I swear I hit some kind of threshold with edibles where I lose all faculty.

60mg? Barely feel it.

70mg? Oh fuck my brain is melting into the couch and I feel like a forgotten popsicle.

It seems to me you live in some kind of fantasy land where people have unlimited time for installing new tools to make sure they have the perfect one for every situation. This is not the case, which is why the *nix folks love to just install our infinitely extendable swiss army knife chassis and go get the precise tools we need. DIY distributions supply you an environment in which to employ whichever tool you deem correct in a given moment, it's a tool box in a garage, a place to keep tools, not a tool itself.

My initial impression was that you were implying that for general computing there was an option better than nix that may meet my needs, but you've responded in a way that tells me that no, nix has been and will continue to be the best general purpose computing environment for my needs.

Before saying that we are limited, you should look at the priorities that have led us to make our choices.

While you see a limited toolset, I see exactly the tools I need, with nothing I don't. No strings attached, and costs only my time.

The only way I've got protected content to record in such a way is an HDMI splitter running into a capture card. This is how I transferred my partner's XBox movie library to physical media

If you paid for a movie under the impression you were purchasing the movie, and not a license to play it until amazon decided you can't, I'm of the opinion you're 100% justified in pirating the media.

What alternatives would you suggest then? Genuinely, because I as you have pointed out don't understand there's this whole gigantic suite of tools available to me that I haven't managed to come across in my searching for the things to meet my technological needs thusfar.

-a 20 year Linux user

My gravel bike and all the safety gear totaled $600, it is my primary transport across my mountain town. We are not the same.

The KISS (keep it simple, stupid) philosophy often results in *nix being the best tool for the job (philosophically speaking). Other OSs obviously have their merit, but when the goal is simplicity (in terms of "moving parts") then LFS, DSL, or Gentoo are going to be the simplest (in terms of moving parts) options for most tasks.

My mom won an instant win giveaway game on my Coke rewards over a decade ago, got a ps3 move kit.

Played that thing to death, logged over 1k hours in Skyrim in 2012 on that machine.

Embedded matrix client and Teamspeak client in a webpage? Selfhost it.

I'm sure it can't be that hard. I'm planning on rolling out something similar, if it works I'll like the source code here.

I have a privacy news channel on my discord server because I'm desperately trying to get my folks to switch to Matrix, it hasn't happened yet but maybe it will now.

Just because it means a public shag on terf island doesn't mean the rest of the English speaking g world uses it that way.

I haven't worked with wood in years, but when I did I was in a high humidity enviro.

To flatten and prevent future warping we would dry out our flat pieces in an oven set at 250F for a few days then stabilize with resin using a vacuum chamber. Following this, pieces would be planed to final thickness.

If the universe is infinite in size it is a statistical requirement for a god, or a being that has ability we would consider to be godlike, must exist somewhere.

When it's as dry as it is here the air heat up super fast, adding humidity will cool a room instantly (swamp cooler effect) and reduce the rate at which the temperature changes, making cooling affordable.

Swamp coolers/humidifiers can maintain temps in the low to mid 23C ish range in the desert but will push humidity to around 50-60% to do it.

In the United States, political violence has ensured overrepresentation of minority populations below the poverty line. Requireing the financial means to have a child thereby limits minority procreation.

To address this, a universal basic income as well as a stipend for parents would be necessary. In the US, this is far away from ever happening, eere actively moving in the opposite direction. Mandatory birth control in this country is eugenics.

Android emulators exist on both windows and Linux allowing the android variant to run on desktop. With most modern machines this is a viable alternative to running natively, with some overhead of course.

Since you seem to understand it then:

How do two clients communicsting over a proprietary network negotiate an end to end encrypted chat channel without sharing keys in an easily decrypted manner?

It seems to me that some kind of handshake needs to occur where the clients need to agree on a cypher, so how does this happen securely?

I'm not worried about encryption being broken, it just seems like if you're handing the keys over the mail, it's pretty easy to xray the package and copy the key, is the same not true over digital communication?

Opposite here, I live in the desert and a humidifier adds enough thermal mass to the air to make cooling reasonably cheap in the summer.

This is exactly the type of optimism we need if we're gonna slow climate change enough to make it

Then you should be using KDE Neon. Micro$hit copied their UI for windows 11 anyway, should be an easy switch.