That is a good idea just so that you don’t have to think about any potential privacy issues. Your email could be {firstword}{secondword}{4 numbers} and so long as the words and numbers are randomly generated, you can avoid accidentally including personal references or biases.

Your username does not need to be high-entropy, though. It will be semi-public. So it’s not about strength against dictionary attack or similar, it is just about leaving the selection process up to a random process that isn’t witnessed by a third party. You can write scripts that will generate these kinds of things using Python and the faker library.

You get more phone per phone

You can buy games in other platforms and as a result have actual proper copies that you can download and keep indefinitely. With Steam you are buying a restricted license to download and use games, and it is very convenient, but at the end of the day you can lose access for various reasons. A common one is that the upstream developers or company decide to break something. For example, companies that add DRM or account requirements after you already bought the game.

If you buy games from some other places like GoG you get the full game files intended to be archived and run like any other program. GameVault makes it easier to organize these games and get some of the convenience of Steam back while using games you properly own.

You will not gain much from reencoding or compressing these kinds of files. They are already compressed in a way purpose-built for their application. If you have source materials, like blu-ray discs, you can reencode with more aggressive h.265 settings. But this will probably not do better than shrink 5-30%.

It is usually a better use of time and resources to get more storage.

I’m so glad the new captain resolved that transporter accident problem for us! What a challenging moral quandary that was for a couple days.

has been built with massive debts

While they have been financed it has not resulted in substantial long term debts.

no immediate commercial viability

Lmao. This is public infrastructure not a business grift.

When the private sector is in charge of things like this they do it worse and at higher expense btw.

Not a million miles away from Victorian railway companies in London building lines for, hoped for, future demand.

Very different, actually.

I hope it works out, but there is for sure a risk of it becoming a millstone.

I’m sure the Redditor that thinks public infrastructure needs commercial viability has plenty of useful lectures for the Chinese state on how to drive production and transportation.

While this is true it is not because China has deviated from socialist theory, including that of Marx and Enfels. China is a dictatorship of the proletariat as described by Marx and Engels as the necessary precursor to communism. It is also taking a very specific strategy towards imperialism that involves special economic zones, or capitalism zones, in order to build productive forces while also coupling the well-being of imperialist countries to China’s ability to produce.

Communism will never be achieved by a state and no state has ever expected to do so. The idea that any country ever could use a category error, it means a person doesn’t understand the term at all as used by Marx a d Engels. It is, by definition, stateless, and could only happen after all states are eventually abolished. But again, being practical people, they expected this to happen through a long process of struggle with dictatorships of the proletariat being what socialists first formed and could use to overturn the capitalist order

They are identical except for that bit of text. Easy to miss!

Cool people call cops pigs. The comic is saying that the national guard and Marines are also cops, and pigs.

The Black Panthers were targeted by cops, assassinated by cops. States would call in the national guard to violently crush protests and direct actions, such as for civil rights. Marines are the extension of state violence overseas where they act like cops (state violence) enforcing the interests of the US state externally, e.g. mass killing Vietnamese people.

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Oh yes, sorry if I implied giving these particular people a break. I was speaking more generally but miscommunicated. The people you mentioned should all be banned in my opinion.

I’m sorry you’ve had to experience that transphobia on Lemmy. It is unfortunately common. And sometimes it even lurks as internalized transphobia in people that do not think of themselves as transphobjc. For example, there are Lemmy instances that actually promote chasers.

I believe all instances if transphobia should be called out and obvious examples should result in bans. Sometimes it is good to let people have a chance to accept criticism and retract but I am biased towards more often banning. Comments that are transphobic should also be removed.

It sounds like you aren’t in a place to decide whether to engage or not, and aren’t asking for help, so I will assist you by ignoring the replies you make for the next day or two.

If, after that, you would like to have a good faith engagement, I’d be happy to do so.

You say you don’t want to engage, but you keep replying. Can I help you with this is any way?

1. Are you sure you want a mini PC? You will need a display. If you carry a display around with you it’s just as awkward as a laptop. If you don’t carry a display around you won’t be able to use your computer on the go. You will also have to plug into walls or buy a battery pack that outputs the tight voltage.

2. Supply chains for computers are opaque. You’d need to go inspect the factory yourself, basically. An alternative is to buy used, which slightly distances you from the consumption.

Personally I’d say to look into a used thinkpad. If you definitely want a mini PC, look into a used 1 liter business PC like the ThinkCentre M series. The slightly older models can be purchased on eBay for around $130.

If you don’t want to engage, then you should probably stop replying.

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They didn’t mention it so why would I address it? You don’t seem particularly ready to have a good faith discussion, either.

Please engage in good faith

lmao