circuitfarmer

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago

Lots of old cars. You can get 80s and 90s Rolls Royce for very cheap from private sellers. Some late 70s / early 80s Ferraris (like the 308) can be had for under $10k.

Mind you, they're still incredibly expensive to maintain and thus not terribly practical, but the cost to entry can be far lower than most would think.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

This result is predictable for a lot of different things that started as products and seem to be ending up as services.

Microsoft wants Windows to be a subscription service with the associated perks to the company (namely, targeted ads, and also extreme control over anything the system does, including this ad scheme), and so an increased number of people seek a more traditional OS.

The movie industry pushes streaming down everyone's throat as a highly fragmented market where media ownership no longer exists; thus an increased number of people start to return to physical media.

Car companies push to paywall features of their cars behind subscription services. An increased number of people seek used cars which have no such paywalls.

The patterns are clear, in my view, but the C-suite is always driven by a naïve lust for ever-increasing profit.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

Now hiring for an Engineer². Don't apply if you dont have 20+ years experience with LLMs

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

Nah see, the pier can be used for both. Synergy.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago (1 children)

When did it die?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

This pisses me off. Antivaxxers should rot in hell.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago

Streaming.

It's the new cable, in that it sells to customers based on intentional market fragmentation. It's actually a worse, because anything you "buy" on a streaming platform is actually just leased.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Yeah, maybe. Much more system overhead on Windows and the driver situation is different (AMD drivers are now just included in the Linux kernel).

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

Sometimes I will think of an hour and half as 150 minutes

You're still thinking of a pattern -- but there is a conflation between cardinal numbers and proportion/percentage. An hour and a half is 150% of one hour.

But no, that doesn't happen with imperial systems, because there just aren't really patterns to that level.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (2 children)

As someone who regularly plays Arma 3 on a 6600 XT (and on Linux no less), I'm kind of scratching my head here.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 6 months ago

Florida

Checks out.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

Ugh

Love it

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