Preflight_Tomato

Yeah, it's fine for now. If you're doing anything more than the absolute basic, you'll need 16+ now (on Win 11). Somewhat related, but my work computer was stuck, slow, and crashing at 99% utilization on 8GB until I added a card (my money). Now it stays around 85% on 16GB.

& also you probably know to spec it appropriately; most slow laptops I see have 8 gigs ram.

I guess I could install Ventoy on the raspberry Pi's SD card, but I prefer it to be bare, since the idea is to keep it simple.

If a hypothesis is untestable, then it is a guess, and not scientific.

Primary every democrat.

"man" used to mean person, it was gender neutral. In fact the root "men" just meant "to think", so a man could be any sapient being.

It was only changed several hundred years ago. "mankind" and other similar universals were meant to represent every human and became exclusionary only under patriarchal interpretation. "mankind" of course endures as universal, but we see lots of "firewoman", "mailwoman", etc., where the language becomes fundamentally gendered.

"the data are" also sounded odd to me when I first heard it. After practice it became fine. Now I see it as a green flag that someone may be scientifically literate.

Literally the poorest condition house would cost 100% of 8 years of take-home pay of my engineer salary where I live. That's before accounting for loan interest on 20% down payment (I have 5%) which would push it up to 18 full years of my labor.

A single-family house is simply not worth 15+ years of my life, and I'm actively looking into cheaper options.

Reminder that Cable and Broadcast TV are the same quality now, so if you (or your parents) watch TV, you can set up a box that just connects to the HDMI port and captures everything. It even gets metadata so you can see what channel the best stuff is on, like PBS kids. Total cost is around 100-200$ and after that it's free.

I gave a friend a raspberry pi a while ago and just this last week they asked me to come and set it up with Pihole for them. They're very happy to not have ads on their TV anymore. The only hiccup has been that their network connected cat litterbox (lol) doesn't tell them when the cat has pooped anymore.

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Yeah bitcoin is public, but anonymous (until the very first time you interact with some account in your name). Monero, in short, is like bitcoin but with washing is built into every transaction. It's far, far from perfect (like all current crypto-currencies), but is a meaningful improvement over Bitcoin (it also supports higher transactions/second).

In my opinion, Bitcoin and Monero are the only crypto-currencies worth engaging with at this time. I haven't looked into Etherium or Solana, mostly because the idea of 'decentralized apps running on the chain' seems like beyond ludicrous scope creep for the problem of 'minimal trust currency'. The one thing they do right is the Proof of Stake transaction confirmation algorithm, which is much more energy (and CO2) efficient than Proof of Work as used by Bitcoin and Monero.

Yeah up until then I though he was a cool guy; real life iron man and whatnot. That baseless accusation was just so incredibly out of character it made me question his character, and then his later actions made me realize it was always just a character.