I actually do navigate through folder structures typing letters even in a GUI, but the terminal is still way faster for experienced users. And - what’s more important: knowledge acquired for the terminal stays valid for ages - in the linux world now, 30+ years. Whereas a GUI change can be catastrophic to a learned workflow.

GUI: ~5 mouse buttons / wheel functions Terminal: +102 keys

You can also just pull the USB drive out, if you have waited a reasonable time after last writing to it, no harm will be done.

Also, terminal commands have the advantage that they are the same over the course of 20something years and across all desktop environments, while the tinyfloppy windows moves critical functions around with every second patch so you have to relocate stuff you had just memorized.

There’s nuances to everything. My oldest “heteronormative” friend and I sometimes call each other honey and blow a kiss into the air, without being serious about it nor meaning it to mock people.

You must be young still. I don’t deny that - as you say - in school being perceived as gay was kind of bad / an insult, but that was us growing up in an atmosphere of toxic masculinity. I have matured beyond that and would laugh at such a prank.

That’s the opposite of it.

Men are not afraid of being perceived as gay. Only insecure weirdos that need therapy are afraid of that.

That indeed is a huge problem. Whenever I try peertube, I get zero search results and I don’t know whether it is because there are so few videos or because the indexing is so badly done or because people do not provide metadata with their uploads…

Barobax - Baba to ki hasti

Technically inclined to agree but The Long Dark implements this rather well…

This here is one likely answer. One other (less likely) might be insurance, although I would have to strain my imaginatiom quite a bit to come up with an explanation that nakes insurance a good reason to do this for a christmas party vs. a regular drive to work. Maybe they want to prevent “fraternization” by making clear “we know where your rental cars will spend the night”? ;)

it appears I have to make Tor my baseline browser :( lot’s of stuff that doesn’t require tor-connections, too - so it’s gonna feel like a dial-up modem again. Fuck LLMs

Last I checked (3 years ago) postmarketOS drained the pinephone battery in record time :(

Have fun friends, there’s no wrong answers.

Sadly, there is though: as nice and fascinating as it is to get a usable computer out of vintage hardware - sometimes the power consumption is too bad to justify not recycling the hardware :(

I actually had to look up cos(pi/3), it’s been so long :( but yeah, checks out :)

It’s good enough to answer most questions and it will only get better.

Reality indicates the opposite.

Even if it is not AI it is a tool that knowledge workers use and will need to stay competitive.

People who use machine learned systems to handle “knowledge” will dilute actual knowledge with billions of factual errors and fuck up mankinds knowledge base.

1. it’s not AI, regardless of how many idiots repeat that bullshit. It is machine learning with glorified pattern recognition.

2. Why would anyone want to enter the market? It has no practical use that justifies the energy consumption. Because it is not targeted, for every individual application, there are much more efficient ways to accomolish the same/better results for much less energy.

Forgot the drive but a shout-out for Final Space lovers!

I knew about the allegations against MZB, luckily I never got into her books, so it’s not a big loss for me - but just now I got curious and did some reading - Is this article legitimately by MZB’s daughter? https://thembeforeus.com/moira-greyland-i-was-born-into-a-family-of-famous-gay-pagan-authors-in-the-late-sixties/

That’s a sad outcome - of course it is understandable that as a traumatized victim she has a risk to have a warped vision of reality - but holy cow, to blame homosexuality as the root of the problem, that’s losing the plot entirely.

I have the Dangerous album from Michael Jackson, shelved for decades without listening, for pretty much the same reason :(