Interests: programming, video games, anime, music composition
I used to be on kbin as e0qdk@kbin.social before it broke down.
There are parasitoid wasps that lay eggs inside other species of insect and have a symbiotic relationship with polydnaviruses that suppress the host’s immune system so it doesn’t attack the wasp eggs.
Basically, if you’re an unlucky caterpillar, ant, or whatever, a wasp may come along, penetrate you with its girldick (ovipositor), and give you insect AIDS so that its young can hatch inside you and eat your still living flesh…
My old phone is 5+ years old at this point and the battery’s going spicy pillow on me… Considering replacing it with one of Murena’s offerings (which ship with /e/OS) but I’m still on the fence.
If it actually worked reliably enough, it would be like having a dedicated, knowledgeable, and infinitely patient tutor that you can ask questions to and interactively explore a subject with who can adapt their explanations specifically to your way of thinking. i.e. it would understand not just the subject matter but also you. That would help facilitate knowledge transfer and could reduce the tedium of trying to make sense of something that’s not explained well enough for you to understand (as written) with your current background knowledge but which you are capable of understanding.
It doesn’t actually include all the media, and – I think – edit history. It does give you a decent offline copy of the articles with at least the thumbnails of images though.
Edit: If you want all the media from Wikimedia Commons (which may also include files that are not in Wikipedia articles directly) the stats for that are:
Total file size for all 126,598,734 files: 745,450,666,761,889 bytes (677.98 TB).
according to their media statistics page.
I just got it a half hour ago (2025-09-04 ~3PM UTC) on GOG and can confirm – no issues at that time!
I had similar problems and couldn’t figure out how to get out of that cycle before it ended up with me having panic attacks, and anxiety/depression bad enough to be put on SSRIs. If you can’t relax and feel tense all the time, that is a serious issue! Nip it in the bud if you can.
What I eventually figured out is that I needed separation between my work and my personal time – and yes, those kinds of personal projects are still work even if you’re just doing them for yourself.
Decide how long you want to dedicate to working – then hold yourself to that. Like, actually write down the start and end times you worked so that you can prove to yourself that you really put in the effort. I use plain text files on my computer for this; do what works for you. After you’ve put in the time you committed to, you are OFF THE CLOCK. Stop working – even if you have to force yourself – and go do something else. Without guilt.
Fuck no, I don’t agree with that at all. People mature at different rates, and the main reason IMO not to show sexual content to very little kids is that they literally don’t have the capability to understand it having not yet hit puberty. If you’re old enough to be interested in sexuality, you’re old enough that you’re going to start trying to explore it… and it’s a hell of a lot safer to explore it through media than through doing things IRL. I don’t think there’s anything particularly harmful about a ~13+ year old searching for boobs or dicks if they’re interested and want to see them; I did it myself. I may have gotten a few weird ideas about sex from seeing porn online when I was a teenager – that took me a couple years to sort through while growing up – but I never got an STD or got anyone pregnant from looking at porn!
I reached the point of being interested in sexuality around 9th grade – and I seemed to be on the late side compared to my peers based on things I heard from them in 7th and 8th grade. As far as I can recall, the first time I encountered something explicitly sexual was in a novel I found at a library when I was in 6th grade; I was more traumatized by the taboo around sexuality than anything in the book itself (which was a fairly tame sexual fantasy that the main character had involving comparing a girl’s breasts to fruit of various sizes, IIRC). I was not ready for that content yet, and that led to me having a formative conversation with my dad about the subject – i.e. it was ultimately a positive experience for me growing up, even though I was briefly uncomfortable for a bit while I was going through it. When I was a teenager, I was ready to deal with it and sought it out on my own. Speaking as someone who grew up in the goatse/lemonparty/tubgirl era of the internet, if I ran into something that was too extreme, I backed off and said “yeah, that ain’t for me!” I don’t think I would’ve turned out better if I’d been locked out of it.
Thanks for the ping! I’ll post a few links to some albums I’ve been listening to lately to help kick things off. Curious to see what other people like as well!
I’m not complaining about Framework’s HW there; my old desktop (which uses an ASUS MB, IIRC) had that issue. I’m on my own figuring out WTF is going wrong between the CPU, the kernel, quirks of the motherboard, BIOS, GPU – or whatever else might be causing it to enter a boot loop if I try to suspend and then resume the system.
If I had a similar problem with the Framework system, I could go to Framework and say “Fix it!” and expect to get help because they officially support the configuration. That’s my point.
I was thinking of motherboards. Some of my systems have really fucking annoying power problems. If I can’t get this thing to suspend properly, for example, I can go back to Framework and try to get them to fix it. My cobbled together desktop? I’m on my own.
It’s hard to build one that you can’t make work, but a lot of manufacturers don’t actually officially support it. It’s a minor point, but one I care about – especially when dealing with new hardware. I’d have wasted a lot more time trying to debug what was going on with Mint if they hadn’t documented the need for a 6.11 kernel on their website, for example…
That combo was interesting enough to me to order one to mess around with. I could build a more powerful (but probably more energy hungry…) computer in a traditional desktop form factor. I don’t think I could build a better SFF computer myself though, and I’m really curious to see just how far I can push the integrated GPU in this thing…
My pre-order from February just arrived, so I’ve been poking at it a bit this weekend. I tried putting Linux Mint on it first. It booted but had issues (e.g. ethernet wasn’t detected – although WiFi worked fine); seems like the 6.8 kernel is too old. I’ve got Fedora on it instead now, and that seems to be working better so far.
Wasn’t aware of that one, but I did hear about the bird with a baguette…
The OpenAI logo clenches shut…
Digital Renal Management
…simultaneously rolled out with Digital Rectal Management, of course.
Seem like they’re not selling this one in the US?