By choice. Maybe they choose it to comfort Odo, or maybe because other humanoids recognize them as like Odo (the only shapeshifter they'd known before).
The calls to return to normalcy came at the height of pandemic related deaths and so we stopped testing, stopped reporting, and pretended the pandemic was over when it wasn't. I will never forget when a large portion of the population decided the lives of the vulnerable mattered less than "normalcy."
Generally the US just did nothing helpful at a federal level and the Republican party took an ideological stance against preventative measures like masks or social distancing, which meant a large portion of the country went out of their way to avoid such measures or even ban businesses and local governments from implementing them. Schools and universities had their funding threatened if they required masks. I was a grad student / TA at the time and the most we could do was put up flyers that said "please consider wearing a mask, it's not required" and 0 of my students wore them. We had elderly professors retire early because they didn't want to die over such stupidity.
Eight fingers with both hands vs four and a dedicated thumb for zero? The number of fingers isn't the limiting factor anyway. Like I said, if you're not typing exclusively numbers, the numrow is fine because it allows you to type numbers and letters without repositioning your hands.
Num row is plenty efficient. It takes some practice but is probably more efficient for typing mixed strings of letters and numbers, which is more common than long strings of numbers. As for flying, I dunno, same way anyone flies. Throw yourself at the ground and miss.
You can use a paper filter after french press. I would personally just do a pourover at that point, but if you are unable to achieve a nice consistent medium-fine grind then you may get the best results with an immersion brew (James Hoffman's french press technique) poured through a rinsed paper filter
It is, but the amount of math that relies explicitly on ZFC without being about ZFC is relatively little. Most people don't think about a particular formalism and the shift to a new one would likely be transparent
True, but I just mean that daylight has properties that not all LEDs do, which is why some LEDs may seem harsh even if they are the same color temperature as daylight. But a good LED with high CRI and no flicker is nice at various temps.
Daylight is full-spectrum, not just cool. Flicker-free and high color rendering index. If you can get that in a bulb (bit more expensive than cheap LEDs) it's quite nice indoors.
Nixpkgs and home manager on top of Arch is a nice hybrid system. I gave up on the idea for my PC because it enforces a level of tidiness that I'm not always on board with. Sometimes I do Evil Things to my computer and leave garbage lying around. It doesn't complain, and I'd shoot it if it did
For video, bitrate is definitely king. 4K high bitrate just gets insanely large. I opt for 1080p bluray quality when available over 4K usually. I looked into AI upscaling for video recently and it can be pretty good, but it's a technology that changes fast so I'd rather store the original resolution and upscale in real time later (if at all).
For games, I find even FSR2 upscaling from 1440p to 2160p is excellent as long as it's implemented properly (i.e. scaling the 3D world and not the UI), and FSR3/4 even better.
Putting this down under "likely LLM generated science fiction" for now