For me the answer is that I need off site backup anyway for stuff like important digital documents, passwords and more. For me a dedicated storage provider I trust far more than Google/Apple/Microsoft which all have a financial interest in understanding me and my patterns to better sell additional services too me. So I use Dropbox but if you're more technically inclined and have a lot of data then something akin to say Wasabi could make financial sense.

Agree on the GPU lineups just want to add that for gaming I'd recommend the AMD and for everything else go with Nvidia. AMD gives more FPS / $ and it doesn't sound like Ray tracing is something that's relevant for the games you play.

Often yeah, if it's called "boxed" it's with a cooler, "tray" is without.

But the stock cooler runs hot and loud so I second the recommendation to replace it. NH-D15 is what I have but still wouldn't recommend it for you because it's expensive and a Cooler Master Hyper 212 / Arctic Freezer 34 is good enough for gaming and much cheaper. Really any tower cooler of decent size is decent enough so price is the most important aspect imo.

It does, but the thinking here is that the dasher basically loses money taking no tip orders. Which in my Nordic mind is a fucked up business model. A living wage should be the minimum requirement.

In this community anything that isn't open source is not going to be relevant to the majority. It sure does look like a competent product though but I question it as an alternative to Google since it's going to be tough to survive when one is pre-installed and automatic without any user intervention on pretty much every android phone and the other I hadn't even heard about until now and I've researched alternatives...

I think they'd be smart to make their free version open source to assuage the concerns about risking that the product dies and all tagging etc becoming useless / wasted effort. Even though I understand the reluctance because the primary motivators for going premium aren't really open source compatible (pay for more devices etc.)

I firmly think that the proposed regulation on games were a great idea. What they wanted to curb were patterns that are inherently toxic and that hits young people and kids disproportionately. Hell I'm not young and have more than enough money and education and still fall for those tactics from time to time. I don't necessarily blame anyone but myself for that but at the same time believe it is the governments purpose to set rules to protect its citizens from corporate interest. The repeal of the proposed regulation here only shows that money is more important to China than some people want to believe, in my opinion at least.

I agree with the sentiment, though not directed at my post since I'm not disparaging China for their success. I'm merely trying to add nauance. You started the comparison, you made a point of beating down on what Biden (the closest analog to Xi Jin Ping) posted.

Like literally every nation and person on this blue planet China does some good and some bad. I tend to think what they do badly is more important, human rights and political freedom ranks very high to me, and I know that is because I'm steeped in western culture and morals. And I'm absolutely not saying the US are poster boys for those issues, if you check my post history I shit heavily on the US for their violations like supporting Israel virtually unconditionally or their butchering of the MENA region throughout the last 2 decades.

China has, coincidentally after they moved a few pinholes away from "hardcore" communism, raised hundreds of millions of people (if not a billion by now) out of poverty, directly in their own country and indirectly in neighbouring nations. That is commendable. They also serve as a balance to US hegemony which I value, we can't have one nation that effectively could conquer all others, democracy or not it only takes one Hitler to raise to power in such a nation for the world to crumble, and we can't allow that.

So don't try to deflect my criticism by misconstruing my comment as unnuanced china bashing.

I'm self-hosting and it has been ridiculously smooth coupled with Voyager as my mobile app. Now I understand that a single user instance is a lot easier to handle than a multi-user one so I naturally don't have any experience or opinion on how Lemmy instances scale with users in terms of stability.

Sure, but at least in Sweden 90% of all Model Ys (and there are a fuck ton of them) on the road are corporation owned cars. The heavy subsidies for BEVs made them very attractive especially since they had (this is changing rapidly right now) a very low rate of depreciation. I'd hazard a guess that this is a common pattern, i.e. cars that are privately used but commercialy owned as well as a lot of subsidies at play.

Prior to the Tesla the most common corporation owned cars in Sweden were XC90s which aren't exactly cheap either.

Further what do you think I meant with high end premium? I meant expensive and the model Y is very expensive. Are you implying that if there was a sub $15K Dacia Logan MCV it wouldn't sell better? A car like that with no bells and whistles but a BEV with decent range (say 300 km) would sell like hotcakes given that they'd pay for themselves for a majority of car owners. But instead they focus on stuff that is simply to expensive for the masses.

That makes sense. But that is a really piss poor sentence.

Especially since it's literally "Who launched a chef's career over three decades after dropping out of art school"

That s on decades and "over" kills any ambiguity, but a comma after decades would make it passable, a semi colon and changing to "; after he dropped out of art school" would make it crystal clear.

The story doesn't really work out? I mean if he started his first restaurant at 24 how could he have launched his chef career 3 decades after dropping out of art school?

Further if art school is supposed to be college level he barely even stayed alive long enough to live three decades post dropping out...