Might as well say flying is convenience for the rich and privileged. Because in the 1950s, it was. If you were poor, you still went on a boat. It could be we all do transatlantic trips on a plane like this in the future.

They bring in lots of revenue, and the climate change is not an issue if we build more solar with energy storage. Texas is showing everyone it can be done.

Data centers need to be close to cities to have low latency to provide services. Even things like translation needs AI and if it’s immediate it makes conversations between people who speak different languages faster. I talk to a guy who only knows Spanish and he uses AI to translate sometimes when his daughter is not available.

Let’s not pretend the old way of translation with dictionary lookups and stuff actually worked

I run my VPS from AWS and it’s in one of those huge data centers, so it just depends on what service you’re using

You need data centers to run services. Not every single one of them will be used for AI. Most Lemmy instances are hosted in a VPS in a data center. You can’t put a moratorium on AI construction without impacting other types of data centers since they are the same type of building

It is because of higher housing supply, even rents went down. This is exactly how markets work

You use a different bank. Honestly, if people voted with their feet, these issues wouldn’t be as common

This doesn’t take into account interest rate. Homes were cheaper in the 1980s because nobody could afford a mortgage at 10% or more

Housing was actually easier to finance after the housing crash because of 0% interest rates and lots of foreclosed real estate. That is, if you didn’t lose your job due to the financial crisis

You’re not going to put women back into the kitchen and de-grow China. So it’s not like it’s even possible to expect everyone to raise a family on one income.

It was already more difficult in the 1980s because women entered the workforce. The peak male single earner household was the early 1970s before the peak of Japanese manufacturing

My dad did afford a home for a family with a single income and it was in the 2000s

Let’s not pretend it’s some impossible feat

You can roll back if you have the older version on disk if you didn’t install newer dependencies that make them incompatible with your system

I have this issue with sysd manager, the characters are all boxes in the latest flatpak

Nix installs the deps separately if they are different versions and lets you install any version, even some ancient one

Never used it, but I’m fairly sure you can’t have conflicting dependencies with pacman. If package A requires a new dependency version and package B requires an older one you can’t have both installed

Uninstall uninstalls the package. I want to use an older working version

Sometimes I just want to roll back one piece of software. Try doing that with flatpak

You need them like you need fire extinguishers

My Ubuntu LTS upgrade failed. Would have killed for a rollback

Nix, yes, because it has rollbacks

It depends on whether you believe forensics can recover the data when handed over. So make it a setting

Here’s how you install Gnome in nixos

services.desktopManager.gnome.enable = true;

Here’s how you also install gdm

services.displayManager.gdm.enable = true;

It’s about remembering that you did. I have no idea what changes I’ve made to my ancient Ubuntu box so if an upgrade borks my system again I’m SOL

Also, a Nix upgrade won’t break your system, unlike Ubuntu

Then it should delete the data while loading a dummy profile