So, if the damage increased the value of the building, it would necessitate the courts paying? Sounds reasonable.

How dare you! You can’t throw facts at puritanical arguments; that’s illegal.

When 4chan has the moral high ground, it’s time to seriously reconsider a law.

I did once consider making an onlyfans account for math tutorials.

“Come watch my new video on non-euclidean planes, you won’t believe the angles we can manage!”

“Tonight I take it deeper than ever before and explore the depths of Heyting Arithmetic.”

Wait, people will pay me to code?

I play a lot of abandonware titles, and there is a spot (90s and early 00s) that are a pain to run. I can normally figure it out on a spare day, but I know a lot of folks just give up.

Honestly, the fact I don’t have as much time as I’d like to contribute workarounds.

Take yesterday, I got Magic and Mayhem (the classic) running via wine, but I had to create a new wine prefix to remove dpi scaling (because, Apparently, the winecfg graphic tab is global, and if dpi scaling is used it truncates the game’s display). Still can’t get the music working, but that’s what MOC is for, and I did use an old cracked version.

I want to make a lutris install script for this, but I lack the time. That’s my main dislike of Linux - I wish there was a solid indexed forum to share game workarounds that had a drop-down search by game.

If I can buy a game on Gog I do - their lack of DRM, Linux ports, and prices just make me happy.

Trouble is, there is little that can be done.

Enough folks drank the coolaid, and now we’re stuck with surveillance laws masquerading as child protection laws.

Those laws can, and will, get worse over time. However, new mediums will arise, or old ones will rise to the occasion (IRC goes brr). The main thing to do is remain calm, make it a key voter issue, and watch the bastards fold right before the next election.

Laughs in going to bed at 3am in my late 30s

Elderly raspberry pi B [✓]

Large portable drive gathering dust [✓]

Guess I’m setting up a locally hosted file server in the near future.

Those ladies are really unpopular at the moment.

Still, it further highlights just how much power over law payment processors have - a worrying thought that the morality of a company (influenced by problem life nuts) dictates international law.

Edit - autocorrect turned pro life into problem life. I am ok with this.

Moc, castero, pluma/texworks, and radion.sh (look it up).

Great machine for word processing.

Add in mednafen, tweak some configs, and enjoy classic emulated games.

Very careful wording there - this leaves them open to…

a. Sell it to Reddit.

b. Pass it to their partner company who “archives” it.

c. Sell it to someone else.

Honestly, I am a little scarred from snap.

Otherwise I’m agnostic on flatpaks - I’ve used a couple and they’re ok? They just remind me of old windows games that dump all their libraries in a folder with them.

On a modern system the extra space and loss of optimisation is ok, but on older hardware or when you’re really trying to push your system to run something it technically shouldn’t, I can see it being an issue.

But we already have dune video game at home.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dune_(video_game)?wprov=sfla1

Three magic words - “Open Note Exam”

Students prep their own notes (usually limited to “X pages”), take them into the exam, gets to use them for answering questions.

Tests application and understanding over recall. If students AI their notes, they will be useless.

Been running my exams as open note for 3 years now - so far so good. Students are happy, I don’t have to worry about cheating, and the university remains permanently angry because they want everything to be coursework so everyone gets an AI A ^_^

So do I, but not everyone is so lucky!

“ennui and a trapped feeling … no control over your own life”

That describes adulthood for a lot more people than we’re willing to admit. Adulthood often has the illusion of more choices, but for many those choices have one realistic option.

As a kid, there is at least the feeling of “I’ll grow up and it will be great”, as a working adult it used to be “I’ll retire and it’ll be great”; these days it’s “well, I hope there isn’t teams meetings in the afterlife”.

It will also be in 50 years time.