Sorry man. I hope you can enjoy the time you have.

Ah, that makes more sense. $225 is minimal for a “bonus” payout. Thanks for finding a better source.

Quick read of the article and it only shows “$” and not ₩. So I assume that means USD.

That’s a big payout, and it shows how much we’re getting gouged for memory prices.

To survive long term in an apocalyptic collapse of civilization you need to already be surviving in a manner that acts like the apocalypse has already happened.

In other words, if you don‘t currently have all the skills and community to live in a pre-industrial era, like farming (all the seeds and tools, cleared land), smithing (do you have a forge? Know how to make charcoal? Raw materials and skill?), animal husbandry (do you know the first thing about draft animals? Have all the tack and harnesses to put them to work?), a mill, textile making, etc… you are going to die. You cannot learn these things when it‘s too late, this way of life cannot be picked up as things are falling apart. These skills are why communities existed that could specialize skills and trades to make life livable and make it survivable as possible.

In a full nuclear apocalypse scenario there will be a nuclear winter that will kill the overwhelming majority of the population due to starvation. Radiation related illnesses will wipe out most survivors.

One cannot solo garden their way through a true collapse. Pests will destroy gardens, food preservation will be an issue, injury could be lethal.

Or Bester. Koenig did a great job of making that character hateable.

Computing itself is fine. I can still do most everything I used to do on my PC pre-popular internet. I have essentially no cloud services on my PC.

However, the internet itself is a dumpster fire. It always was, except you had to deliberately looking for those places and they tended to be isolated back in the day.

Of course monetization destroyed the internet with corporations doing everything possible to carve it up and shove their ads and billionaire-controlled media slant in front of you, and their engagement-bait feeding of lies and giving a platform to controversy and stupidity on social media.

Most all of the good spaces are gone. Very few exist in anything remotely close to their original form, they’ve been corporatized, disappeared, or swallowed up by places like Reddit.

The only benefit to being Gen X is we were shut out by the Boomers maintaining their grip on everything for so long. Oh, don’t get me wrong. There’s plenty of Gen X idiots, too. We were the biggest trump voting group, for instance. (Seriously, my people? The anti-authoritarians whose anthems were Breakfast Club, Raiders of the Lost Ark, or even Total Recall? Hate the system, hate the Nazis, hate the rich corporate overlords?)

Omg what difficult to mine and impossible to recycle material is this breakthrough gonna take?

I think this describes a lot of critical infrastructure. It’s the “profit” mindedness of governments and corporations to choose to consolidate infrastructure in places that might be risky but cost less. It’s like removing tornado warning systems because they cost a lot to maintain, staff, and operate. So a few people being killed and property being destroyed is “worth it” because it’s cheaper in the long run. So running cables in vulnerable areas is “worth it” because it was cost effective to do so and accept the minor risk assessment that political instability might someday affect them. Same with global energy. It was cost effective and profitable to run so many ships through Hormuz and put a substantial amount of refining capacity in a potentially unstable area. Now we pay the price thanks to an idiot president.

Limited time and very limited access to content, only content that is age appropriate.

Use the device’s parental controls to limit apps, downloading, purchases, sites, hours available and total time allowed. Doesn’t matter if it’s a phone, tablet, or PC. LAN parental controls if available as a secondary layer of site blocking and overall internet blocking at internet curfew time.

Been doing this for years. It’s a must. Parents are responsible for limits on mobile devices and content. Having the software do the limits is far, far easier than physically demanding the phone from the kid, shutting it off, or looking over their shoulder to see what they’re using it for.

It’s called idolization. Excessive worship. One way to do that is to make a statue of someone not because of any great service, but because they’re idolized.

The trump bible is like all the folders full of “plans” he presented to the press. Official looking covers with nothing but empty pages between them.

Drowning Pool’s Bodies done by Psychostick.

The power games are for the people at the top, the ones with money. For the rest of the sheep its [religion, racism, nationalism, patriotism, whatever bogeymen that can be made up]. Just like in the US today. There’s no shortage of complete fundy nutcases wishfully cheering trump’s war in the Middle East as a path to Armageddon when in reality it’s nothing more than trump desperately trying to control the petro energy market as a power and money grab. Except he’s an idiot.

X1C. The new version looks even better. Pretty happy with the XIC’s performance, though. Way better than my old Lulzbot.

Weather, my hobby groups some of which I admin, email, looking up various parts and how-to’s for a car I’m working on, messaging, and occasional housecleaning of the phone itself - getting rid of unnecessary photos, email, SMS and all that.

All your power and water are belong to us

Climate change.

Literally.

My favorite tech buy is a good 3D printer.

The ability to imagine something, model it in 3D, and then send it to a box and have it “magically” become real via 3D printing will never not amaze me or stop being cool.

Plenty of other useful tech toys like a jellyfin PC or a 3D scanner, but the printer is the thing I enjoy the most.

Liberals trying to keep the campaign donations coming in.