One’a these days, Alice…

He’ll probably feel right at home in Klantee.

That is you can take the heat and radiate it into space as Infrared radiation. IR radiation is able to travel through space as it is made of photons.

I’m not sure how effective this would be for the amount of heat generated by servers, but it’s not actually fully disqualified as I thought it would be.

This is how the International Space Station deals with waste heat: https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/473486main_iss_atcs_overview.pdf

It’s very slow compared with convective cooling, definitely not practical for running any high-powered computer hardware, slow enough that it can be considered disqualified.

Every obscure website was a passion project. Forums were mainly for people being enthusiastic about something.

Though as a side note, those forum discussions would go on for years, with possibly months in between new posts. Enthusiast forums were mostly small communities with only a handful of users adding content.

Here on the Fediverse we have similar small communities sustained by small groups of active posters, but it feels like most users lose interest in posts and comment discussions very quickly, usually less than a day.

I guess my point is that one of the aspects of the Internet of the 90s/00s is that it wasn’t immediate, and people tended to show more patience with each other and with the technology. Even an IRC conversation might stretch out over days or weeks, especially if you were talking to someone multiple time zones away.

Neocities: https://neocities.org/browse!

Webrings: https://www.brisray.com/web/webring-list.htm

Usenet: https://www.spocket.co/blogs/what-is-usenet

Zombo: https://zombo.com/

Chans: https://allchans.org/ but also… here be monsters… lots of unmoderated content, NSFW, NSFL, etc

Also:

The Internet wasn’t just in everyone’s pocket all the time. Frequently, using a computer network was an activity that you did with other people in the same room, e.g. in the Computer Lab (computers were expensive and complicated and not every room in a school or office would have the necessary power or communications wiring, so all the computers were kept in one special room) or an Internet Cafe (not everyone had Internet-capable wiring at home, so you might go to a business that offered Internet-connected computers as a service just to check your email) or a LAN Party (people used to physically haul their beige boxes, CRT monitors and network devices to a place to meet, connect and play games together - frequently just someone’s garage). You went to a specific place to use the Internet, typically with other people around, and then when you left the place you left the Internet also, it didn’t just follow you around everywhere all the time.

There’s a community for that! https://sh.itjust.works/c/youtubeclassics

Too many movies with cute friendly anthropomorphized animals, not enough real-world experience.

slugs

It’s the weekend!

Time to relax and watch some… Netflix!

the age of indie film has begun

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Yes, but it might gain other buffs to Charisma between now and 24 months. Charisma is forced to 1 at 24 months regardless.

Again, “convenient” is very different from “my kids are starving”.

Yes, that’s my point. A person in that situation cannot afford to go on strike indefinitely. They need whatever income they can get.

If you want people in such situations to join the strike, then the community support for their needs must be available and provided up front. Not for like a day or two, but for however many months or years it takes them to find a new source of income after they get fired from their job for going on strike for weeks.

“It sucks” is a very far stretch from “my 3-year-old hasn’t eaten in 2 days”.

All you’re telling me so far is that you have no real experience in being responsible to provide care for other people, which means that you have no business telling other people what they can or can’t afford in their lives.

That is great.

But it’s not a substitute for a grocery store, not for a town of 5,000 people. It won’t be anytime soon.

Yeah, OK. Come on down off your high horse and tell that to a single mother with 3 kids and a rented trailer.

The person I replied to was talking about staying on strike until the situation changes significantly. That is not something a parent can afford to do.

Or were you offering to buy food for their children?

Easy for young single people who have limited responsibilities and enough money to cover rent and food for a month or two.

Very difficult for anyone supporting a family and/or living paycheck to paycheck. Impossible for anyone in an economic situation where they need to work two jobs just to keep a roof over their head.

How about some of that personal responsibility we’ve heard so much about from the right?