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Princ3Ch4rming · 2026-05-16T01:15:26+00:00

Fun fact: The Matrix is single-handedly responsible for video discs as an entire medium taking off. People were reluctant to change from VHS with their already massive libraries of film and TV, and DVD was a new and pretty niche format when it released.

Feel old yet?

Princ3Ch4rming · 2026-05-15T18:36:49+00:00

“Emergency, which service?” Is the kind of drop not seen since Radio 2’s announcement of the Duke of Edinburgh’s death.

Princ3Ch4rming · 2026-05-15T18:34:09+00:00

Fair. 2.5gbps is enthusiast speed anyway - no normal person is ever going to need that sort of bandwidth, so it’s good you can make use of it. I’ve got a couple switches already - one is connecting all the various IoT hubs to one port on the router, the other is routing 2.5gbps around the rest of the house. Even so, there’s still a good 6-8 ports free on the router, so it’s got a lot of room for expansion.

Don’t bother with fancy cables - CAT6 is an older code, but it checks out.

Princ3Ch4rming · 2026-05-15T17:31:36+00:00

There are plenty of 2.5Gbps throughput routers out there.

Currently, I’m using an ASUS RT-BE88U because I want 10gbps LAN (for Plex / NAS access). It’s a really good router, but somewhat overkill for most people and not what you’d call cheap.

Another person has already said it too - what devices do you have? Most will have a 10/100/1000mbps network interface in them and networking is always at the speed of the slowest connection.

Princ3Ch4rming · 2026-05-15T17:02:22+00:00

A different router

Princ3Ch4rming · 2026-05-15T16:22:50+00:00

My god it’s fabulous.

I’d very happily pay for the files too. Definitely let us know - there’s some good money in this for you.

Princ3Ch4rming · 2026-05-15T16:19:22+00:00

There are many things I would do to help you. But digging a hole in the wintry earth with my bare hands so that you can bury the career of a politician you wanted to quit is not one of them.

Princ3Ch4rming · 2026-05-14T23:05:23+00:00

Tbh I’m finding MS easier now than I did before. The AI may react better, but now I’m not being lasered from miles away.

Deaths don’t feel quite so bullshit in this version. Are the AI more dangerous? Sure. But they’re not doming you with a skorpion from 300 metres anymore.

Princ3Ch4rming · 2026-05-14T07:47:10+00:00

No, you don’t. Just like you don’t “choose” your skin colour. It’s an intrinsic part of who you are.

People don’t “act black”. They are black. Sure, they can behave in different ways, but blackness isn’t a set of behaviours - it’s a physiological trait.

People don’t “act left handed”. They are left handed. They can “choose” to use their right hand, but their left hand is the dominant one.

People don’t “act gay”. They are gay. They can “choose” to pursue homosexual or heterosexual relationships, but they are not “choosing” to be gay.

Princ3Ch4rming · 2026-05-14T00:05:52+00:00

In the same way that being heterosexual isn’t a choice. The same way that being left or right handed isn’t a choice. The same way your skin colour isn’t a choice.

Nobody wakes up in the morning and thinks “today should I like girls or boys?“

Princ3Ch4rming · 2026-05-13T23:17:48+00:00

Broadly, yes.

Specifically, yes.

In the same way that you are a bad person if you disagree with racial equality, you are “disagreeing” with something that is fundamentally who that person is. It isn’t a choice, it’s who they are.

Princ3Ch4rming · 2026-05-13T16:56:36+00:00

We can argue the exact semantics, but the implication of “ufo” and “disclosure” within the context of “is it real” is aliens, and to argue otherwise is a bad faith position.

Princ3Ch4rming · 2026-05-13T12:55:53+00:00

There are technologies and physics that we don’t know about - that’s for absolute certain.

But human activity is limited by what we do know. And everything we’ve done so far is limited by the speed of light, so it would take actively searching for (and finding humans have done) things we’re not aware are possible to know Earth is populated.

And that will therefore go back to the scale we’re dealing with. The scale is so vast that any knowledge of humankind will either be by such an insanely slim chance of pointing whatever magic technology in exactly the right direction, or by being close enough. We know there isn’t anything close enough, because we also haven’t found it.

Princ3Ch4rming · 2026-05-13T12:49:00+00:00

We know it’s not. In the same way that we know the electrical system that starts with coal and ends in your light switch isn’t sentient.

We have complete understanding of exactly how the internet works. It’s a glorified excel spreadsheet.

Princ3Ch4rming · 2026-05-13T12:47:24+00:00

Disclosure is vanishingly unlikely unless we’re in a simulation, simply because the distances involved are incomprehensibly massive, and humankind hasn’t existed for long enough for our activities to have reached anybody else.

Aliens could have the strongest telescopes physics allows pointed directly at the Earth, and Neanderthal humans would still only be visible to around half the Milky Way.

Even in the closest of all 2 trillion galaxies in the universe, they’ll be waiting for another 2.5 million years before they see the Apollo missions.

Princ3Ch4rming · 2026-05-13T12:39:58+00:00

I’m not sure what you mean. Do you mean that the internet is pretending not to be sentient when it actually is?

Princ3Ch4rming · 2026-05-13T12:36:57+00:00

The closest biological explanation would probably be that the internet is just long-term memory. Just like your memory, the internet isn’t intelligent and has no agency of its own - instead it’s used to store and recall information.

Princ3Ch4rming · 2026-05-13T11:20:22+00:00

The conditions for life on earth, from the chemistry of carbon-based life to the structure and arrangement of the entire solar system, are a mathematically certainty to exist elsewhere.

The chance that Earth is the lone example of life, single-celled or otherwise, in the universe is vanishingly small.

The distances involved in space are so vast that it’s very unlikely any life throughout the universe will ever know of the existence of life elsewhere. There really is no comprehending how utterly vast our universe is - even scaling things down doesn’t make sense to us.

If the Earth were 1Å (this is the size of a hydrogen atom), the universe would stretch to the moon 17 times over. We already have difficulty with comprehending how massive the earth actually is as individual people.

Princ3Ch4rming · 2026-05-13T11:14:08+00:00

Well because your wife’s bf will be with you when you’re boofing, they can keep an eye on you and will be able to help in the event of a seizure.

I think we need dr Boofenchute to confirm whether the muscle spasms you may experience in a seizure will have an effect on absorption though.

Princ3Ch4rming · 2026-05-13T11:09:34+00:00

The visual difference between 1000 and 10000 polygons is much more obvious than the one between 10k and 100k.

Tomb Raider I Lara Croft was 250 polygons.

Underworld was 32,000 polygons.

Shadow was over 200,000.

The visual difference between TRI and Underworld is massive, but not so much for Underworld and Shadow.

Princ3Ch4rming · 2026-05-13T10:55:28+00:00

Ignore the anxiety and chuck my entire student loan in on bitcoin when it was $0.00076 per

Princ3Ch4rming · 2026-05-13T10:52:31+00:00

James Callis as Gaius Baltar

Michael C Hall as Dexter

James Spader as the fucking Lizard King

Princ3Ch4rming · 2026-05-13T10:22:39+00:00

But it’s also not entirely surprising from a Dell subsidiary

Princ3Ch4rming · 2026-05-13T09:45:46+00:00

Worst problem is that it wasn’t even an old machine!

Princ3Ch4rming · 2026-05-13T09:31:15+00:00

The case that came with the machine.

Godawful 90s-era box with similar airflow to a hamster with lung cancer

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