That does assume the Chinese housing market is the same as in many western countries though. But if so, bring it on.

Maybe just prosecute them for it immediately? Like how the fuck is letting that up even an option

FIFA, one of the most corrupt groups on the planet? I am shocked!

So I’ll just give friends a copy instead. Oh that is so much worse than having to share a DVD around…

GOG has been so much better than optical media for well over a decade at this point. You can’t easily backup your physical games. I can backup my game installers, not just GOG either but they are the most popular IIRC. But I got Factorio DRM free directly from Wube.

Doesn’t it depend on how much the ink actually costs though? If you can buy it by the gallon for pennies it doesn’t really matter that much.

I wonder how much cheaper ink could be made.

Second hand SSDs are getting kinda tempting tbh. But even they have seen their prices rise. Wish I bought all of the 512GB ones I saw for £10 each now. Got plenty of SATA ports, why shouldn’t I use them?

Years ago I was tempted to get a 4TB SSD for data storage as prices were getting reasonable and I just kept thinking wait for it to drop a bit more. Now 4TB HDDs are pushing the same price SSDs were back then. Fuck.

My PC is currently 512GB SSD boot drive and 3TB LVM from a 1/2TB HDD. Those HDDs are getting pretty old now so I probably should replace them at some point but I resent having to pay the prices they ask right now. Maybe I should just uninstall half of my steam library that I realistically won’t play any time in years or ever again. Reduce my storage needs. Data backups only take like 50GB or so.

Sure AC units are largely out of stock, this week. Buy one when they are available again over the following months. If you are only cooling a single room instead of an entire house (similar applies to heating tbh) the costs are not that high either.

True to a degree that is an issue too. I really need to get a window net so I can open the windows without letting the cat out. A powerful fan might also be useful as my current fan is getting old and a bit shit, bearings are probably a bit fucked.

At this point just buy a portable AC if you want it so badly. Yes they are mostly single hose units which are less efficient. But so what? The extra power bill is nothing to hotel tickets.

Not just brown people here, Romanian and Polish too in the UK.

Oh lovely… Sounds like Reform here in the UK then.

It also seems to be part of escalation from the far right. Before it was no more immigrants, now that immigration in the UK is coming down its turning into get rid of the immigrants already here.

Like helping refugees return home could be a decent reason that gets twisted to sound bad.

Probably isn’t, but it’s possible.

Yeah that is the other one I hear. But if they are fighting NATO they are surely just going to see millions more dead and leave Russia as even more of a shithole.

Sure, but can they go after Google and the shit they are doing to make installing APKs harder too

Because supporting genocide is abhorrent?

Most common theory I hear is they would feel better losing to NATO than losing to Ukraine.

Has kovarex really done anything that bad? This seems like a stupidly high standard. Like you can’t have ever said anything bad and if someone digs up a thing you said ages ago your are now outcast and anything you ever make must be banned. Fuck that.

When did kovarex do any of that? I just see a couple of out of context now deleted posts and conclusions drawn from them. Hardly militant fascist.