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  • LOL that's why I will never be a politician. I would be so frustrated by not being allowed to touch my face! The irony of it would just overwhelm me.

  • We sort of do, sometimes, at some point, "stop" reading.

    For example, I live in a city. My stop is served by about 5 different routes, but since I'm so close to center, the remaining part of the route is basically the same for 3 out of 5 of these. Most trips go to center though, the one that does not only goes once an hour, while the rest total up to maybe 25 per hour. (One of those takes significantly longer but would still get me there.)

    Initially I would read the signage, but eventually I don't think I really need to, since in 99.9% of cases I can just see a big thing arriving and hop on it. That's because I already have the context of where I am, what is the time and what kinds of trips are likely. Also, the 3 optimal routes are served by tram and 2 trolley buses, while the one "bad" route is served by a regular-sized bus and the one "sub-optimal" route is served by a long bus. So just by looking at the shape of thing is arriving (or listening to the sound it's making) I can already make a really good guess if it's ok for me.

    So my (kinda weak) point is in really common situations we kind of stop needing to look at (or even stop looking at) the numbers, although we would still remember them for other reasons.

  • "job" .. I mean, I barely did anything but I'm happy to take the paycheck for my grandgrandgrand...........(cell, or a weird pool of mixing liquids or whatever...)

  • If you live in a society, you'll probably end up memorizing the meanings of arbitrary symbol sequences.

    I'm talking, of course, about place names, people's names and ... what'cha call'em .... words.

    (Disclaimer: I'm not in a shower right now.)

  • Eepy

    Jump
  • this is the true essence of aww.

    Thank you.

  • Too bad we can't really do that with movies & series. Cinema aside, I basically start at step 4.

  • In order of preference:

    1. buy flac directly from the label
    2. buy flac on Bandcamp (or equivalent, although i'm barely aware of any real alternatives)
    3. buy CD and rip it to flac
    4. despair
    5. try to fight it
    6. give up and get it via torrent.

    Streaming services are evil and i wish for them to fail. ...but more seriously -- I get why streaming services exist. Although I will almost certainly will never use one in my life, in principle it's fine, I get the point. When I'm online I'm actually OK to stream from an indie radio (eg. soma.fm) or from a RSS based podcast player (eg. Antenna).

    The problem i have is that, AFAIK, the business models are almost always abusive and hostile to both user and the artist. Some kind of federated system could work better, but I'm not sure it's doable. As it is, I'm afraid this middle man model just won't ever work properly without heavy regulation -- which is kind of a problem in the globalized world.

  • Zig

  • should be "My Cat demonstrating Tool Eat"

  • All cheese is made by bacteria who live there, so it's pretty much a building to them!

    So I hereby define every cheese by relationship to a building.

    (I'm fun at parties.)

  • That's only if the exponent is greater than 1.

  • In this scenario, alcohol is less bad than soda

    If by "scenario" you mean you only want to observe single parameter, then fine, but that's not really useful.

    Alcohol is much worse than soda.

  • the risk of data loss at that point is high. you will miss things

    that's what makes it exciting 😓 😓 😓

  • I used to love Sailfish OS.

    I guess I still do, but the problem is that while they recently expanded amount of devices they support, for some of them the "support" is just not what you think. Eg. I got Xperia 10 V just for the SFOS, but even though on their main list the device is listed as supported, turns out that camera, Android support and fingerprint sensor, these don't work. To be fair, this info was possible to find on their forums, and I did not have to pay for SFOS (they offer 6 month trial), so they have nothing to gain from communicating so badly, but it is what it is.

    So in case you want to try it, just really make sure you know to what extent your device is supported.

  • OpenTTD player

    It's nice when people guess which AI i used to generate my avatar.

  • ...well, technically, yes.

    If you are well-versed in the guts of the distro (grub, /etc/fstab, /etc/crypttab...), and have extra space, you could spend part of your weekend shifting partitions around and moving everything to the encrypted side, and eventually re-configuring your install and removing the old part. (Oh and don't forget to chown your /home data if you have multiple users.) I've been there, it's not fun. It's fun[tm]. It's just far easier and less error prone to re-install if you can.

    (Yeah, I'm stretching the definition of "enabling it" reeealy thin here... 🙃 )

  • It's much worse: They can re-use the same wrench.

    (Disgusting, I know... 😝 )

  • Great point.

    I provided reasons why I encrypted my drives but this one is even better.

    (Another one could be if you need to get your computer to a repair shop, and for some reason you can't just remove the drive.)