So are you saying it’s literally impossible even with future technology to put a medically preserved brain in a new body and have that be a person that can do stuff and you could talk to, or just that it wouldn’t be the same person or consciousness somehow?

The former seems pretty out there as an idea. There are people whose brains are cut off from the rest of their nervous system and are still alive. The other connection the brain has to the body is the bloodstream, but blood transfusions are a thing and doesn’t kill you.

I really don’t think it’s that simple, because our behavior is also a result of habits and circumstance, not just what we enjoy doing. Reading books is something that takes some time to get into the right mindset to enjoy, and it’s easy to end up doing activities with shorter term rewards instead if you don’t build it into your routine.

Something that works pretty well for me is reading in bed, before I get up in the morning.

I don’t have high resolution monitors so most of that isn’t relevant to me but they are different dimensions and it seems to handle two of them fine.

VR issues are like, the headset speakers not being recognized, viewing the desktop from SteamVR shows a blank screen, and launching VR games does not actually cause the headset to switch to them, they just run in the background. Stuff like that. I guess it would be worth trying another DE just to see if it helps.

Aren’t they quitting the consumer market and only making stuff for companies now? Unfortunately I don’t think a boycott will affect them, would definitely need some other consequences.

Food doesn’t last forever, so you can’t save as much by buying in bulk

You can get around this by favoring shelf stable staples, frozen foods, foods that take a long time to go bad like carrots and onions. I also have some silicone gallon bags I use to freeze banana and avocado slices, since fresh is generally cheaper than frozen for those.

What is bad about it? What ‘display features’ are important here? My main problem with Cinnamon was lag spikes every second or so, though that was some years ago and might not be an issue now. Games seem to mostly work fine, except VR stuff still needs more troubleshooting, but I’m skeptical a different DE would fix those issues.

I didn’t want to deal with choosing so I just went with Linux Mint and the default choice (Cinnamon) but it seemed glitchy and I couldn’t configure it the way I wanted, so switched to xfce. Haven’t felt the need to try other stuff since.

I was replaying Super Mario Bros a while ago and it was really striking to me how deliberate the game seems to be about trying to teach patience and impulse control. Games ask more from you than social media content does.

Getting harder to afford the setup, but there’s very compelling reasons to use local models instead

It’s not fixed, I also get this problem atm

So the main complaint is that Pixelfed clients don’t display posts without images even if one has followed the poster? And thinks it incentivizes creation of using multiple accounts/apps when a single one to interact with ActivityPub would be better? That seems like a fair thing to criticize but it seems a little dramatic to paint it as entertainment killing communication.

The English language is not rules based though, if it sounds wrong it’s wrong. Whom is no longer a real word.

Like the implication that having an active sex life and bullying someone to death are basically the same category of thing or strongly related somehow

I might be remembering wrong but didn’t this webcomic invent or popularize the word “fap”?

exactly

So then we would tell the alien we use base 21?

If someone is complaining about the reasonableness of the price of an Apple product, while using one (and presumably leaving on the features that advertise in messages that an iPhone was used), I think it’s fair to assume they are paying or going to pay those prices, especially because of all the stuff Apple does to maintain a closed ecosystem of products.

There’s also the implied expectation that an ethical company would be voluntarily using the money they get to make sure they are giving back to employees and the broader society, but that’s unrealistic because companies never work like that.

If they can turn off your ability to play the games you don’t own them

I would argue that even before the point where the conspiracies I mentioned were conclusively proven and accepted as common knowledge, it still made sense to seriously consider the possibility and not dismiss people doing so only because they were engaging in conspiracy theories (which absolutely happened). That mindset just helps them get away with it.

I don’t want to move on from Reddit, I want to contribute to its destruction and/or replacement.