A 50 year mortgage will be a lot like renting. Because the bank will own your shit until you die.
MystikIncarnate
joined 2 years ago
Never did.
The year I turned 40, was the year I moved into my first non-rental property.
I'm living proof that shit is fucked up
Like stocks, and art, they're only as valuable as what people will pay for them.
If you want a shelter, you can use sticks and leaves in the forest and build something halfway decent at least. If you want a building to call your home, pay up dickhead.
Meanwhile, people who should be buying are renting, people who should be renting are in airbnbs or living in their cars, and the family dwellings are owned either by some jerkwad who wanted an income property, or a corporation that just felt like owning more land because they could.
I'm so proud of our society. Such progress! Capitalism is great!
Weird place to mention that. But thanks?
I'm not trying to defend anyone here, though it might seem like that, but I'm not sure why valve is lumped in with this, especially since that's the steam logo.
Steam, as a platform, hasn't released much of anything, ever. Valve has been sitting mostly on the sidelines since half-life 2 episode 2 and HL:Alyx.
Steam itself is just a marketplace.
I get that a lot of publishers on steam will fall into the categories of games that are the subject of the meme, but I have a hard time piling steam with the games that are published on it.
And yes, corporations are not our friends, and all billionaires are bad billionaires, eat the rich and all that.... I'm just saying. There's a lot of bigger, much worse, fish to fry than gaben, valve, and steam in this discussion. That could have been EA's logo, or the Xbox logo (or ms game studios or whatever) or any number of massive publishers that are relevant here. Using the steam logo is lazy at best.
Oh. Yeah. That's not ideal, but IMO, no less ideal than ejecting the heat into the atmosphere as steam or something.... But we do that all the time. Pretty much all power generation relies on making water hot and using the steam to make things spin....
Oh yes. There's a ton of other considerations for sure, I'm mentioning these because I feel like they're pretty significant hurdles to the entire idea being practical.
The design of these particular buttons didn't allow for that. That's usually what I prefer too.
The button itself didn't have any conductive material, it was a small piece of metallic material on the PCB, that when pressed, deflected to connect the circuit. The rubber/polymer buttons just mechanically pushed down on the small metal disc that made that contact happen.
It was easy enough to pull the small disc off of the PCB, but I don't think the process can be reversed, or at the very least, I don't think I'll be able to keep track of the items removed in order to reverse it.
I don't actually plan on replacing the TV at all. It's job might change, from my main TV to a spare TV in the office or basement or something, but I don't think I'll be getting rid of it until it stops functioning.
See, they could meet power demands in space, solar panels are much more efficient in space vs on the surface of the Earth. I don't know that even modern panels are efficient enough to supply what is needed, but the numbers are going to be better than what we would need on earth.
But datacenters? In space? The whole idea is half baked at best. Data center equipment isn't light; and heavy stuff doesn't like to go up into orbit. Then you need to consider how much thrust you're going to need to keep that stuff in orbit.... The numbers just don't work in my mind....
If we had a thruster system that didn't require burning a skyscraper worth of fuel to get into orbit, then maybe? But we don't, so ......
I could maybe see it happening on the moon, because then you wouldn't need to worry as much about your orbit, but then you have at least three big problems to solve, how the heck are you getting the equipment there, how are you powering it, and simple latency.
Getting it there will burn so much fuel that I'm not sure it's a valuable thing to do at all. For power, yes, solar will be pretty good on the moon, just like in orbit, but the moon rotates. One of the faces of the moon is always towards the earth, so when it's between the earth and sun, that face is in darkness, and if you build on the other side, it will be in darkness when it's on the far side, away from the sun. You would effectively need an array of solar that runs a loop around the whole surface so at least something is in the sun pretty much all the time, especially considering the moon rotates every 29ish days. I don't know of any power storage system that's robust enough to store the power requirements of a datacenter for half a month while the moon slowly orbits back into the sunlight.
The last thing is latency. Light is the fastest "moving" thing in the known universe. We have yet to observe anything that can propagate faster than light. Some things can match the speed, but nothing goes faster. The Moon is approximately 1.3 light-seconds away. Regardless of all other factors, it will take no less than 2.6 seconds, round trip. I don't know of many applications for data center tech that is ok with that kind of delay. Super computers, maybe, but datacenters, not so much.
The whole thing is wrought with issues from the ground up. And I'm not even a scientist, and I can see the obvious problems here.
Meanwhile, we have 2/3rds of the planet covered in water, which is basically unused space by humans. It's vast and plentiful, and as a bonus, has built in cooling. Microsoft was testing datacenter stuff at sea and AFAIK, it went pretty well. I believe they've discontinued it since it's still not as practical as land-based datacenters, but the idea is solid at least. Space based stuff is even less practical. I don't see why anyone would want to take on the cost of something like this when there are cheaper and more profitable alternatives.
I get all of the comments here. I understand the anger and distain that so many of you are feeling over the current state of things. I share in many of the frustrations and anger.
But it depresses me that Trump won't run for office again. He will be replaced by someone and the entire pool of former Trumpers will see that person and think that they can do all the things they hoped that Trump would do.
Even if Trump exits office without doing any further significant harm, the people who have made these kinds of revelations, like in the OP, will probably still vote for the same party, in spite of it all. Sure, they may never vote for Trump again, but they'll never get the chance to anyways, so who cares?
This was calculated.
Don't be surprised if the next candidate follows the same playbook as Trump, and don't be surprised if the MAGA crowd falls for it again.
The only way forward, to ensure that this kind of damage is stopped, is to rally together in sufficient numbers to ensure that these folks don't get into office any more. The absentee voters need to get out and vote.
I am confident that the numbers would work out if we could get enough people to the voting booth.
As someone with hands on the larger side, small controllers suck for us too.
The point you should be focused on is having a diversity in controller options, not that any one controller is good/bad.
It is entirely subjective to say the controller is good. Your definition of good won't be my definition of good. Your taste and opinion is just as valid as mine, and I don't impose my preferences on you.
I don't know how big that controller is, since no banana was provided for scale. It could be huge and unwieldy, or it could be very tiny. One size never fits all.
At the end of the day, if you don't like it, don't buy it, and/or don't use it. This is +1 option in the controller space, and that kind of competition is good no matter what opinion you have.