Bitcoin mining doesn’t normally use GPUs. They use dedicated ASICs. Far more effective, and cheaper in every way.

In addition, AI is in the “growth at any cost” phase. There is a TON of investor money to burn, with little need to show future profitability.

In my experience, nope. Assuming it works as promised, the situation (usually) gets viewed as a skill gap. You think their code is bad, because you don’t understand it well enough. Unless you are personally willing to redevelop it, of course.

Are they from China/Chinese clients? A number of these are modified to never seed, so they always show as having 0%.

Somehow, the greatest music ever made is always from your senior year of high school.

I think he’s trying to say there should be more taboo. That there should be a lot more restrictions than just consent.

I’m glad he’s dead.

You’re getting downvoted, but I experienced much of the same. So much misogyny and, looking back on it, toxic masculinity. I vividly remember the bit where they used tape to illustrate “purity” of not having multiple partners.

This would’ve been the late 90s, US Midwest.

ETA: I wouldn’t say it went quite as far as describing women as “submissive cum dumpsters”, but it definitely implied the women don’t enjoy sex and only did it to satisfy their partner.

Yes, but that’s only an issue if you are interested in those other communities. In this case, the instance is dedicated to anime, so it’s only an issue if you want to browse those other anime communities.

You can’t imagine my surprise and disappointment that this isn’t a real movie.

Just FYI, those are almost all on the same instance, and you can block that instance as a whole. It’s dedicated to anime, so there’s not a ton of collateral damage.

The very first line:

A loss leader (also leader) is a pricing strategy where a product is sold at a price below its market cost to stimulate other sales of more profitable goods or services.

So the answer to their question is “Yes, a loss leader needs to lead to something”. I have no idea why you think they have no idea what they’re talking about.

Not OP, but the most obvious and popular alternative to Adguard DNS is a (self-hosted) Pi-hole. That setup is effectively protected from such attacks, in no small part because it’s self-hosted.

It’s not that Google’s algorithms got bad, but the entire Internet turned to shit and they can’t compensate for it.

For anything not time-sensitive, try adding “before:2023” to your search. I’m betting the quality of your results will skyrocket.

ETA: fixed autocorrect

“Instead” was meant to be within the previous clause. It was originally a single sentence, but it was way too long so I broke it into two. I can see how it’s misleading.

Phrased another way, the claim is that regular porn reduces desire, and its users are happy to be alone.

This is similar to the arguments against “regular” porn - that it reduces the desire to pursue a real-life partner. Instead, allegedly, people are happy to skip that entirely in favor of enjoying porn, alone.

I have no idea what the truth is (probably somewhere in the middle), but they are in direct conflict with each other.

For more information on the subject, Microsoft has been fighting this battle, largely unsuccessfully, for years.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Corp._v._United_States

It’s also why they had Azure Germany - an instance where they were not actually in control and data could remain sovereign. I believe it’s now defunct, or at least restricted.

Undercutting your point, that also means that 23% - nearly a quarter - do not offer paid vacation nor holidays to their employees.

Good news, everyone! I’m a horse’s butt.

Clearly the requirements will not drop. But due to the passage of time, they aren’t quite as ridiculous anymore. The last machines that didn’t meet the requirements were made in 2017. It’s not unreasonable to require a device that’s less than 8 years old. Most individuals upgrade more often than that anyway.

Yes, it would be preferable to keep the older ones in service. But it’s a smaller pool than you think, and most of them will actually stay in use but unpatched.

Most go to a tech recycler. They pay their client a pittance for the old equipment, then they refurbish/resell it on places like eBay. Yes, the SSD is often destroyed, and usually the mounting bracket with it. But the rest is fully functional and readily available.

If you want to see this firsthand, just go to eBay and search for “Thinkpad T490”. These are about 5 years old now, and at the end of the corporate lifecycle. They were also a very popular corporate device, and very rare for individual consumers. You will see an absolute ton of these, and mostly from recyclers. But they originally came from places like Coca-Cola and Chase.

I left them years ago, but their VPN software has (had?) a critical bug - the killswitch treats “connecting” the same as “connected”.

Meaning that if the connection drops for any reason and is not immediately reestablished, you not only lose all protection, but you have a false sense of security.