It's almost every time for me. Maybe they don't like my ad blocker or my browser's privacy settings but it's rare for hCaptcha to let me through after three or four repetitions.
Usually I give up after ten because of it won't let me in by then it won't let me in after a hundred. I tried.
Please not hCaptcha. It's basically guaranteed to generate infinite loops.
I'd certainly like to assnuke all those slop videos. Close enough to what they typed.
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Sorry, what was that? My attention somehow wasn't there.
It would be nice but someone would have to rip them out of existing products and put them into new ones. Theoretically possible as a (probably fairly janky) one-off product but unlikely. Still, similar products have been made.
I don't think those sellers are going to have much lower prices when the bubble pops. DDR RAM prices are high because not much of it is being produced. What is being produced is HBM, which isn't compatible with DDR and doesn't even come on DIMMs. Even if DDR production picks up quickly after the bubble pops, it's still going to take a while until consumer products appear again.
So while times are hard right now for home PC users, I’d expect there to be period in the near future of oversupply and cheap components.
From where? Data center equipment isn't really suitable for the home. A used SXM module on an adapter might give you reasonably affordable compute but is completely useless for graphics. Data center memory is often HBM, which you can't just transplant into your home PC. Getting an EDSFF SSD into your PC might work with an adapter but it's also going to take up a lot of space.
Plus, there have been cases in the past of companies buying up and destroying the inventory of closing data centers specifically so it doesn't end up on the market to compete with current products. That might very well repeat.
When the bubble bursts I expect to see a semi-decent supply of high-end hardware for specific use cases. If you have a space for a rack with noisy fans and a 3000 W power draw you'll be able to build a kick-ass AI inference rig for like 2000 bucks. Or a really fast file server. But I don't think there's going to be much in it for people who just want 60 FPS in current games and an SSD those games fit onto. That'll take another couple years.
I think it'll be 2030 at the earliest until we see actually interesting consumer hardware from the usual companies. Maybe China will swoop in and deliver something worthwhile in the meantime but I'm not holding my breath.
Someone should maybe tell them that they shouldn't do that to themselves.
Mind you, the German system is one of the most expensive in the world. It's also only of middling quality in terms of outcomes compared with other wealthy nations.
But it's still less than half as expensive as whatever it is the States are doing, still has effectively universal coverage, and is actually competitive with other wealthy nations.
All because we regulated the everliving shit out of the whole process. You can't as much as fart incorrectly in the German healthcare system without having an army of bureaucrats breathing down your neck in one of three prescribed breathing rhythms, one of which only applies if you farted in a hospital. Reports will be written, filed, and sent to recipients who can only change their mailing address on one of four specific days a year and only if they announced the move four weeks in advance by sending special crafted EDIFACT files to the right people.
As much as it sucks, that bureaucracy also shuts down a lot of nonsense. Insurance networks, deductibles, most copays, and ruinous hospital bills straight up don't exist because everyone in healthcare has zero leeway to do anything in a non-prescribed manner and the prescribed manner was designed to keep as many people as possible reasonably healthy.
It's a very German approach: Massively bureaucratic, regulated to an almost comical degree, and reasonably effective.
People in most parts of Germany see themselves as two things: Firstly, as someone from their own region. Secondly, as sometime who isn't Bavarian.
Those aren't even particularly fitting stereotypes. The common stereotype for Poles is that they're all car thieves. For Czechs... probably that they're even more drunk than us but that's just the default stereotype for everyone east of us.
(And of course both of those are just cultural memes and nothing I actually believe.)
That is... a rather byzantine list of requirements to get a captcha service to work as opposed to just running a Firefox derivative with tracking protection on standard and a default-configuration uBO (which is the specific configuration that led to the 100 repetitions, not some kind of recommendation).