Computer science was all Linux at my college. Xubuntu, specifically.

inb4 someone says “just try xyz!”

lol fair enough

I don’t have a smart TV.

Honestly where did you get one? When I was shopping for a TV a couple years ago I wanted to get one without any built in smart TV software and I could not find one

Take a look at Sunshine and Moonlight.

You install Sunshine on the PC and Moonlight on whatever is connected to the TV. Your TV probably has a “Smart TV App Store” that already has Moonlight available to download.

It should work well with the default settings, and has very low latency.

It means you have to learn a lot very quickly, which is hard.

There’s a huge difference between adjusting the color mapping of the RAW data and using Photoshop or AI. It’s really hard to get an “objective truth” color mapping, and that certainly doesn’t come by default.

When I take a photo, I want to see the photo I took. If I decide to photoshop something with it, that’s my decision, and it’s no longer a real photo, and I would be a liar if I were to present it as such.

We should not start accepting manipulated images as a replacement for real images, and it’s unacceptable that Samsung didn’t give its users a choice in whether to use the real image or a manipulated one.

99% of the time the “other program” is a minimized file browser window open to the drive.

I would just sit for a minute

I find achievement hunting to be fun, although it’s better if the achievements are interesting

I would actually love to take 3300! That sounds fun.

As for 4020, writing performant code in Python typically means calling into libraries that are written in C.

Coffee and some kind of pastry.

Star Trek and Game of Thrones have some lines in their fictional languages (Vulcan and Klingon for Star Trek, High Valyerian for Game of Thrones).

The games Out There and No Man’s Sky feature a mechanic where aliens talk in a completely unknown language, but as you gradually learn the language, the subtitles gradually become more and more English.

Some of those services are pretty easy to set up, some might be more complicated. You’d have to look around for open source projects for those services and see if you can find ones you like. It will take more time to get it initially set up than to maintain, but expect to fix something that breaks every once in a while.

As for cost, probably like a few hundred to a thousand USD can get a reasonable computer for this. You don’t need a GPU, but want a decent CPU, plenty of RAM, and a LOT of storage. Look for companies auctioning off old servers.

Loosely I’d say expect this project to be a whole hobby.

Virtually at least once a week.

In person, about once a month.

Because OP is doxxing themselves

As the result of a single misconfigured security setting on my Android, I was locked out of my Google Account on my phone AND all of my PCs.

Just a heads up on what you are getting yourself into, if you fuck up your self hosted setup badly enough there is no recovery.

That isn’t necessarily intended to scare you off from self hosting, just that the first and most important lesson to learn is to have a good system of backups that are backed up automatically, are easy to recover from, and are separated enough from other copies of the data that if something goes terribly wrong one copy will survive.

The bottom line is simply a lamer line IMO

Who cares about solving lost and unprovable theorems — how do these help anyone?

I moved this one first because it’s the most important to answer. A lot of esoteric math does end up leading to useful results in science, engineering, or computer science. A lot of breakthroughs in physics, especially historically, came from breakthroughs in math. A lot of computer science, such as error correction and encryption, came from what was previously esoteric mathematics.

Why does the 3-4-5 triangle work out cleanly, and yet π and e are irrational?

There kinda isn’t a satisfying answer to this; it just turns out that’s how the world works. Some important questions have nice integer answers, and some don’t.

How can 0.999… and 1 be exactly the same number?

0.999… == 1 because there is no number in between 1 and 0.999… therefore they must be the same number.

For any two numbers that aren’t equal, you can find numbers between them (specifically do something like a*0.5 + b*0.5). You can’t define 0.999… as something like “the largest number less than 1” because there is no such number, because if you found such a number, you could find another number between it and 1.

However, there are some situations where the idea of “0.999…” might have some meaning, if you interpret it as “taking the limit of something as it approaches 1 from below”. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-sided_limit for some examples. These examples are mostly centered around 0, but if you moved it to be centered around 1, you would get a function where f(0.999…) ≠ f(1.000…1) with f(1) not having a well defined value.

But because 0.999… is not the commonly accepted notation for that limit, some people reading your work would be confused. In the end it’s a matter of language: agreeing on a meaning for symbols so you can communicate your ideas clearly.

Sounds like you might be dyslexic.

Aren’t Bedrock and Pocket Edition the same?

When Pocket Edition reached loose feature parity with Java they ported it to Windows, and called it “Bedrock”, as I understand the history.

Microsoft does this too.

Also Ubuntu does this now.