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Well see, a lot of businesses are B2B. Now yes for sure ultimately their customer’s customer’s customer is going to be a normal person. So eventually the lack of custom and with it, revenue will hit them. But, here’s the thing I’ve observed about large organisations (not just businesses). I liken their operation to be very similar to insects. That is, they don’t really plan ahead, they’re reactive purely to stimuli, and mainly just do “what the other orgs are doing” without thinking about the effect beyond the only horizons they can see. Month end, quarter end and year end. Anything after the end of their current financial year. They’re not even thinking about right now.

So, the point is, this logic while completely correct will fall on deaf ears.

Yeah. Pretty sure back in the 90s, no one actively used GiB. Well, MiB (not the will Smith one) more likely back then.

You said it was 8mb of memory and people knew, it would be the nearest power of 2. You’d say 120mb hdd, and well, going to be honest a lot of people said it was “formatting losses”. I don’t think most people were aware they were being fleeced back then.

This was my thought too. 64GB is 64GB (powers of 2) when it comes to RAM unlike storage media. So if it shows as less, something is allocating it at or before boot.

Time to pull a Trump and invade the Falklands as a distraction? (Again).

Yeah one of them was Debian 12 for sure.

I mean I updated my servers and some of them on LTS releases that were not the very latest one were still vulnerable after a reboot. Hence I disabled the module on those servers. So it’s worth checking your version definitely has a fix available.

Just to note, if you are on an LTS version (which many people running servers will be), it’s likely an upgrade will not solve this. In which case you should check your installed version and if not yet corrected, disable that module. For most people it is not used anyway.

Right. I mean I don’t know how far back we’d need to go to find a truly free market, possibly before we have the concept of money. I think fair is also too subjective for me to give any real definitive article for too.

I’m not writing a wikipedia article here[1]. Just writing a comment on what is just an internet forum.

[1] https://kbin.life/m/[email protected]/t/588402/CEO-pay-soared-in-2025-20-times-faster-than-workers/comment/7663743#entry-comment-7663743 “just a comment” posted to kbin.life, part of the threadiverse.

So. Ultimately, yes. But I think their hold on politicians all over the west has not loosened yet. But governments will need to do something at some point. Not least because if AI and robotics continues to remove the number of available roles humans are required for, and the number of humans needed for the roles that do remain we’ll reach a point where not enough tax is being paid. But in any case there is a definite feeling that while those that were middle class and above were safe until now, I would argue they’re targeting everyone who isn’t in the 1% now to try to siphon more upwards so that they can become the 0.1%.

Recall that the only trickle down economics that exists is the tax system. Those with money don’t pay tax. But they do pay the employees that pay taxes. Pretty much all the taxes. There will be a critical point where there will be too many people unemployed, or just not paid enough to be covering the cost of the benefits systems, especially those over here in Europe etc. It should be no surprise why those on the right that are seeking power and are backed by those with money, are also wanting to shut things down like the social healthcare system here in the UK as an example. Eventually these will collapse if things continue how they are.

Governments will need to collect money from those people they’ve always been happy to give a free ride. Either that, or there will be a revolution. Again, no surprise the richest people are building bunkers/otherwise finding hideaways for themselves. They know the end result of their way of life.

When talking about this, I generally say we’ve not hit the bottom yet. We’ve not reached the worst this will get yet. We have some way to go and things are likely to get pretty bad.

So in summary, yes it will be needed. Don’t hold your breath for seeing anything like that kind of action any time soon. It’ll take a lot more visible depravity before they’re forced to act.

It is, but when people talk about a free market preventing this. They would be right when there’s genuine competition. However at some point, there’s always going to be a better upside for those at the top to collaborate, in order to share the far far more cash they can extract from everyone below them when they do.

It’s just, it’s no longer fashionable to put on a face of decency. They’re full mask off now.

It would be true. Except this only works in a genuinely free market. We’ve not had a really free market for a long time now. The people at the top are just not competing as would be required to make an open and free market work.

It’s what I’ve said for a while. Businesses and business owners have always been greedy and would always sell their own mother for $1 more profit. What’s different now, is that there is zero downside to cutting headcount, cutting costs, and enshittifying a product. All of which achieve the outcome of more money at the top.

So, this is why many of us in the private sector have seen real world pay cuts for years now, all these top companies are shedding thousands of their headcount year on year, and we’re constantly paying more, for less, with way worse terms of use.

That the government of the most powerful country in the world is also aligned with the people responsible for this is just icing on their cake. They were already at it for some time before.

Well it’s also. Windows XP. There’s updates. Install them when you want to. Windows 10: There’s updates, install them soon unless it’s pro then install them when you want. Windows 11: Please install your updates, you have twenty seconds to comply. Windows 12: What’s that, you were in the middle of editing a file with 8 hours worth of edits? Tough I’m rebooting now bitch.

Now block Twitter for the whole of France. It’s the only correct thing to do.

I had to use cloudflare to stop AI crawlers from using like 60% of my 16 core server that runs this instance. They were spending that much time pulling fediverse content, multiple bots without and wait time between requests. You really think they’d reject epstein files but seek out our combined output?

Strawberry jam, when you want marmalade.

Well I was thinking more home users since this was what the post was about. Pretty sure data centres have solutions for this already with price tags that would make us cry.

At home I can see only edge cases where even going to 2.5 would be useful for us here anyway. Let alone more.

Now I’m sure as time passes demands will continue to increase and we’ll need more speed. But for now running 2.5/10 internally and 1gbit to the Internet is more than enough.

I’m pretty sure that nic cards for those speeds would really need more hardware offloading and dma to stand a chance of those speeds. With those it should be possible. With the right hardware handling there shouldn’t be a problem, ssds connected to pci manage a lot more.

In real terms, right now who needs it aside from to post speed test results?

I have gigabit symmetric and can upgrade to 2.5. But, I cannot imagine we’d need 2.5 let alone 10 or 25. And I’m a fairly heavy user.

Was it Sarah Connor?