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Our two cats have never shown any interest in screens, so far.

Any large-scale technological development, like e.g. the smart IDs mentioned in the video, is usually decades in the making before it becomes feasible for daily and widespread use. So I’m not surprised a group of well-funded and well-connected futurists were able to predict this kind of stuff as it was probably already being developed in some way back in 1997.

Also, the risk of a pandemic was well-known long before Covid-19, e.g. I remember Germany had an emergency plan for that exact scenario long before 2020.

Two random ones I find quite ugly are Madagascar and Samoa.

I like the colour combination, personally

Terminator 2 was better.

I see this view everywhere all the time, but personally I strongly disagree. Terminator 2 is good no doubt, but the original had a sense of dread and urgency literally from start to finish that is unmatched in any of the sequels, in my opinion.

I have very little knowledge about military stuff. Can someone please explain to me why the US can’t just bomb all Shahed construction facilities to rubble? Is it

• because they don’t know all the locations where drones are being produced
• because the facilities are somehow too well defended (underground or something?)
• because Shaheds can be built in random locations, like someone’s garage
• because Iran’s air defense is capable of intercepting such strikes
• because of some other reason?

Writing this from Linux which I installed last fall in lieu of the Windows 11 update.
I’m still using both OS via dual boot, and I still have some unresolved issues on Linux, but I will fully transition during the course of this year.
One thing that is really mind-blowing is the difference in performance on my ~7 y/o laptop. My Linux Mint is just lightning fast compared to Windows 10. You can quite literally feel how Windows runs a thousand random things in the background (most of which I never asked for) whereas Linux feels very clean and… empty, but in a good way.

Hats off to you, then. I see you truly know your lines.

I don’t give two shits about your LiNe ExPeRtIsE unless you built at least ten >3 minute tracks in the original Line Rider.

When you go to the mall, what exactly causes the anxiety/feeling weird?

Thanks a lot for the offer. This might become a project of mine in the future but not before the end of this year. I might get back to you then. :)

Do you already have a server deployed? How familiar are you with Linux?

No server. I just installed Linux a few months ago as dual boot after being a lifelong Windows user (since 3.1 lol). Currently using both OS but will move fully to Linux once I have some projects finished. Self-hosting might become a future project after that and if yes, I’ll come back to this community and this thread!

What’s stopping people you know from taking this step?

I’m a noob when it comes to IT. (Even though in my family I’m the one people ask when they have computer issues lol.) I would really like to get into self-hosting and all that, and I think if I found some good guides I would probably be able to make things work, but it still sounds very daunting to me. Like, I imagine days if not weeks of sifting through online resources to fix a thousand little errors and issues that would come up. (Maybe I’m mistaken, maybe it’s all really easy even for noobs. Just trying to explain my feelings on the matter.)

Edit: Woke up to 10 replies lol. Thanks for everybody’s input and helpful links. I think this might become a future project for me, but not before winter 26/27 (for life reasons).

Lichess because I use it a lot and it’s my favourite website.

Totoro for me