lattrommi

The fear of missing out is something that used to worry me. Having been an avid proponant of the good videogames can do and having spent obscene amounts of time on them and basing almost my entire social life around them, it was not easy for me to quit.

So I didn’t technically quit exactly. My full new year’s resolution was to “quit watching tv and movies, and quit playing videogames, until improving my life considerably.” It’s easier to say it the way I did in my previous comment.

This way, it’s not so much that I actually quit for all time, it’s that I’ve stopped temporarily to focus on learning and self improvement, hoping I will be able to change my circumstances for the better and live a more stable life before going back to gaming as a sort of reward.

I built my own PC, a tower with a 16 core 32 thread cpu, 128 gb of ram, 16 gb of vram and i make sure to keep it cold enough to handle playing minesweeper on expert.

i’m kidding, i quit gaming in 2020 as a new years resolution.

To expand on this thought, I take broken electronics and make what I call art from them. They already come with neat patterns and colors, some surfaces are dull, some are shiny, they have the added effect of generating shadows with their shapes and can easily be modified in various ways. I’m sure there’s probably copyright issues and health hazards so I’m unlikely to ever put it out on display but I feel they add a sort of dirty cyberpunk look to my apartment. For an example, this is my “Love bug” that hangs out on top of my desktop tower, offering its broken hearts to whomever wants it. Made from a broken GTX 7800. https://i.imgur.com/ySS3fes.jpeg

Do any extensions have permission to view your browsing data? You can check by opening the extension manager, clicking the extension and clicking the ‘permissions and data’ tab. I would suspect 5 and 6 the most, 1 might be suspect too. Those extensions by nature would need such permissions to some extent.

I might be wrong but I believe the ‘other annoyances’ option in uBlock Origin removes the Wikipedia “donate” banner. That could be what that is.

Fedex and UPS deliver almost anywhere, and can do insured packages. Here in the U.S. there’s also the postal service, which also can deliver across a wide geography, beyond that of the U.S. borders. These cost a trivial amount of money and if one has a post office near them, they can pay with cash and avoid revealing their identity.

It sounds like you want people to use a form of cryptocurrency to pay a stranger, whichever stranger comes first, to deliver a physical package, then paying the deliverer once the package is accepted, using that same cryptocurrency.

Even if the protocol doesn’t track or identify anyone, if the ledger is available for anyone to see or even if it were limited to package deliverers, a tracking mechanism would be trivial to create.

This does not guarantee any level of security for the package, only the payment, which is only theoretically secure because I haven’t taken the time to check.

If it somehow took off as a solution people needed, once a package is put on the chain, there could potentially a mad free-for-all of deliverers, all fighting tooth and nail to get that package.

The entire trip delivering would also be fraught with dangers potentially, as deliverers who weren’t fast enough might simply rob or kill the winning deliverer, take the package, then deliver it themselves. If they wanted to…

If the payment for a package is high enough, one might wonder just what was so important to warrant such a payment. Drugs? Guns? Biological weapons? Black market organs for transplant? Actual cash money?

Don’t forget that computational costs electricity, which costs the environment until the world gets off of fossil fuels. Potential users would have to ask themselves if the package delivery is more important than climate change.

This sounds like a way to try and make crypto money, for doing absolutely nothing, by inserting crypto into a market that doesn’t need it, to do a job already handled just fine by companies that already have the infrastructure in place, with no real problem being solved that needs solved.

What problem does this solve? How does this make package delivering any better?

It might help to post the website: https://olfconference.org/

I’ve never been to it before but was planning on it this year. Just my luck that I made commitments already which I can’t cancel.

If it is deployed on Etherium mainnet, that implies there’s a monetary/crypto based cost right?

From the Medium article:

DeDe allows:

Commuters
Cyclists
Students
Gig workers
Travel enthusiasts

…to earn money by delivering parcels along the path they were already taking.

…

It simply turns existing human movement into an economic engine.

Those statements sound like a person is actually transporting stuff physically. I’m not sure I see the connection. I tried reading the github too but it got more technical than I can understand.

Is this a courier service for physical packages that pays the couriers with crypto by doing shipments paid with crypto? How would that be trustworthy? A courier could simply open the package at the risk of non-payment for potentially stealing valuables. Or is this digital packages only? But if that’s the case, what would physical activity be needed for? What’s to stop this from turning into that Black Mirror episode where people are cycling in place constantly, to pay their electric bills?

Just trying to wrap my head around this and I think I’m missing something.

I still have the slide as default and use it a lot. I have it set to slide when I mousewheel on the desktop and keep my taskbar shorter so there’s always some desktop showing in the corners. When I get frustrated with something though, I hit my key to activate the cube and the animation of it pulling away from the normal view works as like a disconnect from whatever I’m doing. Virtually stepping back basically.

