Some of the monitors are going smart. I won’t be buying those.

GM is also used in GURPS, but the 5 guys here who have used it already know that.

And if they want someone to join them, they can always DM me.

This is something I find funny. Take the description of angels in the Bible. Now, how would you describe the following image if you didn’t have knowledge of the modern world?

Thanks for the info!

I feel like you meant to reply to another comment. Were you referring to Moneymanager EX?

I’m not sure of the availability guarantees, but Oracle and other cloud services have free tiers for low CPU/RAM/storage needs. If the availability guarantees are there, this could be an option. It works fine for FoundryVTT and hasn’t cost me anything for the last couple years, and I don’t imagine your projected needs would outstrip Foundry’s.

I honestly don’t think it will matter much. I don’t think BYD, Huawei, Samsung, Kia, Honda, BMW, Motorola, or PayPal are collecting all this info about us so they can just sit on it. Now the countries those companies are based in might have some slightly different standards, but a lot of them share that data, too.

The real solution is to get decent consumer privacy laws, and I’m not sure how to get there.

I’d qualify that with a modern car with wireless connectivity, which, of course, all Teslas have.

As far as Elon himself having access, I doubt he sits there surfing camera footage like the most boring cable package in the world, but he owns the company, America’s privacy laws are sadly lacking, and he likes attention, so of course he’s going to get his name on this, whether he had a hand in it or not.

The guy just invents particles and you think we should trust him?

j/k

To paraphrase one of society’s less brilliant thinkers, “Who would have thought heathcare advanced materials science could be so hard?”

I had a little discussion with a guy complaining about sodium batteries and how you keep hearing these wild claims and then nothing. I did a quick search and saw an article about a $2 billion partnership agreement to work on a pilot plant for sodium batteries. He claimed it was yet another sensational headline and doubted anything would happen from it. Less than a week later I saw an article about a plant in America being announced.

This stuff is hard. It’s not like Master of Orion where you throw money at a specific research and get access upon completion. Different groups around the world are researching a multitude of different ideas, some related, and after a while a bunch of these ideas are combined and associated and researched, and all of a sudden you have a new product that’s significantly different from what was available before. And then you see incremental improvements for decades, not unlike the internal combustion engine or rechargeable lithium batteries.

You can always check RPiLocator.com. Looks like there is a reasonable supply in Europe for the Pi 5, and some variant or other is available in many places worldwide.

Space habitats ftw!

It took me about a minute to find this: graphene aerogel for sale.

Once the superweapon made from fir wood, Indian ocean tuna, granite and parafin becomes public we’ll have to negotiate with even the smallest faction and arrange for the welfare and contentment of everyone…

Don’t worry, biological weapons get easier to make every day!

Those checks go to the larger YouTube channels, not people like you and me. Did you mean something different?

/s

And blaming the medical community for that is as silly as blaming them for the toilet paper shortage.

Add to that the medical community has basically burnt any good will they had from the public by crazy pricing and poor access combined with mediocre results.

You realize masks are generally sold by manufacturers, and not what would traditionally be referred to as the medical community. Blaming doctors and nurses for masks being expensive or hard to get seems a little ridiculous. “How dare the medical community, represented by…Home Depot…charge so much for N95 masks!”

Me, watching my kid squint whenever he goes outside on bright days and complaining of headaches after half an hour, “Yes, it would.”