I’ve opened some. It’s genius, it’s like a giant webpage with lots of information, but without all the ads, cookie banners, etc. Unfortunately the ones I have don’t seem to support any way to quickly search in the text. Though they’ve also thought about that, rather than implementing search these books tend to have a big overview at the start with all the separate chapters and sometimes a search index of commonly searched words at the end. Quite genius for what’s effectively just a neat monitor stand

I’d say we just hate on them for the funny. The moment the yanks start shitting on the French they’re our European homies.

Better than keeping his head up his ass. Conspiracy groups can often also be part of community and identity. Changing your mind, therefore, might mean losing a social circle and possibly status that you thought to have. He probably though that he was smarter than 90% of the population, and now he feels like an idiot.

In that scenario, this is the best outcome and it should be applauded. If we don’t reward people for escaping and admitting their wrong, then they could easily get trapped. Why change your mind when it means that nobody likes you anymore and everyone thinks you’re an idiot?

I agree, but there’s a difference between simply differing opinion and dumping a boat load of money, presumably some of it from Mullvad subscriptions, into a party that advocates for “remigration”. If the dude just had some weird opinions I wouldn’t necessarily switch, but I don’t like the idea of my money directly helping with helping the far right. Honestly, I wouldn’t even remotely care enough if one of the founders was part of a “normal” European neoliberal or conservative party, I have plenty of friends across the political spectrum. But I don’t like giving extremists my momey

I had ordered an airco before this madness started, but unfortunately the had to order it and it hasn’t arrived yet. It has been hot for days already, it’ll be 35 or higher the next 4 days, and I live under an almost flat, black roof with the sun on my the entire day. There will be no eepy sleepy time

At my place that trick works the first day, but after that it’s over. The house always heats the same under this sunshine, slowly rising to 28-30 at the end of the day with everything closed and down from like 22-24 in the morning. The only question is whether that’s better than a higher temperature with a slight breeze and fresh air. Today, it won’t be higher than 30, so I’d rather have wind. The next 4 days, it’ll be 35 or higher, so everything will get closed down during the day

Personally I really struggle with it. I wanna use it because it’s not from a US company, but it’s just wrong in like 60% of whatever I ask it. Sometimes even when corrected. It’s good though, makes me stop using the clanker and actually search for myself. Sometimes I do resort to ChatGPT or accidentally invoke Gemini when searching though, and those two have a way higher hit rate

I learnt a lesson yeah. It looks like I got away, there’s no rootkit, I found nothing weird running, I don’t have npm Installed, and up until now it doesn’t seem like the packages I had installed were compromised. But I had way more AUR packages installed than I was aware of. And I was just updating them without really caring about the pkgbuild, I have better things to do. Multiple packages were outdated crap that shouldn’t have been there anymore.

I was careless and took too much risk. I reduced the Installed AUR packages to a minimum, and from now on I will verify the PKGBUILDs on every update. Maybe Arch isn’t really what I need. I’m on the LTS kernel and I no longer really use the AUR. But switching will be a huge hassle and this setup will work well from here on out, so I’ll stick to it for now

Meow meow :3

Yeah that’s coming out too afaik. The emphasis is just on the initial one because it tends to be the scariest and the most consequential. When I came out as aro/ace I was most nervous about the initial ones, close friends and family. Not that I necessarily expected trouble, but it would have the most impact on my life. Now my go-to strategy is to be very casual about it and act surprised that people didn’t already know whenever I have to tell someone new. Pretending to be confident actually tends to work.

It’s still coming out though, and with how the world works it always keeps being a bit scary

Don’t worry these thoughts are totally cis. You can just say “still cis tho :3” and then it’s clear that there’s nothing eggy going on, I do it all the time

Your example doesn’t make sense to me. Why would you modify the entire list by checking if something is in it? Also, you can totally edit the list via a pointer, that’s how you’re supposed to edit the list if you want any performance. Otherwise you’d be copying the list on every modification, which is terribly inefficient

Wait what. I use Arch but I’m still missing some of these, uhhh, benefits. How do I unlock them?

:3

My autism will go into overdrive when eating this for bad reasons. There’s nothing healthy on that plate. I need some veggies. Some nice tomato or cucumber slices, grilled eggplant or zucchini (why don’t y’all just call it courgette smh). Maybe some mushrooms or something. Or pickles. One plate of veggies and then a little bit of the plate in the picture with a nice chunk of salmon, that’d do fine.

This design is getting slandered, damn. Personally I think it looks absolutely sick, but for a brand like Ferrari I’m not sure it’s a good move. It has that electric car look, which makes it seem less exclusive. I’d totally want one if I needed a car and it was actually affordable, but given the price it probably should’ve looked more exclusive.

Oh yeah I love all those gender neutral emoji variants. I tend to use them, for uhhh, reasons :3

Exactly. I started reading The Fellowship of the Ring again, and it takes some getting used to that “queer” is used in a completely different way than nowadays.

For the same reason I use PS3 and PS4 controllers to play PC games. I don’t even own a PS4. A controller should preferably be usable as a generic gamepad. Not that the PlayStation controllers necessarily are, on windows I always needed shady programs for that, but I’d expect better from Steam

Then you’ll never have to be bored, there’s always something more to learn

Kinda makes sense tho. Either they earn money on you from ads or they make money from you because of subscription. Or you’re like me and you still block the ads even though YouTube does everything it can to stop you.

I wouldn’t really mind watching some ads before a video, but I don’t wanna get constantly interrupted or have the ads track me everywhere. I tend to watch the in-video ads from creators tho, because most people I follow have relevant ads, funny ads, or ar the very least deserve some revenue.