That’s MY HOUSE you bookstack! You thieving oil barrel! I was IN THAT HOUSE. I STILL AM. Put us down and LET ME OUT. Where is the exit??
I think that buying and living in a yurt would be a better option than trying to buy a house.
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Big ol’ Yurt. 2 or 3 if you have or want to start a family
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Solar-powered electric generator
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Vegetable garden
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Located near Lake Superior
I can definitely see myself living that kind of life.
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Did you know that you can 3d print a house in less than 24 hours? You can’t download the concrete, but you could download the plans.
We’re maybe slowly creeping towards a post-scarcity world. If we can avoid destroying ourselves or the planet in the next century, we might get there. But, the entrenched interests are holding on with their fingernails.
One awful example of this is library books.
In the before times, people had to go and take an actual physical book out of the library. Along came e-books. In theory, a library now only needed to buy a single copy of a book and they could lend it out to everyone. It’s no surprise that they didn’t do that, instead if they want to loan out 10 copies at a time, they buy 10 books.
What’s really stupid is that the publishers weren’t satisfied with that arrangement. They also want to simulate wear and tear on these digital ebooks, so it can be just like paperbacks. So, after 26 loans, DRM on the ebooks means they self-destruct.
That article you linked about 26 loans is from 2011. Do you know if they still do that or they decided to roll it back or something? I couldn’t find anything about it other then more articles from 2011
I don’t know if it’s exactly the same, but they definitely have a limited number of loans before the library is forced to buy another copy.
Here’s an article from 2023 by a librarian with more details:
Other titles are metered. This is essentially a lease. Libraries purchase a title for time, 12 to 24 months or by checkouts, usually 26. When the terms of the lease expire the item is no longer available and has to be repurchased.
For safety, never plug an unknown USB drive into your house.
My house got hacked when I did this once.
Who the hell thought that anyone wouldn’t download a pirated house? How out of touch do they need to be?!
You’re either going to download it or burn it to the ground.
Nah. It would just power up and have no data connection. Unless you bought it in Israel…
It’s 50/50.
No but would you let your hologram house maid date your single dad?
I’d download a house or a car in a heartbeat, and never feel the tiniest inkling of guilt.
I’m an electrician with a mind for crime and I’m stealing your kilowatt-hours
On a more serious note, this is kinda what you do if you leave your home network unsecured. Install linux problem solved
thumb stick: “Face-down ass-up Apple Bottom.”
The boot drive with the fur (with the fur)
Stop right there, criminal scum
I wish it was possible…
Now I wonder what would happen if you put a USB killer into one of these.
it depends on if the charger is just a standard 5v 5w supply or if it’s a fast charger i think, because a standard supply doesn’t have anything hooked up to the data lines that can be killed
Pretty sure it’d fry the power supply. Thats my first bet, is that it wouldn’t even get through it.
If it did pass through, it could fry your electronics. A USB killer is a short pulse, and not at all strong compared to main, so I expect that it’d act more like if a neutral was floating, than an actual surge at the voltage a USB killer usually gets to.
No idea for sure though and I’m not an electrician.
Time to go to a friends house. I have experiments to conduct.
