MouldyCat

You think your assessment that humans are a scourge on the planet is objective and clear, but you miss your own anthropocentric blindspots. Like it or not, your stance is not unique, on the contrary many humans also question the direction our species is going.

The withering criticism of human activity by yourself and the many others like you is simply evidence that humans are *not* wantonly devouring the planet with no thought for the future, unlike the cricket plagues you liken us to.

Whether that is sufficient to save our society remains to be seen of course.

You are using your human value system to declare humans unworthy. This is a human thing to do. No other creatures reflect on the impact their existence has on the environment. Viruses don't. Crickets don't. Not even the planet itself, nor the entire universe, cares whether humans even exist or how they carry out their lives.

It's only humans who have evolved a brain capable of making such assessments and using that to inform their behaviour. Can we use this power to rise above the bloody law of nature? Can we create a world that is fair and just, even in an uncaring universe built on the cold unbreakable laws of physics?

You probably acknowledge that you're using your human value system to judge the performance of humanity as a whole. We have evolved to have these concepts of good and evil because they help our tribe to grow and flourish - and you can't deny that the human tribe has grown and flourished. So your values - including your ability for introspection and self-criticism - are a successful evolutionary adaptation which has helped your species grow and to dominate the world. So I want to thank you for being a successful organism. Well done.

seems to work without the "L" at the end - https://www.fosslinux.com/42630/best-cpu-stress-test-performance-benchmark-linux-tools.htm

on ebay?

I'm still loving my HTC Vive that I bought second hand a few years ago for €300. The Vive is probably too low-res for most (it does have terrible "screen door" effect), but you can get the Valve Index for about that price now, based on a very quick scan of ebay listings.

Still here 63 years later

wow jesus christ 63 years!! You should go ask the library assistant, they will prob help you. Your family are probably worried sick!

I guess someone needs to try with up-to-date Firefox and a spoofed Chrome user agent string

Copying my comment to OP below - it might be worth checking:

Check your inotify maximums - this is the system which monitors directory contents and notifies applications of changes. These maximums used to be pretty low, but should be high enough for most users these days. Do you tend to work with multiple directories containing lots of files?

See what you get when you run these two commands:

sysctl fs.inotify.max_user_watches
sysctl fs.inotify.max_user_instances

You can increase them temporarily like so and see if it helps:

sudo sysctl -w fs.inotify.max_user_watches=524288
sudo sysctl -w fs.inotify.max_user_instances=1024

If it does help, add to /etc/sysctl.conf (or a file in /etc/sysctl.d/).

Check your inotify maximums - this is the system which monitors directory contents and notifies applications of changes. These maximums used to be pretty low, but should be high enough for most users these days. Do you tend to work with multiple directories containing lots of files?

See what you get when you run these two commands:

sysctl fs.inotify.max_user_watches
sysctl fs.inotify.max_user_instances

You can increase them temporarily like so and see if it helps:

sudo sysctl -w fs.inotify.max_user_watches=524288
sudo sysctl -w fs.inotify.max_user_instances=1024

If it does help, add to /etc/sysctl.conf (or a file in /etc/sysctl.d/).

a landmark game and that alone is a reason to play it

It's a really pretty game that gives you a small taste of what it must've been like to be a roaming varmint in the early days of the US.

The missions feel very much on rails IMO. Several have just felt to me like a shooting gallery at a funfair.

I admittedly haven't got very far - maybe 25% - and what put me off a bit was how the game handles a bounty on your head. Bounty hunters seem to spawn randomly near you, and have supernatural abilities to home in on you. I tried sneaking up on them to pick them off one by one, but that just triggers more and more to spawn in. It really seemed like the GTA "Wanted" mechanic with increasing stars, and it kinda killed the immersion for me.

turnstile

Haven't heard of it before, looks to be made by Cloudflare. Cloudflare don't seem to be a totally awful company, but that's always just one CEO-change away.

Their web site sounds promising, saying "Turnstile can generate multiple types of non-intrusive challenges to verify users are human, all without showing visitors a puzzle." and "Unlike CAPTCHA options, Turnstile never harvests data for ad retargeting."

So how do they make money from this?

If you're exerting yourself at all, you pretty much have to mouth breathe. The way I avoid gobbling up any flying insects is to keep my head down while breathing in. It's surprisingly effective.

Slightly related, my son once had a bee go up his nose while we were out cycling. I say only slightly related because he wasn't actually going that fast; he was only about 8. He stopped suddenly, complaining about something going up his nose. Neither of us realised what had actually happened until he coughed up a still-squirming bee in a pool of phlegm.