I’ve been planning for a while to build a small ARM based cyberdeck style survival PC. It would have a big modular battery, transflective LCD, external wifi, and an SDR. Looks like this thing has many of those features in a tiny little build.

This one is more like a very advanced raspberry pi. It is a powerful computer in your pocket with network jacks, wifi, Bluetooth and HDMI. It can be used for network analysis, penetration testing, software development. What it will actually be used for: plugging into your TV to stream movies.

I agree with this.

The general surface level answer to your question is, we have the opportunity to invent our own meaning and purpose in life, and fulfill it the way we wish.

But the real response to your question is, please talk to a professional about this, you need help.

Yeah. I don’t know why it’s even an argument. Its totally in his character’s nature to shoot first, and makes most sense in the story context.

Exactly right. I would never build a gaming PC with less than 16GB these days. And for friends and family, I’d push them to try to go with 32GB if their budget extends to it.

The sweet spot is probably around 24GB, but then you’re mixing module sizes.

Yes, it’s a common practice that’s been done right back to PS2 and Xbox360 days.

Same. For me, listening to music is an active experience that takes up my brain slot. I can’t do something else while listening to music. Eg, many people study better with music, or do coding with music. That’s impossible for me. Exceptions are when I’m driving with the radio on, or walking to the train station with my earphones in.

You’re using the wrong app. The notepad-like editor for KDE is called KWrite, the icon is exactly as you’d expect it. Kate is an advanced plugin-based editor with IDE-like features.

Yes it definitely counts.

I remember one time someone told me “being an adult is when you realise you can cook yourself bacon whenever you want, and just eat it, and nobody will stop you”.

Damn I feel like I only just upgraded to v14. Those guys develop fast.

When I was little. I thought my parents were the smartest people in the world. Then when I went to school, I thought my teachers were the smartest people in the world, because they were way smarter than my parents. When I got to high school, I thought my maths and English and science teachers where the smartest people in the world, because they were way smarter than my primary school teachers.

Now 20 years later, I’m friends with lots of people who teach high school, and secretly they’re not that smart. All they need to do is learn the material from the curriculum and teach it to the students.

Enormous respect for what they do, I couldn’t do it, but it’s not a job that requires higher than average intelligence.

Well said. I’m a software engineer, and I get frustrated with my job, and my butt gets sore after sitting for 10 hours straight most days, but not a single day goes by that I’m not immensely grateful I get to live in a time when I don’t need to work in the sun doing back breaking work on a farm like my parents did and their parents did. Both my parents and all 4 of my grandparents spent their whole lives toiling as general labourers picking crops, planting cane, repairing equipment.

You’re probably right, it’s been years since I read it, and I was simply piggy backing off other criticisms I’ve read about the book by others saying similar things online.

Yeah. It’s full of really common pop-fiction tropes. But the writing is so beautiful you don’t notice it.

It really jumped the shark when in the second book the guy who is a virgin and can’t talk to girls suddenly became the god of sex and literally out-sexed the sex nymph who had been sexing men to death for years.

An eReader’s literally only job is to format, reflow, render and display ePubs. If you have one that can’t do that, then it is a fancy coaster at best.

I like the books, superficially they are a treat, the prose is brilliant, the words feel nice on my brain.

But reading just a little bit deeper than that, you start to realise the story is pretty empty. The characters are hollow. The first two books are pretty much the same story loop over and over again. The characters making the same mistakes and learning the same lessons over and over again.

The way the author writes female characters makes you seriously worry about the authors relationship with women, and if he even knows any women.

Surprised I haven’t seen someone yet mention Magician by Raymond E Feist. That whole first riftwar trilogy is great. Also the spin off Empire trilogy with Janny Wurts.

Seconding those who mentioned the R.A. Salvatore books including the Dark Elf series and the Icewind Dale series.

There’s not really any advantage of using txt files over open standard drm-free epubs. You can still generate them yourself using txt editors or publishing software, you can still load them over USB. But epubs give you quality of life features on eReaders like title pages, table of contents, chapter headers, formatting markers like bold and italics.

She has huge tracts of personalities.