To anwer what I consider your deeper question, there are generally only two paths to financial security:

1. Inherit (either your own family or marry into one)
2. Invest in your own human capital to maximize the income you can earn per work hour, then start saving enough of that income into buying partial ownership of the economy (e.g. via stock market capitalization-weighted index funds).

Working more hours, which “passive income” strategies almost always equate to, just robs you of what little free time you have on this planet. Almost nobody thinks on their deathbed “I wish I had spent more hours of my life working”.

school pretty much failed to teach me the right way of life.

The education system’s job is giving you the opportunity to maximize your human capital. It may have failed you there, but that doesn’t mean you need to abandon that pursuit.

Is it possible to make some form of passive income from sidehustles?

In the binary way you worded this: No. You must always leverage something to generate income. Different methods require different levels of activity, though.

Now do the same for generic/vacuous travelling pictures in a majority of womens’ dating profiles ;)

My parents grew up in the ruins of post WWII Germany, so that has certainly impacted their raising of me.

But even setting that aside, deliberately wasting food is a disrespect to all the life that needed to end for you to have it. Be it flora, fauna, or fungi.

With gnupg, git, and a hardware security token. Also known as “pass”.

Wasting it, if it can at all be avoided.

Where do you get that certainty from? Lucasfilm owned all the rights to the Expanded Universe, including all work-for-hire novels. Disney acquired everything Lucasfilm owned, so they shouldn’t have had to pay any further royalties.

Do you have better evidence than this interview, where it was stated that Chewie dying was the reason?

The new Framework Desktop with 192GB unified memory, specifically for LLM inference. I’ve looked at the numbers and there’s no scenario for me in which it’s economically sensible to upgrade from 20GB gpu vram + rent EU API inference for larger models. Even if the tokens became more expensive by factor of 10 overnight, by the time the hardware paid for itself it would already long be obsolete.

It’s an impressive machine, but I just can’t justify the purchase.

Have you been aware of it? Have you tried it?

I’ve been aware of it more or less since the beginning of the project. General thoughts:

• They seem to have looked at XMPP and thought to themselves “let’s reinvent this, but with an even more complicated tech stack and less clear specification”.
• When asked about allowing proper account deletion their response was… well, judge for yourself.

Are you an active Discord user?

No, it’s a proprietary system with an unacceptable privacy policy.

Are you an active Matrix user? If so, what do you like/dislike about it?

No. Their approach to privacy is unacceptable to me in any circumstance other than being paid to use it (as part of a job).

Broadly speaking, do you think there is value in what Matrix is doing?

In general? Sure, it has users that could be using something else, so it seems to have value to them. To me personally? No.

How do you see it fitting in with the rest of the Fediverse?

Afaiu there are bridges people can use to connect services, should they want to. So, like every other part of a federated network?

Personally, I’d much rather use Zulip or Mattermost, given the option.

I agree, but I can’t see it happening until they’ve milked this “timeline” dry.

I don’t know, but his death was the primary reason they killed the Expanded Universe. The merchandise aspect is my cynic interpretation, because the stated non-reason why it’d be a problem makes zero sense.

Should’ve just used the Thrawn Trilogy as Episodes VII through IX. But that would’ve eventually lead to

and think how much that would’ve hurt merchandise sales…

Sure! But it’s not particularly sophisticated. Other than staple recipes (like e.g. vegetables stews) I learned while growing up, when there’s a product I was previously dependent on buying ready-made that gets enshittified by the food industry so much I’m unwilling to pay the full asking price, I start looking into the recipe for it and experiment to calibrate quality, time efficiency, and material cost to the exact tradeoff I consider best for me. Frozen pizza vs self made pizza being one example.

My joy in cooking, aside from the above optimization process I find fun, comes from knowning I pay less money to eat a better quality (and almost always less unhealthy) meal than I’d otherwise be able to. Once I have a recipe dialed in, it also requires virtually no thinking to get done, which is the opposite of my daily work; that’s the “unwinding” for me. I can then also combine it with listening to some audiobook or TTRPG actual play / podcast.

Due to this depth-first approach my actual list of recipes isn’t incredibly large, but it’s enough to never get boring by now, at least.

Off-what? You mean in meatspace?

Jokes aside: Reading. Designing and playing Pen&Paper RPGs. Cooking.

If you want to do the least amount of tech support: Fedora Kinoite.