That's a clever way of getting people to work for them as moderators.

It will be named the BlyatStation

Let's go back to binary blobs. Everything being xml and json is boring.

I would be careful with gadgets that have software on them like phones and laptops. God knows what kind of Chinese spyware they come with.

While in this particular case I agree with you, I've noticed a frustrating trend that just keeps getting worse. On one hand, search engines are failing to adapt to content farms. On pretty much any topic, you will find these generic sites that have poorly written articles that are hard to distinguish from AI. Try searching for "best linux distro" to see what I mean. Even on programming topics, you will find many sites that simply copy the content from stackoverflow and github.

On the other hand, people aren't making websites and blogs anymore. More and more people are only using social media platforms, which aren't being indexed by search engines. I hate seeing that so many discussions are now on Discord instead of forums. How many Twitter threads have you seen that should have been blog posts?

I recognize this, it's in the Harry Malter park in Belgium.

Yes!! I enjoy playing with retro tech and was actually surprised on how much you can do with an ancient Pentium 2 machine, and how responsive the software at the time was.

I really dislike how inefficient modern software is. Like stupid chat apps that use more RAM while sitting in the background than computers had 15-20 years ago...

A lot of people don't realize that this has been implemented and been used for a long time. In Romania, during communism, most major cities had infrastructure for using heat produced in factories and thermal (usually coal) power plants.

There are 2 ways in which it was implemented. One was to heat water into steam and to transport the steam using insulated pipes to local facilities that heat water. This can be more efficient, but the disadvantage is that working on pressurized steam pipes is really dangerous for the workers. There have been numerous accidents in the news about those.

Alternatively, you can simply transport hot water through insulated pipes to local facilities, these can heat the water additionally if the water isn't hot enough, and then it's distributed to homes.

The main issue in Romania is that these systems haven't been properly maintained in at least 30 years, a lot of heat gets lost and they tend to fail a lot, people get frustrated and disconnect from the network, the neighbors get a worse service because not enough hot water is consumed for the water in the pipes to not go cold and they disconnect too, and the system just gets worse and worse. Some cities have enacted a policy not allowing people to disconnect.

Australia had a problem with guns too, until the government stepped in. They had a program where people were paid for giving up their guns.

Limiting access to guns is such a simple thing to do, and has such a huge impact... It's not going to solve crime, but it will make crime less deadly.

In most places, lights are placed on the ceiling. This is fine for generally lighting a room, but if you need to do something intricate that's not directly under the ceiling lamp it can be hard to see. Even simple things like plugging in some cables under the desk.

It's not just Google. The Internet has been getting worse over the last years. People don't make sites any more. Blogs have moved to closed and centralized social media platforms. Forums are rarely used, most communities moved to platforms like reddit and Discord.

Most of these platforms make finding content very difficult. You won't find articles posted on Facebook, Twitter threads and Discord discussions in search engines. You have to create an account on their platform, then use their shitty search (or be subscribed to the right people) to see it.

Dumb TVs have gotten hard to find these days. Your options are to either avoid connecting the tv to the internet, or to get digital signage display (but they are pricier).