means fewer repeat buyers. Which is especially a problem for a niche community like selfhosters and privacy-conscious. You sell the product once and…that’s it. Eventually the market is full and some people are upgrading but now your product is selling on the secondary market.

This is business in the 21st century. They can’t survive without forced obsolescence, telemetry, and/or MRCs.

And I’m sure most of those people were comparing VHS tapes or regular analog cable TV, or hooking up their DVD player with composite.

Yeah it’s been a long road for me to be fully Linux on my personal systems. I think I started messing with Linux circa 1997 and didn’t switch over fully until I think Windows 7 went EoL.

man rsync
man crontab
xdg-open \ 
  https://lmgtfy.app/?q=debian+rsync+mirror

I like moode for the Spotify connect feature.

I’d much rather use that over Bluetooth to my speaker, if only so that my phone notifications don’t keep interrupting my jam.

I wish I could just cast to it tho. It supports airplay but last i checked I couldn’t do old fashioned Chromecast.

Thank you for such an informational comment. My comment was wildly tongue-in-cheek but apparently it didn’t come across that way.

I didn’t know evaporative cooling was in use or even particularly effective for data centers. They generate a lot of heat that needs to be dealt with. I would think that modern HVAC systems would be so much more effective at that scale. Essentially since most colo facilities I’ve been to have cool air pumped in under the raised floor and return goes up.

Also every colo I’ve been in has been pretty strict about hot aisle/cold management and keeping unused rack units blocked off.

Yeah. That’s recycled.

Water cycle counts.