you depend on the wind blowing.

For achieving maximum speed, sure. To simply guarantee you get there? Not at all - the Iberians knew how to navigate solely on maritime currents 500 years ago.

If sails were that great we would still be using them for freight, we didn’t switch to petroleum for the fun of it.

We started using pretroleum because capitalism requires infinite growth as fast as you can muster it. Particularly with modern refrigeration techniques and automation, time insensitive navigation for transport could easily be done with sails.

I’d say with Lithium, that’s only bad news.

You took the worst possible path to calculate all of this. Just compare energy to energy, that’s the whole point of Watts.

Could you imagine a world in which both products catch on? I shudder just to think about it

The fact it uses clear plastic for the mouth has to be a crime, surely.

The average person is notoriously shit at doing objective analysis, so yeah, you shouldn’t trust people you know.

That’s actually me removing semicolons from Python.

The most fucked up part is that, if I could, I’d happily take in some of that trash to repair and recirculate it, but corporations make that as difficult as possible so as to not hurt their profits.

Completely irrelevant, nobody argued for or against that.

It’s fairly standard behavior

You can already watch youtube ad-free with VLC…

Oh god, no…

But they would definitely also be pirated on PC…

There’s a reason why Valve became an industry giant. Piracy is an issue of service, not price.

Go play your Call of Doody, kid

You don’t hear about Nintendo going after DS emulators.

They do it all the time, with even older consoles. Nintendo doesn’t give a shit.

If their shit wasn’t so expensive and their games were released on PC, nobody would pirate it. Nintendo is shooting themselves on the foot then crying foul.

My already-installed copy of these softwares won’t go anywhere, Nintendo. Get bent.

The main thing about Clonezilla is that you can always rely on it working, no matter the system. The bad thing is that proprietary solutions have a lot more creature comforts.

Which, I would expect, happens to most of these shitty pcs from no-name Chinese brands.

That’s what I’m always most paranoid about - buying storage and having some bad actor insert malicious code through unusual means.