If i ever had to build my own house i'd do it with old, reused shipping containers. Buy some cheap land, lay down a concrete surface, plunk the structure on top and secure, hook up water, electricity, and drainage. Easy to build and customize, practically immune to earthquakes (my greatest fear), and due to loopholes in local laws are exempt from property taxes.

Unfortunately if it wasn't that pompous arrogant bastard, it would have been somebody else.

I'm not a regular user of reddit. I do have an account on the site but i don't browse it; i end up visiting reddit because of google searches. From what i've seen i think the quality of the posts and comments on reddit is poor. The signal-to-noise ratio is pretty low and it's a toxic waste dump. What kind of value is there for machine learning and AI training?

alternatively, you can use an old computer. It might be obsolete when faced with Microsoft's bloat, but it will probably be just fine with Linux.

My main work/everything-else-apart-from-games machine at home is an Asus laptop from 2008. I installed my first ever SSD on it last December and the thing runs Slackware 15 like a newly bought machine.

Religion flies humans into buildings.

Just because the Steam client is based on an embedded version of the google chrome spyware that stopped supporting windoze versions 10.

My main work laptop at home is an Asus from 2008 running Slackware 15.0 from last year.

My travelling work laptop is an HP 510 from 2007 running the same Slackware 15.0.

Granted, i didn't stick long with the stock kernels; i configured and compiled my own soon after i got the OS running and i knew exactly what hardware the two boxes had.

You insensitive clod!

Like stability and reliability? Firefox crashes a lot on my Slackware 15 system. Sometimes Fx just stops working; pages don't load, the spinner just keeps spinning, sometimes a network error gets displayed. I then open a terminal to ping a remote server to check, and i see my connections are fine. At this point opening a menu or something causes the whole thing to crash. What makes this more annoying for me is that for some reason, Fx starting up after a crash takes a loooong time with uBlock -- the longest i ever recorded was 4 minutes! I wish Fx devs stop adding crap and bloat and focus on fixing shit like this.

Ever since i discovered youtube-dl in 2017, all my youtube watching has been done via command line. Copy URL from browser, paste into a terminal, pipe youtube-dl output to mplayer, done. Mplayer uses hardware acceleration while firefox doesn't for some reason, plus i can EQ audio as well. What's also cool is that i can run it on the root window of X.

In a virtual world, the only thing that's real is Chuck Norris?

He did say if there are enough viruses and virus particles in the air.

At this stage of the wuhan plague i still wear a surgical mask when i leave the house. My reason is simple: i don't want to catch anything, no matter the odds, period.

The government actually pays organizations to file patents, that's why there are so many.

Amusing you don't recognize Christian or Muslim morality which is followed by the majority of the world. God never gives you more than you can handle. Suffering is a test and those who commit suicide ironically condemn themselves to an eternity of suffering.

And this is one reason why large organized cults are fucking up the entire human race.

The Covidlander well of hypocrisy is bottomless.