2008 2, the next “once in a lifetime” financial crisis.

I do wonder if the limit varies between personally operated transport (walking, bike, car) and public transport (bus, tram, train).

A 1 hour bus journey is much more relaxing than a 1 hour drive.

Trouble is, there is little that can be done.

Enough folks drank the coolaid, and now we’re stuck with surveillance laws masquerading as child protection laws.

Those laws can, and will, get worse over time. However, new mediums will arise, or old ones will rise to the occasion (IRC goes brr). The main thing to do is remain calm, make it a key voter issue, and watch the bastards fold right before the next election.

Elderly raspberry pi B [✓]

Large portable drive gathering dust [✓]

Guess I’m setting up a locally hosted file server in the near future.

Sounds like a standard windows 11 install to me?

So… Pretty much where we are now?

I suppose it’s like someone saying “duck” instead of “fuck”; or those old curse filters in online games that blocked words like “analysis” so it became @nalysis instead.

What you’re seeing is a mix of “professionalisation” and “protect the children” - essentially “you are in a place of work that has children” when you’re on a platform. This is, of course, completely fucking nuts and defies logical analysis.

Folks find a way round, so you end up with work around terms, and the like. What we really need is a “kidsnet” - a heavily filtered version of the net for kids that limits communication options and auto filters content.

Honestly, I am a little scarred from snap.

Otherwise I’m agnostic on flatpaks - I’ve used a couple and they’re ok? They just remind me of old windows games that dump all their libraries in a folder with them.

On a modern system the extra space and loss of optimisation is ok, but on older hardware or when you’re really trying to push your system to run something it technically shouldn’t, I can see it being an issue.

My short stories may not be amazing, but at least I wrote them.

Coding is a very… emotional activity. We get a bit salty sometimes.

I remember commenting a particularly bad routine with “Lasciate ogne speranza, voi ch’intrate”.

There are also phrases such as “by the process of offending god, this somehow outputs…” and “This block was written by someone whose sanity was not so much questionable as it was entirely reprehensible - but it works”.

I also remember doing a search and replace of every instance of the word “fuck” with “[fornicate]” when bringing someone new onto a project.

The big issues with age gaps is mostly down to protective probability. By 30 most folks are experienced enough at life to make up their own mind.

Hope it goes well for you both!

Gaming, reading, and (rarely, when folks visit) drinking!

Ah yes copyright law - the most transparent attempt to defraud people ever seen.

The real irony is the folks who actually create things likely sign over more than they’d ever lose to piracy to “protect” themselves from it.

Local government’s have had such opportunities for decades, the evidence suggests that this doesn’t work overly well.

A lot of people talk about taxing folks like this and then using the money to supply the housing.

The thing is, given the money, few people could pull this off well. The site isn’t just being plopped down; from the sound of the article in the comments it’s being actively developed as a community with other safeguards and support, by someone who sunk a lot of time into finding out what would work to help people rather than just appear to help.

A scheme like this is hard to replicate because, in addition to money, it needs a core team with a clear vision and the time to really make it a focus of their lives. It also needs a community that will embrace it - for example it would likely work in the town I grew up in, but the town I work in (and am sadly forced to live in) now would likely drive such a project to failure.

It’s a good idea that worked against the odds, and should be celebrated for that alone.

512gb of ram you say? That’s legendary 3rd chrome tab territory.

This is the main barrier for me (other one is migrating a janky access database). I really don’t want to spend my 2 hours free time an evening troubleshooting Nvidia driver issues (4800S series).

Anyone with this card have an experience to share?

Early games were designed to delight, slightly more modern games are designed to both delight and advertise.

It’s the difference between “I can’t beat this boss so I’d better go level up for 20 mins, ooh I unlocked a new spell” and “I can’t beat this boss I had better prep for a 10 hour grind, this is so I can find the X to craft the Y so I can begin to make the Z which offers me a 1 in 10 chance to unlock the option to craft a new spell… Or I could just pay $5 to skip that bit by buying the spell…”

There’s a really good video on this - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vSSkDos2hzo

Adding a little exercise to your life is rarely a bad thing, but to shift fat diet change is the big one.

Here’s one that will have a steady impact - drink an extra glass of water with each meal (helps you feel full for longer), and invest in an apple corer (for easy apple snacks) - aim for an apple a day. It’s helping me slowly lose body fat by reducing caloric intake.

That is less fucks-per-line than most code. There are also no suicide notes in the code, which is usually a good sign (unless your coders are planning a coup).

Sounds like healthiest production to me.