Fiat doesn't work on a finite planet. Crypto has failed on its goals. What is a better way to be economically secure?
Assuming the title to be accurate, what is a good way for the working class (90%+ of all humans) to save and succeed in this current environment?
90s Classic
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I don’t use it, but i’ll forever call it Twitter.
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Something everyone agrees with until you name it
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replacing the thinkpad
for anyone who wants to offer actual advice: its a lenovo thinkpad t450 with a soldered i5-5300U that hits over 90C when running cargo compiles. I have changed the thermal paste and it didn’t do much.
![The artpiece "Self-portrait with Death playing the fiddle" with two captions. One is next to the man, saying "I should replace my laptop. It's aging and the iGPU seems to be dying." The second is over Death, and says "The ThinkPad always lives."](https://kbin.life/media/cache/resolve/entry_thumb/bc/45/bc45eecd717796b84032b47f8caa9242300afaa5e5332175e97ea4e2d4b9dfe9.png)
replacing the thinkpad
for anyone who wants to offer actual advice: its a lenovo thinkpad t450 with a soldered i5-5300U that hits over 90C when running cargo compiles. I have changed the thermal paste and it didn’t do much.
![The artpiece "Self-portrait with Death playing the fiddle" with two captions. One is next to the man, saying "I should replace my laptop. It's aging and the iGPU seems to be dying." The second is over Death, and says "The ThinkPad always lives."](https://kbin.life/media/cache/resolve/entry_thumb/bc/45/bc45eecd717796b84032b47f8caa9242300afaa5e5332175e97ea4e2d4b9dfe9.png)
If malls continue to shut down and decay over the next twenty years, someone should turn them into retirement communities for GenX and Millennials.
Imagine apartments built into what used to be department stores, (Oh, you’re JC Penny 203? I’m at Sears 106). Get those old arcades up and running. Set up meal stations at the food court. Once people actually live there, stores will start to move back in....
Happened to me twice
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What email provider do you use? Would you recommend it?
Bonus question: what email inbox client do you use?
When you write your academic papers in Word
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How big is YOUR collection?
Mine is 186GiB. I have about 100 movies and 3 TV series on a two hard disks (one for backup). I don’t know if that is small or large....
Any interest in an Olympics megathread?
Thinking of posting daily events, who won which medals, that sort of thing....
The argumentative nerd went to therapy to become more well-actualized.
How to identify a Lemmy. World mod
Mod who delete this will have this son:
Dynamic IP - Self hosting
Im sure this has been asked before i juat can’t find where it has been - Maybe need to work on how to search Lemmy better. But…...
Linux doesnt. oot
I was using Fedora 40 and all of a sudden it stopped working, it takes me to a selection screen where there is fedora 39(i originally installed that version the it was upgraded) i select it it says booting and then a black screen, i had also zorin in another hard drive and the same happens, i tried booting from bare metal with a...
Rebels With a Cause: Myanmar’s Resistance Adds an Unlikely Revenue Stream
cross-posted from: lemmy.ca/post/25827110...
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What is the best alternative to Cozi? (shared calendar and list app)
My wife and I have been using Cozi for years to manage our work schedules, plan dates, block off personal time, and manage grocery lists and to-do lists. There has been some pretty egregious enshittification through locking more and more essential features behind a paywall and now it’s altering times for some reason and...
How to know if university has access to my computer and phone?
I use the uni account for office, but read online that they can access other files and your device. How does that actually work? How to verify?...
Pfsense, Opensense and OpenWRT - what's the deal?
Hiya, just getting into networking and recently completed my Tp-link Omada stack, which I’m very pleased with. Have heard great thing about all three mentioned services above, but struggle to understand which to go for. Do they have different use cases? Is one easier than the other? Which one is recommended to begin with?
Any sketch pad with FOSS drivers/firmware?
Hello,...
Is your present emotional state part of your present conscious self awareness?
This is a deep meta question; not the response you give others. When you ask yourself, “how do I feel,” is that answer you synthesize, the answer you draw from the edge of your conscious and unconscious self; is this answer a reference to the immediately preceding past of your inner experience, or is the answer from some...
Who would rule the world if Joe Biden dropped dead tomorrow (of natural causes)?
Who would run the US empire until the new President is elected and sworn in?