Steam can do massive numbers spikes because they have essentially infinite inventory. The whole reason scalping video cards works is that Nvidia can not make as many as people want, even at full retail price. The existence of scalpers implies that Nvidia could raise prices, sell slightly fewer units at higher margin and get greater total return.
Jan 5 2026 is the day her pension vests: 5 years of service.
If she were in it for the power, she’d use her new role as ‘maverick’ in the GOP’s razor-thin margin to play kingmaker.
If she were in if for the money, she’d retire as soon as her pension vests.
If she were Truly Awakened, she’d resign as soon as she learned she’s been tainted by a toxic system.
Great project. I like the 1-star reviews complaining about the lack of advertising and tracking.
Caring about ARs is a “minimum performative effort” initiative. They’re generally an expensive, niche firearm, so banning them actually impacts few people, but they’re scary-looking, “military” weapons. AR bans are most likely to get public support, regardless of any actual impact on gun deaths. It’s the firearm version of a transgender bathroom ban.
US national average is $2.85. https://gasprices.aaa.com/
If you want it to be an actual community service, then you want it to be something that outlives your residence, your tenure as event coordinator, and your interest in being the neighborhood IT guy. It’ll be much easier to transfer control of a VPS to your successor than to give them hardware that also hosts a bunch of your personal services.
You can start with a very small, nearly free VPS while you recruit users & scale up as (if) anyone bites. Probably even get the HOA to pay for it.
They definitely didn’t redact Bill Clinton: he features prominently in this first tiny slice of documents. Almost like they’ve cherry picked docs that would be worst for Dems while protecting their friends.
How do you do the shocked Pikachu emoji?
Members of your own party trying to force a vote to extend Obamacare subsidies? Send 'em home!
Georgia still has among the lowest per-kWh tariffs in the country, at $0.086/kWh (0.0806 in winter). Plus $14/month service charge and 20% taxes & fees. Compare California at $0.40/kWh.
This is my problem, too. I’ve gotten so entrained to hoard resources and make gold go up. I explore enough planets to put mines for every resource next to teleporters, then I run around the teleporters collecting resources until the overflow my storage. I’m a little jealous of people who have the creativity and attention to build big, elaborate bases with all of those resources - they look cool, it must feel very rewarding to see them develop, but if it’s not utilitarian, I can’t motivate myself.
Of course, I’ve got probably 200 hours hoarding resources…
I got my Pi4 to be a media player - LibreElec or Kodi - for my old, not-smart TV. It plays my library of CDs&DVDs, frontend for OTA TV, and a variety of streaming services. Fanless, so it doesn’t distract from audio, low power, so I don’t mind leaving it on 24/7. You can configure it to listen to a USB IR receiver, but I control mine from phone via web. The actual media library/NAS and tvheaded run on an old desktop in another room.
My favorite thing is all the sensors you can hook up. Adafruit & Sparkfun have a wide array of sensors with breakout boards for simplicity and well documented python libraries. I started just logging temperature, humidity, then air quality, CO2 to my own database and web page, but eventually expanded to full HomeAssisstant system.
Pihole.
SATA is really convenient for larger storage, though. I keep my OS on nvmes, but I’ve got a couple of SATA drive and a hot swap bay for games, media, etc.
Also how I got my favorite color shirt.
I kept reading r/Eve for years after winning. Seemed to slow down after the casino war, then the Mittani left. Just today I see that Pandemic Horde is disbanding.
Considering that it cost him nothing to create the coins, I’d say he and his fellow top-holders have gained $4.8B. The 20% they’ve already converted to cash, mostly in the beginning, north of $25, is another $6B. When you’re selling a stock of free bytes, it really doesn’t matter what the rubes are willing to pay each other in the secondary market. They’ve already cashed out: anything left is just gravy.
Good time to be a grifter; good time to be an extortionist; good time to be a politician with his own cryptocurrency. Nothing else is real.
Tandoor: I ended up there because it has an API that I can access and cross-reference to my grocer (Kroger.com also has API) to get current pricing, calculate recipe costs, nutrient costs, or find what’s on special this week. It’s theoreticcally possible, but I haven’t sorted out how to integrate that directly into tandoor & its shopping lists.
I saw Marques Brownlee’s review of the Xiaomi SU7 yesterday, and the contrast with this Lucid review is amazing. MB spent his time gushing over how amazing and bug-free the software was, how great the UI/UX, and all the little quality-of-life details in the hardware and design.
Hey, I’ve been reading where a couple 5 pound bags of sugar in a concrete mixer will greatly delay setting, and may or may not significantly compromise the strength. A few liters of cola may be even worse.