I think it’s fine if used in moderation. I use mine for doing the mindless day-to-day stuff like writing cover letters or business-type emails. I don’t use it for anything creative though, just to free myself up to do that stuff.
I also suck at coding so I use it to write little scripts and stuff. Or at least to do the framework and then I finish them off.
Yeah I like my Kobo too. It’s never done anything sketchy as far as I can tell, plus you can sideload things, and if you plug it in via USB it just shows up like regular drive so you can do what you want with it. And also Libby is awesome lol.
I think sort of, although it won’t be as cut-and-dry and the first two. I think it’ll be somewhere between a traditional ‘hot’ war and a cold war, where the larger players (ie: China, the US, Russia, the EU) will engage in propaganda wars, attempts to destabilize each other, cyber attacks, trade wars etc. while in areas outside of those groups (eg: Ukraine currently) there will be physical wars fought by proxy between the bigger groups.
I think we’re seeing the start of it now, and IMO the US is probably doing the least well so far of the major groups. Russia is doing the destabilization thing, which is working quite well in Europe and spectacularly well in the US, China seems to be leading in trade and tech (both cyber attacking and just undermining the US tech sector with things like DeepSeek) and I think Europe’s strategy seems to be to just bunker down and see what happens.
I think the main advantage the US traditionally has always had is its military - it’s geared up very well for a big physical war, but I don’t think this is that kind of conflict. And with the Trump administration’s obsession with tariffs and the general disregard for education and soft power, I think the country is really heading in the wrong direction for what may be coming.
I have a Plaisir Platinum fountain pen that’s awesome. It was pretty cheap as far as fountain pens go but it writes really nicely and has a good solid feel to it.
For day-to-day disposable pens I like the Zebra Sarasa ones, or the Pilot P500 for drawing. I bought a big box of the P500s to keep in reserve in case they ever stop making them lol.
I’ve been kind of liking Brave Search lately, even though I’m not really a fan of the browser.
I use Quickemu for mine, makes it really quick and easy to get a new system up and running.
For the Wikipedia part, it’s surprisingly simple. I just used Kiwix and grabbed a copy, it’s only about 100gb or so. You can also use it to get offline copies of other stuff, like Project Gutenberg.
Yeah same here lol. Already got Wikipedia and backup copies of all my books, as well as enough TV and movies to last a good long while. Also an entire offline copy of Project Gutenberg.
Honestly, I don’t think much will change unless there’s a fundamental shift in how the media operates. People don’t like to admit it, but newspapers and social media really do lead them around by the nose and until the public either wises up to that or it changes from within somehow, it’s just going to be the same cycle of the media amplifying every problem with Labour (real or imagined) while down-playing everything the Tories do and we’ll just keep taking half a step forward and five steps back every decade or so.
What I’d like to see the Tories pushed out to the unelectable fringes and to have Labour be the conservative option against a proper left-wing opposition of some sort, but realistically I don’t think that’ll happen. If anything it’s going the other way, where the Tories will end up being the less extreme option against Reform or something like that. At this point the Overton Window isn’t even attached to the house anymore, it’s halfway down the garden IMO.
I find it’s great for doing all the piddly day-to-day crap that I don’t want to put much brain power into, like writing cover letters and emailing the bank or whatever.
I think as long as it’s used sparingly it can free you up to do stuff you’d rather be doing, but IMO where people go wrong is when they use it to do the stuff they want to be doing as well.
When I saw the title my brain immediately went “Hitman” before I even read the rest of it lol.
I own the first two, but I haven’t bought the third one because I literally don’t understand the process of how you’re supposed to buy it.
At this point, I can only assume they they don’t want people to purchase their game for some reason.
I assume in this context the benefit using LUKS is that even if someone does recover data from the drive, they’d just get encrypted data which is unreadable? If so, I hadn’t considered that before!
I had a boss who asked me about a similar thing, their computer was going slow. I saw them checking their email by booting up their (quite old) Mac, launching a VM which loaded a full Windows installation, then opening Outlook inside Windows. I asked about it, and apparently they used to have a PC and Outlook set up for their email, then at some point had switched to Mac and somehow landed on that as the solution. I told them you can just install Outlook directly onto the Mac and they said I was being unhelpful lol.
I mean you could even take the bottom number and leave them with the top number and they could still live in unimaginable luxury forever. Or just take the lot because fuck em lol.
The BBC has a pretty bad history with employing sex offenders who go on for years without being discovered, enough that the situation has it’s own Wikipedia page. Jimmy Saville, Rolf Harris, Huw Edwards, Russell Brand and Noel Clarke all come to mind off the top of my head but I’m sure there are many other cases too.