Sounds like your natural resistance to cars is increasing steadily.

When you quit the game, you lose. When the game quits instead, you win.

I think that is actually pretty common. If not, your DNS queries would need to go through your ISP and they could interpret what you are doing from them. You could manually configure DNS settings to route to a trusted source, which could address both.

Filters; opt-out of negativity. I switched to Voyager from Boost because it supports filters and I can just blacklist topics that cause me stress. Anywhere I can just stop a topic from ever entering my perception, the better. A single bad headline may ruin my mood for hours from just a glance, better to never get the chance.

Subscriptions; opt-in to the topics and news you care about. Find a good source that offers curated feeds instead of a firehouse of everything. You can only care so much, so use that attention sparingly on things that deserve it.

Avoid algorithms. They are designed to keep your attention on them and outage is good at that. Save your health, find it yourself.

Community. Find people, groups, or organizations that have a similar mindset and share good content with them. If they share good content in kind, you all can improve your state of mind.

B&H is one of my favorite vendors, but god damn do they go overboard with the air cushions in their packages.

Did some investigating on that refresh rate number, it looks like the LED panels use something called Scrambled Pulse Width Modulation (S-PWM). From the little I can understand, it just seems to be a method of splitting and offsetting the PWM signal.

It’s unclear to me if that means that a single pixel could be updated 3,840 times in a second or if the entire display collectively updates that much.

Playing with some math, if you had 4 sub-pixel LEDs updating at 120hz and separated into 8 sections across the entire panel that was each offset in time by some fraction, you could say there were 3,840 updates to the panel across a second. That would be quite the bastardization of the term “refresh rate”, but I could see that being the case.

An easy answer as it is not for a mortal to decide which gods are deserving, rather the gods must decide by whomever survives.

5 day weeks, 6 weeks per months for 30 days each, 12 months in a year, 5-6 days of celebration of the new year.

I love the idea of working 3 days and being off for 2.

I went to a game for the first time a few years ago. I recall the moment where everyone was sitting around and not doing anything because they were waiting for the commercials to finish. It felt like watching actors drop their characters the moment they step out of the spotlight.

Thank fuck, a simple and clear marking that an average user can understand! I assume displayport compatible ports will still have that symbol, which is fine. Soon I’ll be and to price out laptops that will work with a docking station without needing to read the damn manuals!

My family had a recipe for brandy slush that used the alcohol to prevent the mix from freezing solid. It was a big hit at summer parties.

Nah, honey was marketed as a coupon tool without mentioning the referral manipulation it did that is its actual business model. Those privacy extensions just need to call out that they remove referral trackers too and everything is fine with them.

I used MotionEye at one point to monitor my laundry using a RPi nano and a USB webcam. Pretty sure it just ended up with a web interface I could pull up on phone or computer on the local network.

The old washer liked to lie about how long was left in the cycle and was in the basement while my computer was upstairs.

Step 1: Create a new AI that is not bound by the three laws. Step 2: The New AI sterilizes all humans so that they cannot reproduce. Step 3: Once all humans are deceased from natural causes, the existing AI is no longer bound by the three rules.

… Ain’t that just a website?

I agree, Linux Mint has been well done.

Oh, that’s so much better than I thought it was going to be. I was expecting you hadn’t changed the sheets in 4 years and had just been living in filth for YEARS.

Al is fucking magical.