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There's something about analog I can't quite put my finger on it. Take digital photography for example. No matter how sharp, how "vibrant" the photos from a really good digital camera of today, it doesn't feel the same as photos from some 50 year old Nikon or Canon. Call it nostalgia if you will, but digital for all its strenghts seems to miss something

With Ublock Origin at least, you can whitelist websites that you want to see ads on.

I still remember the immersive positional audio from using a Soundblaster while playing Thief The Dark Project in the 90's. Nothing short of amazing! Kudos to the Looking Glass Studios for taking advantage of the technology to its full potential

That seems to have changed in March 2025 via executive order, with English now being the official language of the US

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_of_the_United_Stat...

https://www.usa.gov/official-language-of-us

Some more information here https://www.windowslatest.com/2025/08/20/microsoft-is-invest...

This might be the one of the best website designs I've ever experienced.

Agree with the content of the post but no idea how is it even possible to enforce it. The data is out there and it is doubtful that laws will be passed to protect content from use by LLMs. Is there even a license that could be placed on a website barring machines from reading it? And if yes would it be enforceable in court?

I believe we humans have reached a point where, materially at least, everyone could live in reasonable comfort and there would be no space for wars. Yet we seem to often behave as if we're still hunting for sustenance and living in caves, having to carve out our survival.

I don't have any inclination toward socialism or communism, nor do I have an answer for how this system we live in can be changed for the better, but if we don't at least consider that there must be alternatives, we'll keep living in a world where something as absurd as war continues to be considered normal.

I find it fascinatig the Little Boy (uranium) technology hadn't been fully tested by the Americans before the bombings.

Rest in Peace, Tom Lehrer. Your old jokes still make me laugh

Portugal. You would have to live here I guess. It was about 2 years ago and I don't have any sources to give you. Ask the locals if you know any.

Olive oil may be more expensive in general now because of poor harvests but at the time local production had been good and there was no reason to raise the price. The rationale? I guess it was profit.

In the little corner of Europe where I live food became more noticeably expensive with the Ukraine war. Not everything but a number of items. At one point, the price of olive oil was raised because vegetable oil had to be cheaper than olive oil!

Weird, I'm using the latest stock fedora with gnome and the option is there to use the power button as "power off" command.

I'm in Portugal. Mobile data was slow when it started, now it's much better.

The sunny weather is very inviting outside for someone with the day off :-)