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Unfortunately I'm in the middle of moving, but once I'm done with that, I'll give this a try :)

Kagi's Orion browser has a lifetime sponsor price of $150. That plus the Kagi subscription support its development.

It's currently macOS and iPad/iPhone only, but a Linux version is being worked on. I don't know their plans for a Windows version.

Can anyone comment on the difference between Waterfox and Librewolf?

When I have the time, I'd like to build an antenna to try to pick up the hydrogen line from space.

Just that simple thing is so strange to me, that with a handful of components you can listen to the cosmos. I really wish science classes would have included that sort of thing.

This is good stuff, thank you for resurrecting it.

What sort of challenges did you face?

I have never installed it.

I prefer to access things through a web browser.

I added reddit.com to uBlock Origin's filters list. I can still visit it, but there's now a screen asking me if I'm sure I want to go there. It's stopped me a few times, and it's breaking that muscle memory of "pick up phone & check reddit/etc"

You assume because I answered you that I'm passively accepting what is going on? I don't understand your train of thought.

The USA is big enough that people won't travel to the capital.

And a significant part of the USA is cheering these actions. Many from ignorance, some from malice, and some are true believers.

These days many stocks seem to be detached from reality-based price pressures. Some stocks have more in common with crypto speculation than with funding a company.

I wonder whether this will have an impact on the commercial charge station rollouts across the USA? Or an impact on EV sales in the USA?

My guess is that elon doesn't care about tesla except as a share price.

Honestly wondering if the current US president would try to bring back leaded gas.

Multiple local copies, a cloud copy, and an archive copy on a different provider.

I'm in the process of moving my various google data onto Hetzner storage share[1]. It's a Nextcloud instance with 5TB of storage for $16/month. My wife and I each have a normal user, we can share stuff just as well as before, and we can install things like a simple Kanban app, sync to our Android phones, etc etc.

So far it's been great, I highly recommend it.

[1] https://www.hetzner.com/storage/storage-share/

That ties in well with my experience of news and social media spewing out "Amygdala-bait". Anything to short circuit your rational thought processes and get you angry, indignant, fearful, smug, shocked, etc.

I don't know if that's purely due to chasing advertising revenue via "engagement". We certainly saw something like it in the 90s with 24/7 news channels.

And with some people being just fine with obviously fake AI slop images and stories, it feels like they're just fine with no longer having to think complex thoughts.

Has this happened before in history? Is it part of a natural cycle in society? I am very doomer when it comes to climate change, so I wonder if people subconsciously feel like "there's no future so why bother thinking?"

If she hasn't started taking progesterone and estrogen, I recommend she talk to a doctor about doing that. Good luck, it's hard on both of you and I hope it gets better soon.

Yes, my wife would recommend it without reservations.

There's also a cold water circulator, useful for icing a painful limb etc. https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B09VRJ153X

Not intrusive at all, I hope your friend can find some relief. I hope she can find strength and joy in life.

Could you please let me know who the "mattress guy" is?

My wife uses a Bedjet which has both a remote and app. Thankfully it works without an active Internet connection.

It uses a bag-like sheet that it blows air into, to adjust temperature. For women suffering* through menopause, being able to adjust around hot/cold flushes is sanity-preserving!

* Some women don't suffer much during perimenopause or menopause, but it's a process that seriously fucks with one's hormones. A word of advice to any partner of a woman going through perimenopause: believe them when they tell you what they're going through! So many partners don't realize just how much this can mess up someone, they deserve every sympathy possible.

The news realized that amygdala-bait drove "engagement". (I loathe that term used in its corporate sense)

The US right wing realized that the firehose of lies could overwhelm their opposition.

trump showed he could mock a disabled journalist and not have his approval drop.

musk showed he could defame someone and get away with it in court.

I don't have much hope that any of this will change soon.

In my opinion, climate change causing more and more overwhelming* weather events, this issue is going to get worse.

*overwhelming in the sense of responders/budgets/planners unable to mitigate the effects of worse weather.

It's partly why I'm so "doomer" about climate change. The secondary effects of these weather events are already difficult to manage. What happens when we experience mass migration of humanity, or even worse storms?

For example, Kentucky USA has an average year-to-date precipitation of 6 inches. In 2025, that has increased to 12 inches. Yes that's one year, but it only takes one major event to wreak havoc on a poorer town or state.

Some people have read history, and know that words turn into actions over time. Especially those that feed (and feed on) fear and hatred.

So gravity builds up over time?

(Forgive the layman's attempt at understanding)

If Bob is floating in space in a capsule, and a very heavy asteroid floats past, the amount that Bob's capsule is moved is dependent on the speed of the asteroid?

Does that sort of thing have to be considered when planning the orbits of probes etc?

Is Earth traveling fast enough, from the viewpoint of Alice floating near the sun, to have a gravity "tail" or "wake" trailing after it? (Alice near the sun thing is my attempt at a mostly static observer) And of course due to relativity, if Alice was orbiting retrograde to the big heavy object, she'd observe even more effect?

I think I need about 6 more cups of tea before I can think about this!

I don't know any voters who want fraud to continue, but most do accept that fraud is just a part of any system designed and implemented by humans.

I personally would like to see the end of the "find gravy train, keep that gravy flowing at all costs" methodology of capitalism, because it's primary focus is money instead of the service provided. Whether it's pentagon contractors, business subsidies, or the heinous medicare and medical insurance fraud. But I don't want to cut SNAP even if someone buys a goddamn coke once in a while.

The current method seems to be brain surgery with a monkey wrench. Slash and burn with little thought given to the effects upon humans, especially those who don't have other options. Kagi gave me a figure of between 9.2 to 15.2 percent of welfare being fraudulent. Yes that's too high, yes I'd like to fix that, but I want that change to be considered, studied, and planned with caution.

A lot of US citizens are living incredibly comfortable lives. If that is threatened, for instance by food shortages caused by lack of people willing to work on farms for very low wages, then protests may happen.

But the reality distortion field around the current administration is very powerful. Fox and CNN are owned by supporters of the republicans, NYTimes and Washington Post don't appear to be reporting certain aspects of the government restructuring. Multiple social media sites are owned and ran by people who support the current admin.

I am personally worried that we're going to see the gradual yet continual escalation of rhetoric, more actions that undermine rule of law, and continued lack of critical thinking in so many people. That path appears to lead to extremism.

I have a horrible feeling that whoever "wins" in a couple of decades or so will have no time to savour their utopia as the climate catastrophe really starts to bite hard.

I also want that, plus the reverse:

When you attach the tablet via USB4, it becomes a screen. It also shares its CPU, GPU, storage etc with the main PC.

We had a JVC CS-60US or something like it when I was growing up, my mother may still have it in the attic of her home. Looked like this: https://www.ebay.com/itm/256143505214

If I were the crusading type, I'd be on a crusade against single-button interfaces. It's so annoying to have "single tap to pause, double tap to skip to next track" because the timing seems to mess up intermittently. Did I just pause the track or skip? Is the next track just starting too quietly for this environment, or did I pause?

Touch-sensitive inputs, like those on the google pixel buds pro 2, are even worse. Any touch can have weird results as it might be detected as a swipe or a long-touch.

Kudos to the Jabra earbuds I was gifted recently, they can remap the single/double/triple clicks, so a single click for me is now next track.

And as I age, I get dry skin which sometimes doesn't even register as a touch.

I'd love to see a range of accessible hardware that has actual buttons that clearly state what they do, and have visual+haptic+audio feedback which can be configured.

I want a stretchable phone. Starts as a 15cm diagonal screen, can be stretched to 30cm tablet size.