Who is they? Where did capitalism make this announcement? Who was the representative of Capitalism that said that it is okay to crash the world economy?

This sounds like conspiracy nonsense.

You just threw out an insult and didn’t actually make a point so I’m not sure how to even respond.

It looks like you’re suggesting that RAM should grow only at the pace of inflation and any deviation from that is due to greed? I hope you mean something deeper that I’m just missing your point because I find it hard to believe that you’ve ever taken an economics class if you don’t understand how prices can grow faster than inflation.

If you understood economics you’d know that when the aggregate demand for a hot-ticket good (like RAM) shifts rightward faster than aggregate supply can respond, because of short-run capacity constraints (i.e. Samsung can only manufacture RAM so fast), the market-clearing price must rise beyond the economy-wide inflation rate to re-equilibrate. This demand-pull premium reflects the good’s low short-run price elasticity of demand. Quantity-adjustment is inelastic, so the burden of rationing falls disproportionately on price.

In other words, when an item is in demand the price rises. It can rise faster than inflation because the demand for RAM grows faster than the demand for all of the other goods and services. Since inflation is a measure in the increase in prices across all goods and services, any product that experiences a sudden increase in demand will necessarily see a price rise in excess of inflation.

Benn Jordan has some other ideas too(and a bit more detail on the mesh technologies/DIY options available): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_F4rEaRduk

Yeah, exactly. You could glob with find to locate the directory, store the path in a variable and then pass that to stow.

I’m not sure what you have to do to make Firefox acknowledge the profile, but I believe it simply enumerates all of the folders in the directory and displays all that are valid (but definitely double check on that first).

1. Natural Gas is still fossil fuel.

2. Ok. You still have to push electrons and also not destroy the global climate.

3. As much as you think it is BS, datacenters exist and they are attached to the same grid as your house, so if you don’t want the power to your house to go away then the grid needs more generating capacity. Unless you want to live under the ocean or in a desert then that capacity can’t produce CO2. The only options which generate power are renewables and nuclear. Solar and Wind cannot provide baseline power generation and the renewables that can provide baseline power (hydroelectric, for example) are limited in where they can be deployed.

So what power generating source exists that can generate baseline power, doesn’t produce CO2 and can be used without specific geological formations?

Now you’re suggesting a price fixing conspiracy among the two largest RAM producers, that’s quite a big claim so you surely have pretty solid evidence to support that position.

Being cynical isn’t evidence and calling people names isn’t evidence.

We don’t talk anymore, he’s a Red Hat now.

Yes, that would be true if they had a true monopoly.

However, in an open market when a producer offers their goods for higher than the market rate, another producer can steal their business by simply offering the products at market rate. If Samsung decides to try to price gouge then customers can buy RAM from Micron, the only time that this isn’t possible is if there is more demand than their is supply (i.e. Micron has no stock) in which case, microeconomics tells us that the market price will increase.

It’s more that people want to be outraged and feel self-righteous and also the outrage bots are happy to oblige with deceptively framed stories and social media comment fabrication.

I could be wrong, and there is some evidence that Samsung is doing something shady. I think I’d know about it if it were public because I work in an office that manages large investments so news like a massive company manipulating prices would show up in the various information services that we use.

I mean, the claim that they’re exploiting a situation is unfounded by evidence.

Anybody who is even remotely paying attention could tell you that RAM, GPU and Storage prices will increase.

If you think the prices are increasing faster than supply and demand then I presume that is based on some data and not just social media vibes. I’d be happy to look at any evidence that may exist.

People being angry, even in large numbers, doesn’t make them correct. If you just glance at politics you’ll find that it’s very easy to make a lot of people very angry about something that isn’t true.

That is true, but also not what is happening.

My father used startx and his father before him, so I reckon I’ll use startx too (aliased to systemctl start sddm)

I think the move here, based on recent events, is to hire an AI to do it then fire everyone else and complain that it isn’t built yet.

Stow has no “glob for target” option, so you can’t do *.profile.

You could write a script that, when you’re deploying a stow, symlinks the profile into the right location. You’d have to remember to run it in the future so create a README file and include the instructions.

The comments in here are starting to look like Reddit with the conspiracy nonsense.

Memory isn’t expensive because Samsung is greedy or because they’re secretly stockpiling product. It’s because AI uses a lot of memory and so people are buying a lot of memory and it takes time for the manufacturers to increase supply to meet demand. This is 100s level economics

From: https://courses.byui.edu/econ_150/econ_150_old_site/lesson_03.htm

I don’t think we have time to build a guillotine that big

Setup Meshtastic nodes too.

Having the ability to communicate without using cellular infrastructure is incredibly useful, especially during natural disasters (which ICE certainly qualifies).

I can’t have enough cheesy saxophone music in my life.

There are no other alternatives for baseline power generation.

You can’t run a national grid on 100% renewables and batteries. If you’re not using nuclear then you’re using fossil and fossil fuels are not only polluting but the dependence on them creates a huge amount of political instability around the world.

Nuclear plants use less uranium than Coal plants burn into the atmosphere. Coal has trace amount of radioactive uranium and if you burn hundreds of thousands of tons of it every year then you’re putting pounds of radioactive uranium into the atmosphere.

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