farmgineer

Being old enough to remember Windows not being common, it’s always been a mixed bag. It was interesting to see the transition from windows being a thing you sometimes invoked from the commandline to being the thing into which the computer booted. Gamers and others of course had opinions on all those system resources getting used when they weren’t even needed.

’98 was stable after some big patches for the most part. XP was really the move to make after that. I used to work tech support and had to learn and support all of the various flavors before XP. I’ve used XP onward moving as support gets dropped for the previous one, though one of my PCs runs only linux. If davinci would kindly be stable on linux, I would probably switch, maybe keeping windows around for any games I might really want to play.

If there’s nothing else in the pantry, boil the noodles and serve with tuna. Separately make the jello for dessert. If you have other things, do that but make a sauce for the noodles as well.

There’s space. There is tons of agricultural-zoned land (and probably sanrin-zoned (literally montainforest; I don’t know what it would be in English… forestry maybe) as well) that is completely neglected. Indeed several farms near me now have solar on some or all. I haven’t personally seen any agrivoltaics with vertical panels yet which could be another option. My local has tons of farms for sale/rent that could be used since no one’s buying.

Additionally, there are plenty of areas that are monoculture cedar forests planted for lumber. I don’t buy “there’s no room”. I am, of course, glad to get rid of old eyesores and golf courses.

You can keep the IMs. I would like MP3s, though. A library could have a computer that can be booked for research purposes.

I’m debating over on-demand video and better TVs. Maybe a compromise would be the community decides its own broadcast schedule so it’s not as instant but still allows some modern media.

I don’t do any self-hosting anymore, but when I started I only had a couple uni classes that were related (I quit after about 9 months as uni wasn’t for me when I was 17). I somehow got recommended Gentoo linux back in the early 2000s and stood up my first server not long after (and got a lot of lessons in dealing with email servers). Now, I just don’t have the time to do it as a hobby and certainly not the money for any hardware in this economy. I thankfully never had any real security/hacking issues thanks in part to good guides even back then. It actually taught me a lot about both linux and many other things. I’m now a software engineer for a living, but mostly just doing backend work with little exposure to the infra side.

I think I’ve known two people, maybe three, called Lance. I think they would be in their 50s now for the two I remember well.

Japan is split and has both 50 and 60hz grids. Modern products don’t have any issues with this (voltage is 100v typically). In the older days, this was an issue for things with clocks and motors from what I understand, but I didn’t move here u til the 2010s

Y!天気 Not because it’s particularly interesting, but it’s more accurate than others that I’ve tried.

Their modeling suggests

Psh, it’s only a model.

We know proto families and such exist going back through to PIE and others. We know that languages split off of those and, if I’m remembering correctly, proto-Germanic itself would hit in their 0 +/- 1000 range easily.

After we domesticated plants and animals, however, the planet’s population ballooned—and so did the number of languages.

This feels counterintuitive to me. We had small groups of hunter-gatherers that interacted with other groups far less often (at least presumably) before agriculture. If people generally don’t speak like their grandparents today, why wouldn’t that be the case then? I guess one could argue that fewer people meant less drift, but i don’t know about that.

After agriculture (and arguably even before it in some places), we had more permanent societies with structure, population, governance, etc. Why would this be the place that language drift/division starts happening rather than the opposite?

I’m not a trained anthropologist or anything; it just feels weird to me.

I used my share of substances when younger and nothing doing. I also don’t think it’s a thing to be “cured”. I don’t particularly want all that shit going on in my head.

I have aphantasia and no inner monologue that I can “hear”, either.

My dreams are, as best as I can tell, very vivid images, though. I’ve always assumed it meant that the hardware exists in my brain and works, but the wiring isn’t connected.

Why would I need to somehow ‘see’ where I put something? It’s data. My database doesn’t store pictures of things, it stores the information about the things. I put the keys on the counter by the door as I do 95% of the time I enter the house. I don’t need some picture for that.

Now the hunt is on for skeletonless heads!

I used to run my own mailserver, but I haven’t in years now since it was so much of a pain. Not even the set-up part; that wasn’t the worst thing in the world. It’s uptime, back-ups, and other considerations that just require time and money I don’t have.

Chaucer?! That hack? You young upstarts haven’t even read Gower, I bet.