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I wish I could play Dishonored again for the first time. So good. Have you played Prey?

I played a lot (1400+ hours) of The Long Dark up until a few years ago. I’m checking out the DLC content I missed, and it’s very good to be back. The “new” content and maps are very good.

Also, Alan Wake 2 after Control is quite enjoyable, but I think I like Control a little more. The tv ads in AW2 are very funny though, compared to the creepy puppet bits in Control.

Oh man, you were lucky. We only had “Biota of Freshwater Ecosystems - Identification Manual Number 9 - Crayfishes (astacidea) of north and Middle America”.

Mom kept saying that if I got good grades, she’d get me the “Freshwater Crayfish 12: Proceedings of the Twelfth Symposium of the International Association of Astacology held on August 3 to 9 in Augsburg, Germany” cartridge, but Algebra was hard that year…

Vikunja is great. Classic tasks, Gantt, tables and kanban - take your pick. Very stable as well, have been using it for years now.

T-80: Lasted for 34 minutes before succumbing to crippling depression and taking itself permanently offline

Apparently the island is a barony of Norway and the penguin, Nils Olav III, is a Major General of the Norwegian Army and colonel-in-chief of the King’s Guard

No, it was definitely him. I was just paying tribute to him as an aficionado of a democratizing system of long range communication.

The GNU thing is a reference to author Terry Pratchett, who wrote about a democratizing system of long range communication similar to the telegraph but with semaphore towers, called the “clacks” (because of the clacking sounds the semaphore flags made when they moved). Each clacks tower was in visual range of another clacks tower, and each one was manned by an operator who would read the incoming message and then send the same message on to the next tower in the line until the message reached the intended destination. This system is one of the main subplots in the book “Going Postal”, which is a critique of unchecked capitalism, corporate greed and privatization of profit over public service and worker safety.

In the book, the clacks system is the victim of a hostile takeover by a rich capitalist named Reacher Gilt, who either directly via one of his agents (similar to the Pinkertons), or indirectly via cost-cutting that leads to safety issues, murders/kills the creator and previous owner of the clacks system, John Dearheart.

After his death, clacks operators up and down the line of towers memorialize him with the message “GNU John Dearheart”, which was inserted into the “overhead” of the messages (also literally over their heads in the towers), which were sent in every single clacks message on all lines as additional information for operators about the message.

“G” meant “send the message on” “N” meant “do not log the message” “U” meant “at the end of the line, turn the message around”

In the book, the reason they did this is because “A man’s not dead while his name is still spoken”.

When Pratchett himself died, GNU Terry Pratchett became a thing as a way for fans to remember him. Some even created the “X-Clacks-Overhead” code, which can be inserted into the header of websites as a tribute to those who should not be forgotten.

So GNU Terry Pratchett and GNU Garry Shandling.

GNU Garry Shandling

Oh no! My patriotic merkin startup plans are ruined! I guess 'MericaMerkins was never meant to be…

If you run Home Assistant, Sleep as Android can publish events to an MQTT broker so you can create automations based on those events, like “smart_period”, “awake”, “not_awake”, “alarm_alert_smart”, etc.

There was a book series called Micro Adventures that featured a kid named Orion who used a TRS-80. There were BASIC programs in the books that you could run if you had a TRS-80.

Star stuff

Do you want Prador? Because this is how you get Prador.

Note: You do not want Prador.

Proton purchased SimpleLogin in 2022 and the creator/dev has been working there ever since. Also, you can easily create random email aliases in Vaultwarden/Bitwarden via the SimpleLogin API.

Another vote for Runbox. Been using them for almost 5 years now with no issues. They are also an employee owned co-op if that is of interest.

You should not trust Amazon. Multiple Ring privacy failures, including giving video footage to police without consent, Amazon employees watching Ring video footage without consent, then there’s stuff like Sidewalk that uses your home network as part of a mesh network, collection of biometric days via palm readers at Whole Foods for checkout, which they then use for their Amazon One service that they sell to businesses to verify age and identity, the whole “AI powered” Just Walk Out tech in physical Amazon stores that turned out to be not AI at all but a bunch of Indian subcontractors watching video cameras, etc, etc, etc…

It’s in there:

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