Billionaires aren’t people

That’s sweet, I didn’t think about using nixos-anywhere for this purpose (just simplifying the install process on a new machine). I used it to great success to install NixOS on a VPS that only had a few OS options like Debian.

Yeah this is a good use case for it, if I remember right you can also trivially generate a live installer iso from the same nix configuration you’d use to run any usual updates. So you can make a custom installer for your exact configuration and copy that onto a flash drive to bootstrap you into a working environment. I think the live installer would generate something like a hardware-configuration.nix too.

Beach House might be close to this? You could try the songs “Myth” or “Silver Soul”

Other suggestions:

Pink Bullets - The Shins
Taro - Alt-J
My Warm Blood - The Microphones

The Finland video got recommended to me last week, it was full of brazen historical inaccuracies and “Mannerheim was the greatest of all time, complete boss of a man” and then just goes into gameplay mispronouncing all the Finnish words.

Workers of the world, unite!

I just downloaded it real quick, here it is in a fresh profile. The different color wikipedia tabs are different profiles to show how the color scheme works. It makes me wish it worked like the tree-style tabs add-on.

To be honest, the animalmaxxing theory was just to amuse myself, it’s not a real thing as far as I know. But you ever look at a cat just staring at a wall and think, how is the cat not bored?! It must be because it feels good

If I understand what you mean, I might have experienced something like it. I think I noticed it more when I was a kid, especially while sitting in my desk at school when I’m done with work, any time I could daydream a bit. It’s a nice connected feeling to my surroundings, almost feeling like the world is alive but not really.

That’s how I interpret this poem When Traveling I Used to See - someone who felt this kind of feeling and experiences/daydreams it as girls watching him. I take it like anthropomorphized version of the feeling you describe.

I suppose it’s some kind of mild meditative state, and probably also related to your body being relaxed in general.

Or, alternate theory, maybe you’re just animalmaxxing. I mean, you ever look at a goat or something and think how they’re so content to just stand there and do fucking nothing for hours? Maybe it feels really damn good to do that for goats. Humans are animals too, maybe you just got to that part of the brain.

I’ve got a similar use case and went with an X13 Thinkpad (AMD). It’s good for hardware support, but if you want a good experience for watching videos, I’d look somewhere else. The display and audio are not that good.

The comments on the Instagram post of this video are wild, it’s full of “I am a Venezuelan and I yearn for freedom, US send your best coup attempts”

Aside from the technical details of running a fediverse instance, I think you should also be aware of the legal implications. For example, in your region, what is your obligation to actively moderate and delete illegal content (for example CP added by a troll or bot). Can you get in trouble even if you didn’t see it was there, but it’s on your server? How quickly do you need to react and how thoroughly must it be deleted?

If it was me, I’d also make sure I understand how this intersects with federation, and whether or not this could copy illegal content from other instances into my instance’s database.

Of course we’re all communists here, and you may have your own opinion and risks what you feel comfortable hosting, but it’s worth thinking through.

Russian, using an 18 unit video course. It’s going ok to start, but I think I need to begin to supplement it with in-person classes to get the conversational practice going.

I don’t know if this is possible or even advisable, but theoretically maybe the NIC could be hardware passed through to a linux VM, and then configure the host to use the guest VM as a gateway? It’d be kind of a nuts solution but it’d get points for creativity. Guest VM takes hardware control of the NIC and the host connects to the VM like it’s a separate device on the same network.

Something like the question posed here

You’d have to solve a few separate problems that might not be worth it, unfortunately I don’t have these answers:

1. Hardware passthrough to the guest (does it require any special drivers on windows/is this idea already dead in the water?)
2. How to configure VM networking properly so that the host can use the connection (is it enough to configure the connection as bridged?)
3. Performance

I don’t have specific literature to recommend but you might be able to find literature in a similar vein which discusses this last paragraph of Ch. 2 of the Communist Manifesto:

In place of the old bourgeois society, with its classes and class antagonisms, we shall have an association, in which the free development of each is the condition for the free development of all.

I take this section to mean that the material interests of individuals is no longer in contradiction with, in fact completely bound up with the material interests of society at large. So the things which benefit society also directly benefit the individual. This is in comparison to capitalism where things which increase profit for capital are directly at odds with individual development.

I pretty much tried to switch for no other reason than the UN name change. They use this spelling in English even on the official tourism website GoTürkiye

It’s the same concept as running a mastodon server but turning off registration. No more or less secure.

Epic bacon quoting the Jorjor Wells book! You win the internet for today.