And who’s going to buy anything for this local currency if it starts appreciating? It’ll be the death of economy.

The problem is that if I have bitcoin, I can’t fucking spending it as currency, now can I? I’ll hate myself tomorrow when it’s gone up 2x.

So if everyone has bitcoin, everyone HODLs, no currency changes hands and the economy just dies because nobody buys or sells anything.

The minor inflation in EUR or USD accomplishes the exact opposite: Money keeps changing hands. The rich, obviously, want to keep everything they have. But oh look, if you just hoard it, it keeps slowly losing value over time! Now these rich assholes (along with anyone else who has significant savings) have to invest their money if they want it to keep value or even appreciate in value - and when it’s invested, that means someone else can actually do something with the money.

Might very well be, look at the username.

Introducing vimux, the brand new distro nobody has any idea how to exit!

Wait, do people shut down their computers when they’re done using them?

I know I did on the desktop PC we had at home when I was a kid… But now the desktop doubles as a homeserver (and does that more than it does gaming lately) and the laptop just goes to sleep rather than shutting it down.

“We’ll try anything as long as it fits in our exact worldview and doesn’t inconvenience us in any way whatsoever”

Meanwhile remote-first companies are saving money on office space and can use that to hire more people, while also immediately being greener than a company with commuters that have to worship the concrete temple.

I doubt they want my fun and safe math optimizations either tbh

Oh yeah, definitely.

German cars of the past are the epitome of “durability, not reliability”. Now they no longer have that durability, but have increased reliability in the first part of ownership I think.

My old E-class must’ve had like 700k km or more in reality (it’d been nicely adjusted to <400k km, but some modules showed higher mileage… hmmmmmm) and the engine still ran just fine, transmission shifted just fine… But the power steering failed, sunroof leaked and ruined the sunroof control module, and the parking sensors didn’t really work either… Oh and I had the dreaded injector seal issue multiple times.

Keeping up with maintenance goes a long way towards keeping most cars on the road (unless they’re BMWs, but that’s a whole other story).

Ironically, well maintained BMWs have significantly better durability than Hyundais of that era, just not reliability.

I see M57 engined BMWs doing 500k+ km all the time. ZF 6HP transmissions are pretty good too. Yet the BMW E60/E61 and similar era 3 and 7 series that had these engines and transmissions are considered very unreliable, because everything else around that super solid core breaks down every now and then. They last forever, they’ll just leave you stranded crying when some plastic pipe in the god damn cooling system breaks again.

Yeah, instead of “no one cares about what car you drive” it should be “you shouldn’t concern yourself with the opinion of anyone who cares about what car you drive”.

15yo Hyundai hatchback

surprisingly reliable

You’ve been lucky then. That I believe is in the era of Hyundai/Kia where they’d chew up replacement engines like crazy. But I guess it didn’t affect all engines.

Snow ball method’s great when you’re really up shit’s creek and aren’t going to be done paying everything off anytime soon anyway.

By paying off the smaller loans first, your total minimum monthly payment is reduced quicker, leaving you better off psychologically because you finally have money to spend on food, but also you can then use the extra money every month to pay off the debts with worse interest rates.

Personally I wouldn’t fully adhere his snowball method OR the optimal “high interest first” strategy. I’d first identify the low hanging fruit and then look at the rest as a tradeoff between “how quickly could I pay this off” vs “how much would not having this payment anymore improve my life” vs “how much is this going to fuck me in the ass with interest if I don’t pay it off ahead of schedule”.

Wow, POV is used correctly for a change!

Brave of you to say it on ml where a lot of people support Putin’s goal of restoring the empire.

Most of what an American would call bread, we don’t consider bread. Bread is dark. They don’t really sell bread in American stores, not sure about western Europe.

Our mustard will make grown men cry and your nose runny. Can be helpful when it’s blocked actually.

… You’re American, aren’t ya

Qbittorrent, plex or jellyfin and if you’re into it, the arr suite for automation, all configured in a single docker compose file. It’s beautiful. But I don’t know if it’s as nice under Windows (if that’s what you’re using). For Linux it’s definitely super nice

Thinly veiled Rupert Murdoch?

Bah, 007 did it 27 years ago.

I really wanted Megalopolis to be good, but I never had high hopes for it. I’ll probably still watch it eventually because it has a bunch of actors in it that I love + I’m a sucker for future megacities in movies and games (I’m still not over the fact that they cancelled the Star Wars game that was supposed to take place on the lower levels of Coruscant)

The underlying issue is that nobody wants to develop using any of the available cross-platform toolkits that you can compile into native binaries without an entire browser attached. You could use Qt or GTK to build a cross-platform application. But if you use Electron, you can just run the same application on the browser AND as a standalone application.

Me? I’m considering developing my next application in Qt out of all things because it does actually have web support via WASM and I want to learn C++ and gain some Qt experience. Good idea? Probably not.

At that point you’re running some sort of server on it probably.

For which, it’s not even the most cost effective hardware tbh. There are X86 based tiny PCs for good prices used

Because I don’t want to buy it off Uplay