{"id":3755,"date":"2024-08-24T11:49:29","date_gmt":"2024-08-24T10:49:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.danijel.org\/blog\/?p=3755"},"modified":"2024-08-24T11:49:29","modified_gmt":"2024-08-24T10:49:29","slug":"musings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danijel.org\/blog\/musings\/","title":{"rendered":"Musings"},"content":{"rendered":"

You might wonder why I\u2019m not writing comments about the war, since there\u2019s quite a bit going on. The answer is simple: I\u2019m learning from Gonzalo Lira\u2019s experience (especially the part about dying in prison where they scraped his eyeballs to force him to write to his family to give them his money), and there\u2019s a serious crackdown on free speech in the West, where all the free people with their own opinions might be picked up in the middle of the night and sent to unknown directions, while AI bots keep writing generic online stuff under their names<\/a>. Also, I think I already wrote quite a bit and anyone who followed it so far will be informed enough to draw their own conclusions.<\/p>\n

Also, there\u2019s quite a bit of sunspot activity<\/a> going on. In fact, it\u2019s a 20-year record or something, which means something might flare up really badly at any point, and disrupt satellite communications and surveillance, and in fact be misinterpreted for a hostile action. With global political tensions this high, this might trigger a SHTF event, especially if one or several sides decide to attack the enemy satellites and say \u201coh, it wasn\u2019t us blasting it with a laser, it was a CME\u201d.<\/p>\n

I noticed many people burying their heads in the sand, trying to pretend none of this is going on, or even going as far as living in some parallel reality from books or something, where the world isn\u2019t taken over by malevolent totalitarians and the technological layer they control, or unplugging from the news and basically just minding their own local business. Yeah, good luck with that. This world was always shit; it\u2019s just that there are periods when it\u2019s more visibly shit, so it\u2019s harder to delude oneself, but people seem to just try harder at those times.<\/p>\n

I also noticed that the \u201cprogressives\u201d everywhere, and especially in the tech circles, have gone absolutely bat-shit crazy<\/a>. Not only is Linux not a trustworthy and viable alternative to the crazies infesting the American big tech corporations, it actually seems to be on the forefront of crazy, where the hysterical pro-trans, pro-gay, anti-white, anti-male lunatics are trying to purge the open-source community of everyone who is not a raving lunatic, there have been cases of actual malware infiltrated into the open-source projects, such as that anti-Russian IP-based thing. I would actually expect shit such as trojans that encrypt or wipe your filesystem based on what some AI thinks your political position is, to become a thing soon. Everything that comes from America reeks of insanity, satanism and evil. May God please save us.<\/p>\n

Furthermore, it seems that some aspects of computer technology actually peaked-out somewhere around 2022, and the new stuff is expensive, hot and sometimes quite unreliable. This also seems to apply to cars \u2013 the new ones are overpriced and shit, and I\u2019m holding on to mine until the wheels come off. On the other hand, you can get a used laptop from 2019 for trivial amounts, and that\u2019s 8th<\/sup> gen Intel that runs Win11 great and already has a license. I recently bought a Thinkpad X390 Yoga off-lease for 230 EUR, and it was an almost brand-new machine with 8 GB RAM, 256 GB SSD, 1080p IPS screen with Wacom digitizer touchscreen, Thunderbolt 3, and a Win11 pro license. It performs as well as my 15\u201d mid-2015 Macbook Pro, which means it\u2019s a perfectly good computer for everyday use, and it may only be slow if you\u2019re doing serious heavy lifting on it, which you shouldn\u2019t. Basically, if you\u2019re thinking about buying a new general purpose computer, don\u2019t. Five year old used stuff is dirt cheap and still quite good, and the new stuff only makes sense if you really need the power. Since everybody raised the prices recently, combined with a big reliability drop, buying a new car or a new computer might be a really bad idea right now. The exception seems to be Apple; their M3 series of laptops seems to be excellent and reliable, and their prices didn\u2019t go up much in the recent years, making them the only thing I would recommend buying new. If you need a Linux or Windows PC, buy a Thinkpad or a mini-pc with integrated graphics off-lease on ebay, and fill it up with RAM and NVMe since those are currently dirt cheap. As for smartphones, everything 5 year old is indistinguishable in function from new. The reason why I bought some good but used hardware is mostly because it gave me something to do that isn\u2019t watching the news, but I did find out that this might be the prime time for getting excellent used computers cheaply. Whether that would be of any use in these times, I can\u2019t tell, but it feels like a better idea than pumping money into the new stuff that\u2019s super expensive and \u201cimproved\u201d by overclocking it right to the limit of China syndrome.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

You might wonder why I\u2019m not writing comments about the war, since there\u2019s quite a bit going on. The answer is simple: I\u2019m learning from Gonzalo Lira\u2019s experience (especially the part about dying in prison where they scraped his eyeballs … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danijel.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danijel.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danijel.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danijel.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danijel.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3755"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.danijel.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3755\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3756,"href":"https:\/\/www.danijel.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3755\/revisions\/3756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danijel.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danijel.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danijel.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}