It’s also far easier to do if you live in a walkable, bikeable city. I used to live somewhere where even the nearest grocery store was a 10 minute drive away, and I barely ever saw anyone. Now I’m a 5-10 minute bike ride from pretty much everything I need and I spend so much more time with friends.

Chipbob Bagpants

Snap and KDE. Best of both worlds IMO.

Kubuntu.

Honestly? Get a large monitor and a sound bar.

If I were in the market for a new monitor and I could get an 8k monitor for under $1000 I’d consider it, but right now if one of my monitors broke I’d just be getting another 4k to replace it. The price isn’t worth it for me to have high DPI.

For TV my only justification for my 4k TV is that it was free.

Nah, my character has Mirror’s Reflection. So I can get through any window just by duplicating and then un-duplicating myself. I’ve skipped trays that way and opened doors for my group using it.

Worst thing that’s happened is a triggered a monster that one-shot me. From my team’s perspective I tried to duplicate through a window and instead just fell down unconscious. If I’d rolled better initiative I could’ve seen it and un-duplicated before it had a chance to do anything.

I’m playing a Pathfinder game where my character has something roughly resembling this ability, and so far it has allowed my party to essentially skip a few fights.

How are they gonna prove he’s alive?

Have him write “truths”? That’s just an LLM That’s trained to sound like him.

Get his voice somewhere? They just fed that LLM into an AI voice cloner.

Video? Ok so they added deepfake into the mix.

Short bits of him leaving the White House from afar? Body double.

He needs to travel the country doing rallies twice a day and shaking hands with all the people so we can actually see he’s alive. Anything short of that is just unconvincing.

I only know in this picture because of the monogrammed beds.

A loaf of milk is probably my favourite snack.

It’s a solid 7/10 attempt. Too salty and not meaty enough, but it’s still decent.

I used to have a neighbour who said he couldn’t live in a city because “it’s just too loud.” He would wake me up with his lawnmower at 7 AM every Saturday.

Anyway, now I live in the city and I get to sleep in because people on the whole are actually pretty considerate.

I initially read that as “stop using VPNs to watch child porn, ministers told” and was expecting a very different article.

Unstarted project I’ve been thinking about for 13 years

It does not “just work” for me and I love it that way. I got bored of using Kubuntu LTS because nothing interesting happened. Now I’m running prerelease versions of everything and get to file (and fix!) bug reports on the reg.

QWERTY keyboard. 2/10

Integer storage in spreadsheets… There are a ridiculous number of ways to store any integer, and I don’t just mean because you could theoretically store 1 and 00000001 and they’d be interpreted as the same thing.

I don’t think I’ve entered an IP address for a local device in years. Everything is accessible using <hostname>.local thanks to mDNS. Avahi has been doing this for… 20 years I think?

Do you even DNS?