Lemmy is public, no one is going to want to use it for discussion of those topics.

Cost of living has skyrocketed, wages have hardly budged, and people are really, really struggling.

True… However it does appear to be slowing a bit for both the US and Canada

https://blog.bham.ac.uk/cityredi/redi-updates-how-does-the-cost-of-living-crisis-compare-internationally/

People’s standards of living are decreasing

Famines are already being massively exacerbated by climate change, you just don’t hear about them because they’re happening in poor countries.

https://ourworldindata.org/a-history-of-global-living-conditions

There is far less poverty in the world today than in the past.

Everything points to all our previous warnings about climate change being incredibly conservative.

Probably true, but we also appear to be on the edge of a massive move away from fossil fuels to renewables with the cost of solar dropping, grid level battery systems replacing old coal / natural gas peaker plants etc and the move is no longer just about the “environment” these technologies are in some ways superior or cheaper as well which will accelerate adoption

Only thing that is worse in my mind is the “media” no longer news and “social media” both are largely negative and both are full of misinformation these days.

Housing costs may also be a negative…

Other than that MOST things seem better, we just can’t enjoy anything since the media/social media keeps telling us what we should fear and hate.

So use google wallet…

Instead of rebranding / upgrading one product, Google continues to make new products and have awkward migrations between them.

All of my kids messages are super short or emoji filled, my wife, friends and older contacts all text to text me full paragraphs or sentences.

Need some examples

I would be MORE surprised if they where still there.

Proton is built on top of wine for windows compatibility. The wine project has been very careful to independent build its compatible versions of libraries. There should be no Microsoft code in wine.

Interesting how MS is the reasonable one here where all their copilot stuff clearly separates paying business from free consumer stuff for training / not training.

However slack has gone and said they will train on everything, and ONLY the paying companies can request to opt out.

Too bad so sad for all those small dev teams that have been using the “free” version of slack… No option to opt out.

None?

Whiskey In The Jar Song by Metallica, original is from the Dubliners in 1969 a traditional Irish song in the 1950s

RAID isn’t backup it is high availability.

40 drives ? Why that is a huge amount of power , what is your space target

RAID 1 ? With 40 drives ? That would be absolutely stupid you want to use RAID 6 or 10 so you don’t waist 50 % of your space with RAID 1. Or some other N+2 disk redundancy.

Have you considered how much power such a large setup will need?

It is GREAT as an option but not as the primary. I love it for small trips for a small number of things .

However for any medium to large shopping trip I would prefer to have someone there scanning while I unload and load.

Not sure what you are even saying?

Making an improvement for something that can be recycled and thus should REDUCE over time is a a MASSIVE improvement over doing nothing and bitching about it.

It can be recycled… Unlike the oil and gas used up in ICE cars.

which are arguably worse than literally anything else.

Going to argue it isn’t as bad as shale / oil sands projects. Also the battery is mostly aluminum, copper and nickel in the anode and cathode, all that has to be mined as well.

The products of the Oil industry are also consumed and can’t be recycled, something like 90% of a battery can be recycled and reused.

Yes do look into it. There are MANY ways to harvest lithium and most are better than what the oil and gas companies does when fracking or drilling on land.

There were so few 6E devices released, particularly consumer level ones that we can sort of just “skip” it when talking about home user Wifi issues.

Single channel WiFi probably is unlikely to get to sub millisecond response timesas it is shared air time for both send and receive of all devices, wifi 7 multi link might help if it can route some traffic on different channels but over all I never expect it to get close to what wired Ethernet can do.