No reason you can't make the switch now to a better instance
Yeah, last year, 2024. Stupid way of intentionally phrasing it.
Just want you to know I had a genuine cry-laugh at your image macro
I wouldn't, and I don't think most people would, consider being in hibernation mode or sleep mode as "on". Sure, it will add to your uptime, but like its a demonstrably different power state.
Mm, fair if you are running some task while you're not "actively" using the PC. Although given the general sentiment of people in the replies, the leading reason is "I'm lazy" or "its convenient".
Eh, like that's fair its personal preference but the energy waste of just having your PC idle is just weird to me. (Folding@home is totally reasonable)
Y'all it takes like 15 seconds to boot from an SSD why are you leaving your computers on?
Last I checked school teachers didn't make medical diagnoses. Elon is a fucking tool, but we don't need to perpetuate ableism when we talk about him.
Come on man no need to throw slurs around even if you're quoting someone else
Is the character on the right holding a Hitachi magic wand
Hell yeah although you might want to construct an identifier from like, name and surname and datetime of birth?
(Image description: A woman's hand holds a brown gift wrapped package with a picture attached by twine. The picture is of Boromir in the Lord of the Rings, saying "It is a gift".)
[alt text: a woman with long hair dyed in the colours of the transgender flag sips from a teacup with "gay" printed on the side. The top text reads "Oh you're transbian?" While the bottomt text reads "prove it (I'm a visual learner BTW)"]
I think I would be fine. I already have limited wealth and I'm directing a significant portion of it to the betterment of the world around me. If my wealth/income increased tenfold (as an example) I don't think I'd be able to find a use for more than, idk, 15-20% of the additional money? So I'd just heavily ramp up the funds going to charities and local causes.
Extending this out to the infinite wealth scenario, I'd be able to help more causes so I'd need to find out which charities are actually putting money to use for what they say they are, extend my mindset beyond local causes and to the whole globe. Almost certainly drop some fat stacks into buying out basically every fossil fuel corp and start the process of getting that shit phased out. Sure I make some terrible people rich(er) in the short term with the buyouts but fuck it, the environment needs to be prioritized.
How I'd convince this hypothetical entity? Idk, probably just explain all of the above and I guess show some hard data on my track record for this. If the entity is determined to put the money in the hands of someone who is going to do good, either I'll be good enough or I won't.
If its not infinite and "just" billions then I'm probably going to funnel about half of it into local (national) causes and the other half into affecting what positive change I can worldwide. Process for convincing the entity remains the same.