>in order to arouse crying and tears, concentrate your attention in yourself.

J. Cortázar

I wish my government had hired developers to create useful Linux tools, they gave money to nextcloud instead of paying tribute to Microsoft.

But guess who pays the best bribes?

airbnb is great if you have like 10 or 20 travelling pals. You can rent a flat for everyone instead of a room for each one or pair of them

renting a flat is great. i don't personally think that airbnb is a particularly great place for doing so, it's not the only place to do so

The objective of the human species is the annihilation of any kind of life on the planet in the seek of profit. pesticides and insecticides play a crucial role in this task, together with PFAS, co2 and EMR in the form of light pollution, for example

When the camera pans. I find it unnerving. I don’t enjoy watching that pixelated panning. I blame it on the digital recordings.

It might probably look better if they recorded it on film but no producer seems to be addressing my whimsical preferences

I think what you're seeing is due to bandwidth limitations: when the picture pans the info changes rapidly and places a bigger demand on the bandwidth, so streamed shows will suffer in quality and show pixelation. If this is what you're seeing, it has nothing to do with the content itself, it will be fine if you watch it directly from disk.

This. Digital video sends a key frame every N frame and deltas in between (well, slightly more complicated...) Lose a frame or two due to bandwidth and you see motion tearing.

I notice it on TV as well.

The Olympics are a live event, delaying the broadcast by days to cater to your niche nitpick about image quality would indeed be whimsical

I would really love Google to let me ban certain domains like photo banks which feel attacked by Google searches.

I’m not paying Google any money though. And $10 a month is over my budget

Might I suggest the plugin uBlacklist. I use it to block a whole bunch of domains from google search that I don't want to see anymore.

You are an angel!

You don't need to use a separate extension to filter out search results. You can use this tool to generate filters for uBlock Origin: https://letsblock.it/filters/search-results

Is there a cli tool for that? I have over 300 domains in my ublacklist list.

You can try using ChatGPT or a similar tool to apply the same pattern to all domains in your list with a prompt like:

    "Use this pattern:

    example.com##a:has(.b)

    to create separate rules for these domains:

    example.net
    example.org
    ..."

used to be possible around 2011-2012 but worked too well so was obviously removed.

eHow. I have literally never found a single useful tutorial from that site and they come up in just about every Google search.

Quora too.

so since 2007 and 2023, we must have scientific assessment on the benefits of using computers instead of books?

>I really can't say how I would have approached ensuring my kids had a head start with technical computer knowledge had I not the knowledge myself.

Yeah, I was wondering how to teach my kid some computer languages I never quite got the hang of

I wonder how many people are secretly boycotting the product because of the prison Reputation of the maker

Oh there are definitely people who avoid it because it's made by Meta. Maybe a bunch. On the other hand, it seems to be the most popular VR headset line by a wide margin.

It would be cool if Valve came out with a standalone headset, they're one of the few companies I can see that would be in a good position to do that: they already have a good amount of VR experience with one high-end headset + SteamVR APIs + a couple VR games, they have their own highly popular store/platform, they generally have a positive reputation with gamers, and they have a decent amount of hardware experience in general including the recent Steam Deck for mobile gaming hardware specifically.

And of course, a Valve headset would probably be significantly more open than the Quest. The Steam Deck has gotten some good reputation among more FOSS/hacker-oriented people for being fairly open: you can use it in a regular Linux desktop mode, you can install Windows (or presumably other OSes) on it, it's fairly repairable, etc. The default behavior is very console-like, but it's not very locked down if you don't want it to be. Best of both worlds, really.

He can visit relatives and friends whenever he feels like, no matter how far away they might be.

Breakfast in Berlin, Dinner in München.

His exit strategy is probably the same as mine, his bedroom at mom and pop’s hotel

It's not just about seeing people. It's about having deep connections and shared experiences. Eg: one of his friends has a life crisis and just needs to talk to someone. Are they going to hop on a train and track this guy down, or will they go see one of their other friends? So he will miss out being the person someone turns to, and these are the defining moments for long lasting friendships. Again, probably fine for a while, but if it goes on too long those existing friendships could fade away and he could miss out.

Is this train thing really different from the average "digital nomad"?

They too are away from their old standing friends, and since they are usually not intending to stay forever in the country they stay in, they're probably not investing in any deep connections there either.

In fact, given the huge loneliness/isolation trends, he is probably not that different to the average stationary person in this regard either.

DN here. It’s definitely different insofar that nomads frequently live in longer term shared spaces (ie weeks to months) and it’s pretty easy to meet people in these situations.

I don't live near anyone I could turn to like that, except my wife and mother. When I need to talk to someone, I do it on Slack, or I hop on a zoom call.

When I lived in New York, it wasn't that much different - my friends and I occasionally lived on opposite sides of Manhattan & Brooklyn; now I live in New Jersey, and if I want to see close friends, I have to dedicate at least half the day to it, and going somewhere on a whim is not always an option for me. Depending on where this kid is at any given moment, it might be faster for him to get to a friend than it would take me to get to mine.

Literally the other way around? Dude could hop on the train himself for free literally the same hour and see his friends no matter where they live in a couple hours?

Seriously, I have lived in remote regions and not everybody living there owns a car. Many people need hours to get to their friends as well.

> Eg: one of his friends has a life crisis and just needs to talk to someone.

He can hop on the train and trivially go to them. He probably sees his friends more than many others who are separated by long distances.

In a world of instant comms, he doesn’t need to be tracked down. He can be summoned and in a few hours, appear.