If we collectively pay for open source software development it will have a massive impact on productivity. It’s just good economics but doesn’t help any group specifically.

I agree, it’s a waste of talent but I’m not going to blame anyone for taking a high paying job, especially if they have an exit plan.

“Copilot, download the latest drivers and make it easy for me to update them” and it gives you some Driver Helper malware

That’s a nice theory but the dodecahedron was found in across a wide region of the western side of the empire and primarily in military graves. There’s also the rarer icosahedron which didn’t have large holes on the sides which really jumbles up theories. I’ll give some interesting ideas for it’s use I’ve heard.

Cryptography, when combined with a disc-like key it could be used like “move clockwise after every word” like this guy speculate https://youtu.be/vBDgmE3d0aw. Notable issue with this is that it’s waaaay more complex to manufacture than required. You could make the first key with a hexagonal hole and the second key that slots into it. No dodecahedron required.

Craftsman proof of expertise, since it’s very hard to manufacture it can be used as a proof you can make it. But then why was it found a lot in military graves?

Artillery calibration, by using the holes you could put down rocks at 200m, 300m and 400m marks and see which rocks fits exactly inside inside the view when the two holes line up in size. Hard to prove and there’s no need to have such an extensive number of knobs on it to fulfill that purpose. Could save a lot of expensive metal by having it made of wood for example.

Knitting fingers, it’s not very convenient and suuuper expensive for its purpose.

Weaved metal, more plausible than knitting but if this was the case we would see scratches or signs of use along the holes.

Religious artifact or recreation, this is the archaeological “we don’t have anything better” explanation. Can be used as a fancy dice or for asking the gods or something. It only sounds plausible because we don’t have anything better.

This is why it’s still a mystery even though so many people have guessed, the knobs on every corner, difficulty to manufacture, cost, varying hole sizes and that it’s found in military graves is very hard to put together. It’s looking like we’re going to need to find a non-existing manual for it’s use.

On the steam hardware page it says the CPU and GPU are discrete although also “semi-custom” which I think means it’s not Gigabyte and has some cooling features that are tailored to the form factor.

I know my case is specific but having a Jellyfin running on a Steam computer looks to me as good case for having a computer in the living room. Adding a TV applications to Steam such as Netflix is also a case. Then there are people who have their workstation close to the TV so they can use it instead of their laptop and just switch displays with one of these HDMI branching dongles.

I think 1000 or 2000 for me. I know it’s optimal to put it on my mortgage but that’s an amount I would use the excuse of “having to spend it” to spend it on myself. 20k in cleared debt is like 1.4k yearly expense reduced which really moves the needle. If you pay off 1k a month you’re effectively increasing the payoff rate by 12%.

I thought it was obvious, 2026 is going to be the year of the Linux desktop.

Wizard of Oz sepia “filter” fits in here?

I’m also going to in honesty pick Brazil (1985). It still holds up really well.

Download a picture from the Internet, move it to the desktop with the file explorer only. Then print it out.

I was in the same boat until I started running. It’s very nice to monitor heart rate so you can stick to a target heart rate.

I live in Iceland and we try to predict volcanic activity all the time and it’s off by weeks or months. To be fair, that’s a blink of an eye on a geological scale so it’s pretty accurate but the nature of the problem is that you have so many forces that all interact with each other.

It’s pretty similar to “how far can you tip the chair back before it falls” but we don’t know the size, weight and shape of the chair really well. You just need one fracture in the rock from previous earthquake to throw all the calculations off.

I don’t know the context of the post but I imagine it’s media related, like a seismologist saying “could be as soon as tomorrow” and the journalist just saying “earthquake tomorrow”. Also seismologist don’t shut up is true.

When it goes on sale 5 years later probably

Musakhan, a Palestinian onion pizza topped with 1/4 chicken.

If the argument is fair and both parties are open then I think I could win an argument that exercise is crucial for a long and healthy life.

I really liked the first AC game but when I played Odyssey I was disappointed. Beautiful game, fun mini-games, nice subsystems like upgrading the ship and whatnot. After the initial couple of hours I started to feel like everything is a chore.

Need a map? No way to buy, you have to run/ride and climb the chore tower.

Want to use equipment? Grind chore for the XP to meet the level requirement.

Want to beat a quest handed to you early? Grind XP

Want to complete side quests? All of the boilerplate fetch/kill quests.

Just please, give me a starting weapon that’s good enough and I can just stealth kill my way through the main quest. Also, just allow me to buy the map.

Being hot and horny does it for me.

Anything Warhammer 40k. The universe and the lore are amazing because they absorbed a lot of SciFi elements from literature. The games have often been underwhelming but when they’re good they’re really good.

I remember some things kinda clearly because they had a big impact on me. It was something that was unfair, I seriously misunderstood something, I was afraid or something else. I used to actively recall my life every now and then but haven’t done it in the last decade.

Some people do journal though so they can read the entries, get the vibes and crank out a biography story by going over context, delivering the story, then aftermath thoughts.

Only one way to save them. Write a diary or a mini biography. Just pick some stories you like and write them down and they become permanent.