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A special oil relocation operation?

You kinda missed the most important detail: they're competing with the mid-range (and yes, a 4060 is the midrange) for substantially less money than the competition wants.

I know game nerd types don't care about that, but if you're trying to build a $500 gaming system, Intel just dropped the most compelling gpu on the market and, yes, while there's an upcoming generation, the 60-series cards don't come out immediately, and when they do, I doubt they're going to be competing on price.

Intel really does have a six month to a year window here to buy market share with a sufficiently performant, properly priced, and by all accounts good product.

Best as I can figure what got me was some delivery food, lol. The virus that damn near killed me is not especially common, and the usual means of transmission is fecal-oral.

So, some horribly gross restaurant employee was probably sick, went to take a shit, and didn't wash their hands, though not like that can be proven.

....I don't get delivery or eat out anymore.

Might have been unclear; I listen basically exclusively to spoken word stuff. Podcasts, audobooks, "raido" plays, etc.

The Airpods actually sound remarkably good and clear (and ANC helps a lot with ensuring clarity anywhere even slightly noisy) with voices, so for my uses, they sound perfectly fine.

I have a pile of Chi-Fi earbuds that absolutely destroy them in sound quality for music, but it's very much a 99.9% of the time it's not music situation.

I'm certainly not an economist, a politician, or in healthcare but I'd be surprised if you could actually build a working healthcare system for less than we spend now even if you took out the profit motive.

You need to rebuild rural hospitals, hire more doctors and nurses, build clinics and staff them in underserved (read: poor) areas, and basically spend an awful lot of time and money to fix the broken mess that the insurance companies have caused.

I mean you COULD just change who pays the people and places that exist now, but that's not really.... fixing anything.

Perhaps it's me, but I'd be fine paying what I'm paying similar amounts for an actually funded and working healthcare system, if it covers everyone. Just need to tap into the AMERICA #1 bullshit somehow, and get the uh, poorly informed, on board and do it. Again not a politician or political strategist so that's someone else's problem, but I won't complain about paying for it.

Head to the lemmy github and subscribe to the releases email and you'll get one when a new version is out.

(And, unlike SOME projects I'm subbed to, they don't do anything that generates a ton of spam, so it really is just one-email-per-release.)

While I agree, I wouldn't expect my salary to grow to include the health insurance costs; that'd totally end up just being rolled into taxes to pay for the/a universal option and not be money I suddenly got paid.

But yes, it's $3000 after the ~$6000 for the insurance, so let's say the cost of being insured with insurance that covers anything at all in the US is, basically, $10,000 a year.

The best way I've heard that described is that for the Bambu stuff, you spend your time fiddling with the thing you want to print, not your printer.

I love my p1p (and it's several thousand hours and 100kg of filament into ownership and all I've had to do is clean the bedplate and replace a nozzle), and really wish there was anyone who was making an open-source printer that's as reliable and fiddle-free as this thing has been.

I'd probably go with getting the ISP equipment into the dumbest mode possible, and putting your own router in it's place, so option #2?

I know nothing about eero stuff, but can you maybe also put it into a mode that has it doing wifi-only, and no routing/bridging/whatever?

Then you can just leave the ISP router in place, and just use them for wifi (and probably turn off the wifi on the ISP router, while you're in there).

I've become a fan of staying one version behind for a month or two, unless there's a security issue that is involved in which case I'll patch.

I like it when someone who isn't me finds out the catastrophic breaking issues and has to do the cleanup, and I'll wait for the fixed version. :P

And if you fried your food in lard like God intended, this wouldn't have happened.

(Also screw things that need phone apps to function and especially screw phone apps that then ask for every permission they possibly can hoping people just spam 'fine whatever, i just want to make dinner' as the response.)

(/s, kidding, etc.)

Something that's made shockingly unclear, for anyone who might be interested: you only need to have subscribed for a single month to have all the subscriber gated stuff unlocked.

I don't really know how that's a viable business model, but pay $14 or whatever, get all the expansions and inventory and whatnot unlocked, and then don't worry about it until there's another expansion you want.

They really do.

The sound great, and the ANC is great, but the "official" battery life for a brand new one (which these are not) is "up to 4.5 hours" with ANC on, and 5 without it.

It ends up being 2-3 charge cycles basically every day, plus a full recharge of the charging case.

They do, however, work amazingly well if you're in the Apple ecosystem; for example they'll swap between my iPad and Mac Mini if audio starts on one or the other.

But for actually sitting down with something and listening to a thing, I'd rather just plug in some headphones (via the lovely USB-C dongle) and not have to think about if the stupid things are going to die before I'm ready to stop listening.

(Disclaimer: I'm also a weirdo who doesn't carry a smartphone, and still uses an iPod for listening to stuff outside of the house, so feel free to roll your eyes and disregard my obviously bad opinions :P )

I don't have any pictures on my phone, since I don't carry a smartphone anymore.

I was just amused at the whole "See how an AI can violate your privacy! Upload a picture to us to send to an AI for you!' offer being made.

This is like saying 'pancakes require water and butter'.

You're not wrong, but you're so reductionist that you're also very much not right.

Cyberpunk has a lot more to do with the conflict between hackers and The Establishment(TM), where the conflict very much occurs in a dystopian future or under dystopian circumstances than it does any specific type of technology used to tell the story you want.

Please read more than Gibson's books and play CP2077 before reducing an entire genre to two "required" bullet points.

So, in order to keep our information private we should... upload a photo to a site using a google api to feed it to an AI model?

I'm very confused how, exactly, in any way, that's the privacy-first option.

My complaint has always been that the stupid things need to endlessly be recharged.

I've got some AirPod Pros and they're great... for about 4 hours.

Then you're stopping what you're doing, recharging for half an hour, and then you're good for uh, another 3 hours because that wasn't a full charge.

And after the 2nd or 3rd time you've done that, your case is dead and you get to throw everything on a charger for a couple of hours.

Ooooooooor I can put in my wired headphones, and not give a shit about any of that, because that's not how those work at all.

I suppose most people don't spend most of their day listening to podcasts and audiobooks and thus 4 hours is fine, but good lord is it annoying as crap.

Heh, I started another playthrough last night myself.

Never really gone through the Republic storylines, so I guess I've got a bit of game time ahead of me.....

I have reasonable insurance and the reason people "spend more time living with disease" is that the annual cost of not doing that is a couple of thousand.

The minute I hit a doctor for anything other than a cold, I expect it to cost me $1000, and if it turns out to be serious, I expect to spend out-of-pocket maxes, or $3000-5000.

So basically, the cost of 'going to the doctor' needs to be assumed to be at least $3000.

So uh, I don't go for any actual issues unless I'm prepared to spend that much.

This system is fucking stupid and designed to both discourage you from visiting and when you finally break down and go, to empty your pockets.

...but hey, if you can find cooperative doctors, they'll happily refer you to endless specialists and such so you can at least maximize the thousands of dollars you've spent? (This is still stupid.)

You mean "Fuck you, getting my full bonus" right?