It felt good to be out of the oxygen

Here’s a song about tardigrades that I often get stuck in my head

https://youtu.be/aCkSr0ugTIM

On average, humans have less than two feet

Edit: oh so I just barged in here and said the basically same thing the other guy said. Sorry

Super old school Apple networking IIRC

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I really really wish people didn’t just view degrees as simply a means to a job.

Like I completely get given the cost of them in some countries, that you need to do the cost/benefit analysis. But a degree should be a way of expanding your knowledge on a subject primarily because you’re interested in it.

Sure I’d be a bit miffed if my degree never resulted in a job, but I don’t think I’d ever think of it as worthless or a waste of time.

Oh cool, I can’t think of any potential issues with oil companies prioritising AI over human customers

If you look at the TSLA stock, it’s now roughly where it was 4 years ago.

It’s sinking, don’t you worry

You’re also SOL if you have a couple of decades of music projects in various DAWs (though predominantly Ableton, plus a decent number of Maschine & Reason projects, for me) using all sorts of VSTs from over the years. I keep several versions of some VSTs installed so I can open older projects, and those older versions are never getting patched to fix broken Linux support by the developer, even if a more modern version does get fixed. It’s all got to come from wine devs, which frankly probably have more important issues to focus on.

I’ve tried a few times to get Ableton working with all my plugins and MIDI hardware and it’s always been an exercise in madness ultimately resulting in failure and usually a lost weekend. It particularly doesn’t like anything with my iLok key involved, last I tried a couple of years ago.

I happily run Linux elsewhere, but my main desktop is going to mainly run Windows for the foreseeable future unless something drastically changes. At least my projects aren’t all in Logic!

There’s also some software I use for my photography that didn’t properly work on Linux when I last tried (e.g. GPU features in PureRAW are the main thing I remember), but I think there’re some alternatives there I’d look at if I could get the audio production stuff working perfectly.

Ah that clears it up, cheers

What a weird choice for the headline to do what it did

I think you need to get your Haribo from somewhere else, they’re generally a pretty pleasant level of gummy. The only time I can remember them being hard is when they’re super old.

Well unless you’re getting whatever their version of sports mix or mini gems is called, which are supposed to be hard gummies.

I agree with you if you can put your phone in a pocket.

However as a counter-point: a lot of women keep their phone in a bag where they wouldn’t necessarily feel it vibrate because women’s clothing often doesn’t even have pockets, so I can’t really say they should mute their phone notifications.

I have no idea why chat apps default to making a sound when messages arrive and are sent when the screen is on though—that’s entirely obnoxious, no excuse for leaving that enabled

Right wingers believe everything should be up to the individual, you should get no help from anyone else. Typically with the ironic championing of corporations over people.

Left wingers believe we’re stronger if we work together in the public interest.

Healthcare is just one small slice of the political pie, which is such an obvious human right that only the fascist fuckos you have over there think it’s up for debate

I’d say most RTS games I can think of can be played with just a mouse

Older diablo-like ARPGs didn’t really rely on the keyboard too much IIRC, the modern ones do tend to rely on the keyboard a bit more

If you don’t mind older games, basically the whole genre of point and click adventures is this by definition

Yeah, you’re completely right, I was more going for not impossible, but it’s even more luck than I realised

Well, impossible to do with certainty.

But people are paid to try and do it at investment banks, and with enough outsider knowledge they can often get it right

Of course that’s practically just gambling at a much greater scale

Turkey is an amazing country with amazing people in it

The unfortunate part is their leader is the opposite and is currently holding their country and people hostage

Sounds like you’re after hackaday and similar specialist blogs

General tech sites will mostly cater to the tech the general public care about, enthusiasts don’t bring in the ad money comparatively

I never actively sought this life, but I can definitely advocate for it