It really depends on what you want to do. Word processing it can handle, scientific analysis it’ll be slow at, 3d modelling it’ll end up in power point mode quicker than newer machines. Coding would be fine, though compiling would take longer and testing may or may not be viable.

Anything Mr. Bean.

He caught up in a flash!

Yeah, I used to have the mindset that either I loved or hated foods and would only want the ones I loved. But eventually, I realized that there’s a middle category of foods that I don’t go crazy for but aren’t bad, plus two reasons to revisit the ones that I still didn’t like: good cooking can make almost any food delicious, and tastes change as you age (and/or nutrition needs vary).

I have trouble respecting picky eaters after that. As long as your body isn’t trying to reject the food entirely (and I do understand that some people’s bodies will reject things that mine is fine with), it’s just sensations that you can get past. It’s a mental block that if you can get past it, you’ll eventually look back and wonder what was so hard about it.

Though my mindset plays a role. I like novelty more than familiarity (though ironically I don’t think we test our new things enough to really determine their safety… I like the new stuff but also side-eye it).

I’ve been enjoying Tales of Maj’Eyal lately. It’s a roguelike, though you can set it to give several lives or infinite lives. But I’ve been enjoying just going until I die and then rolling a different build. You usually only die because you get overconfident and I’ll leave figuring out the specifics of that to you :)

It also has over 1100 achievements if you like chasing those.

Ah damn, I hadn’t even thought of that but of course they’d be just working on tritium fusion rather than H1 fusion. So not even the power of a brown dwarf, which fuses deuterium. Hydrogen is very abundant but tritium much less so. That might be a game breaker on its own, since the price of tritium will only go up when it is in demand for scaled fusion.

I’ve also wondered if fusion reactors will have a “plasma jet” mode of failure where the magnetic field containing the highly pressurized plasma partially fails and shoots out a beam of plasma that will quickly cut through anything in its path.

I agree that they should keep working on it (though not expecting big things from this particular company, other than maybe nuclear arms production). But it’s starting to look similar to space travel outside of our immediate neighborhood: a nice idea that physics will probably laugh and say not so fast!

Except there are programs that can edit pdfs fine.

I believe that is the version my work has us use.

Similar line of thought regarding public vs private service providers. There’s nothing preventing public services from being as good as or better than private ones, but private ones will always want to extract more value than they provide as profit (which is the extra money left over after paying for everything, including staff). Plus they pay a whole team of people whose whole job is about maximizing profit, which can come at the expense of the quality of the service.

And with public vs private healthcare, there’s a whole health insurance industry extracting wealth from the public for the privilege of limiting their healthcare options (otherwise the healthcare providers would be the ones doing the fleecing by recommending unnecessary procedures, which probably still happens anyways). And on top of that, there’s an attitude of “just try it, even if it would be illegal, consequences are always avoided by backing down before it gets to court”.

Probably projection.

Autosave requires the file be saved on onedrive.

I was going to say that the only way to make it worse is if it showed ads while it autosaved, but autosave itself is literally an ad for onedrive.

If you try any of the other decent options, some of them free, you might come to understand the contempt people have for word, because there’s nothing special about it that the others can’t do, and you have to put up with design decisions made because they have market dominance and can use that to push people towards other shit that makes them money.

Well yeah, because it’s not feasible to deconstruct a baked cake, not because “things that are made shouldn’t be edited”.

That one looks like it’s both. Not sure their eyes can turn that far to the sides, but the sockets seem to be positioned for both good focus ahead and a wide peripheral.

A flock of good sturgeons can strip the flesh from a man’s bones–kidneys included–in seven minutes flat, without even using their hands.

A flock of bad sturgeons take between ten and eleven minutes because they do use their hands, which slows them down to about two thirds speed.

BIOS and UEFI are collaborations between the mobo manufacturer and the CPU manufacturer. The CPU side of it includes things like microcode and code for moving the settings values into the registers (or other location) where they are actually used. The mobo side would be the UI itself and setting up the menus, as well as adding stuff for the other hardware components that need something set up at boot time.

Fwiw, the gigabyte AM5 mobo I use has a responsive UI in the UEFI program, and displays at a decent resolution (though probably not the native one, 1080p would be my guess). Though the mouse might be more usable because it has hardware DPI selection.

Though still apparently solid enough to be an example of how disney sucks at writing.

Things don’t despawn in the real world. What was happening is the contruction workers were looting it after their raid defeated it. Those crane frame pieces add 1000 HP to their home’s structure each, so they are great items to have, especially if another crane were to spawn nearby and managed to use its [Collapse] skill on their home before a raid could defeat it.

Also AI could theoretically do an even better job at ad blocking and also block other annoying shit like autoplay videos and html5 popups (fuck any web dev that uses them without a user click prompting the popup, they are like the old style popups that were a cancer on the early web, only marginally better because they don’t try to bomb your browser/system like they occasionally would do back then).

Though what I’d really like to see is a DOM designed to serve the user’s will rather than the webdevs’.

I believe it was originally intended to be a literal account of history and set of rules, but as society’s knowledge evolved and literacy increased the number of people who could read it, the contradictions it contained both with itself and with the world it was trying to describe forced their hand. Some decided to defy logic and reject what their eyes and experiences told them, some decided to adjust how they interpreted the bible from literal to metaphorical (which just seems to me like an attempt to save the scam by those who were in on it or an attempt to keep the sense of security it gave without needing to worry about it clearly being wrong about many things by those who were true believers), and some rejected the premise of the bible (that the whole point of these lives is to serve the will of some mysterious being that chose to communicate with characters in the stories but otherwise only “shows up” via outcomes which show favour or disfavour).

And the people who pull out bible verses to support their hatred seem to prefer the literal set of rules interpretation, so why just treat that one as gospel and not the rest of it?

And the all or nothing bit comes from either this is the word of an all powerful being with absolute control over what happens to you over eternity, written by humans inspired by that being, who should know how to inspire accuracy, or it wasn’t written for accuracy in the first place (either deliberately by the absolute being or because it was made up by humans writing what they thought made the most sense/would give them the most influence), at which point quoting verses is useless because any given verse could be “made up” rather than “inspired”. Being able to say, “oh this part is real but this other part is just a metaphor” just seems either too arrogant or too convenient.

There is wisdom in it, as the other commenter said, but that wisdom is just human wisdom, not some infallible divine wisdom. That’s what I meant by the “nothing” part, it’s either a special book that should all be treated as special knowledge, or it should just be treated as any other book. This in-between where it’s special but also contains stuff to not worry about is nonsensical to me.

Yeah, like following the Bible seems like an all or nothing kind of thing. I’ve never really understood the people that just kinda follow it and think they can rationalize issues away.