I am currently building a server, I have five things left to get before I can use it, two 8TB HDDs, two 2TB SSDs and a SATA controller card.

I bought RAM for ut this summer a 2x 16GB Kingston kit, that kit has increased in cost by 1000SEK, insane…

Simple, since the system knows the VIN of every car, it knows who to send the bill to.

You could even have a Terminal at the entrence of the facility for those who want to prepay.

Why does the cars need to move?

Just build car charging coils into every parking spot, then have a computer keep track of what car arrived at what time, and give them an hour each of full charging sequentially.

Example

Car 1 parks in space A and starts charging, car 2 arrives shortly after and parks in space D, the computer logs the VIN and timestamp, placing it first in the queue. 30 min later car 3 arrives and parks in space B, the computer logs the VIN and time stamp, placing it second in the queue. Then car 2 leaves space D, the computer logs it and removes it from the queue, making car 3 first in line, then car 2 arrives back in space D, and is placed second in the queue since it left earlier.

No need to move tonnes of metal and batteries, just switching the power, a cheap and fair way to extend the number of charging spaces, while not overloading the circuit and ensuring that everyone gets a fair timeslot, all without having to risk dammage while moving the cars.

Ofcourse I am, that is my point, norms are subjective regarding your example it is a technicallity but you could absolutely argue that a guy slipping and falling is deviating from the norms of standing.

That is absolutely deviating from the norms, to the point of insanity

Cool quote, but incorrect.

What is considered a deviation from the norm is HIGHLY subjective, a society where the norm is to embrace new ideas would be the opposite of this quote.

Even a society with norms that are more conservative, progress is being made, though quite slow.

There are also times when norms have been challenged, and ended with disaster, just look at OceanGate’s Titan, Stockton Rush deviated from the norms of deep water submersibles, and no progress was made, meanwhile other subs built on existing norms have made a lot of progress

I remember back in 2014 or so, I found a YT channel about companies an tech with very high production values on their videos, they had several videos on Elon and his companies.

And in just about every time they spoke about Elon, they said it like this

Entrepreneur Elon Musk

It kinda became a weird mantra they repeated as if being an Entrepreneur made him some kind of expert.

I noticed that at the time, and it has pissed me off since.

Late to the party, but still have suggestions for people in your situation, looking for a decent laptop.

Look at refurbished laptops!

There are plenty of used laptops that can be found for a decent deal, with the only downsides being that the laptop will be slightly out of date (but can often be granted a new lease of life by upgrading the RAM, just make sure to read the specs to see if you can replace the RAM in the first place, and how much RAM you can use.

The power supply of your system looks to be limited to 300W, that will limit your GPU choice severely.

I had a look on Newegg, and it looks like you might be able to squeeze in an RTX3050, which would be a good upgrade, but personally, I would go for more RAM first.

You are limited to only DDR4 memory, but you can max it out with 32GB. I checked on Newegg, and you can get a kit from Crucial with two 16GB modules for less than 150USD:

https://www.newegg.com/crucial-32gb-ddr4-3200-cas-latency-cl22-desktop-memory-green/p/N82E16820156269

If we got back to your PSU, your power supply, here you need to verify if it is a standard PSU, computer manufacturers like Dell and HP will often use non standard power supplies, I don’t know about Acer, so you need to research that before you run out and buy a new PSU and GPU if you want something more powerful.

PR?

ME was a freak of software development, not an outright sadistic experience.

Eh, Vista itself wasn’t that bad, the issues stemmed from both marketing way to low quality devices as compatible, and developers getting used to UAC.

Also, Vista did not have the shitty new settings app.

Ever since Windows 8, Microsoft has shown to be a sadist.

Some people care more about being remembered as a good person after they have died rather than having the highscore when they die.

Look at Alfred Nobel, the entire reason for creating the Nobel prize was to try and rehabilitate his memory after having invented dynamite.

I could see something similar motivating modern billionaires.

Dear Mr. Bezos, instead of pushing for increased energy use to create more slop, how about making something truly meaningful?

You have the money to do a LOT good, you also have the resources and contact to actually do it.

Here is a suggestion:

Set up a fund with 10 billion USD, have it managed to produce a decent, but predictable return every year.

Take another billion USD, and fund a non-profit organization that will develop the following:

1. A semi autonomous garbage collecting boat, powered by solar power.
2. A mothership for number 1 with a processing facility that takes the garbage collected by a a fleet of the smaller crafts, basically dry it, filter the water and compact the dry gargabe.
3. A high power incinerator at a port that can burn the garbage at a very high temp.

At the end you should have a large fleet of the semi autonomous garbage collectors, a minimum of two motherships and a port side incinerator.

Deploy the garbage collectors and motherships to the great garbage patch and set to work cleaning up the surface.

As the initial funding for the company dries up the funding of the organization should come from the returns of the fund set up earlier.

The organization should accept donations and build more garbage collectors and motherships, and also develop new methods of collecting garbage from the oceans.

Water purification is a big problem, however water does not need to be treated to fulfill the standards for normal drinking water here, boiling collected rain water should be plenty good enough at the start.

Further up in the mountain we have soo many freshwater springs that most hikers don’t pack water as it is just dead weight.

Down here by the coast, fresh water springs does exist, but are way fewer.

Fair point

I am not too worried about heavy machines, they work at scale, but require a lot of infrastructure to keep running.

In an apocalypse, manpower will probably be the number one resource of work available, so basic tools is needed, after we have a source of food, security and shelter, we can start looking at researching/refining better tools, once basic needs are met.

I disagree.

Most doomsday preppers won’t really be prepared for a complete fall of society.

Most that I have seen ignore the need for cooperation snd focus on their own individual survival.

That is short term thinking.

Data hoarders are more like private libraries, they can for a long time distribute knowledge and media helping society as a whole.

A doomsday prepper like that, would focus on creating caches of standardized tools, I mean stuff like shovels, hammers, nails, screws, screwdrivers, files, plows, hoes, drills, saws, shoes, and more, so that they could organize a group of people to build a community.

Most preppers seem to just focus on their own survival in the short term, one of the dumbest things I have seen is the “doomsday vehicle” thing, that is just stupid. Get a simple, reliable car, put it in a garage, take it out once every other week for a good drive to keep it fresh, and leave it, that will do far better than any insane custom doomsday car.

I had a look at the system, and it is a commercial product, I would imagine that their customers have requested these features.

Since you are a customer, why not request your features to be added as well?

Or, better yet, since you have explained that creating an XMPP/Matrix module as an alternative to email requires no coding, and the plattform is open source, why not just slap it together yourself?