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  • I think the point the author was trying to make is that the "personal" part of PC is what is dying. the profit model for modern tech is no longer about supplying the best or most useful product but instead exploiting users, either to manipulate them into buying more crap or harvesting their data to sell off to someone else who wants to sell them more crap. Even many of the products we buy these days we don't really own. Steam just released a policy statement saying that users don't actually own the games they've purchased, but are merely buying a license to access them. If Steam decides not to support a particular title anymore than poof, it's gone forever from your account. For the most part it seems that if you aren't running strictly FOSS software or pirating, you can't really own anything on your PC aside from the hardware. I think the gist of their argument is not that computing has gotten worse, but that while software, hardware, and user experience have massively improved, the exploitation of the user has greatly tainted that progress.

  • It would be very useful if you were asking the right question. The storage facility from the article has a 750 MW storage capacity (energy) which it can deliver at a max output (power) of 3000 MW/hr Power plant and storage facility capacities are measured in MW since what they are intended to do is supply power at a steady rate. Who cares if you can store a billion TW of power if you can only output it at 5mW/h. It does no good if you can't get it out. Supply is what we really care about here.

  • I think you're thinking of oil filter suppressors. They do require an adapter, but the ones the article is talking about are straight up firearm suppressors, they just don't drill the hole in one end. Otherwise its a complete purpose built suppressor.

  • Whenever a party like that forms and has even the slightest chance of winning elections I will vote my ass off for them. In the mean time I'm gonna vote for the assholes that maintain the status quo rather than the fascist assholes that want to put people like you and me in gas chambers. I'm not happy about voting dem but I am happy to vote against the GOP any chance I get. I do always vote for the left most candidate I can in state and local races but on the national stage we unfortunately have only two shit choices, and one of them is far worse than the other.

  • Its not only trump sycophants that think a wall will stop immigration. There are plenty of undecided voters with little to no understanding of immigration and the policy associated with it. Granted, a wall is a simple minded/uninformed persons idea of a solution to illegal immigration, but that's kinda the core populous of undecided voters isn't it. If you want the perfect socialist candidate to reform US politics I'm afraid you're gonna be waiting a long time, dont let perfect be the enemy of good. We have yo start somewhere and the immigration bill has a fair amount of real and effective reforms in it.

  • No we don't, the wall does pretty much fuck all to stop illegal immigration. However, aside fom the fact its just her signing a bipartisan bill and not her own policy, there's an election going on and VP Harris needs all the votes she can get.The wall is just a shiney thing to distract some idiots into voting for her. When the alternative is a party that wants to "deport millions" I'll take throwing some money at a big stupid wall over the alternative.