Is it cynicism when it’s the reality around us?

The amount of Labor that would go into it it really isn’t that high.

This is what distribution is for.

The company that owns the hardware is not the company that recycles it. The recycler can make a profit by reselling these components, they’re not allowed to.

Many of these components still have to be pulled out so that labor cost is already a wash. The additional labor cost of testing, selling, packaging, and shipping is baked into the price in the secondary market.

Not everything is worth being resold, but many things are and those things are often not allowed to be resold due to destruction contracts.

Y’all need to read what CSAM is. Questionable or objectionable art isn’t CSAM in the same sense that drawing a murder isn’t murder and drawing Noncon isn’t rape.

Depiction isn’t harm, if it was damn near all literature would be in the same category.

Let’s not go down that slippery slope.

Books like Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret – Judy Blume would be considered abuse material on such an asinine slope.

It seems a stretch to call (at least as far as I understand it), a naked (fictional) underage character riding a horse CSAM? Sure, it’s definitely not in good taste, but… CSAM?

CSAM is child abuse, there are no children here. Is there a clear line between someone drawing and actual real child abuse? Because, IMHO, there definitely should be.

I agree that steam shouldn’t allow such content, we don’t want it, but I definitely disagree with the semantics here.

Or am I missing something obvious??

I disagree.

I don’t necessarily know about new music, artists, or genres. I want to get a mixture of stuff I haven’t encountered.

Something like 60% of the music I listen to in a given month I had never heard of 12 months prior. I’ve found so much music that I vibe with by way of generated playlists.

Discovering something new that scratches my music itch is in itself a pleasure for me, and I can go back to it at a later date, like everything else.

This doesn’t mean I support Spotify, but it does mean I disagree with your stance.

Define “inciting”

This is where things get tricky. Leave that ambiguous and technically anything can be “inciting” if it’s in words.

Whether that’s racism, or anti-authoritarianism, or just speaking I’ll about your government.

Freedom of speech, as a concept, doesn’t work if it applies only to some speech. Controls around it will be abused and used against you at some point (Look at where the U.S. is heading).

This makes me nervous about more authoritarianism, as it sets a dangerous precedent that can be abused.

All devices on the computer consume power.

The CPU being the largest in this context. Older processors usually don’t have as aggressive throttling as modern ones for low power scenarios.

Similarly, the “power per watt” of newer processors is incredibly high in comparison, meaning they can operate at much lower power levels while running the same workload.

In the fall/winter in northern areas it’s free! (Money that would already be spent on heating).

Summer is a negative though, as air conditioning needs to keep up. But the additional cost is ~1/3rd the heat output for most ACs (100w of heat require < 30w of refrigeration losses to move)

I want to reduce wasteful power consumption.

But I also desire ECC for stability and data corruption avoidance, and hardware redundancy for failures (Which have actually happened!!)

Begrudgingly I’m using dell rack mount servers. For the most part they work really well, stupid easy to service, unified remote management, lotssss of room for memory, thick PCIe lane counts, stupid cheap 2nd hand RAM, and stable.

But they waste ~100 watts of power per device though… That stuff ads up, even if we have incredibly cheap power.

Naw, they will figure out how to target you specifically.

Will these ever be useful on the second hand market

Nope, not ever. Even if it’s standard form factor gear.

They will be disposed of (“recycled”), since that grants the largest asset depreciation tax break, and is the easiest economically. The grand majority of all data center gear gets trashed instead of reused or repurposed through the second hand market.

Source: I used to work at a hardware recycling facility, where much of the perfectly good hardware was required to be shredded, down to the components, because of these stipulations. It’s such a waste.

Dumping bucket of tens of TB worth of modern RAM into a shredder is… Infuriating.

They wouldn’t though, large businesses see no consequences from laws that you and I would see consequences for.

I should have used softer language which I have changed it to be.

Everyone’s experience with neurodiversity is different. If you have a system and that system works for you then that’s awesome. Developing systems that work for your needs can be a significant hurdle.

It is of course useless to argue with an idiot.

So this will be my last message to you. I hope you find benefit by increasing your reading comprehension in the future.

Yeah, but they you gotta organize it, and garden it, and maintain it. Or it’s just another useless dump of probably useless information. This can be difficult for folks with ADHD and similar.

Not to mention that many tabs are transient, they are not meant to be permanent. Making them permanent means they are out of sight out of mind and will pile up even more

Protip: Installing more ram makes for more convenience on keeping tabs alive forever

There’s a reason I plopped in another 32GB stick

That’s… Not what anthromorphizing is.

It’s assigning human attributes to something not human, which you are clearly doing

Wut.

It’s a fancy algorithmic language prediction engine.

Stop anthromorphizing clankers.

… Kind of.

It’s flakey af on large enough codebases.

Nothing anywhere near as reliable and robust as C# or Java for refactorings.

It’d be a really shitty existence…