I use my computer for so many things and I have about 200 applications on my computer. I don’t know why, but it bothers me that everything happens on this one machine as well as seeing so many app icons (even grouped into folders).

If what you want is organization from a workflow standpoint, I think that you’d have an easier time just using some form of launching system that doesn’t show a single monolithic menu of all your installed executables. Either have a launcher that permits breaking up stuff by task and lets you customize those groups, or just use a non-menu-based launching system.

I mean, /usr/bin on my system has 2694 entries. I don’t see them, though, since I’m launching software via bash or tofi, so…shrugs

VMs can have uses, but I’d mostly either use them for software compatibility, or to isolate things for security reasons. They wouldn’t be high on my list of tools to organize workflow.

Ooh, I didn’t know that someone had developed a mechanism to move issues and PRs.

I remember commenting on the fact that while it’s easy to move the source repo itself from location to location, as git makes that easy and self-contained, issues and PRs didn’t enjoy that.

Well, that gives you infinite energy, since you can produce energy-containing stuff.

Hmm.

On one hand, a lot of competition for resources go away.

On the other hand, that’s also pretty disruptive.

I think that that world is going to have a lot of sudden challenges. You don’t have scarcity of any material or existing item that you can break down to less than a 1m cube unless you need it in great bulk, but you also have no ability to control production of things like firearms, explosives, drugs, physical proofs of identity, missiles, weaponized drones, etc.

I can imagine countries or organizations trying to seize the supply of replicators.

If you can disassemble them, this is probably a good way to eliminate bounds on throughput, but honestly, even a little coordination permits for pretty enormous throughput from the get-go. You’ve got a lot of people out there.

Probably sell it. I believe that hedge mazes are expensive to maintain, and I wouldn’t get much good out of a hedge maze.

I have to be missing something here.

Why would that be a factor?

Yes, but I don’t use the right control key.

I also don’t use the right alt key, except for keyboards where I don’t have a menu key, and don’t use it as alt in that case. In both cases, I bind that to Compose.

No problem. I ignore most of the extra features they provide — my interest in them is really for the privacy aspect — and the ability to search the Threadiverse is one of the very few extra features that I actually make meaningful use of.

As someone else pointed out above, they have had a search lens to do this for some time. It’s called “Fediverse Forums”.

Honestly, it shouldn’t cost that much for free search engines to build in — shouldn’t add a lot of compute load or anything. I expect that what Kagi did was to run a spider to build a list of hostnames and then to basically do a site search on a huge number of sites. If there’s demand, other search engines could provide similar functionality.

Yet Tesla stock is up.

Well, over what period of time are you talking about?

https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/TSLA/

For the day, TSLA is up 5.27%.

For five days, down 0.51%.

For one month, down 26.37%.

Year-to-date, down 38.41%.

For six months, up 4.39%.

Like, depends on the start and end time that you’re looking at.

If you live in one of the rich countries.

Nah, I mean globally. Take your hypothetical fruit-growing country. Are things in 2025 in that country bad compared to 1925? 1825? 1725? 1625? If not now, when is the better time?

It’s not. You live in what is probably by most metrics the best time in human history.

If you read unceasingly-negative material, you could develop a negative worldview.

Eternity.

They’re establishing communities here because reddit (where the community mostly started) can censor or ban their community at any moment. The fediverse offers a lot more protection from censorship.

And yet…no icon for us!

In both series I think the first book is the best

Yeah, the Hitchhiker’s Guide series starts out with dark humor, sure, but…it’s still irreverent and kind of done in a light-hearted way. But that series gets grimmer and grimmer the further one goes, and I just found myself not enjoying myself by the end of it. I don’t understand people who love the whole series. I just found it wearing to read towards the end.

That and the Dune series are my own top “love the first book, but the series goes downhill over the course of the series” series.

EDIT: Calvin and Hobbes did the same thing. I love a ton of the Calvin and Hobbes cartoons, but man, in his last few books-worth of material, Bill Watterson was not happy and his cartoons were just cynical and unhappy too.

Hmm.

I think maybe Illusion, by Paula Volsky, which I read many years back. She does books that basically take real-life revolutions and then do historical fantasy in a lowish-magic world version of them. Illusion was the French Revolution.

I haven’t read it in ages, but I decided that it was my favorite novel at some point, and never really had another come along that I think quite replaced it. I don’t know for sure if I’d rate it as highly now, but I remember being absolutely entranced with it. She’s got other books that do similar things for other revolutions, but that was my favorite.

George R. R. Martin’s fantasy stuff is also low-magic, and I like it. Think it might have been the last time I read any fantasy.

I’ve probably read Snow Crash, cyberpunk by Neal Stephenson, the most over the years. But while it has a lot that I like, it’s also got some pacing issues, albeit not as severe as some of his other novels — I think that stepping between action scenes and someone talking about ancient Sumerian linguistics that Stephenson researched is kind of jarring.

My fiction book reading has really fallen off over the years.

My favorite comic book…I don’t know about a single comic book. I guess the Sandman graphic novel series, by Neal Gaiman.

I’ve done much more nonfiction reading in recent years. For nonfiction…I don’t know. That seems so dependent on what it is that you want to find out about. I think I’d have a hard time ranking books by purely content-independent aspects. How do I compare a book on Native American primitive looms and weaving techniques to a book on Cold War-era submarine designs?

Yeah, that’s probably a fair answer for some folks and systems. Depends on what your system is doing, your risk tolerance, and what money you’re willing to put into the thing.

If I didn’t have a backup system in place, say, that’d be much higher on my list than trying to ensure power isn’t cut off unexpectedly during power outages.

I agree that it’s less-critical than it was at one point. Any modern filesystem, including ext4 and btrfs, isn’t at risk of filesystem-level corruption, and a DBMS like PostgreSQL or MySQL should handle it at an application level. That being said, there is still other software out there that may take issue with being interrupted. Doing an apt upgrade is not guaranteed to handle power loss cleanly, for example. And I’m not too sanguine about hardware not being bricked if I lose power during an fwupd updating the firmware on attached hardware. Maybe a given piece of hardware has a safe, atomic upgrade procedure…and maybe it doesn’t.

That does also mean, if there’s no power backup at all, that one won’t have the system available for the duration of the outage. That may be no big deal, or might be a real pain.