A reasonable solution if it comes to it would be to get a cheap android phone only for banking and whatever else doesn’t work on non digital ID platforms.

Semi related note: Is there any reason not to buy the cheaper SSD brands like kingspec and team group?

Unfortunately, I think most of the new military spending that brings our total to the 2% of GDP target is going to American manufacturers. I get the feeling that Carney doesn’t want to upset the status quo too much, despite the talk. I think he still counts on a path back to the way things were, just maybe on a longer timeline.

You’re not wrong, but if it has the bandwidth for stereo 24 bit 96kHz lossless digital then why does it matter? The main problem is it gets the clock rate or whatever from the signal itself making it susceptible to jitter, but I think modern devices mitigate that.

I’ve was recently looking into different ways to get audio from a secondary media PC into an Audio Interface. I decided I wanted to keep the signal digital to use the higher quality DAC in the Audio Interface and decided TOSLINK would be the way to go. It seems like TOSLINK would be a good one size fits all solution for connecting a PC, game consoles, AV receivers, and HDMI splitters because they all seem to still include TOSLINK out ports.

I’m aware of the drawbacks, namely lower bandwidth and jitter. From what I read as long as you’re just doing stereo audio like I plan to, TOSLINK can handle an uncompressed signal no problem. For the jitter, it seems modern devices with TOSLINK inputs have ways of mitigating jitter.

You seem knowledgable on the subject. Is what I wrote above accurate or is there something I’m missing when it comes to TOSLINK audio?

See for yourself! (mild movie gore)

I recently learned that the TOSLINK (S/PDIF) optical ports with the little door that I’ve seen on every game console and AV receiver my whole life and never thought about or used is from 1983. The same port is now used for professional digital audio with a different protocol too.

Bypass paywall:

https://archive.is/TN2Io

At the end of the day, a society like that would look a lot different than the our current one. Their would likely have to be some sacrifices. Maybe we decide that fishing in the Bering Strait isn’t worth it or no one wants to do it, I guess we’ll have to go without Alaskan crab. Maybe you couldn’t have a sports car. However, I think people would sooner go out and cut trees than go unhoused. We’ll just have to decide what we as a society want to put our efforts towards.

Your full days work presumably creates value for your employer, more than they pay you for. That’s what they use to cover their operating expenses and profit. Or maybe you work for a public utility that’s in debt. Regardless, imagine a society where all the value created by the people designing and producing Nvidia’s chips, Elon’s cars and spaceships, and the people mining all the materials for them, which we’ve decided is worth trillions of dollars, was used by society and in the pockets of people that actually spend it in the economy. A society with a work force like ours should be able to house and feed everyone. We already know there are more vacant houses than homeless people in North America, and we throw out enough food worldside to feed everyone. It’s hard to imagine how exactly a society would actually distribute all that to everyone like communism aims to do though, but I don’t see why it shouldn’t be possible somehow. If everyone had enough to eat, a roof over their heads, and time to do what they want why wouldn’t they be alright going without Alaskan crab and other luxuries?

Any organisation that needs to operate 24/7 with a work week of less than 40 hours would need to have more workers than they do with a 40 hour work week, simple as that. To oversimplify: we arrived at the 40 hour work week when business owners wanted people to work more and people rioted and formed unions to push back over 100 years ago. In other words, it’s arbitrarily set. We could organize society around a different length work week if we changed our goals from shareholder profit to better quality of life for all. Maybe being a lumbejack or alaskan fisherman wouldn’t be so bad if you only had to do it once a week or didn’t have to go out in storms and you still had food, shelter, and leisure activities provided by society.

I think it’s more nuanced then you let on. People in general have vastly different aptitudes, interests, risk tolerance, etc…, as I’m sure you’re aware. Not everyone would be a hippie artist given the chance. I don’t think it’s crazy to assume that when society provides for everyone’s basic needs, including the ability to pursue leisure activties, there would still be people that want to work in combined cycle power plants because that interests them and it’s something that provides real value to society.

I think another important thing to consider is that when the need for capitalist growth and profit motives are removed from society we wouldn’t need as much power and as many combined cycle power plants. People wouldn’t be addicted to hoarding shit and consuming, advertisers wouldn’t be trying to convince people to do so, and we wouldn’t be making as much stuff. We would be allocating resources in a way that is just and equitable for all members of society and the environment. Workers could work a few hours a day or a week a month, because the plant wouldn’t demand the maximum amount of labour value they can legally get out of each worker. That doesn’t sound like so bad a life to me, I think enough people would think so too.

At the end of the day, it’s like a lot of the other comments are saying: it’s hard to imagine a world without capitalism because we haven’t tried it.

Please keep in mind that I have read very little of the actual literature and am woefully uninformed on the topic of communism. This is just my interpretation of things might work based on the little I’ve managed to pick up on the subject, but I thought my input would still be valuable.

Edit to add: The job might not be as dangerous either. Without profit incentive you wouldn’t need maximum up-time. You could do more shut downs and preventative maintenance. Take slower/safer approaches to tasks. I’ve never worked in a power plant, but I don’t think I’m too far off what might be posible.

Bypass paywall:

https://archive.is/ngweO

Also the day Avicii died.

Thanks for the input. I guess putting aside the intended use case, my thinking was getting the best processor the VRM situation would comfortably allow to account for all the unlikely what-if scenarios I might come up with lol. This seems like a case of not letting perfection be the enemy of good enough. Cheers.

It seems I have over thought things then. My thinking was I want the most performant processor that the 50 amps of VRMs can handle without being maxed out the whole time. I might be underestimating modern hardware and getting too caught up in spec chasing.

Lol, I’ve picked a terrible time to build a homelab. I decided to bite the bullet on the RAM, and now HDDs might suffer the same fate by the time I’m ready to stock up.

Yes, once you pump it full of mods for playability and bug fixes.

I was surprised by its depth and story devices. You have to find the 2.5D graphics charming though. Also, you have to enjoy exploring the procedurally generated dungeons. It’s totally doable with the 3D map viewer. I personally enjoyed it. I was often impressed when I found new terrain features or big room types. It’s understandable if people find this tedious though. For those people there’s a mod to shrink the size of the dungeons.

If you want to give it a try look into the Daggerfall Unity port. Also, use a guide on Steam or something to create your first character because Daggerfall is old school and you need to take care to make a good character and get started properly.

Mulan. The live action remake was so bad, but I had high hopes because I like the original.

You’ll still be a shit person, likely with no meaningful friendships. That’s gotta factor into the equation somehow.

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