I’m laying down actually

Oof, the alt text on that second one was unexpectedly dark lmao

Props for living up to your username

No! Heathen! Download the source for every package and compile it yourself! Compile the kernel yourself, compile the compiler yourself! Never script anything, always do every step manually, every time! Using tools that make things convenient and foolproof makes you weak and unappreciative of the real hardship and struggle it requires to checks notes use a personal computer!

What an incredibly selfish and self-centered approach to this platform

That could have been part of the problem, yeah

Man, this false air of superiority you’re exuding is pretty weird. There are bad engineers, and bad skilled trades people, and bad managers, and bad business people. Every walk of life have people that are bad at their jobs, it’s by no means unique to any one class of worker.

You can save quite a bit by getting a refurbished Pixel - looks like the cheapest “Google certified” option (so it comes with a 1-year warranty) is a 6a for $250, which is nearly half off MSRP. I’ve been using my 6a since launch, so it’s been going for 3 years now and I have no desire to upgrade.

You can definitely get cheaper smartphones, but $250 for a 6a feels like a pretty big bang for your buck.

I’m fairly certain that 80’s Joe Burrow can’t fit in my pocket

What difference does to make if someone is sitting on the bench, laying down, standing, crouching, or in any other comfortable resting position? It’s a public bench, to be used by the public however they see fit, as long as they’re not causing harm.

It’s weird to enforce the “correct” usage of a public bench, or the “correct” amount of space a person is allowed to take up, especially with such drastic elements that you yourself admit are not very effective.

Literally anyone using the bench potentially prevents someone else from also using the bench. Why is it a bigger deal when it’s a homeless person doing the using? Also, I’m sure there are other more attention grabbing options than a flyer, if we use our imaginations a little bit. Why is your focus on prevention and not education/outreach anyways?

Hey maybe I’m stupid too, but it seems to me it’d be way fucking easier and cheaper to just put some flyers in a little letterbox attached to the bench advertising the nearest homeless shelter or something, rather than inconveniencing literally everyone who wants to use the bench. But what do I know, I’m probably just stupid

Brick and mortar shops aren’t comparable to websites, and I don’t know why you keep trying to compare them. The places that sell alcohol and tobacco aren’t asking me to upload a digital version of my legal identification to some cloud-backed database. They’re just manually checking a date and a picture. Most places I buy from don’t even make me physically hand over my ID, I can just show it to them without it ever leaving my possession.

How about we put some responsibility on parents to keep their kids away from potentially harmful Internet content, instead of relying on the state to do it for us in large swathes, affecting literally anyone who goes to those sites, legally or not? Surely you’re more on board with responsible parenting than everyone having to hand over their legal identification to a fucking porn site.

your stuck in a port town

I said you’re basically limited to coastline and port cities to point out the contrast to other modes of travel that aren’t nearly as restricted. You either missed that point, or you’re being pedantic.

there’s nothing to do out at sea

My point was that without cruise ships, there would be nothing to do out at sea. Cruise ships solve the problem of “there’s nothing to do or at sea”, but in an unnecessary and dumb way, in my opinion. So again, I think you missed the point of what I was trying to say.

Ultimately I don’t really care what anyone’s opinion on cruises are. What I do care about is making sure I’m understood correctly, hopefully this helps.

You’re coming to these conclusions that just aren’t based on reality.

I’m sharing subjective opinions based on my own preferences and lived experiences. Sorry they don’t match up with yours, but we’re having a disagreement about big boats, not a crisis of reality.

Clearly you’ve never experienced what a cruise is like.

Correct, because they don’t interest me, and I’m not convinced enough by the people that like cruises to warrant spending the money on them.

There are thousands of existing “small towns full of entertainment” I’d rather go to than a cruise. I don’t need my resort to be mobile, and if I want to end up in a new location, I’ll book travel to that location. I don’t need to go on a cruise to relax by a pool, or enjoy a spa, or partake in any of the mundane activities offered on board, or gamble in a casino, or eat food and drink drinks. Cruises don’t offer anything unique that I can’t find somewhere else, other than the novelty of being a cruise, and that novelty just doesn’t interest me.

There are cruises that go all over the world, so the number and choices of destinations is huge.

Sure, but cruises are limited to basically just coastline and port cities, whereas literally any other mode of transportation can get you to all of those places too, plus all the other 90% of land on the planet. Saying “the number and choices of destinations is huge” is technically correct, but basically meaningless when you compare it with all other modes of transportation.

Really the only places cruises can go that other modes maybe can’t is:

1. Remote places like the northern coasts of Alaska or Scandinavia
2. The middle of the ocean

I can kinda see why someone would take a cruise to the first item, but I can’t bring myself to understand the second. Like, cruising around the empty ocean for days/weeks on end sounds so boring that you’d need “12 floors, 100 bars, live entertainment, and a plethora of other things” to make it even bearable. They created their own problem (finding entertainment in the middle of empty ocean) and solved it in the most brute force, environmentally unsustainable, and legally sketchy way possible.

The steam deck has great battery life (better than my original switch by a lot) unless you’re playing something super heavy, and it’s so much more comfortable to hold that the bit of extra weight isn’t that big a deal. I don’t think I’ve touched my switch since I got a deck

I think I’d be pretty screwed. I’d most likely be living in some remote, forgotten village, trying to eke out enough of a living to pay the local lord for the privilege, while trying to avoid my home being raided by Aiel, or Seanchan, or Dragonsworn, or one of the other dozen armies roaming the countryside. Or maybe I’d be serving in one of those armies, fodder for the front lines, going up against enemies with no qualms about using the One Power for killing.

There’s a tiny, remote chance that I could be studying in one of the schools in Cairhien or Caemlyn, trying to push technology out of the dark ages, which would be pretty cool. But that still comes with the risk of being a target of Darkfriends and the Forsaken, which is less cool.

my hard drive overheated

So, this means they either have a local copy on disk of whatever database they’re querying, or they’re dumping a remote db to disk at some point before/during/after their query, right?

Either way, I have just one question - why?

Edit: found the thread with a more in-depth explanation elsewhere in the thread: https://xcancel.com/DataRepublican/status/1900593377370087648#m

So yeah, she’s apparently toting around an external hard drive with a copy of the “multiple terabytes” large US spending database, running queries against it, then dumping the 60k-row result set to CSV for further processing.

I’m still confused at what point the external drive overheats, even if she is doing all this in a “hot humid” hotel room that she can’t run any fans I guess because her kids were asleep?

But like, all of that just adds more questions, and doesn’t really answer the first one - why?