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Haven't boomers been drafted to Vietnam by force? Like you had to go there to die, no options.

I think being forced to fight a war is pretty worse than most issues of people that age now.

At least we are talking about young people who live in active combat zones right now. I'm just taking the euroamerican centristic view on the matter.

What do you do for them to break so soon?

I've had two electric toothbrushes in my life. The first one lasted for maybe 10 years. The breaking point was plastic degradation which occluded the internal electronics and destroyed de button to turn it on.

I think could have been repaired with the right materials. The repairability of the brand I buy is pretty good.

For anyone curious the brand is: ::: spoiler Tap for spoiler Oral b :::

The electric toothbrushes are nice but the head replacements are too expensive and I've not find a suitable offbrand replacement. So I end up boiling the toothbrush heads several times to extend their lifetime.

Now I have a interesting moral question.

What's if the nazi baker is the only in town or it's the only who make bread at a price you can afford?

There's certainly a threshold where morals outweigh the desire for a product or service.

It would depend on many factors, I don't think is as black/white as it may seen.

I liked vice city and San Andreas.

Since IV they have been striping features from the games (also IV had huge performance issues). And V is completely bland to me. I didn't enjoy it. And I don't expect much from VI. I expect the same shallowness as V with a different background.

If I'm wrong good from everyone. But I won't get disappointed if it's as boring a V.

No one can predict the future. One way or the other.

The best way to not be let behind is to be flexible about whatever may come.

If not so much about holding purchases. Is about money sitting. With deflation your money is worth more each day. So investment is discouraged. Why risk money if money by itself grow?

In a economy based on investments that not desired.

And there's also the idea if "where this value is coming from?". With inflation all the value from every cent that loss value goes somewhere. That's easier to control. With deflation all the money that each cent gains must come from somewhere (so a few must be losing a ton of money).

I used to get the light prices on my phone widget via a public api. Some years ago they closed the api and started asking for full name and id in order to get api access. So I just made a scrapper that takes the numbers I want from their website and serves an API for the widget.

That's the only self made app I self host, but I'm quite proud of it.

I think in the eu we have some legislation about it. I have the feeling of reading about a law like that before. Subscription buttons needing to be as clear as unsubscribe.

Center spain. Until 6pm we didn't had internet or electricity. But most TPV still worked.

Here is an article explaining why: https://www.xataka.com/servicios/resolviendo-grandes-incognitas-apagon-que-algunos-datafonos-funcionaban-red-otros-no

Basically there's two ways. The SAI of the supermarkets keep them going. Or they had the advanced models that accepted offline transactions.

In Spain credit cards still worked during the outage.

And the proposal for digital Euro already contemplate an offline mode for transactions.

As long as the power loss doesn't last days and batteries die out there would not be a problem with that.

And outage of days will bring so many problems that cashless society might be the less of them.

We can return to a primitive society to avoid dependence on electricity, but do we want that?

I think the best option is just people be prepared with food medicines and offline entertainment for a week in case of a big power loss.

I have several books for the 90s about AI programming. AI have always mean any computer program written to "resemble" intelligence, from basic path finding to LLM.

That's how I suppose it works in every country.

The thing is that many people have other sources of income that are not paychecks. Thus why most people need to do this yearly declarations. But it is true that in any modern country this declarations are pre-made by tax agencies and it's easier to fill.

And there's also deductions. In many countries people can get tax deductions by many reasons and in most places you need to manually ask for them and fill the requirements.

Here for instance we can deduct money paid to Unions from our taxes. As political and syndicate afiliation is protected by law those payments are not automatically reported to the tax agency so if you paid them you have to manually fill the tax return.

This is just right. Massive amounts of corporations have a complete dependency on Microsoft Office. In a way that cannot be substituted by Libreoffice or similar.

Change need to happen. But there need to be a viable alternative before it.

House in the middle of the woods, with internet connection. It's the weird eremite techno wizard life for me.

I mean every historical source is full of one sided propaganda.

Have you ever heard the phrase "history is written by winners"?

What have keep history alive is not Wikipedia. Is the fact that multiple people from multiple POV write things down and we can find and read multiple sources.

Don't get me wrong, Wikipedia is great, but it's not what keeps history more or less accurate. Take into account that Wikipedia is a sum up of other sources. In order to write to Wikipedia you must quote a primary source.

And AI really doesn't have much to do with anything here. Bad sources have existed forever, since Herodotus.

I have rode the bike I had when I was a kid several decades ago. The tires themselves were good just had to change the air chambers.

Maybe they were not good for profesional cycling but for moving around I didn't notice anything wrong with them.

I think is promoted by hispasat. But I don't know if they use their satellites or they hire others.

You can download a collection of thousands (maybe a million I don't even know) of books in Spanish in epub format, from the "secret library". It's like a 100Gb torrent, but way worth it.

Ebooks tens to have long lasting battery. I spent a few hours reading on monday.

Just now I'm on my phone, but if you are interested let me know and I'll try to find the link and will mp it to you if you want.

And just now I've been thinking that epubs being so small size maybe there's a way to transmit them over this radio mesh networks on demand, like some sort of radio library. I've have to look into that. Maybe they are too big for that as radio bandwidth for data transfer tends to be incredibly small.

Just in case you ever met someone who lives in a place with no cable internet (strange case in Spain as we have great coverage). Just let them know that in Spain they fund satellite internet that is not owned by elon musk. Is slower but way cheaper specially because the government funds a part of it afaik.

I started to use firefox back in 2007.

I have never changed back. If someday there's a better alternative I'd switch. But sure thing that chromium based browsers are not an alternative.