antbricks

They’re pretty huge though. Fine if shelf space isn’t a premium, but 12 drives will be rough on your PSU.

They can make safety, fuel efficiency, usability, and comfort improvements AND enshittify things too! These are complicated machines.

I don’t know if this is the right solution, but a big reason I stopped bringing my family on city buses was because of belligerant personalities making things stressful/scary as fuck on 3 out of my 4 last rides (and less frequently but still really dangerous experiences before that) The frequency was just getting too high and I hit my limit.

Hopefully I just had really shit luck, but if it can happen to me, it can happen to others, and I really want public transit to work.

But all it takes is a system that can’t prevent a few rotten apples from spoiling it for everyone else.

Sounds like you have a pretty sweet deal if you can get by with part time work (with health insurance somehow, I assume) and have nearby grandparents who babysit regularly (and for free). I can’t think of anyone I know with that setup, but I mostly know full time professionals who moved away from parents for school/job. Different circles, I guess.

Neither is actually viewed as healthy. Social parasites are sometimes harder to spot.

For your case it’s the transition that’s tricky: Friends assume you want to keep being friends and may worry if that changes. After a while they’ll give up, assuming you’ve moved on. If you’re sure that’s your path then just stay the course, but know that it’s harder to come back from if you do get lonely. It’s harder to make and keep friends later in life. It’s harder to find a spouse if you’re alone all the time. Interestingly, a spouse + kids may solve your social obligation/boredom problem.

For my case, wife and kids made keeping friends AND a job impossible. Married men are expected to be present at all times for family now except for when at work. Anything regular outside of work is considered neglectful of either your children or your marriage. No hobbies except those that can be done at home after kids go to bed. No social commitments not involving spouse and/or kids. Fatherhood standards are pretty high these days. I don’t have any “friends” anymore, but because I have a family no one asks about it anymore either.

Sorry, no fake internet points for “I almost did it” 😉 Good on ya for buying refurbished though, it’s a real gamble sometimes, unfortunately.

Buying a Framework laptop always felt ideological, not value-based. Like a statement that you want to support Linux-first hardware. Hard to compete without economy of scale, of course, but that wasn’t their main goal.

Unfortunately, by the tightening up the language, the question resembles more and more “Are there animals with human brains?” To which of course we have to say no, so somewhere along the scale before the question turning into that there must be some version that is an interesting question with an interesting answer.

So what kind of answer are you looking for? An intelligence that resembles human problem solving sufficiently that we could somehow use it ourselves? A fungus can solve a maze through branching in a way that we can’t so its solution isn’t useful for a human actually in a maze. But maybe a linear algebraist could apply the technique to families of problems and a solver could be implemented in specialized hardware more efficiently than a Turing machine GPP.

But I don’t think we left any non-human intelligent species around to compete with us, if you’re looking for a conversation. Neanderthal was the last.

“intelligence is a nuanced topic” Understatement champion. Applying your examples “in any form” still doesn’t really work since those examples are built on communicating the steps as well as the result. If an animal can intuit precision without showing the work, do we still give credit for intelligence? Jumping spiders, for example, have an extremely developed intuition for parabolic trajectories, but I’d bet real money there’s no neural structure in their brains that looks like y^2 = 4ax.

If you are wanting to learn more Linux internals AND create something maintainable, you can create your own distro using Yocto/Bitbake. LFS teaches you all about Linux internals, but kind of leaves you to twist in the wind afterward. I would argue that Yocto exposes those internals AND gives you the ability to maintain the distro you’ve created (roll your own packages, pull in kernel patches/versions/modules, scan for applicable CVEs, etc.)

Or Gentoo sounds cool. Maybe an easier intermediate step before rolling your own.

Same here. There was a window of a couple of months when some NC background process wasn’t running reliably in Android, but that got fixed (a year ago?) and it’s been rock solid before and since.

Given the current rate of obesity, starvation will take a loooong time.

I don’t know how AliExpress works internally. It was one of the apparently common scams where the seller pretends to ship a package to you. It’s scam #5 in this list: https://www.reddit.com/r/Aliexpress/s/YEqwsP1ef6

First time using AliExpress I got scammed. I got a refund, at least, but I haven’t been back since.

The current regulations do consider density (people, buildings) when designating flight restrictions. Heavier small aircraft have to avoid certain areas because of the extra risk. This kind of single-passenger aircraft is way lighter than a car and wouldn’t be allowed over urban and residential areas, for example. I agree that CHANGES to the existing regulations could potentially add risk, but currently we’re ok and those changes happen slowly and are evidence-based. FAA and EASA don’t use the public as a testing area. It’s not as dystopian as the media might make you think. HTH.

A passenger car crashed through the window of my local grocery store a few months ago. I think people see small aircraft as this great threat, but forget that cars have been quite capably killing people for over a century. They aren’t very safe, quiet, or efficient anyway, so I’m happy to see other technology getting taken seriously.

While your cynicism is well-deserved in the US, Urban Air Mobility is an area of regulatory development. EASA and FAA are both actively working in this area, and VTOL and eVTOL aircraft have their own existing pilot certifications for both manned and remote flights. Lobbying has had very limited success with FAA and EASA, and they remain some of the most heavily regulated organizations.

https://wiki.alpinelinux.org/wiki/Setting_up_a_SSH_server

Just another celebrity talking about stuff they don’t really know that much about. Jimmy’s witty and all, but his “physics is real and everything else is just stamp collecting”… sigh.

surfboards lol https://varialsurfboards.com/best-foam-surfboard/bic-review/