[-] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 3 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

Boutique PC building has been getting expensive since crypto hoarders bought up GPUs and scalpers drove the prices through the roof pushing it further out of reach. We had a couple early hits with the HDD and memory shortages due to factory damage, those were relatively short lived, crypto otoh was long-term. Now we’ve got LLM datacenters hoarding all the hardware along with manufacturers perfectly happy to allow scarcity to drive up prices.

On top of all that we’re seeing less-subtle suggestions to kill the personal PC and force everyone into a subscription model for everything.

Personally I’d wait for any dip in the market and build another good quality PC. I figure there’s not too many years left before they get their wish.

[-] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 3 points 9 hours ago

It also may be him panicked about things he’s done and hasn’t had a chance to cover up. If he can’t access, he can’t erase his “browser history.”

[-] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 3 points 13 hours ago

TIHI. Didn’t expect that.

[-] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 4 points 13 hours ago

This sounds like “rich people are ok” where their “Wall Street” is doing better but skip the rest. They talked about trade and foreign investment, not generally concerns of the common or poor person.

[-] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 7 points 18 hours ago

Might be true for non-union gigs, but from my experience in union shops nobody cares because everyone can see what the pay rates are. Same with retirement plans.

Now you’re confusing me? STP’s singer was Weiland, Cornell was Soundgarden… Temple of the Dog was full of future Pearl Jam members.

I always wonder how true some of these stories are from the entertainment industry. They sound good.

The irony of losing your job as a paid troll to AI.

Because it’s more profitable to charge people without upgrading the infrastructure. That’s how privatized systems work. It used to be about building a better product to attract consumers, now it’s about squeezing consumers for the most profit and minimizing costs.

And all of those can be “interpreted” by the reader or church to mean whatever they want.

Which is what we’re used to.

But for the first time in a long time we have government leaders basically telling the church “nuh uh…” and not even offering a rebuttal like “my religion says…” They’re just gaslighting like a contradictory 4 year old with chocolate on their face being asked if they ate all the brownies.

[-] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Water fountain is the ornamental thing you see in a park with multiple tiers full of gross water and coins.

What do they call a water fountain if it’s not the drinking kind?

And having lived in the “bubbler” zone, I’ve never once heard it called that. Must be disappearing.

Ah, so we’re gaslighting the bible now? It doesn’t say what it says? The Right have been just ignoring it for a while, now they’re just straight up contradicting it.

Everything else has gone up. The home being sold is going to be taxed, they’ll buy a condo someplace in a retirement community, and maybe they go in a nursing home or assisted living that will make sure to take every last dime in the old person’s account.

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Iran attacked Saudi Arabia's East-West Pipeline just hours after a ceasefire ‌was agreed to pause the Iran war, an industry source told Reuters on Wednesday, hitting its only crude oil export route since hostilities began.

Saudi Arabia's East-West Pipeline, currently its only outlet for exporting crude oil, was hit in an Iranian attack while ​other facilities in the kingdom were also targeted, an industry source told Reuters on Wednesday

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Iran’s Supreme National Security Council says it has accepted a two-week ceasefire in the war. Its statement said it would negotiate with the United States in Islamabad beginning Friday. “It is emphasized that this does not signify the termination of the war,” the statement said. “Our hands remain upon the trigger, and should the slightest error be committed by the enemy, it shall be met with full force.”

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Used OpenVPN for years. Seems people are moving away from that and switching to wireguard enabled VPNs. Any recs for a good one on Raspbian? If OpenVPN is still worth it I’ll stay with the known.

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Italy has denied U.S. jets en route to the Middle East to carry out strikes in Iran access to an air base on its southern island of Sicily, according to Italian media.

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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth insists “regime change has occurred” in Iran and said that the US is focused on pursuing a deal to end the war.

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submitted 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) by RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

Post here if you are, and your country and approximate location if you can.

Edit: I didn’t want to make the post subject pedantic and need a [serious] tag, lol.

E2: ok, looks like a local hiccup for that station. Kinda on edge, there are going to be shortages. Just don’t know when. Gas here is hitting $4/gal at some stations. Mostly close to $3.90 at the rest. We were paying $2.65 when this started.

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Iran has hit Qatar’s Ras Laffan natural gas terminal, which produces 20% of the world’s liquefied natural gas. The March 18 strike wiped out 17% of Qatar’s LNG export capacity and repairs will take up to five years, state-owned QatarEnergy said. … The war caused an oil shock from the get-go. Iran responded to U.S. and Israeli attacks Feb. 28 by effectively closing off the Strait of Hormuz, a transit point for a fifth of the world’s oil, by threatening tankers trying to pass through. … Gulf oil exporters like Kuwait and Iraq cut production because there was nowhere for their oil to go without access to the strait. The loss of 20 million barrels of oil a day delivered what the International Energy Agency calls the “largest supply disruption in the history of the global oil market

“Historically, oil price shocks like this have led to global recessions,’’ Knittel said.

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It’s not just Hormuz. There’s a second strait in the Middle East vital to global energy markets that Iran is threatening to close if President Donald Trump fails to wind down the Iran war.

The world is already experiencing the worst disruption to global energy markets in history following U.S. and Israeli attacks on Iran. But if Iranian proxies close the Bab el-Mandeb strait — a busy Red Sea choke point — it would compound global financial woes and likely push oil prices to $150 a barrel, experts said.

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In Thailand, news anchors ditched their jackets on air as the government called on the public to reduce their use of air conditioning to save energy. In the Philippines, many government workers are now operating on a four-day week. In Vietnam, officials have urged employers to allow staff to work from home.

Across south-east Asia, governments are scrambling to find ways to conserve energy and shield the public from soaring costs as war in the Middle East causes what the International Energy Agency has described as the largest supply disruption in the history of the global oil market.

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  • Two people were killed when a passenger jet struck a Port Authority vehicle late last night, according to two sources familiar with the investigation. They are the pilot and co-pilot, the sources say.
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President Donald Trump celebrated the death of Robert Mueller, the former FBI director and special counsel who investigated Russian interference in the 2016 election, saying, “Good, I’m glad he’s dead.”

Mueller, a career prosecutor and veteran of the Vietnam War, died at 81 years old Friday, his family confirmed. While Mueller had been diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease in 2021, his family did not say how he died.

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