If we don’t buy things on credit, we get a bad credit score

Huh? Isn’t “credit score” just a US thing? I’ve never once heard of it in a European context or encountered it myself. when I’ve had to borrow money they just requested my last 3 pay slips (only borrowed for my house, and a new car once), and in the case of buying my house I had to show a budget.

Compared to most other western and northern European countries they are shit though.

I yearn for public transport.

Do not go for Germany then! Their public transport is notoriously bad

At the end of the rainbow, along with your free/tax paid healthcare and education.

In a just world this would amount to fines in the trillions

No I completely agree, they make no sense these days. I was just saying that innovation has actually carried them forward and how much more power you actually get compared to the original raspis.

It was also $35 at release, not $15

You’re roughly getting 150x the power for 10x the cost with the current price hike.

When it was introduced the Pi cost $15

It was a 700MHz single core board with 512mb of ram…and it was $35, not $15

A raspi with 16gb of ram WTF!? why not just get a SFF PC instead at that point? Unless you specifically need portability or pin IO, I don’t see the appeal of raspi anymore, especially at those prices (almost $400!!!)

I mean, I agree I don’t watch them either because of the reason mentioned in my original comment. But I can still see the value this offers to all the people that do actually watch them.

I prefer subtiles as well. But there are many countries that dub almost everything to their native language, and I think having the mouth actually follow the dubbed audio would definitely improve the experience. The dubbed versions in e.g. Germany have loads of voice acting in it so it fits the emotion and vibe of the scenes, so this would just improve that.

I can see how this would be neat in places that dub a lot of their foreign media so lip/mouth movement actually fits the words spoken. It has always been a complete deal breaker for me with dubbed media because it instantly shatters my suspension of disbelief and makes it all feel like the shittiest amateur theater performance.

I have been buying groceries through giftcards for over 3

Fair enough, this seems very regionally specific though. I can only buy gift cards for local supermarkets with my credit card for example. And in all the countries I’ve been to (granted mostly on the European continent) I’ve never seen an option for using crypto for gift cards.

when its turned off, the potential is still lost, because it’s not doing anything but the physical resources (the materials) are still spent.

From an efficiency POV it absolutely is significantly better to concentrate compute power in data centers, because when you’re not using it then somebody else can. When those resources are in your private computer, it sits idle most of the time with all it’s potential wasted.

that being said, he can go eat a hot ball of lead. Fuck him for wanting to take away peoples free access to compute power.

What that statement ment was, that you can’t use it to invest and diversify you portfolio if its not in an exchange. So unless you keep the majority in the exchange, you can’t trade it without paying the transaction fees every time.

companies that accept different cryptocurrencies

But this is the issue, that’s like 0.0001% of possible places you can use your funds (probably I’m way too generous with that number), and none of it to not die from hunger, cold or dehydration.

And the volatility is still absolutely absurd for something to be used as currency, like all other Cryptos it is dominated by instability and speculation to an excessive degree.

Since crypto is more of a trading asset than currency, they’re not that useful in your own wallet because then you constantly need to move them in/out of the exchange and pay all the fees related to those transactions.

Yeah yeah “actually they’re currency” blah blah, except they’re not really usable as currency in the functional real world (just like stocks)

Logistics for cooking doesn’t scale linearly, so while it’s a massive undertaking when cooking for 1000 people, it’s barely anything at all when cooking for a family of 4.

Although it kind of seems to be a combination of the two going on right now; people being distracted by the conveniences so bad actors can put their authoritarian regimes into place. The US gestapo seems to be pretty indicative of an Orwellian society on the rise.