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DarkAri

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  • Flying cars take off in China as state backs low-altitude air travel

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  • I did some numbers on this one time and to get a 3000 lb vehicle airborne in VTOL requires about 1000-1500 HP and 2000 HP to really be safe. 2000 HP is about the point where you get a 2:1 TWR and get more drone like behavior including fast stops and redundancy. It also takes a ton of fuel to power 2000 HP worth of engine(s), so realistically this 3000 lb 1400 KG car would need wings or something to get good fuel economy.

    In order to power these beasts, especially within the weight requires turbine engines which are expensive. Somewhere around 100k on the lower end. Two 1200 HP jet turbines would be good but would probably cost around 150-200k in America anyways. 2000 HP is also going to use close to a gallon per minute of fuel. So take offs and landings outside of runways would be a bit costly.

    You would also need autopilot features in controlled airspace or people would be crashing into buildings and stuff within cities.

    It's a cool idea but there are many practical reasons why flying cars won't really work rn. The technology exists but it's expensive and hard to maintain and dangerous and also can be very loud.

  • Don't Delete Your Data - POISON IT INSTEAD

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  • I have been poisoning all data I generate for decades since I was a kid. I knew even back in like 2000 that the government is probably spying on people and that they would one day use AI or bots to try to influence people or read their minds. I always use different info on every site. It's not just surveillance by the pedo state but also protecting your identity and stuff.

  • Hey capitalism how's it goin?

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  • No it's that everything is expensive and life is a lot of work but capitalism can't make people fall in love so instead it will try to give birth through corpses.

  • What are the options if my country makes VPN's illegal?

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  • You could buy a webserver outside the country and set up your own VPN software or something. I think there are forms that look like https.

    You should probably try to tell at least one person a week to never vote for those people again and try to resist your oppressive state in every way you can without getting yourself in trouble or hurt.

    Also try to do anything you can that they don't want. If the powerful people in your country want something, try to oppose them. Don't let them just shit in you and get away with it.

  • Valve's new Steam Machine and Steam Frame and implications for Linux

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  • The biggest issue with Linux phones, is that basically every hardware manufacturer refuses to support Linux in any kind of way. Chipsets, and radios in particular. Linux itself needs a little optimization for mobile but it's mostly hardware.

    It's really difficult to port Linux to any android device, despite being perfectly compatible in every way outside of drivers.

    The x86 to arm is very cool. I do some stuff like this on my phone by running winlator. It works better on snapdragon because it has a better video translation layer.

  • Valve launches the Steam Next Fest right on Windows 10 EOL because they hate me, specifically.

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  • It's an excellent first choice if you are a bit of a noob on Linux and are primarily or even moderately interested in gaming. I tried many Linux distros in the past, but bazzite was the one where I finally settled into Linux long term. I've been on Linux for nearly 4 years now and I'm finally getting my first Linux phone. There are many other great OSes of course but they often don't include the proprietary drivers needed to get good gaming performance on Nvidia, and they don't come with the whole environment set up for gaming out of the box.

    Other cool options are, Alpine, for a really tiny Linux system with a light c lib, Debian for a really simple Linux system, cachey which can give you a few percentage points more performance which could be useful in certain contexts like heavy data processing or gaming on a potato, Ubuntu if you like their stuff which is meant to be a bit more user friendly. Mint is supposed to be more familiar to windows users, but I like bazzite with KDE. I have such a hard time setting Linux up to do what I want, like play games. I love valve in general, they are a single good company in an ocean of shit. Linux in general has a real issue with people making shell apps but not going the extra mile to make a user interface, and bazzite just skips most of this for you to be sort of a windows XP of Linux. My brain just does not work that way. I'm partially deaf so to me the whole world is visual not logical. Shell tools work better for people who are more blind and dream in language and stuff. Language is a bit unintuitive to me, but spatial things are very natural to me. I really suck with shells and setting up environments, but I'm good at modeling and even writing really clever code in a mathematical and geometric sense, just not understanding shell stuff. I always recommend bazzite as a first distro because it mostly just works out of the box without needing to go full hackerman on it for 72 hours only to break it because you don't understand Linux yet.

  • South Korea bans phones in school classrooms nationwide

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  • Whether you are even capable of learning stuff depends entirely on your genetics and epigendtics. Only a few students in any one area will ever retain much knowledge. The thing that actually determines how well your society becomes, tends to be things like how happy the childhood of your citizens are. Very few people ever seek knowledge long term within a healthy lifestyle. School for most kids is just a way to babysit them while the parents work long shifts for corporations.

    The tragedy is the kids in south korea hardly get a childhood at all. They stay in ultra competative schools during the day, only to be shuttled off to cram schools in the evening. They are not even human beings in the eyes of their own parents. They exist soley to fullfill the dreams of their parents, which is to hopefully work hard enough to become some executive for one of the seveal corporations that almost completly own the South Korean Economy.

    Many of these kids, like many in South Korea will grow up to be massivly depressed alchoholics and workaholics. Never having much of a life beyond serving their managers. This comes out in several ways in the character of Koreans. Many of them are incredibly dark people. Thats why media like the squid games is so popular over there. Behind the venure of a very productive and industrious society where most forgo almost all of their individuality, never even having a childhood. Behind it lies so many incredibly dark and deeply depressed people traped within a virtual prison of wealth and status.

    People like this would maybe end up ruling the world, given they work so much, and so hard, yet with their childhood also dies their soul. Their creativity dies, their dreams die, their human spirit is deminished in the hell they create and call progress. The parts of their dna that make them human, slowly whither away under hyper corporatism. Just like everything else in their society a child is nothing more then property. An investment by corporations. A robot that is as equally bland as it is numb. Never does anyone in a society like that actually consider that maybe they dont have a right to dictate every little aspect of their childs life in order to promote what they believe a child should be. So those that feel, those that see deeply the lights in the city nights. Those that see beauty. They die away as the human race regresses day by day.

    South Korea has always been a deeply disturbing place to me. A place that is truely inhumane, yet such a beautiful place as well. Behind every woman who looks likes a flight attendent, and every man wearing a suit or dress clothes, is a society which has almost no creativity and soul. No individualism. No happiness. No relationships. Everything is about efficency, everything is about materialism. All the money in the world doesnt matter if you don't get to fall in love with someone, and have dreams, and watch your kids play and be happy. What is even the point of life it is nothing but work, followed by a few hours a drinking before crashing out for the night, and starting it all over again?