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I havent tried it yet but i think you cab rub a pihole and use that to fikter at the source

Freedom is always within the confines of the community. The only way to have total freedom is to live as a hermit far away from civilization.

We can, but part of it is accepting that our tech will be a decade or two behind. Its not the worst thing. Life is more convenient now, but all in all i think it was better before.

The masses will go for convenient, and thats ok. You have near total control of how you live your life; you just cant have your cake and eat it too is all

Im talking about someone who doesnt know wtf any of that means. Like the town idiot.

I mean more like someone who is irresponsible and maybe dumb. I was trying to be polite. Someone that doesnt even know what a fidicuary is.

Absolutely. However, if you are not the best with money, or on the irresponsible side; it might be best to take the annuity. Mathematically it makes no sense to do so, but if it stops you from blowing it all on hookers and coke in two years then its for the best. In other words, if you having it all is riskier than the state keeping track of it.

Ok so i think the disconnect here is that you are visualizing the water literally passing into the reactor and out the otherside.

In reality the water would pass around the outside of the shielding, where it is still plenty hot, but the radiation from the reactor isnt passing through.

This is more or less how a nuclear power plant operates today. We sont get the power directly from the reaction, we get it by using the heat fenerated to boil water to operate steam turbines. In fact, they are just steam engines with the coal replaced with nuclear fission.

Its not nearly that easy. They are dealing with personalities behind all of this, investors they made promises to, etc. What you are describing is the right thing to do, its just very complicated with a ship as big as microsoft to turn on a dime like that. The bigger the org, the slower it is to react and the harder it is to course correct

I think it might actually start coming to fruition now that a lot of games have native support.

One of the only things stopping me from taking the plunge at this point is laziness to soft through all my data and make sure what i need is backed up before firmatting (i know, i need a good backup solution; open to suggestions here)

They are even worse in the business space for sure.

Windows 7 was peak windows. Its been downhill from there

Quality degredation and Disjointed experience comes to minds. Microsofts tech is such a mess right now i dont know how they come back from it honestly. Too many competing frameworks, bad schemas, broken tooling, bad documentation.

Im not even factoring in windows 11.

I used to be a windows dev guy, but with this landscape I dunno why i would do it to myself. Developing for linux systens is such a better experience. At least there are standards and ubernerds who adhere to them.

It shows

That only goes so far. If the company ceases to exist because it cant pay its debts, its gonna get delisted from the exchange.

There is only so much they can do to prop it up. If noone is buying them, and noone wants the stock, its going to go down short of the govt literally buying the stock and handing it over to musk.

That unfortunately would not surprise me. How sad.

Been available for close to 40 years

Im a milleneal. Im 42.

Kinda sounds like you are describing AOL

Jesus thanks for posting this. Found it on my LG ThinQ.

Anyone have a fairphone? Thoughts about it?