Honestly the drama sounds like it is the extra work that these guys aren’t being paid enough to deal with. They’re wise enough to know to stay out. Compartmentalization is key here.

Wanker? /s

I have one where I put a door/window sensor on a window and anytime that window is opened it turns off the HVAC, then when closed, turns it back on.

I tried once to setup a notification to open the windows if the weather was nice, but I’d never gotten to work quite like I wanted, and so I turned it off.

Awwwwww shucks.

What happens if my distro is never mentioned in these run-downs? What does that say about me?

I’m in a much better place at 43 than 33. My finances are better, my kids are older and much less maintenance. I have way more free time now. I remember fighting for 30min one or twice a week to game for a little bit and feeling guilty after (had 4 kids under 10). Now? I game almost every day if I want. I actually get a little bored sometimes. It’s luxurious. My body doesn’t feel much different either. Bit slower healing, but I love my 40s. Don’t make me go back.

Bonus, she’ll think of you and visit you way more often than if you were shoved in a back corner of a cemetary.

Everyone ends up going back to windows for the better user experience anyway. Which is why Linux is an acronym for Linux Is Not UX (user experience).

Thanks, I’ll check it out.

I’ve searched far and wide, and there are only a scant few books that do the classic wizard’s tower. POV of the master wizard that is retiring to do research and really dig into the limits of magic. Maybe pick up the hero of the world as his apprentice, but not from his pov at all. The wizard sees the aftermath of his misadventures and offers words of wisdom and the occasional spell he might be ready for. Sure there’s a romantic intrest with his other apprentice, but he ignores that too. They do a fine job at cleaning, cooking, and local monster removal.

He occasionally gets together with other retired wizards and they chew the fat and complain about their apprentices and how often they end up in the news or jail.

Comedy/ slice of life fantasy. No high stakes, if an apprentice brings back a problem it’s big in their eyes, but fixed with a wave of his hand, and a warning. Or they’re taught a lesson and have to fix it themselves by researching before the wizard has to intervene, because then it’s chamberpot duty with no magic cleaning for a month.

You can shop around for crematoriums near you. Most of them in the US pick up the body as part of their fee. $300-800 to cremate a body. They mail you the ashes in a plastic bag. Some will offer urns, but that’s an extra charge you can skip. Most states don’t consider burying ashes the same as burying a body. Different laws. You can prepay, and have a card in your wallet with the company’s info on it in case someone stumbles upon your body.

My wife and I have spoken about what we want done. My plan for her is to cremate her, then go to a local nursery and find a nice hearty, long living, low-maintenance flowering tree she would have liked and plant her and the tree in my back yard.

This was my first thought too.

I recall doing an experiment in high school where we weighed a balloon that was blown up vs deflated. The one that was blown up weighed more, but by barely anything.

Assuming gas composition and compression and moisture and temperature of breath are the same as a fart, then yes you lose weight.

But methane is lighter than air, and there are so many other variables that it’s possible a fart would make you lighter. However that’s because of boyancy, you are losing mass plain and simple.

Rocking Garuda here!

If you read the wiki article department stores wanted to collaborate on colors. Most stores were doing all colors for babies, but it’s easier to mass produce one color per gender. There was a time where different stores were doing boys pink (because red is masculine, so pink is baby red) and girls in a feminine light blue. Eventually they settled on girl pink and boy blue. It was utterly arbitrary. Yellow was used for gender neutral.

It’s only recently with online shopping that we are getting back to being able to buy baby clothes in any color once again.

It’s a modern thing. Basically it’s all just commercialization. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gendered_associations_of_pink_and_blue

Pick up a book on machine learning. AI is marketing, it’s not true AI. Start with some simple linear algebra models, and then struggle working through sort-of understanding the statistics behind the different types of models. Once you understand those. LLMs are similar. AI as you know it is really tricky math and a large library that predicts the correct order of words to respond to you. “AI” as it is now, has no more of a chance to gain sapience than a website.

I was going to pick a textbook, but with organic material and a little slime mold, you actually have the right building blocks for sentiance.

Anything really. You’ve spent so much time with your SO that you’ve basically told them everything about yourself and vice-versa. But you still want to talk to them and tell them things. So, you start bringing up new stuff. Dreams, office gossip, that jerk in traffic, whatever happens.

Sounds like hardware then. Try an old gpu or power supply.