Yes 100%

Wealth generates income, that income can’t sit as cash or it will lose value, so they need to invest.

When the ultra wealthy invest, it’s less important to get the best price for an asset than simply getting it. That money needs to be spent. So if there’s competition for an asset, they will spend more to get it.

When that happens, the price of the asset goes up. Causing inflation

Those assets ultimately determine the baseline cost of everything else. Can’t grow food if you’ve not got a farm. Farms being more expensive make food more expensive.

This isn’t malicious, this is just how it has to be when you have ultra wealthy people. They must invest, they must take property away from everyone else.

The ultra rich are actively pricing us out of living.

The ultra rich need to go

I’m just impressed all the tabs haven’t snapped off yet

FT going for UBI a decade after we were calling for it to alleviate this

Lol. Lmao even.

Only socialism is really gonna cut it now, ship has sailed with the asset inflation crisis we’re about to hit

Huh, typically you’d set an instance to scale out, not in when CPU usage spikes

Snake oil

I’ll add that to the list then

the only stuff that’s really on there is some music, photos, backups. If it gets lost, nothing important really is lost.

Photos are pretty important to a lot of people, I know that’s the most obvious thing on my server that people would miss and not be able to get anywhere else

I hit this today when I went to check a local restaurant’s Instagram for the menu (like many I’ve come across, they treat Instagram as their website)

Nope. I guess that information is now all gone to me

Between this and Twitter I’m pretty annoyed at how much harder it is to get local information without just physically going to a place compared to 5 years ago. I’m not gonna pretend it used to be perfect, but this is getting spectacularly shitty

Well firstly since about 2020 everything has basically doubled in price due to inflation, so that’s more or less your camera point. As someone who also takes pictures, they’re certainly still innovating, it’s just money is worth less now.

The phone thing is more down to the product category maturing. 5-10 years ago there were still obvious improvements to be made to the hardware and software. Now we’ve effectively perfected the black rectangle for the current tech available, so the only stuff they can do to differentiate now is bloat. Also, as above, everything is more expensive, so if they get some commercial partnerships attached to that bloat they can keep the prices a bit more constant than stuff like pro cameras (which just have to get more expensive because bloat like that wouldn’t be tolerated for pro gear)

Reminder that zero “small boats” have come across in several days

This is a non issue used to keep idiots angry about people who have nothing to do with the people who are actually destroying their lives: the same people funding all this bile.

Wait for the centralised thing to fuck something up (and they will), then say “hey I’ve been using this to get away from all the bullshit of [service name]”

In the mean time, post & comment. The more content & discussion there is, the more attractive it will be to others. If you’ve got a niche hobby you’re passionate about, get a community going or try to grow an existing one if it already exists.

I comment way more on Lemmy than I was doing on Reddit towards the end, partly because the people here are generally good to chat to, but also because I want this place to keep being good so I can continue to keep using it.

I think it’s more something like if you don’t confront bigotry it’ll grow and eventually crush you.

Economics is a funny one as ultimately it’s a focused & technical strand of anthropology (which I believe is considered a science by many) that people often incorrectly lump in with maths.

Kinda tough for an academic to run meaningful experiments on an actual economy though beyond models and simulation. And as anyone who has watched a Gary Stevenson video or two will know, your average academic economist is pretty bad at models and simulations.

Though I guess even bad experiments are still experiments

Edit: typo

Surely that’s a jacemat

By a significant margin when compared to any other of the big-tech companies, buying hardware from Facebook seems like an unfathomably stupid idea.

And this is not me saying hardware from any of the rest of them is a good idea.

You’re definitely correct on the 32-bit dynamic range side of things, as that’s more dynamic range than a human can perceive.

However I feel like I read a little while ago, that a standard record industry 15 IPS reel-to-reel master tape (on some high quality tape formulation, I imagine) sits somewhere between 96khz and 192khz equivalent sample rate. Though there is every chance it was from Reddit or something. Do you happen to know if that stacks up?

But this is already the distraction from trump being a massive pedo?

You can eat as shitty as you like, you just need to make sure you burn the calories.

You can spend an hour on a bike/running and burn getting close to a thousand calories. Lifting is more like half that, but has the benefit of increasing your metabolism over time

Well this is going to be an interesting rabbit hole…

In I go!

Well I’m sure the dollop of fermented meat in charge won’t try something as someone takes back his favourite coloured metal