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I’ve got one of those, from Pantum.

It’s funny, I recall Benn Jordan saying in multiple videos of his that his profits went up when he removed all his music from spotify.

Reminds me of writing my own csv parser that implemented escapes properly. The one everyone else went with of course was written in regex, so it was faster… But broke if there were escaped newlines.

I imagine as we move to renewables, a lot of places are gonna have similar situation. Maybe not as bad, but I don’t know what the situation with the taxes there is.

There’s a fixed cost associated with having the infrastructure that maintains a wire from consumer to producer functional, if you’re not paying for electricity, you’re paying for all the transmission lines and other hardware.

I can’t imagine any grid making it profitable for people to sell power to it, sounds like a nightmare to try and balance load with random home setups bumping it up and down, but a fully self-sufficient solar home could probably eliminate all costs but maintenance for the grid connection, if you want backup to solar.

Thomas Was Alone, The Fall, Rumu, To The Moon, Stanley’s Parable, Toem, Primordia, Turing Test, The Entropy Centre, Subnautica, Bioshock 2, Portal 1/2.

Though honestly any game with good story would probably count here.

…funnily enough, it may actually be better for musicians if people left spotify, considering the absolute pennies they pay per stream.

All will be crabs. Riding on trains, of course.

Tooth enamel is ~5 on mohs scale. Quartz, the most common kinda rock (afaik), is ~7. You’re correct that enamel is harder than steel though, since it’s ~4? Disclaimer: all of these numbers are from a quick google search.

Fun fact, this is why we know ancient people used to make bread - the way they separated wheat from the chuff included dropping it on the ground, which led to sand being in the bread and consequently destroying their teeth over a lifetime of eating it.

Well, rocks in toothpaste would be very bad because they’d be harder than your teeth.

There’s fungi that are eating the pacific trash patch, but the issue is that there’s not much energy to be gained from plastics we use. It’s slow.

I’ve seen the russian version before, must be it.

usually russian translation won’t hide the address, but idk if it was the case here.

Yup. Getting tired of people saying “just write notes and reminders!”

Okay, my brain immediately deleted the memory of the reminder once it popped up, now what.

You can make it mutable really easy, too, if you need to for some reason. Most stuff you need is available off flathub, but some applications you may want have to be installed the old-fashioned way.

This is kinda my experience. If there’s an extension keeping track of schema and linting, it’s alright.

If you’re doing it by hand, well, good luck.

My personal favourite way to make configs is lua. But that’s neither here nor there.

Personally, I prefer duplicate keys to be eaten by the parser but I can see how it’d be beneficial to prevent them.

Wait, let is to introduce locals but local is to introduce variables available in the whole file?

…so local creates global variables? What?

…and local creates constant values?

It’s inconsistent and annoying. Expressive, yes. Gets it’s job done, yes. Absolute nightmare of a spec, YES.

The fact that JSON is a subset of YAML should tell you everything about how bloated the spec is. And of course there’s the “no” funny things.

Personally, my favourite way to write configs was using lua (because it was already part of the project so why not), but JSON does fine.

Yeah, it’s pretty difficult to find energy for personal programming stuff when your dayjob is programming stuff.

Gotta get up from the PC for a bit.

Oh, I know the experience pretty well. The fun fun fun of having something stuck at 98% for a week or more :D

I was thinking, if the creator themselves would seed their stuff it could work - although I admit it’d have to have some kind of seed schedule and maybe some heuristic to see which videos were still available or not. There’d be problems with bandwidth, but I think it would at least allow a decentralised video network to exist, even if it would feel a bit more like watching anime in year 2010.

And yeah, fair point. I don’t really do live streams so I didn’t think about them. Honestly don’t know what a solution for that even could be, in terms of “everyone hosts a little bit to spread the load and price”.

Don’t really think it’d be that big of a mess for premiers, but then again I don’t see a big issue in waiting a day to get good content. Y’all are spoiled with cdns and social media /s :D! In my experience torrents propagate pretty quickly so it could still work. Think the bigger issue would be the fact that people have preference for different resolutions, so you’d end up with massive torrent downloads that have 4k, 2k, 1080p, 720p, etc. Or multiple torrent files for different resolution. The worst outcome would of course be “creator just dumps 8k 60fps content on the network and tells you good luck”.

Either way, I won’t pretend like torrent net could match the service of youtube right now - but I do think it could actually make a video network actually work, without prohibitive costs for the hosters and subscriptions for the basic users. It’d still be nice to support creators and the trackers but those aren’t as big of an ask as “host hundreds of 4k videos per creator forever”.

[edit] as a last minute thought - I think I know another reason why torrents may not work so well. You’d have to have an app or a browser extension to use them, which limits the accessibility compared to “open url and watch”.

I feel like the true decentralised approach to video that may work… Are torrents. Don’t know if PeerTube works that way, but if you’re allowing people to eat your bandwidth with direct streaming, you’re gonna run into problems sooner or later.