Solar concentration is boiling some other liquid, so there’s some variance 😅

Feels a bit different to me though. I mean, while doped in sports it is still you who brings in the results. You can also take, idk, focus-enhancing drugs in esports to have the advantage (I wouldn’t, but I’ve never been very competitive and don’t get it in general). But cheating, like e.g. using aimbots, it detaches the results somehow from you. The equivalent, to me, in sports would be to have somebody go through all the hustle to get competitive and then pretend to be you, so you can get the cup and the pictures afterwards. Just strange ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Something that doesn’t have to be able to cross the ocean can be had for well under a million I think

Well, well under a million. You can cross the ocean safely and in comfort on 30k yachts, 10ish metres.

Fascinating.

I will never understand, how people use their ingenuity to fake being good at a game.

Like, I get the hacker aspect of it: developing a cheat, breaking the game, exploit and find ways around the counter measures. Fair enough. But then you would do it once and showcase it, that wouldn’t disrupt a game’s community.

So there are people out there, who load cheats with the bootloader, in order to pretend being better than some randos in an online game. Wow.

Balatro.

After I finished the first run, I was like “cool, now the number I need to beat is higher. So what?”. Which is strange, because I love deck builders, I like beating higher numbers like e.g. Brotato. But for some reason I could not be bothered with Balatro ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Is stable for me for a long time already. Maybe you need to switch DNS, as some ISPs have a DNS block. But one should switch DNS regardless.

Banana milkshake is where all the dark bananas go for me.

Well, ThumbKey adapts to the limitations of a phone screen, that’s why it’s unique. So, once you are familiar with it, you’re less likely to fumble the wrong key. It takes quite some time though, at least it did for me.

I don’t know why, but that joke just never gets old. I always chuckle about it. Just the other day, there was a thread where somebody wrote about “Seasons of Linux isos”. Idk, just gets me. Thank you 😅

And don’t forget folks: if this drive contains your whole digital identity, make sure your next ones do have the keys. If something happens to you, it is impossible to retrieve logins, photos, whatever your kin/whomever might need from that drive.

Same goes for e.g. homeservers, VPSs or anything your family relies on: tell them where they find the relevant logins and who could possibly help them, if they’re not capable. Grieving is hard enough, if they figure they also lost all memories of the beloved one, that’s terrible.

Well, my bike looks exactly like that. It’s just carbon all the way down now 😄

Well, for “normal” ones they changed a lot about the lower thread. Also there came overlock machines to make life easier for certain stitches.

But nonetheless, they are marvelous machines, I love them so much. It is mechanic porn, and granted, the design of the old ones was perfect. Don’t need all that plastic 😅

Well, I mean, banks kind of ‘invent’ the money which they hand out as loans…so what do they care, really?

When the pile of bad loans gets to big, they sell those bundled as loot boxes to other banks. When that pile starts stinking too much, they are too big to fail and get bailed out. That’s the circle of life 🪇🎶

It’s different though, you swipe to get to the other characters instead of clicking the button more often. T9 was awesome in its time, but it also kind of relies on a dictionary, like the swiping on “standard” smartphone keyboards. In ThumbKey you type every single character, but it is fast, if you internalize the layout.

Has anybody ever really said that “I have nothing to hide” in the wild? I only ever read that in online discussions about how to counter that argument. Proponents of surveillance I met were either “companies need to have all the data, else they don’t survive the harsh competition” when it comes to surveillance capitalism or the say “All the crimes, protect the children” when it comes to state surveillance. They seem to be aware that they lose privacy, but they believe that it is OK for what they get.

ThumbKey made the difference for me. Completely new way to define touchscreen keyboards, but after some months now, I can type blindly on a touchscreen 👍. Caveat: in the beginning typing will be very, very slow.

Ceramic instead of Teflon is where it’s at.

As I was thinking of getting a vasectomy, you got me curious. But it is still in clinical trials according to Wikipedia

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reversible_inhibition_of_sperm_under_guidance

For the animal trials: we could cut them down by a lot, but experimenting on tissue is not the same as on a full body and its complex system.

At a friend’s wedding. He is known for being clumsy. Literally 30 seconds out of church after the ceremony. He shows off the ring, just hear a cartoonish pling pling and the ring rolls straight down the street drain in slow-mo. Next 30 minutes are spent recovering the ring, people in suits and dresses digging through the gutter XD