Imagine learning that the police have labeled you a terrorist because of your support for movements committed to anti-racism
Imagine that in some countries, when that happens, you disappear in a concentration camp in El Salvador.
In Europe, you get to complain about it.
Using Copilot even as a mere coding assistance is insane, if no other reason than you’re sending all your code to Microsoft, and you also let them monitor your work habits in uncomfortably intimate details.
I didn’t do it on purpose. It just happened. I guess living out in the sticks does help: it’s not like we don’t have electricity or internet out here, but the first neighbor is 3 miles away, the town is 5 miles, and we have real starry nights here. So it’s quite easy to turn off the light and experience a, quiet peaceful night at the hours at which sleep should be happening naturally.
I fall asleep around 8 or 9 pm and I wake up around midnight or 1am, watch something quiet and peaceful so I learn something interesting without falling fully awake - and more importantly without waking up the missus - then I simply fall back asleep until 5 am.
I live above the arctic circle, so when it’s winter, I usually sleep longer. And when it’s summer and it’s daytime all night long, of course I sleep less. But on average, I sleep 2 x 4 hours per night. I feel just as refreshed as when I slept 1 x 8 hours. But perhaps feel less “disconnected”, if that makes any sense.
I practice biphasic sleep - have done for decades.
I usually put on a light documentary - something about nature or technology, not exciting, terrible or controversial.
What Bluetooth host?
Bluetooth for Linux has been a flaky shame for many years. If you’re lucky and your BT chipset works well, then it works okay - not great, but okay. If you’re not lucky, which is more likely, you get problems like the one you describe.
Nah. It’s not that thick! It’s only 1.6" thick 😃
I like 90’s style chunky and solid. Weight and bulk aren’t really a concern for me. Solid, open-source and repairable are my priorities. That’s what works for me.
They are not. They’re in cell holders.
I own one of these. I have zero issues replacing the cells 😃
Nope. They’re headed straight towards jackboot dictatorship.
If nothing else, Trump and his henchmen are proving day after day that the Americans talking big about their god-given Second Amendment right that keeps the government in check as the reason to own so many firearms and overlook so many deaths by firearm was basically a pretense: this is literally the scenario when they swore right and left they would exercise it and they aren’t.
All a bunch of phoneys, is what they are. And they’re getting the nasty dictatorship they richly deserve.
Remember: AI chatbots are designed to maximize engagement, not speak the truth. Telling a methhead to do more meth is called customer capture.
I fail to see Discord as anything other than IRC with too many emojis and primary colors for the short of attention span, implemented as a humongous pile of Web 2.0 nonsense, with Big Data surveillance built in.
Privacy and resource comsumption issues notwithstanding, the few times I’ve had to use it to connect with people in certain communities that could basically only be found on Discord, it was unbearable to this gen-Xer: it’s just as fast and as shallow as IRC, but somehow I feel the extra symbolic and color overload would have triggered a seizure if I was epileptic. It’s maddering.
Oh well, maybe I’m old.
When you use the Discord app, you use a browser - Chromium specifically: Discord is an electro app.
In other word, if you already run a browser that burns hundreds of megabytes of RAM, disk, and requires tons of CPU do display simplistic things, as browsers do, you might as well use it to access Discord instead of running a second insanely wasteful browser disguised as a native app.
My experience with Discord, period:
Wow, it really worked: Israel didn’t hear the cries and continued the atrocities in Gaza.
Damn Eurovison!
I did the practicum before the theory. It helped.
Coming from Trump, that’s a compliment.
I feel for those people, I sympathize and everything.
But I’m sorry, but… dumbasses.
Calculating the number of hours I had left on Earth, and realizing that every hour I spent fretting about shit that doesn’t matter is an hour I won’t spend having the best possible time on this dirtball with my family and my friends before I kick the bucket.
Once I “let go” and decided nothing really mattered, it felt like my whole body finally deeply relaxed for good.
Tarantulas are insects ferchrissake… They have the nervous system of a guitar amplifier.