Yes. No case. Why would I? I specifically got the phone because it's quite small, and feels nice in the hand. A case would ruin that.
I also have not dropped any of my phones once in the past ~10 years.
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I dream of a pure information protocol. Kinda like RSS, but... More.
- allow any piece of information (news article, DM, sensor reading,...) to be wrapped in a standard format
- subscribe to any number of source directly or indirectly (e.g. through a self-hosted relay server)
- allow networks to define default data sources (e.g. get sensor data from machines as soon as you are connected to corporate networks
- make the data declare what UI elements are required,
- but allow clients to display them however the fuck they want
- allow user to assign priorities statically or programmatically to any source, and to filter, sort, categorize based on it
Essentially: I want "the feed" from universes like The Expanse
Interesting. I always loved how they fit the musical entries into the story in a way that it makes sense that everyone is singing all of the sudden, lol
Iain M. Banks' Culture.
I'm deathly afraid of the day some big studio manages to buy the rights and produce a Hollywood version of the Culture. Mostly because it is very easy to flip through the Wikipedia entries and then take the superficial aesthetic of the Culture and misunderstand or ignore the rest.
For an example on how easy it is to do this: I remember vividly when the German translations of the later books came out, and they all had some variation of
The Culture is the galaxy-spanning empire of mankind. Unbeknownst to its citizens however, their supposedly benevolent machine gods are about to dispense with the needs for humans at all"
in the blurb. Someone scanned the wiki page until they read something about "superhuman AI" or the like, then went "ah, got it, I've seen Terminator".
In a similar vein, I cannot imagine that Hollywood would portray the Culture as an unquestionably good Utopia. They'd not be able to resist to paint the luxury gay space communists as "...with a dark secret / actually dystopian /..." tones.
It has to have the same energy though. Dong have to be the same characters, doesn't have to feature Brakebills for Fillory, but needs the same "we're broken and magic doesn't make it better, but hey, here's a canonical musical" feeling
No, mate. I don't need a guide, or a tour. Just a single clarifying sentence.
"My product does x". Right now, x could be:
- help you scam people
- provide a meditation partner
- help you learn how to code in Cobol
- give travel tips
- ...
What does your product DO? And dong you dare answer "it helps you make money", that does not explain anything.
I have clicked every link on that site and I still have exactly zero clue wtf this is.
FWIW, I have no issues sending mails/having them be received from my self-hosted to Google mail
Pimsleur. It's very different than Duolingo, in that it is almost entirely audio-based. However, at least in my experience, it actually gets you to the point of speaking and understanding a language much more rapidly than Duolingo. Way, way less gamified though. It expects you to put in half an hour a day where you just concentrate on the lesson.
Sorry, I should have mentioned: liking bare-metal does not mean disliking abstraction.
I would absolutely go insane if I had to go back to installing and managing each and every services in their preferred way/config file/config language, and to diy backup solutions, and so on.
I'm currently managing all of that through a single nix config, which doesn't only take care of 90% of the overhead, it also contains all config in a single, self-documenting, language.
YES, WATCH STEINS;GATE!
Not Steins;Gate Zero though, that's a sequel.
The most common criticism is that the first handful of episodes are slow, but I hard disagree. Every moment is either re-contextualized later on, or is important character work.
No.
Apart from everything else, also consider that it's just respectful to at least try and learn the local language of wherever it is you are going. Doesn't matter if it's on vacation or long term company deployment.
Also, LLMs are absolute garbage at picking up on things like subtle language-based jokes, for example.