i think the biggest problem with electron is that it doesn’t just use some system-provided browser library, instead every electron app ships its own browser environment, which takes up a lot of space each time and makes the whole system a whole lot less efficient. shared libraries exist for a reason.

Support for Windows 10 ends on October 14, 2025.

Microsoft wants you to buy a new computer.

But what if you could make your current one fast and secure again?

https://endof10.org/

the thing is to do these things, you need people who feel that way. good luck finding 100+ people in one place in the US who would be willing to live that way. it might be easier to flee to south america and do that there. fits better into the vibe of the country.

I’ve read the giving tree recently and i must say, it kinda makes me angry, but not so much because of its sad story, but because i think that that is not a good way of life. you can’t give away your life, i think, and you shouldn’t look at yourself like a candle that is pre-destined to burn down through its course.

i believe that to truly live well, one must always live as if one had a very long life and must be sustainable in any action. this includes not giving away parts of your life that don’t regrow. that is why the giving tree made me so angry.

If it looks like a duck and it quacks like a duck, it is a duck? Anyone? (/s)

No but seriously, i think the question of personhood is interesting and more complicated, at least in theory. Like, what if we ever meet an extraterrestrial species that also exhibits intelligent behavior. Would we consider them natural persons? Would we grant personhood to them? Why, or why not?

My dad gets legitimately angry when I do this

I think it has to do with “putting the waiters out of their job”. Like, when you do a part of the job for them consistently, the restaurant manager will eventually notice that and realize they can do with a little bit less staff. So they hire fewer waiters, which means potential waiters face a tougher job market.

And for anybody saying “that little bit of support can’t make the difference between more and less staff”, yes, it can. Consider that a restaurant manager might have already decided to fire a waiter that’s a bit less performant (because they struggle to keep up) but decided to keep them anyways, just in case. Now they see that people do a part of the work, and that might just give them the idea that maybe, they could do with fewer waiters, and there’s that one lazy guy who can’t keep up anyway …

My test for people is dressing plainly, by which i mean, not excessively well. I wear simple and plain clothing and have a plain appearance.

In my opinion, jewelry and cosmetics and all that are all very problematic. The whole feminism movement is largely about the fact that women don’t want to be objectified, but then they objectify themselves, i argue. By wearing makeup, you’re making yourself a “pretty thing”, one whose superficial appearance is judged, which is arguably more problematic than helpful. Like, if you’re a woman and talking to a man and you’re overly pretty, you subconsciously think that they only talk to you because you look pretty, and that makes you suspicious of them and a little bit angry, which hinders the discussion and makes honest exchange of opinions a bit more difficult. If you dress plainly, don’t wear makeup, earrings or any of that, then you can’t think that they’re only interested in your superficial appearance that they’re interested in, so that means they talk to you because of your personality, which i think puts you in a better mood and makes the talking more worth-while. It leads to higher-quality exchanges.

xD it’s to confuse the romans, in case they invade again

I struggle to see how you could say it’s more comfortable

easy, i don’t have to focus on the street for 50 minutes. that’s a big win for me.

It’s not even just about sustainability. It’s also largely about comfort (public transport is just 10x as comfortable as any car could be), price to the end consumer (public transport is typically much cheaper to the end consumer than cars, and that’s even by a lot), space management (compare how much space cars need vs. public transport) and all these things. it’s not just climate change.

uhm do you have a source of that because i’ve seen various evidence to the contrary.

It’s worth noticing that this is apparently the traditional far-eastern way of life; at least it was explained to me that this “realization” is a major part in traditional japanese meditation techniques.

It’s also noteworthy that japanese people typically refer to themselves by their name, i.e. I would say “gandalf ate noodles yesterday” instead of “I ate noodles yesterday”. I believe this stems from the idea that you look at yourself from the outside, just like you would look at anybody else. This is also the root cause for why there’s traditionally such a strong “group think” in far-eastern countries. Because they differentiate way less between themselves and others, and often apply the “group perspective” to things, instead of the “individual perspective”.

minecraft is proof that colorful computer screens are attractive to many people. I’m not sure whether it proves anything else. the reason why people don’t like to do these things IRL is mostly because it’s physically exhausting, i guess, which it is not in-game.

Uuh i hope this won’t backfire into a “leftists are trying to take our fun away” drama. Like, that’s literally what happens in Germany a lot. Greens (center-left) want to outlaw selling combustion engine cars from 2035, lots of people say “boohoo they’re ruining our way of life”.

I think it would be better to make as little as possible rules for the individual people, because after all, if it helps, nobody thanks you, but if it hurts, you’re going to make a lot of enemies.

Better focus on the big things. (economy, geopolitics)

edit: but yes also lootboxes are gambling and should be disencouraged.

I’ve been saying this for a long time now. All the “moral” principles that people supposedly just have are actually derived from christian thoughts that have pervaded society for centuries. All the supposedly secular and “ethical” concepts are actually just christian concepts without the brand name “christian”.

I’m not familiar with NixOS

However, short reminder that the internet was largely funded by the US military. It’s not uncommon that the US military brings significant developments for the internet. This is nothing new. The latest outcry is solely because the US is sliding into fascism, not because of the involvement with the US military.

the gold market wasn’t “manipulated”, that was just a lie that Nixon came up with to justify ending the dollar-gold exchange system.

actually the US government just wanted to have complete control over the dollar, including the ability to print more dollars if needed. if the dollar is bound to gold, that’s impossible because you can’t just print gold. by declaring an emergency (“to protect the dollars against the speculators”) they had enough reason in the eyes of the population to make the dollar a pure fiat currency.

And to follow up on my own comment, imagine this:

• Extracting water from the martian landscape would literally be seen as a source of wealth, and it gives people a strong incentive to extract as much water from the landscape as is reasonably doable, thus giving society a steady source of water, which drives society forward.
• Maybe, 1 martian dollar ($1) would represent 1 ton of water, and 1 cent (or “bit”) would represent 1 kg of water, which means 1000 cents/bits = 1 dollar.
• So you might have paper money representing 5c (almost a gallon) or 50c (let’s call it a barrel) for everyday use, so when you go to a market to buy some food, you might pay for it either by paper money or by literally handing over water bottles.
• The paper money would have to be handed out by banks that store the water or at least are able to hand it out if somebody wants to redeem their paper money.

I’d be glad if anybody actually paid attention to my mod pack xD
so i’m fine with this :D

note: also development is slow because i’m still in the “figure out what i want to do” phase.

You’ll need some kind of representational currency

yep that’s exactly what i think would make sense in the real world. basically a paper currency backed by real water. one dollar represents 1 kg of water.

it’s like the gold standard, just not backed by gold but by water.

in the game that doesn’t matter though since you can just carry around a lot of water bottles before your inventory space runs out.