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Probably you have a difference in opinion on whether your hobbies are perceived as ‘good’. I dunno: graffiti artist vs landscape artist.

Both can be dedicated, get highly proficient and be lauded by a sub-culture. Some people will see one as ethically ‘bad’ others won’t.

Granted as soon as they get a banksy on their wall and it’s worth money, most conservatives change their mind and sell it or charge admission. So there is a role for money to override peoples morality - but the dedicated graffitti artist can still be considered ‘good’ to their peers/gang/subculture even if it is worthless to others.

For involving the PC i’d say nameless one and annah in planescape torment.

Good banter , good complementary skills (i’d usually focus on magic in pst and have annah do the sneaking around and lure them into the blast zone ), some teaching/learning, some anger, some grief, mutual dependency / ass saving; literal resurrections of course; some infidelity possibilities or at least jealousy. And , of course, you can get the tattoo even though she’s scared of the tattooist.

It wasn’t plot linked as the other stories involving Deionarra and -spolier- and arguably not even necessarily a meaningful romance, but really good interpersonal dynamics over the course of the game that make the adventuring group more than just a collection of bashers walking from a to b.

Actually retrospectively -spoiler- might also be a good answer even if it was a bit unrequited desperate and mutually destructive. maybe i just really liked that game. I haven’t played many modern games though.

One of the videogame characters I was most attached to was Agro the horse in shadow of the colossus.

Also EU govts might get crippled by losing out on all that tax revenue. /s

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yes as far as i can remember debian has always had this option.

I think it mattered more in the days of install cds, limited space on the disc and slow internet.

Maybe it also helps them prioritise maintenance of the repositories in line with user needs.

I’m just agreeing with mrfinnbean that science is to an individual what science is to society.

My point was individuals can do science without society, but they probably will still need a language/database before too long. Maybe I’m wrong about that in he small scale, but i’d think after several hundred experiments most people would struggle to keep track.

This zen meditation thing sounds very different - presumably there is no recording of the observations or conclusions?

Society will for sure be better at science than any individual, but the individual can still do it if they follow a scientific system of observation, hypothesis and test. Making the results and data accessible to others is a huge bonus, no doubt, shoulders of giants and that, but systematic documentation is intrinsically useful to the isolated scientist too even with no prospect of collaboration.

I don’t know about this zen malarkey. but if there’s no systematic study of reality, no observation , hypothesis, and testing cycle then i just don’t see the corollary with science.

The individual will need some way to record their observations to do science, some sort of a database. This probably involves something with characteristics of a language even if it’s just to communicate their observations accurately to themself in the future, or just organise their observations so that they’re amenable to analysis and testing new hypotheses.

I guess you could do some rudimentary science with non-language/non-abstract recording, like marking a single subjects height height on a wall, or putting sticks in the ground to mark sunrise and sunsets across the year or collecting stuffed animals. But eventually you’ll want to record more complex data and do more complex analysis, or get so many specimens that you’d need an abstraction like labels and a card index or something.

if you don’t institute battle royal, you’ll pretty soon end up with mad max.

Should maybe be the Toecutter in Oz.

However good it is and however many certificates it has i personally agree with the dogshit classification. It won’t install on any of about 8 computers in my house, including one I bought from apple. Literally unusable to me for the last 10ish years. Windows would probably install on one or two of them I think, so I’ll give it a few hypothetical points for usability for that.

yes as others have said. microcontroller with decent io and wifi, fairly easy to make web interfaces which is handy. A step up from arduino and i dont think it eats too much more power if the wifi is used sparingly.

I’ve got a wildlife infrared camera made off a pi zero. I reckon if i can switch that to esp32 the battery life might stretch quite a bit - or i can shrink the case to a smaller battery. raspberry pipico would probably do similar tbf, but i bought like 10 esp32 for cheap. but i’m not quite sure how well they handle the image processing triggering.

Recently i’ve been making these: https://github.com/gadec-uk/departures-board as gifts for people who i know that live in London who i sometimes stay with. extremely useful.

There’s loads of projects like this that people have done and you can just put them together for a few tens of quid and a few hours of time if you dont have to write the software.

I think esp32 is more commonly used. i think they’re pretty similar capabilities and both dirt cheap. I just see more projects with esp32.

16gb raspberry pi was always weird, even 8gb. It’s more just a desktop pc or something at that level - the used pc market has usually been similar vfm when you factor in storage and peripherals.

The pizero2(W) is still very cheap for real raspberry pi stuff - where you just want an OS for some reason instead of esp32.

If I got that question by text though I’d normally ignore it until Monday. Bumming around doing nothing is one of my most valued hobbies.
“are you bored ?” might get a response, but better to reveal something about the proposed alternative. “want to do macrame on Sunday?”

I especially hate this one in work. “you free?”
Unfortunately, a polite reply is expected in that context so i can’t say “no” (I’m at work, as you fucking well know).

The question normally means " i fucked up x and don’t know what to do about it"

If they don’t tell me what “X” is, how do I know where their fuckup ranks in the wider population of fuckery.

yeah that’s what had me confused.

Maybe they mean open some process management tool ?

Things like archwiki and forums and manpages / open source made it possible. LLM might give you their answer faster, but risk of missing some context that might be important.

Might make open source more trustworthy, It can’t be any harder to check than closed source.