I know cars with monthly payments greater than my bikes entire lifetime cost.

More niche interests, less politics. A niche community could move to Lemmy instead of hosting their own forum for example. Either hosting their own instance or using an existing one.

Still got a 16GB i7-4790k system in the loft. No PSU as moved that when upgrading. I expect motherboards are a bit difficult to get hold of for DDR3 systems now.

1/3? My bike costs far less than that compared to cars.

What about 2 bikes tied together? Now it has 4 wheels

I thought netanyahu still won, just the largest minority rather than an outright majority?

Been gaming on Linux for over 15 years at this point. Fuck, some people I knew back then have kids that old now.

Linux gaming is better than ever and seems to always be improving. Indie games that run on pretty low spec hardware also extend the lifespan of old hardware a lot.

Not a massive fan of steak, not that I dislike it but it doesn’t seem special and as its so expensive I don’t buy it.

If I want to spend lots I would get a bunch of different types of cheese, biscuits and chutneys. But then I would also find it way too easy to eat in excess of 1000kcal as a snack so I don’t do that very often.

Maybe my standards are low, but I don’t really see the problem with fried beans and rice with veg like peas, sweetcorn, onions as a meal. Splash of something like soy sauce, hoisin, sweet chili jam or hot honey. Its delicious.

The rent is too damn high guy has a point. Lower housing costs and even if you change nothing else, cost of living becomes far easier to manage.

Well living on the south coast is more affordable than London, air is a bit cleaner too. Downside is lots of reform scum.

Council tax is something each household has to pay, houses are in different bands depending on their price in the 90s. Though the tax range is fairly narrow compared to the value range of houses. House could be 100x the cost of mine yet the tax would barely be 3x as much.

Those food prices sound interesting. In the UK its the reverse. Farmers markets cost a fortune but Aldi costs fuck all.

We are not being overly frugal with food and it still usually costs under £30/week for 2 of us. If we wanted to be frugal I would probably cut out the meat and cheese to replace with grains which would half our spending.

What does fixing the system look like though? Far too many people seem to just want to consume unsustainably and would do so even more if they could.

How much does someone need?

Yes, some at the bottom really should have more. But there are many in the middle who should consume less and will justify it by comparing to those at the top who are even worse.

UK, depends who you talk to. Russian bots would have you believe everything is falling apart. London is also really expensive.

I live on the south coast, even on minimum wage I have never struggled. As long as you can find stable employment you will have enough money to be comfortable. Honestly, I don’t even know what to spend my money on.

Approx monthly bills, 900 mortgage (fuck you Liz truss), 175 council tax, 80 electricity, 120 food, 22 internet. Water is on a 6 month cycle and costs some mid 2 figure number each time so that is barely anything.

So about 1300/month. That is for 2 of us, £650/month each, or £7800/year. Minimum wage is about £25k.

4 day work week. Entire day savings.

Its at times like this I am almost glad windows is shit. I could run a decent Linux gaming machine on the windows 11 bare minimum specs.

Consider a voice assistant device

Sounds like spyware to me.

I meant physical stock rather than stock market. If you could sell a graphics card today for £1k but it looks like if you wait it will be worth less then you will want to try and sell it before it drops.

Plus over time newer hardware comes out which is faster and then your existing stock becomes worth less due to having to compete with the new stuff. You bought all this stock and you want to make a profit or keep losses down.

Lol it’s dropping even more? What is causing it. I would love to see some of the big data harvesters collapse.

Not a bad idea, but as I mostly like making my own so my collection currently is about 15 bottles of plum mead, couple apple mead and a couple of cider.

What about when they know their stock is losing value