This has nothing to do with Tik Tok other than ByteDance being a shareholder in Tik Tok

Actually those are still available. And I will admit if anyone tried to get me to pay 100 dollars for one now I would probably laugh them out of the room.

For the average person, data sales aren’t the worry. Heck their phone is already recording everything. The worry is straight up criminal enterprise, like keylogging bank passwords. If the VPN company is doing stuff like that then they’re going to eat a RICO charge. Most people really don’t care that their data gets sold.

That’s business logic. Consumer logic is that when things get cheaper they should actually be cheaper.

Lmao, we’re not worried about the cafe. We’re worried about the man in the middle. And yeah with enough tech knowledge you can set up an encrypted tunnel home and use your normal connection from there. But most people aren’t that tech savvy

I think it will be a while before they can take humans out of the loop. Otherwise they’re going to find a badly written romance novel or something else that weird in the code.

Here’s a good one of you read past the doom anecdotes they give you the hard data. It’s not dying by any means but 130,000 tech workers were laid off this year. If you’re still employed or have a lot of experience you’re probably fine. It’s the newbies and grads that are experiencing a tight labor market.

Udemy is a common place. (I have not taken this course and cannot guarantee it’s a good course) If you’re willing to pay more all of the certification companies offer courses as well.

AFAIK, career wise it’s more about what you want. You’ll be in a stable workplace with cyber but there are some reports that the software world is closing up, that getting a job is harder.

Nursing is just always in demand.

Also if you’re going to do cyber you don’t need a degree to start. There are online classes on network security and such you can use to study for your first certification. That’s the key point to get hired. A degree would help long term but moving up requires further certification, not necessarily a degree.

Well hopefully we don’t ever get to an orbital habitat fully owned and controlled by anything except a representative government. But we do need to get off this rock and humans are bad at long term planning. But we’re uniquely good at. “OhShitOhShitOhShit, we need to engineer something right now!”

And yeah I realize that’s close to brinkmanship, but really I’m just confident we could do it if we were properly motivated.

Not really relevant, but I just moved 150ish GB between SSDs in a few minutes, less than 5 for sure. As a teenager such an operation (moving 3 games between drives) would have taken an hour. As a kid I’d be furiously changing floppy drives all day.

I just thought that was an interesting thought.

There’s two ways to take that statement. The price of a hard drive will remain the same, or the price per memory unit will remain the same. Price per hard drive remains largely the same. Price per unit of memory drops.

The only exception here is SSDs are slowly dropping in price to meet magnetic disk drives.

Air yeah, water though. We absolutely rent water. My point though is that we’re already used to paying a monthly sum to exist.

I already live the renting life. Not much is going to change.

My family will not play Stratego with me anymore. I buy hotels, and stay out of Australia in Risk, so they’ll play other board games with me still.

Hey I resemble that remark

So we get Universal healthcare then, right?

right?

Probably because I’d never want to sleep again. That would be a horrific way to find out you only have as long as you can stay awake.

Eh, it would be worth it with the right recreational activities up there and knowing we weren’t setting up altered carbon.

I’m that case no it wouldn’t matter. It would make us all feel much better about the possibility of life after the body dies though.