Money probably

Wasn’t sure either, looked it up quickly…

In this context it’s probably referring to Deep Packet Inspection, some technique to determine traffic type, and then blocking specific (Wireguard and/or OVPN) traffic.

Where I’m living a car really isn’t needed, but the picture of having an extension cord dangling from my third floor apartment down to the road is kinda funny.

I guess AC charging would be rly nice to have in suburbia… Especially when you also have solar on the roof.

Do you have any idea what your hardware is actually pulling from the outlet? Maybe it’s not that bad after all?

Mine is pulling around 55W from the wall in its “normal” state. Meaning two 3.5" HDDs spun up, and a bunch of light services running. Which is squarely in “not great, not terrible” territory.

Apart from flipping the power saver switch on the mainboard I haven’t done anything to save power. I haven’t checked if that’s doing anything either. It’s a 3rd gen core i5 iirc, which isn’t great at idle power consumption, so maybe that switch is doing something…

I also haven’t had any luck with getting the drives to spin down reliably anyways, and afaik it’s better for them to just stay spinning so I haven’t bothered much to change that.

Cars also aren’t efficient though? I feel like there could be some compromise.

Buses could also just be like that… Like they actually don’t need to be shitty and crowded.

Hell, people had whole private train cars before automobiles were a thing.

At this point I’m so jaded that I just kind of accepted it to be real…

I just don’t care anymore, he’s shown his true colours and for whatever reasons people still like him.

Ah yes, aren’t like half of Americans living paycheck to paycheck?

Moving across half of the world is super affordable, right?

Yeah but my proper desk at home has soo much more potential for distractions…

Actually getting stuff done is easier when I’m away from home on my laptop, but the ergonomics really suck.

Unless you use ir LEDs that could be mistaken for a weapon.

They drive in circles, so sadly it’s no use…

Sorry I should’ve read the second link too, my bad…

Are those economic reasons? Or disaster management?

The Americans actually tried that with some gas reserves, and as expected nuclear fracking increased yields, but radioactive gas.

So they’re the only country who has nukes themselves for economic reasons…

Only the one on the power supply though…

Back in the day that also was the only power switch. And when the one stuff works I quite like the convenience.

I’m just trans, but I still tend to use the restrooms of the gender I got assigned at birth cause that’s usually less stressful.

So I guess that tracks.

People who are in favour of cars should also do that, who wants to sit in traffic?

It kinda is / getting closer in Europe, people still drive a lot though… And my city has decent public transport.

It’s extra funny because there’s enough space to not scroll the text.

Not really, the writing has been on the wall for quite a while…

If at all it’s the realisation that average people can’t really flee from it.