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[–] [email protected] 14 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (8 children)

Go tweak your power and fan settings. 100w at idle is way too much unless it’s 15 years old.

Fans, especially small ones are very sneaky energy hogs. Turn them waaay down.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Good, they weren’t doing a great job. Maybe Google is going to move this in house.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

They cut supply in like September. They were all fighting for market share still, largely driven by Samsung, hence the low prices.

Server shipments were way down because everyone overbought in 2021/2022.

The NAND market has always been an antitrust shit show.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 10 months ago (3 children)

They also drastically cut supply.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

BA, agree, AF, not a chance. La Premiere is much much nicer than even qsuites. LH is somewhat plane dependent, but the FCT is fun.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (2 children)

AA first has been a joke for a long time. It was an ever so slightly better seat and they served one extra course - a soup - but was otherwise identical to business class service. You can’t charge thousands more for soup.

First class has been dying for years - and the only airlines that will do it, it’s really a prestige thing more than a profit center.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

We didn’t then either. The real issue is scale. What worked when the entire population of the human race was 100,000 doesn’t work when it’s 8,500,000,000.

You’re right that there are no wilds no, no one is getting 40 acres and a mule, and you can just inhabit a new area.

But let’s not forget that a lot of the stake a claim and defend with lethal force was literally colonialism. So many of those wilds were owned by other people, but the stronger guy with the bigger rock can kill him, take his land, take his wife.

Hardly utopia.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Honestly, it seems the same. If a bar doesn’t want Jews in it and the bartender asks everyone if they’re Jewish or a bouncer at the door feels like a distinction without a difference.

There’s no additional liberty, the people who own the bar set the rules.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (3 children)

But if you can throw people out, and kill them when they come back why is it that different?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (5 children)

Ostracism only required a vote, no crime, and no defense was allowed: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ostracism

The penalty for returning was death.

Presumably even though there were no border controls, they would kill you if you returned.

Honestly, I’m not sure what the fixation with a guy in a booth is about. Whether you get denied entry and they throw you out, or if they exile or ostracize you, what’s the difference?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (7 children)

Go read some Greek history on the city states and ostracism, as well as the fact that it only worked because they had slaves and subjugated women?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (9 children)

But that’s the way borders were understood then too… it was just harder to determine who was who?

They’d kick you out and burn down your house or kill you for being an invader?

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