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lack of batteries that need recycling

This is why I would like to see regulation on disposable lithium powered devices. Some other countries are enforcing it finally with all the disposable vapes littering our environments. Easiest method is similar handling to lead acid batteries requiring you to return a battery to buy one, or pay a core charge. It could even encourage people to pick up vapes off the ground so they can go buy one without the charge.

It's going to be a strange day 8-10 years from now (my EV is 2.5 years old) when it comes time to try and get an aftermarket or OEM replacement battery for it, hopefully the larger one from a later model.

If recycling is set up properly the core charge is going to be enormous and make me question if its worth turning in the old battery or repurposing it as home electricity storage.

You can also bookmark audiobooks depending on the platform/playback application.

Some of us keep the worthwhile trash alive forever. This laptop is gonna be twenty years old soon and it's too comfortable of a machine to be tossed to ewaste.

afaik you can do that now on DDR4 platform Mini PC's that can handle 48gb or 64gb DIMM's.

And?

I just upgraded my 2008 Thinkpad R61i to 8GB of DDR2 a few months ago while I was also upgrading to a core2duo.

DDR2 and DDR3 are still in active use by SBC manufacturers.

Cruelty Squad was developed in Godot which means most dev's are just weak /s

With how apple seemed to be caught by surprise when it came to Macbook Neo demand, I'm not sure they have the quantities of SoC's around to handle the demand a Mini Neo could drive. Especially if they could do it for $299.

Ebay and Amazon are flooded with it. Especially if you are looking for anything prior to DDR5. DDR2 and DDR3 are especially flooded with weird brands you've never heard of before.

Unfortunately its not so cheap anymore as everyone ramped prices up of course.

Last year I could still get 32GB of DDR4 for under $60 from chinese brands.

probably get it working for Apple

I've gotten older games running just fine with Whisky/game porting toolkit. Sometimes you also need something to fix old DirectX issues like dgvoodoo2.

If you want to make it even easier you could try loading it via Heroic Launcher which supports game porting toolkit.

(Do note: whisky.app is out of development now that the Dev quit to do being pestered by the community so much)

gamespy flash backs for me.

Typically in the US you get a donor firewall from a registerable vehicle that has the VIN plate. This is pretty common for things like civilian jeeps, chevrolet C10 pickups and a few other American cars/trucks that have complete bodies you can buy in the aftermarket.

For military equipment you usually need the original frame (or part of it with stamps) because it has serial numbers stamped on it for the DMV to go by when registering.

I used to live down the road from a John Deere plant and some of that was just local loyalty and belief in the jobs it created. Or old habits and brand loyalty dying hard.

Our family had ford tractors, ford mowers, and ford trucks until enough pain points added up to cause a change. Now they haven't bought a ford in over 40 years.

There's a reason they all now need digital service books which are locked to their partnerships.

This is honestly one of my biggest fears about the modern auto repair situation. Previously it was fairly common to eventually find service manuals for sale second hand after enough time had passed. Or someone would scan and dump them online. Then it turned into waiting for PDF's to leak from dealership CD's.

Now with having them locked down to dealership tablet pc's I worry they will never hit the public.

The chance that one would have anything important on a floppy that is not already backed up in the year of 2026 must be close to zero.

Except the fact that there is still tons of old un-archived software out there in the wild because we used floppies for decades.

One of the greatest things about the retro computing community is when they buy or find old software they tend to try to image it and put it up on archive.org.

So much software has already been lost to time unfortunately.

There are very few games where the engine is what made all the difference.

Maybe if you ignore the entirety of the retro gaming scene where people are using old engines and modified old engines because they bring along a lot of the feel and expected behavior.

The average modern Unreal and Unity game feels like shit, but some dev's can pull off making new engines behave like old ones we love. It requires a lot of work. Just look at New Bloods catalog of games that pulled it off. DUSK (unity), Amid Evil (UE4), Ultrakill (Unity). Each one of those games had a lot of passion behind them driving for gameplay perfection in the style of a retro game and/or engine.

Rip one of modern gamings best performing engines on older hardware (going by my experiences)

Can't wait for more terrible UE5 games.

FreeBSD support — tested on GhostBSD

Why am I not surprised. GhostBSD seems to joyfully delve into the slop and attract the worst to FreeBSD.

How can we reconcile AI coding a functional X server with the assertions that AI is overrated and we’re in a bubble?

By refusing to use it because the BSD's are my escape from vibe coded hell

It supported my 175hz monitor on a M1 Mini.

Never trust Qualcomm in the linux space. It only leads to frustration. Somehow I've had to learn this lesson more than once because I'm not the smartest ARM addict.

Its the only reason I even pay the $1 a month icloud plan, so might as well cancel it if its gonna be eternally broken.

air quality regulation

This is texas, they can't even form regulations that don't different between counties, or figure out zoning laws in Houston.

also selling digital versions as well, which sell in much greater numbers.

Happy for them, I'll even buy it if it's DRM-free with off-line installers I can back up.

We won't own games anymore

Some of us do because we only buy from non-DRM encumbered platforms like GoG.

Don't buy games on steam, windows store, apple store, etc.

Stop giving companies money for something you don't own.

We must simply raise kids to understand the pitfalls of live service games and how they should never be trusted or given money.

Rip main stream physical game market.

Long live independent physical game market. We already see people with 3d printed carts, designing labels and making their own homebrew games for retro consoles. Some people are also producing their own big box PC games for the hell of it.

As I continue to largely ignore AAA & mainstream gaming companies I look forward to how the indie gaming market takes advantage of everyone's growing nostalgia for physical ownership of games.

Of the data center rollouts I've been contracted to do safety systems for, ALL of them have gas turbines as part of their power infrastructure on property. They don't solely have gas, but they are mixed Solar/Gas every time.

A few of them in the future pipeline swear they will have nuclear but I don't see that coming to fruition soon.

Such a rule should apply to any industrial use such as a new factory, if it is to exist at all, which it shouldn't.

A factory produces tangible goods, and tends to get less hate because of that reality.

Our corporation gives us worthless certificates for "money", that only pay out conditionally based on if the company gets re-evaluated for worth.

Our 401K match maxes out at $50 per paycheck.