yeah, you’re right. i don’t have an innate wish to put myself in the kitchen for nothing, is what i’m saying. i would do it anyways if it would benefit anyone but it just doesn’t really.

not having money is not specific to capitalism. but that everything costs money, is. including food

it’s mostly material cost, it’s described in more detail in the paper. it has nothing to do with economies of scale because we’re already installing massive amounts of cables today. there is a connection to the grid level (high-power lines are cheaper than low-powered ones) though.

Still, I bet my favorite hat that once you consider the externalities and conversion losses the transmission lines are a clear winner. The electrical grid really only causes fires when its neglected, whereas gas infrastructure leaks constantly.

nah electrical lines have significant losses. iirc from memory, 500 miles transmission over cables, you lose like 30% of your energy. gas leaks but not that much.

roommate + pre-cooked (by the supermarket) food

Monetizing everything is inherent in capitalism, though

nah. there’s “limited capitalism” where only parts of society are monetized, like heavy industries. it’s neoliberalism that monetizes everything. this means that if you want childcare, you pay for it. in earlier decades/centuries, that was done by the wife / community.

no money -> problems -> mental health problems

hah, you would have thought that. but you know what, every time somebody illegally downloads a copy of a video game, the game company loses $10. now, if you download the game 500 times, the company loses $5k. do you realize what this means? you can just steal content infinitely many times and make infinite amounts of money with it. infinite money glitch.

yeah i don’t have a fridge

or rather it’s constantly full

you can also go in veganspace (touch grass)

it depends a lot on the website

1 user on peertube consumes more bandwidth than 100 users on lemmy

well, i’ve posted quite a lot of original memes here.

you know what, we could do proof-of-work on the client side to prevent scrapers.

bots have to solve 1 cryptographic puzzle to load the website. if you’re human, you load maybe 10 websites and it’s barely worth mentioning. but if you’re a bot trying to scrap 1 million websites? the energy expenses are prohibitive.

i would love to cook more if there was anybody actually eating the food. i’m not cooking for myself, i eat 3 bites and am full.

that’s only the cost for transport though, you have to consider all costs

what’s not included, for example, is the cost of giving the money to the dictators that control the area where oil is ectracted. IMHO, giving $1 to a dictator is significantly worse than giving $1 to any other person

an image, technically, is an array of pixels. specifically a 2-dimensional array. this means, it’s just a long list of lists of pixels. so if you have a 1920x1080 image, it’s just a list of 1080 lists of 1920 pixels each.

each pixel, again, is a tuple (i.e. a list with fixed length) of numbers which specify the brightness of red / green / blue lamp. so if you want to display a yellow pixel, the data would be (1.0, 1.0, 0.0) which turns red and green on and blue off.

so if you have a 1920x1080 image, technically you have 1920*1080*3 ≈ 6 million numbers. each number takes 32-bit, you can read it here

at this point, “text” becomes a meaningless characteristic

no, nice take though

so you’re right that text, audio and video are important data types. if you look at peripheral devices of computers, you can find: keyboard, printers, microphone, speakers, camera, screen. they put text / audio / video data in / out of the computer. so there’s that

however, internally, databases are incredibly important. basically everything inside the computer is organized in databases if it’s not some media that’s displayed to the user directly. therefore, a lot of files are database files (sqlite3 files mostly). they’re tabular data and you can watch them with sqlite3 command line program.

step 1. you take a piece of paper
step 2. you paint a picture of what you think the landscape looks like from above
step 3. you add names and descriptions to all the small icons that you just drawed

how much money does google make? billions of dollars a year

most of it comes from manipulating your opinion, one way or another.