sunbytes

Every time I make a tool like this, I try to wind up any Americans in the company by putting the US flag as English (simplified) and the Union Jack as English

It's a fun back and forth we have switching it between the two (inevitably someone makes a PR to put it back, and we go on)

If they're anything like me, it's the old laptop that you'd install Linux on as an experiment.

And maybe that laptop was only ah... Semi-retired at the time.

About 300 years after the invention of the bow, which is crazy.

It meant that the value of archers was really low from a military point of view. Those nerds were useless.

They may have been mentioned/featured in things that last longer than the bows. Statues, pottery, writing on stone tablets.

Also I think they find skeletons with flint arrowheads in them sometimes too.

So it can be pieced together from lots of small, even partial data points.

But we find new stuff all the time that changes what we thought.

They found a 4000 year old bagless vacuum cleaner the other day.

That last one was a joke.

Apparently that alt parks account is super weird and q-like.

They had "140k" members counting protesters (they claim). Seems made up.

For now I'm sticking with the low-but-verifiable numbers. Otherwise we leave ourselves open to being ignored the next time (on numbers/data).

My local library has been getting refurbished for a couple of months.

It's really thrown off my ability to do paperwork, as they were the only people around with a working printer.

I actually had to fix the printer at work. Horrible stuff.

If they only get to use their toys in specific cases, they'll pretend it's always that case.

Right now the key words are "insurrectionist" and "terrorist" and "illegals". They say the keyword, they suddenly get the loopholes.

It wouldn't be a stretch to say they suspected "illicit" materials just so they could gear up for their hero LARP.

For short-term wins I'd go with Neal Asher's "Polity" civilization as at some point in the 20th Century, the AI just decides to take over and become benevolent rulers.

No societal collapse required.

But also a higher risk of enslavement by giant sentient crabs. Your call.

Agreed, but honestly either is ok. I'd prefer the Minds ruling me to humans too.

The main thing that would scare me is the Megadeath scenarios from the Idiran war.

But that seems like a pretty rare thing. Also, they seem to be a lot better at the sex and drugs thing than ST, as well as how they handle crime.

Coming after these guys is Neal Asher's Polity. It's like Culture "lite", And the robots are a bit less "extra".

The hurt locker.

But only the guy who gets blown up at the start is a human.

I'm hoping they make a desktop version but I've been testing Linux mint on all the games I can download and I'm pretty sure it's running better than my win10 boot.

So the fact that the other distros are an option that's relatively accessible makes me think there's less value to valve releasing the desktop version any time soon.

Luckily it only took like 15 mins total.

Thanks though!