Many countries have laws and regulations which create customer protections, so there’s no need to rely on 3rd party solutions.

The real question is why do people in the US use credit cards instead of debit cards like everyone else?

NFC payments are more secure than card payments.

Lol what?

So you can change the colour of your phone.

Because smart people started switching to Bluetooth back in the mid 2000-s. Because wires suck big time. It’s 2024 now, there’s absolutely no reason to use wired headphones.

Well, the author of the Cyberpunk universe is Mike Pondsmith, who’s American and the game setting is in the US.

I guess you live in a country with loads of spare IP addresses. Here in the UK they change every few days and IPs get rotated between all ISPs, so you can’t even deduct which ISP I’m using. And sometimes my IP is not even a mainland UK IP, but some weird shit from across the world, because Empire, lol.

Your IP changes all the time, it doesn’t matter. The best someone can deduct from your IP is the country.

Again, No Man’s Sky is an example where nothing is sacrificed.

While there are many fans of pixel art and low poly 3D, majority of gamers actually want high fidelity graphics. There are very few indie success stories with low quality VFX like Stardew Valley and pretty much no AAA games like that. Games like No Man’s Sky won’t be such hits if they were made in pixel art.

The reality is that it’s not that games with good graphics are bad, it’s that you can’t afford RTX4090 and a QD OLED 4K monitor. There are plenty of great games with awesome graphics, it’s time for you to upgrade.

It’s not a proof, it’s an exception.

Tankies are modding many communities here as well. The solution is to fight them tooth and nail.

If you want to run Ollama and other ML stuff, you’re looking at buying an RTX4090, my friend. Affordable and ML are two things you can’t put into one sentence.

I have four Raspberry Pi 4 running, so that’s 15W max each or 60W max total. Usually they consume much much less.

I trialled the self hosted NextCloud for a while, but the quality of apps is just meh. So instead I bought a Synology NAS. Turned out their apps are actually on par with Google. And you own everything.

I don’t like defederation, but these clowns are asking for it for a very long time.

For the same reason big companies buy out smaller and failing companies.

That’s not socialism, that’s capitalism. When some entity, be it a private person, another company or government, buys out your company, it’s not your company anymore. But there’s no capitalism in the US, so you get what you get.

The same should be true for people - no more benefits and social housing, straight into labour camps!