I’m very Jesus-like

You mean you’re cross?

Using Copilot even as a mere coding assistance is insane, if no other reason than you’re sending all your code to Microsoft, and you also let them monitor your work habits in uncomfortably intimate details.

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.

Love and hate what you want. That’s totally normal.

Just make sure you don’t start hating people who like things you don’t like.

I know it’s hard to believe, but in a majority of places on Earth, water is readily available.

I think MAGA thinks you’re not part of the human species to begin with.

Because a starter motor draws a hundred amps or so. The solenoid ensures that closing the circuit is done as quickly as possible to limit sparking - and also keep the sparking as far from the driver’s fingers as possible. Also, it’s closer to the starter motor and the battery, so the cables are short and don’t waste as much power as if they had to snake through the firewall - not to mention the PITA of routing monter copper cables through the firewall.

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Mobile Linux suffers from a chicken-and-egg problem: it may or may not be a better mobile OS, but ultimately it doesn’t matter because your bank’s mobile app or your state’s online ID app only run on Android or iOS. Mobile Linux would have to be a lot bigger for app makers to bother releasing their shit on Linux, but it can’t get bigger because people aren’t using it because it’s not a practical platform.

I’m not sure how this statement is unpopular. I don’t have specific numbers, but I’m willing to bet the number of people who like Apple’s golden prison and the advantages it brings equals those who’d rather suffer Android for the privilege of sideloading and using deGoogled ROMs.

I love Reddit like I love smoking: it’s addictive but it’s bad for me, so I abstain.

Youtuber Johnny-come-lately gets way too much attention.

Calculating the number of hours I had left on Earth, and realizing that every hour I spent fretting about shit that doesn’t matter is an hour I won’t spend having the best possible time on this dirtball with my family and my friends before I kick the bucket.

Once I “let go” and decided nothing really mattered, it felt like my whole body finally deeply relaxed for good.

IANAL but my attorney once told me he witnessed a guy defending himself in court for involuntary manslaughter saying “I didn’t see the red light because I was drunk.”

That doesn’t make you divine.

I was onboard until I saw the “divine being” and “holy tongue” bits. I’m a technophobe, not a religious nutter.

some of them have shown you they’re Nazi sympathizers

It’s been known for years that the magats are Nazi sympathizers. And if you had any doubt, very senior figures have warned everybody very bluntly that Trump was a fascist.

So if any of your friends and family was a Trump sympathizer, you should have known long before the election that they were at least Nazi-adjacent.

Therefore the only difference between this reality and the one in which Trump is six feet under is that the American 4th Reich hasn’t happened yet in the latter (but most likely will, because Trump is only a symptom of something deeper and profoundly disturbing in the American society).

The alternative reality Earth where Thomas Matthew Crooks aimed ever-so-slightly more to the right.

Also, as cars designed by immature adults go, it might just look better than the real thing.