There are different levels of understanding.

I’m trained in physical sciences. I studied at university and then worked ~8 years for a research department and at one point learned 2D NMR and how to run molecular simulations on a supercomputer. I’m well aware of the challenges of winning grants against colleagues and getting papers published and surviving peer review and then hoping your work gets noticed outside your weird little niche.

My buddy is a schoolteacher. He can run circles around me with arithmetic and explain the scientific method in rap format. Kids eat it up! But he’s probably never done a gradient integral (not that I remember how either) or contributed to a collegiate press release.

We’re both ostensibly working with the same core principles but the reality ends up quite different. Context matters.

Monsieur Florbo

Ah the joys of playing with an oscilloscope.

Oof, burned 😆

Hideous, but rather accessible.

C’mon, we all end up at /dev/null eventually. Just don’t gaze long into it or it might gaze into you.

I’ve never not dreamed of having my own skeleton army.

Everything you can buy is also available for free.

Iffff you’re willing to spend many many hours grinding against artificial RNG and pretending your time has zero value.

But yeah enough patience and persistence can technically get you almost everything (I stopped after 50 warframes).

You know, I’ll just pull out my phone and look it u-- Oh.

Auf Englisch, nennen wir das lettuce 😆

But yeah, better to pack that and the tomato separately. And really, wrap the rest of the hamburger in parchment paper then a layer of foil. That’s basically how fast food places do it but better. It’s also ideal to pack the bun separately to really avoid sogginess.

Aw, thanks! I feel like you’re a lovely person.

Thank fuck there’s no one here promoting Brave.

is there a difference between power users and stubborn people who are just willing to trial-and-error their problems away until they understand it? lmao

IMO you just described the process of becoming a power user.

C’mon, it fits perfectly and I’m sure it tastes fine. There’s something to be said for spatial efficiency.

Sure it is. Linus Torvalds was the 51st person in his lineage to be be named Nus, so following Finnish tradition his parents put the roman numeral prefix in front of his name. It’s quite a coincidence that he also uses an operating system that follows the same convention!

German too. Ich habe Hunger. Sie haben Durst.

No, my stomach is going to town with all this regurgitation.

Well yeah obviously it’s way more important on anything portable. For me it’s very reliable on Steam Deck. But that’s also kind of a core feature, and it only has one type of sleep (in game mode at least). But it does still drain battery faster than I’d like.

I’m curious, what kind of netbook is that one you mention?

Are you talking the full set of S0-S3 sleep as well as hibernation? Or just whatever your machine did by default? Because I’ve never had one do all of them correctly without freezing up or having some other issue, across multiple motherboard brands and BIOS updates and so forth. ~30 years here, Windows mostly then the last few on Linux.

Wait, are you suggesting it’s consistent and reliable on desktops?