Without the cube, I found I would get frustrated and instead of working on something else I would keep going and ultimately make mistakes and end up more frustrated. If I tried switching with the slide or fade to another project, the irritation stayed with me and I’d mess those other projects up too. The cube, for me, just worked.

I did have some success using the overview, however it was a lot more overwhelming with the way it shows everything, while the cube limits it to what’s on each cube face, without showing minimized windows at all.

When I updated KDE and found that I had lost the cube desktop switcher effect I was fairly put off on Wayland and made a lot of effort to get the cube back in various ways which did not go well. Now that it’s on Wayland, albeit slightly different, I am content with staying on Wayland. I can’t thank the people who ported it enough. It may seem like a trivial graphic effect to some but that fraction of a second that it uses when switching desktops is something that helps my ADHD tremendously. If I’m getting frustrated with a project I can switch to something else and something about that visualization helps me keep everything organized mentally. I use 4 virtual desktops, each with it’s own project subject matter, one for each side of the cube, excluding the top and bottom.

This meme imagary is from the movie Seven Psychopaths. It’s a very good movie.

I’ve never seen an explanation as to why the guy thought that the lemon juice would work. Did someone tell it to him that or did he come up with it himself.

Younger me recalls (incorrectly) that they used lemon juice on the film in the first Star Wars movie, as a special effect to blur the base of the land speeder so it appeared to be hovering. They actually used vaseline, smeared on the lens, not the film, plus had mirrors under the vehicle too. I had told this lemon juice ‘fact’ to several people before someone finally corrected me.

My memory was wrong and I wonder how I came to that conclusion. Maybe I watched a ‘behind the scenes’ show on how they did the special effects, and they said it wrong. Maybe it was a show that presented the use of lemon juice in some other tangentially related special effect and I mixed the two up. Maybe I had read an article about using lemon juice to distort picture film in the developing process.

I wonder if that bank robber did the same mistake but with far worse consequences. The time frame of the robbers mistake was around the same time as my confusion as well.

Take a close look at your USB ports and any other ports for debris. Sometimes you end up with shorts that do all sorts of weird shit. The crappy mouse might have warped the port too. It’s probably not the issue but it never hurts to check.

I did not think it was a prevailing theory. Now I’m curious about what you wanted to accomplish by asking that question. Why would it matter either way?

Oh, well that’s good to know. Thanks! I guess I need to update my own knowledge of what prevailing thought is.

The model of the solar system as planets rotating mostly within a flat plane around the sun, will become something more like the sun being akin to a bullet with a ballerina dress (to represent coronal aura and discharge) with the planets spiralling along with it but slower and trailing just a little behind. It will also include more space properties that aren’t as well known like massive gas bubbles and a non-static gravitational floor, as well as man-made spacecraft and satellites. I don’t know actually know what the current prevailing theory is. there’s a lot of assumption here, plus imagination of how I believe things actually are, with no real certainty or any supporting evidence.

Make amends with your friends,

lest they meet unfortunate ends.

everything you do matters, except all the bathroom splatters. shit.

that’s one of the reasons i’m frustrated about not being able to afford or have the space necessary for solar power, not even some kind of barebones setup to try and pay for the rest of the needed stuff later, instead i’m looking forward to bartering my neat looking rocks and art pieces made from literal garbage for rice.

maybe, depends on the pan and depends on the temperature depends on the ripeness of the tomatos.

i’m assuming you are not using green tomatos or cherry tomatos or some other brand.

note: i do not like tomatos at all. they give me unbelievable heartburn/acid reflux/non-spicy firebreathing/reverse montezuma’s or something equally awful.

now that you know that, i’ll also mention i’ve cooked a lot.

i suggest trying parchment paper (look for non stick kind but it might be okay otherwise) and an oven. if they aren’t too squishy, they shouldn’t stick and you can avoid the oil.

another alternative, which takes much, much longer, is using a food dehydrator. (warning: never put oil, or anything similar to oil, in a food dehydrator. it turns it into a house incinerator.) just put the tomatos in the dehydrator, turn it on, wait.

this also is how to turn jalepenos into chipotles. also poblanos into anchos. probably a bunch of other things change names when dried out too, those are the two i remember.

Can’t even find information on the FTC site that shows it was blocked.

All I found were actions that appear to me to be the FTC equivalent of pardons for exxon and shell executives who had been banned from being ceo’s, i’m sure because they were horrible people, yet now are allowed to be ceo’s again. i didn’t read too closely though, i might be wrong and hope i am but i wont kid myself, it’s probably worse than i imagine.