Tarantulas are insects ferchrissake… They have the nervous system of a guitar amplifier.

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.

That’s even worse: at least the herdsmen would have genuinely believed in their nonsense, while there’s strong suspicions that pirates would spread religious nonsense to con believers - kind of like today really.

Ain’t you glad to live in a first world country where nonsense from illiterate middle-eastern herdsmen from two millenia ago with a bad case of magical thinking is still firmly believed by modern people with electricity, computers and access to the entirety of human knowledge at the tip of a finger, who rabidly insist on pushing the herdsmen’s nonsense onto the next generations?

I don’t mind offensive or off-color jokes.

But here’s the thing: the more offensive and off-color, the better the joke had better be to be worth the offense.

This is not a good joke. You’re just being offensive.

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 😃

The entire business model of all the cheap Chinese online retailers relies on looking the other way when it comes to labor protection and product safety standards. They would all go under in a New York minute if they had to make halfway decent products without wage slaves.

The plan is: lull everybody in Europe into a false sense of data security.

This is Microsoft. They’re a Big Data company, whose entire business model relies on stealing and monetizing other people’s data, operating in a rogue fascist country. And whatever they promise can’t be independently verified by the European commission.

Would you trust Microsoft?
I don’t.

other than the United States AND RUSSIA

Please. Let’s make this clear.

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.

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:

The only two markets that haven’t seen declines in May are Norway and Austria.

I don’t quite get Norway. But I certainly expect a Nazi automaker to be somewhat popular in Austria.

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