It’s fiber internet and I am the only person who has used this IP address for 2+ years and I guarantee you it isn’t ddos.

No VPN here, just my ISP

It used to be a quick trick to find good forum responses but since google doesn’t care about any forums but reddit anymore it doesn’t really work like it used to.

Yeah, this time was pure frustration, especially due to all the top and AI responses being from before microsoft dropped their display.cpl.

Literally zero answers across google, bing, yahoo, and ddg, just google was the only search engine shitty enough to block be for it.

It doesn’t though, and trust me when I say that between my career and interests, I probably use google more than 98% of the population and this is the first time it has ever happened.

It likely doesn’t need a live connection and just checks in occasionally, and if the designers were smart, the logic would be built to err on the side of human safety in the case of no-coms.

But of course that is not a guarantee.

Still, in all likelihood the vest has your subscription date stored in local memory and if you are out of coms for a month then likely you aren’t biking anywhere.

Hate to break it to you but that’s kind of what capitalism means.

A digital card game where players can trade cards with each other. No big digital card game does this for fear of loss of profits.

I miss trading cards with my friends.

Just look what happened when lockdown gave the natural world a chance to breathe.

We COULD offset a fucktonne of CO2 if we changed our lifestyle.

But do you remember HOW FUCKDAMN HARD half the population fought against that literally while their grandparents were dying in agony?

Keep that in mind when you consider any monolithic action of altruism.

Can we stop global warning with radical changes to our consumption?

Absolutely yes.

Will it happen?

Not without direct government action.

One other thing to point out is that agriculture allowed for large mobile armies.

For hunter gatherers it wasn’t easy to stockpile enough long term storage portable food to take to war, nor could you predict periods of bounty (which is why so many ancient cultures had prohibitions to making war during winter that almost no one broke) to plan long term campaigns. This style of sustenance also kept nomadic band population low as following the herds and the reduction of ease of hunting and complications in moving gave significant advantage to smaller social units.

We see a radical increase in social group size with the advent of agriculture, eventually leading to more permanent town and eventually city living instead of nomadic bands as you generally needed to be in one place to keep others from taking your crops and tending them year round.

I fully understand that there are a lot of luxuries and even just basic life improvements that wouldn’t be available to us if we had kept as small hunter gatherer bands, and maybe a lot of people alive now couldn’t survive or thrive in that kind of environment, it would be a very, very different world than what we know today but one thing I do know is that of we had never discovered agriculture we would never have eventually become a species that could kill off 95% of the life on the planet with the press of a button.

No I’m serious, and I understand you mean well but I can’t have this discussion meaningfully with you without writing 8 paragraphs of context.

There’s a lot of what Pratchett called ‘lies to children’ when it comes to non-university anthropology, things we learned in school that were kind of outdated already and gross oversimplifications.

We were told that agriculture allowed the free time to specialize and was the beginning of culture but the truth is that all that hunter-gatherer man needed to hunt to feed himself and 3 other people was about 6 hours of actual work a week. And specialization already existed with stone knapping and pottery.

There’s a lot more to it but I don’t really have the patience to keep writing this.

It goes back to when good agricultural land discovered to be so ridiculously effective at feeding people.

Not the beginning of wealth, but certainly one of the oldest still used store of wealth.

So much has been fucked up by discovering agriculture, it was also the beginning of institutional slavery.

Write complex sci fi and fantasy stories that I refuse to let anyone else read.

You’re not in IT, are you?

Do you know what microcode patching even is and why it is in many ways superior to simple file patching?

There is no effort. You just sign up for an account and install their systray program. It’s as easy to set up as a subscription VPN service. All the patching is done live in memory first and in 4 years I’ve needed to reboot exactly twice.

I have a huge stack of retro games and code projects that work very poorly on Win10, as well as the fact that my Win7 version is Ultimate so I make a lot of use of XP mode virtual machine and booting from virtual disk on bare metal for my moderately older games (something I can’t do with my win10 home license). Can’t even get win10 drivers for half of my hardware on that box.

Also kind of annoyed by your hostility so you’re blocked now.

I have been given very careful instructions to my friends to NEVER mix styrofoam with gasoline as that will make a jelly fuel mixture which is very dangerous and shouldn’t be done by any happy and represented citizen who has faith that their government has their best interest at heart.

apparently I picked up a few comment stalkers earlier, frankly I didn’t even know downvoting was an option here.

Mainly because of the lack of ATF oversight and their FUCKING MASSIVE operations budget.

If people really understood what they have done in the past, that agency would be dissolved overnight.

If you’ve ever had to deal with the ATF you know why this is a magnificently terrible idea.

FDA all the way.

Yeah American TV is definitely lowest common denominator. It’s popular because it caters to the same kind of people that would like ‘ow my nuts’ from idiocracy, and those kinds are endless in number.

Again, he’s not a good host for comedy, delivery, or pacing, but his stupid face and bumbling nature is beloved by many.

Like a children’s birthday clown without makeup.

? No?

What even gave you the impression that I made that assumption?

Also: I’m in my late 40s so again, double ?what?

Hmmm let me check your post history.

Oh yeah, you are so fucking blocked.

I thought your type wasn’t allowed here?