If you already have a prepared list then fair enough, but what are you personally doing to take part in the healing of society that consuming mainstream news media helps with? The person you're replying to hasn't said they live as a hermit and don't engage in any part of their local society.
I fully agree that it all seems fucked and there is no point in following anything other than specific tech stuff I'm interested in. Anything else actually important someone else in my life will probably mention it to me. Or the explosion will vaporise me and knowing it's coming won't have helped much.
I'm not necessarily advocating for "consuming mainstream news," more for "not unplugging from discourse." Those can go together, but they don't have to. We still have a responsibility to know what's going on in the world even if we reject certain means of receiving that information.
This is always going to be the simplest answer until VPNs start being regulated or blocked, or there's some mandatory BS age gate in every country worldwide. Which hopefully will be never.
The camelcamelcamel site is always my go to for "is this actually a deal" on Amazon. There's also an extension called keepa that will draw the graph on the Amazon website for you.
You can also make a list on Amazon, then share that list with camelcamelcamel and set your prices and get an email and in the email see if it is a good deal or not. Very handy.
Get your head out of the proverbial, a bullshitting machine that lets some developers do things faster if they modify how they develop isn't even close to the most valuable thing we've ever created.
I think you’re wrong. Consider the following. It’s 1995. You and your next door neighbour Jeff Bezos have both just raised $10mm from competing VCs to build amazon.com.
You can choose to have a Claude API portal to the future where you pay 2025 prices for token inference, or you can skip it, and use 1995 devs to build your competitor.
It easily is, nothing else is even remotely close. Software is the most valuable industry on earth and we are well on our way to fully commoditizing it.
Lot of gamers, and the displays add a few more watts each to the total.
Fermi estimate: 10 million latest Xboxes, used for 1 hour per day.
Power estimates seem to vary from 120 W to 315 W, let's say 200 W including display. That's 2 GWh/day. Probably similar for Playstation, or at least close enough for a Fermi estimate. I'm going to guess similar for PC gaming also.
Smartphones are what, about 1 W? But a few billion of them? 1 hour per day makes that another GWh/day?
So probably about 7 GWh/day for Xbox + Playstation + PC + mobile, 2.5 TWh/year.
Bitcoin is estimated to use 131 TWh/year according to Wikipedia.
There have been see scientific prayers on power us usage snd PC gaming (only) and it comes similar to crypto usage. There are not many things that take tons of energy - heating, cooling, crypto, gaming etc.
Cbeebies is good for a mix of very safe content, mix of education and entertainment stuff. There's some annoying stuff in the schedule (teletubbies, ugh) but most of it is decent enough for square nanny content that doesn't need input from an adult.
I fully agree that it all seems fucked and there is no point in following anything other than specific tech stuff I'm interested in. Anything else actually important someone else in my life will probably mention it to me. Or the explosion will vaporise me and knowing it's coming won't have helped much.