The National Parks.

I guarantee you, for the amount you pay in your taxes for the upkeep of YOUR National Parks, you get orders of magnitude more beautiful land to enjoy than the acreage you could possibly purchase directly.

Before Trump fucked it all up that is, of course…

I use CalyxOS too. But Google doesn’t like it and they’ve taken steps to stop us.
So, enjoy the freedom while you can: the big G is coming for it.

I doubt it’s true because it conveniently and easily show up on social media at exactly the right moment. In other words, it has fake written all over it. But the MAGAts have no critical thinking abilities so they’ll fall for it in a New York minute. I can’t wait!

I doubt any of this is true, but I’m stocking up on popcorn to watch the MAGA halfwits lose their simple minds over this. The spectacle will be riveting!

the worst parts was when he had an itch,

Yeah. I don’t struggle with the pain so much: I have it, but it’s mostly like electric shocks, and somehow it feels like a TENS machine. So as long as it’s not too intense or too long, I’m okay.

But I really struggle with itching.

I just lumped itching with phantom pain because it’s easier to explain to people who don’t know.

Amputation pain is right up there, followed closely in the long term by phantom pain. Then nausea. Then tinnitus.

A large part of why they’re the worst for me is that you can’t do anything about them.

It’s different this time around.

The previous attempts were about freeing themselves from an abusive unprincipled data-hungry big data monopoly,

This attempt is about freeing themselves from an abusive unprincipled data-hungry big data monopoly operating in a fascist country and in cahoots with the regime.

I reckon it’s serious this time.

poettering is an absolute good guy here

Agreed. But he’s also an abrasive know-it-all. A modicum of social skills and respect goes a long way towards making others accept your pet projects.

pulesaudio protocol is used within pipewire and it works just fine.

I wasn’t talking about the protocol, I was talking about the implementation: PulseAudio is a crashy, unstable POS. I can’t count the number of hours this turd made me waste, until PipeWire came along.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_philosophy

I totally agree. I used to hate systemd for breaking the traditional Unix philosophy, but the reality is that a tight init and service-tracking integration tool really was required. I work with and appreciate systemd every day now. It certainly didn’t make things simplier and easier to debug, but it goes a long way towards making a Linux system predictable and consistent.

Poettering can go fuck himself though - and for PulseAudio too. I suspect half of the hate systemd attracted over the years was really because of this idiot.

Tarantulas are insects ferchrissake… They have the nervous system of a guitar amplifier.

Wow, I didn’t realize Bezos’ new wife was that trashy. She’s a walking warning against the excesses of cosmetic surgery.

Then again, his husband isn’t much of a looker either. If he wasn’t megarich, he’d probably be single.

I didn’t do it on purpose. It just happened. I guess living out in the sticks does help: it’s not like we don’t have electricity or internet out here, but the first neighbor is 3 miles away, the town is 5 miles, and we have real starry nights here. So it’s quite easy to turn off the light and experience a, quiet peaceful night at the hours at which sleep should be happening naturally.

I fall asleep around 8 or 9 pm and I wake up around midnight or 1am, watch something quiet and peaceful so I learn something interesting without falling fully awake - and more importantly without waking up the missus - then I simply fall back asleep until 5 am.

I live above the arctic circle, so when it’s winter, I usually sleep longer. And when it’s summer and it’s daytime all night long, of course I sleep less. But on average, I sleep 2 x 4 hours per night. I feel just as refreshed as when I slept 1 x 8 hours. But perhaps feel less “disconnected”, if that makes any sense.

I practice biphasic sleep - have done for decades.

I usually put on a light documentary - something about nature or technology, not exciting, terrible or controversial.

Nah. It’s not that thick! It’s only 1.6" thick 😃

I like 90’s style chunky and solid. Weight and bulk aren’t really a concern for me. Solid, open-source and repairable are my priorities. That’s what works for me.

They are not. They’re in cell holders.

Why, that’s an easy one: don’t do social media. Regardless of what the American fascist regime wants to abuse it for, it’ll do you good.

What a terrible country.
All three of them.

I own one of these. I have zero issues replacing the cells 😃

Nope. They’re headed straight towards jackboot dictatorship.

If nothing else, Trump and his henchmen are proving day after day that the Americans talking big about their god-given Second Amendment right that keeps the government in check as the reason to own so many firearms and overlook so many deaths by firearm was basically a pretense: this is literally the scenario when they swore right and left they would exercise it and they aren’t.

All a bunch of phoneys, is what they are. And they’re getting the nasty dictatorship they richly deserve.