the 7900xt/xtx were/are also decent products, tbf, but $1k for a single component was, and still is, a STEEP ask - outside the budget of most. the only difference is we’re used to getting fucked over on gpu pricing so $600 for a mid-tier card now seems reasonable by comparison.
datacenter electricity is subsidized by every household in the area, they pay fuckall for their electricity.
i can reduce it by 100% by flipping like two breakers.
it’s complicated. afaik asml has agreements with the us govt, and cross licensing with american companies. also, asml only makes lithography tools, there’s a LOT more to making semiconductors than just exposing patterns. and a few of the biggest vendors like kla and amat are american. kla in particular is essentially a monopoly in the metrology space.
afaik, risc and cisc are pretty much the same anymore. x86, risc v and arm all have bloated instructions sets, and they all decode to risc microcode under the hood anyways.
lol those are dram chips in the stock photo.
(more risc v investment away from the us is a good thing though!)
gonna need some hard drives lol. wikipedia is only about 100GB. annas archive is like 1PB, and even just the index is 1TB. the various government archives that were collected are at least 500TB (and probably closer to several PB).
other good things to mirror are probably open source code repos (they get taken down all the time - especially emulators, p2p, and now encryption), libretexts, linux repositories, 3d printed gun files, documentation, project gutenberg, the internet archive, openstreetmaps, the reddit archive, and any other content you find personally valuable - including websites and youtube videos.
the sum of this data is in the dozens to hundreds of petabytes, which is obviously infeasible so i personally try to curate what i find personally valuable and of highest societal value and risk, and to partially mirror what i can for the rest.
ignoring court orders… well, that’s it folks. unless a whole lotta spineless assholes grow a spine and 14th him, and those “just following orders” the us constitution, and therefore the us government, is over.
glossing over the sickening reality of this cruelty (because i frankly am too upset to form any sentence that isn’t 23 consecutive expletives), there is now zero incentive to comply with the feds if complying means death and torture. better to go down swinging than die after being raped in between psychologicql torture in solitary.
The valuation of the stock market is fake anyways. (ESPECIALLY bubble stocks like tsla) This sadly doesn’t affect his lifestyle or the power he yields in any way.
as always dns is the weak link in internet infrastructure. if they can takedown piracy domains they can take down anything.
legally no, but it’s not like the governor of colorado is sending ukraine weapons - they’re just words and as such do not violate the constitution. ianal, etc etc
dude is a rancid piece of shit, but like, the un is a joke.
I mean it’s easier and vastly more compatible than it was even a couple years ago thanks to the proton devs.
my backup is staring longingly at LTO drives and wishing they would magically be affordable.
Statistically, so are most north american humans.
Maybe Canada and/or Mexico could annex the west coast after the US collapses? 👉👈
Such a cozy setup!
Doesn’t understand or doesn’t care. The ones using it like this are government bureaucracies and monopolistic mega corporations we can’t avoid. Nobody who matters has any real “choice” in the matter.
Gonna need a little higher density barcode lol
that’s not exactly true. volunteers have archived most of the old government websites and public data.
i mean, it’s not overthrowing the nazis, but frustrating historical revisionism is a start.