The Four Noble Truths, or the truths of the Noble Ones,[66] express the basic orientation of Buddhism: everything is impermanent, yet we crave and cling to impermanent states and things, which is dukkha, “incapable of satisfying” and painful.[67][68] This keeps us caught in saṃsāra, metaphysicallty interpreted as the endless cycle of repeated rebirth, dukkha and dying again;[note 5] also interpreted as a psychological cycle of repetitious rebirth of the ego.

But there is a way to liberation from this endless cycle[74] to the state of nirvana, namely following the Noble Eightfold Path.[note 6]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhism

lol the actual Virtual Boy only had 11 titles.

ordered a Minimal Phone

Good luck. I was lucky to get mine, but their customer service is atrocious and they’ve been leaving a lot of people in the dust. Also, it’s hardly disconnecting when you have a full Chrome browser, so you’ll have to do more to really dumb it down. I can suggest LightPhone if you really want out.

use Amazon to buy books

Buy them from anywhere else (like eBooks.com) and use Calibre to remove the DRM so you can move them to truly offline devices. I think you can still crack Amazon DRM, but it’s harder now.

https://archive.is/d4Ooa

You could do this with some consumer CPUs in the early 2000s. Drawing a line with a pencil between two specific pins would conduct enough to disable throttling.

›Soelberg experienced paranoid delusions that his mother was poisoning him by putting a psychedelic drug in the vents of his car, according to the Journal, and the chatbot didn’t push back on the idea

Well ok, clearly this man didn’t need any hel-

›At one point, Soelberg uploaded an image of a receipt from a Chinese restaurant and asked ChatGPT to analyze it for hidden messages. The chatbot found references to “Soelberg’s mother, his ex-girlfriend, intelligence agencies and an ancient demonic sigil,” according to the Journal.

Well then…

trying to draw perfect file selection rectangles around round objects on your desktop wallpaper.

https://hackaday.com/2025/07/09/crunching-the-news-for-fun-and-little-profit/

So the output from the LLM is just a text description that’s fed into another, smarter piece of software that interprets that text into an order? What task is the LLM actually doing in this case?

Can someone who understands this better explain to me how this thing actually places the order into whatever POS they use? Like if LLMs are just advanced auto-complete, I get how they can do “fuzzy” tasks like answering questions or carrying on a conversation, but how do they do rigid tasks like entering the tacos into whatever system the cash register and kitchen use?

I don’t have a command key. I don’t use a mac.

You’re getting downvotes because Ctrl+C doesn’t work in the terminal. That sends the kill command to the currently running application. You need the shift to tell the terminal program that you’re trying to copy.

Shit is usually a pain in the ass. The challenge is divining how much of a pain in the ass something has to be that someone else might have made a solution for it.

I didn’t know you could ctrl+shift+c to copy in the terminal until a month ago when my linux n00b wife said "there has to be a better way to do this. I’ve been right clicking to copy for 10 years.

Living in a city, I can kind of get it. The number of people who simply walk in front of my bike because they’re absorbed in their phone has made my commute stressful. I ended up installing a car horn on my bike which I’m sure makes their commute more stressful.

Perhaps the Walkman was the first time technology isolated people from the world around them.

Or I dunno, books.

Honestly, if they just made it easier to craft a formula (like, I dunno multiple lines, some kind of better color coding of matched parentheses, etc), that’d go a lot farther.

Okay This is after 5 minutes of Googling. There are a few cheaper options out there.

Get a used iPod. Load it with RythmBox, swap the hard drive for a few hundred gigs of SD cards and you’re golden.

Anybody playing tremulous?

You can run Windows 9 on an iPhone 9.

Vigil from Mass Effect. I think it’s the song playing when you first get the galaxy map, and playing that game and seeing the world open up while hearing that song really put me in a great mood.