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So when I'm dancing alone, which I do occasionally, I play a game? What game is that?


Solitaire 3D


Games are not always group activity. The game is alignment & synchronization. Animals also dance. Parrots are quite good at it.


Solitaire. ;-)


Dancing


Write some C for your own pleasure and fun on an undead platform, like AmigaOS.

Due to the constrained nature of the undead platform there is no real possibility of decision fatigue, since the ways of solving a problem are few.


I'm doing something similar with an old laptop I've repurposed as a web server. If I can't deploy it there, alongside my other applications, it will not get built.

I really like constraints. I also believe that's what made the early Internet so special.


Yeah, X kind of works on MacOS, but the refresh/redraw rate in terminals is so bad that it is unusable for day to day work. I eventually had to stop trying and configure Iterm2 as a clunky rxvt-unicode simulacrum.

As a side note, the Xorg (XQuartz) distribution from MacPorts seemed to be more compatible with Xresources than the official XQuartz package.

I miss all aspects of Linux and I will shed a tear of joy when I can return to it on my work machine.


Elder wood does have some uses, it is perfect for creating homemade turntable unipivot tonearms, since it grows straight, has a hollow core and is very stiff when dry.


Huh! And light weight. Actually makes sense too.

The things you learn here...

Incidentally, reminded me, I'd heard opuntia spines (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opuntia AKA prickly pear) were used for the needles waaaay back. Can't find a ref but heard it on a TV program. FYI.

Edit: can't play this but see if this is informative https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxuPDTlIofY "Making Phonograph Needles from a Cactus"


"The Illuminatus! Triology" by Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson.


This book turned me into a rabid RAW fan... which in turn lead me to Discordianism. That journey then led me to Rev. Ivan Stang and the Church of the Subgenius. So pretty much, RAW and Robert Shea directly made me the weirdo I am today.


Great to see RAW is getting some mentions here.

His other stuff can be of interest too, like Prometheus Rising and Cosmic Triggers. It’s not that what he writes about is necessarily scientific or rigorous, but he offers a bunch of worldview building blocks that one can try and find very useful.


Interesting, I went into this expecting a lot and it really missed the mark for me. Maybe I was too old?


Perhaps, read it when I was 15 years younger and haven't reread it. "Set and setting" is more important than age in some sense, age is more important than "set and setting" in some sense, and "set and setting" and age is equally important in some sense.


The article linked to technical bulletin 27 "Remedies for Deteriorated or Damaged Modern Information Carriers" which linked to following publication:

https://publications.gc.ca/collections/collection_2016/pch/C...

which contains remedy descriptions for damaged optical dics.

I have had some success removing surface scratches with very fine sandpaper and buffering wheel on a drill press.



Some feedback:

"Helloinbox" should have an option to specify a DKIM selector.

It is not correct to only check for a "default" DKIM selector, since any other selector is just as valid as "default", which in turn means the guide should also be updated to reflect this.

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc4871#section-3.1


You're right, good point. Will do that, thanks for the suggestion.


Please also trim the input field from leading or trailing spaces.


Done. Thank you.


I'm going to add the option to check with a different selector.


PMM might cover many of your requirements.

https://www.percona.com/software/database-tools/percona-moni...


Actually there is. Enable dev mode on the phone and uninstall the fb apps via adb shell. It is usually rhe first thing I do on a Samsung phone. See: https://forum.xda-developers.com/t/guide-how-to-remove-faceb...


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