Yeah, I hear you and I’m not averse to spending money on things that don’t bring “direct” value. I fully believe that historical documents are important.

What I’m weighing it against is this: Governments have a fixed annual budget. It’s costing 4.5M a year to keep those documents. As the number of historical wills increases over time, so will the cost so there has to be some kind of cutoff point. Given that fixed budget (for example) how many homeless people could be housed versus the downside of having the documents stored in digital format (and it is a downside compared to having the original). I’m only talking about ones for people long since dead btw.

When you have a fixed budget, every penny you spend has an opportunity cost.

And of course I acknowledge that the budget could be increased in ways that allow for the originals to be saved while taxing the ultra rich more to pay for it. The current UK government is unfortunately not going to do that.

That money can be put to better use though, no?

Lovely tune. I’d never heard it before either.

Me too. It’s such a nice way of saying “Awww, you’re old”

This looks really cool and the intro video is spot on. Definitely going to give this a whirl.

I ended up down a rabbit hole of watching challenges. Some incredible talent out there.

Ooh, never knew this existed but jeez now I feel old…

Black Mesa and Age of Empires 2 made up 75% of my gaming this year!

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Oof, that’s toxic. I mean it is partly about America. Not an American before you try to bash me with that bullshit.

You’re telling me things I already know.

Have a nice day o/

the Peso was not devalued by Javier Milei

It absolutely was.

it was already that bad before he became President, what he did was make the Government stop lying about it

That’s…what official currency devaluation is…(frequently but not always and definitely in this case).

I did one before. They are SO MUCH FUN. Now I have too many children.

sob

edit: There are other ways of capturing the flag like having your team name on the home page of a local web server or whatever.

That actually does sound hella interesting. I’m saving your comment to try to remember but actually look it up in about two years when I scroll back though my saved posts.

What a fantastic idea.

Do it!

Nice! This is a really cool little plugin. Definitely will be grabbing it in the morning.

Jeez that’s depressing.

“We should be controlling our sector from 4km away, so we can kill a few hundred Russian soldiers before they get to our infantry, and we only take a few wounded,” he told the newspaper, adding: “But without ammunition, we can’t.”

I remember being amazed at the PSP in its day

I’ve been using computers since around 1983 and the PSP was one of the few things that really stood out to me as a huge leap at the time.

Most things are incremental but they really nailed the hardware on that one.

Yeah you’re right about the hard drive being big for the time. I got my first PC around then and plumped for the 8GB drive. It was a Dell too and the bump in cost wasn’t actually that much.

My roomie, who was far more computer literate at the time, said I would never fill it.

Heh. I filled that sucker up with a huge MP3 collection pretty quickly.

Similar enough specs but lower in many regards it was 2400 Irish pounds which if I remember correctly was around 1.4 US dollars per pound.

Nvidia riva 128 graphics card. I nearly peed my pants when I saw hardware accelerated quake when they brought out the alpha drivers.

Nice. Thanks. Just installed it there and will give it a whirl later on.

Update: it is fantastic. Very soothing little game

Fucking fuck realtek