Everybody knew dot-coms in 2000 and houses in 2007 were bubbles, too. But they kept investing anyway, because they didn’t know when it would pop and FOMO is a helluva drug.
Also, something to keep in mind: https://awealthofcommonsense.com/2014/02/worlds-worst-market-timer/
Who gives a fuck what they think?
Because up until very recently that hasn’t been the most likely outcome. In fact, that change is so recent a lot of people still haven’t realized it yet.
When you put it that way, them fucking around doesn’t sound quite as bad.
We’re repeating it because we have a regime that wants to create chaos on purpose.
Don’t even think about getting an inkjet printer unless you really, really need color, and need it often. Even if you aren’t dealing with DRM and price-gouging BS, the ink dries and gums up the print heads unless you’re using them regularly.
For me, color is a want, not a need (meaning I’m not relying on the quality of the output or making money from it), and only an occasional one. But I did want it, along with other bells and whistles like automatic duplex printing, for my “buy it for life” printer. So I decided to go with a Brother color laser.
I ended up buying two used ones from some office getting rid of them on Craigslist for maybe $50? each. The one I actually print with – the other is basically for spare parts – has almost 60K pages on it and is complaining that it’s due for some expensive “fuser” and “PF Kit” replacements, but it keeps working, so I haven’t actually bothered yet.
If your use case is very much about stickers on sticker paper, and you’re doing it regularly and often (not necessarily tons of pages at a time, but not going weeks at a time without printing anything), you may actually want an inkjet rather than a laser. Aside from the images not being as pretty as with an inkjet, the other disadvantage of a laser for you is that because it heats the paper, you might have to worry about paper compatibility to avoid gumming up the machine with melted adhesive.
Color laser printers are expensive, big, and the color isn’t good enough for photos, only colored documents.
I own two (identical) color laser printers, can confirm two out of three. They’re gigantic and the color isn’t very vibrant.
However, they weren’t all that expensive because I got them used. Still not quite dirt-cheap like a black & white laser is, but affordable.
More than 450 current FSFE supporters who use automatic renewal with credit card or direct debit have been affected by Nexi’s actions.
EFSE has only 450 people giving recurring donations (using credit card or direct debit, at least)?! Never mind the payment processor bullshit, why aren’t more of y’all donating?
This comment prompted me to check the gauge of my city’s streetcar, and I am happy to report that it is standard gauge as well. Too bad it only goes down two streets so it’s relatively unlikely that a protest would march along it.
(I kinda need a new barbecue anyway, so it’s still a design criterion to keep in mind, just in case.)
Middle aged American here, and when I was a kid the culture around me regarding france was basically “lol they surrender.”
Copied from my earlier comment elsewhere:
Have an extensive history of military might, from rampaging barbarian hordes, to a continent-conquering emperor, to a foreign legion famed as being one of the most badass fighting forces in the world, and nobody bats an eye. But get embarrassingly outflanked one time, and you never hear the end of it!
a corporate goon
I’ve been on Lemmy too long, because this is starting to sound like a double entendre.
Too bad ChatGPT lacks the self-awareness (let alone any actual reasoning skills whatsoever) to appreciate it.
My city moved up half a USDA Plant Hardiness Zone (7B to 8A) when the latest map came out in 2023. That’s not weather, that’s climate.
It’s not yet been decided what monetary damages, if any, will result from the ruling, nor is it clear if Subnautica 2’s release will be affected.
Sounds to me like fair damages would start with removing Unknown Worlds from Krafton’s ownership.
To be fair, it’s plausible. They might not have wanted a home inspector writing up “low water pressure” as a potential problem. 'Course, the inspector might write “water splashes out of the sink” as a problem instead, but that at least is more straightforward to solve, rather than being possibly indicative of a bigger hidden problem.
Pop!_OS uses COSMIC (a modified GNOME), not KDE.
Linux Mint uses Cinnamon (a modified GNOME 3) or MATE (a modified GNOME 2), not KDE.
The answer to “why not Debian” is that I try to install Debian first every time, but if it doesn’t work for whatever reason I grab Kubuntu instead of trying to troubleshoot it. 3 of the 4 desktop computers I’ve tried to install Linux on lately ended up with Kubuntu instead of Debian.
(For my personal desktop that tends to have a bleeding-edge graphics card at the time of building/installing, that’s understandable. For the other computers, for other members of my family who don’t need the latest and greatest, Debian’s failure to support several-year-old hardware – at least in the installation environment, without fiddling – was less forgivable.)
Yeah, hostile design (or “hostile architecture,” which is the more searchable term) is like IRL enshittification: it’s not just when it’s bad, it’s when it’s intentionally bad in order to serve some goal other than fulfilling the needs of the user.
The most common example is a bench with an armrest in the middle so that homeless people can’t (easily/comfortably) sleep on it.
I already know about it, so there’s no need to tell me.
What’s a better alternative that uses apt and KDE and has relatively up-to-date packages (other than Debian testing)?
I have never heard of any generative AI system capable of doing anything useful with 3D models. If you ever find one, PM me to let me know!