As always, with any questions about Political Economy:

Follow The Money

Free, except for the amortized R&D and construction costs.

how would you know which places to patrol, and when?

This is an extremely regional problem to solve. Where I am, which is a village and exurban-ruural, you would go to the electronics recycling depot and see if they have any choice items. Also you could call the various independent pc repair people to see if they have anything no longer supported but functional for free or cheap.

Also there’s various thrift stores that sometimes have computers cheap.

The closest big city is Vancouver so to curb cruise there I would pick upper middle class neighbourhoods with alleyways, and drive around on garbage collection days. I wouldn’t really dumpster dive unless I knew of a likely source from hearsay.

Most of my work is with Macs, and even one server is running macOS, so for those who don’t know how it works ‘over there’, one runs Time Machine which is a versioning system keeping hourlies for a day, dailies for a week, then just weeklies after that. It accommodates using multiple disks, so I have a networked drive that services all the mac computers, and each computer also has a USB drive it connects to. Each drive usually services a couple of computers.

Backups happen automatically without interruption or drama.

I just rotate the USB drives out of the building into a storage unit once a month or so and bring the offsite drives back in to circulation. The timemachine system nags you for missing backup drives if it’s been too long, which is great.

It’s not perfect but very reliable and I wish everyone had access to a similar system, it’s very easy, apple got this one thing right.

I have a bunch of old macs here with different distros onthem, mostly Mint, that I have been trying to give away to locals (without being obligated to provide support, which is the stickler apparently). They all run great. One could dumpster dive or curb cruise, or around here, lurk at Recycling.

Au contraire, the rage-perp needs to stop at the third beer, and definitely would benefit from a couple of bong hits and an hour of introspection.

I find the tagging system in lemmy more useful every day!

I’m sorry, did you just… oh lol never mind. I’m going to harvest this whoosh for wind power.

Not me, I am a damn dirty ape.

OK but what if you have a lava lamp that is synced to the moods of a sarcastic and greedy AI?

Security is about to get really weird. It used to be the Internet of Things we had to worry about, but now we have Things in Internet.

Wait didn’t MEC collapse into / get bought by a regular corporation?

Yes, right! But ammo is precious in PvP so most use Mountaintop for the lulz

You can still rocket jump in Destiny2 arena pvp, well grenade, but same feel. Fun way to be Death from Above if you are a more punchy character than the floaty kind.

I mained Q3Arena and UT for a few years, then lost the thread as other amazing fps solo games came along.

Now I’ve been mainly playing Destiny2 for a few years, and as the game dies I have discovered that the PvP gameplay has that old magic of a fast fluid arena shooter still going on under all the class complexity and gacha-grind system.

Cool thing is, while D2 is expensive and microtransaction-filled, you can instead just play pvp utterly freely and the grind for gear is unnecessary if you like casual arena shooters. Also D2 has really great gunfeel and graphics, it’s Bungie, that’s about the only thing they do perfectly.

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I have to use an AppleTV for various reasons, so I settled on a simple SMB share on an old mac mini server and the (subscription) Infuse app, it’s been rock solid as a player on all devices and very low effort.

“She’s got Marty Feldman eyesss”

I think the suggestion is that if they leave the content available, they can still write it off.

“Ex-girlfriend” … I think you can put a hypothesis together.

There are still supply chain issues, or synthetic shortages. So many annoying ‘out of stock’ listings for PS5’s in Canada, and prices are locked at MSRP mostly.