Sounds to me like the walled garden model is failing. I like this.

Yeah, I'm in the same category. Same experiences, however... I don't think its just due to this gene, at least not completely. My sleep is best in approximately 2.5 to 3 hour blocks. So 2.5 -3 hours is fine, 5-6 is fine, but not four not 7. I think it has something to do with the sleep cycle. If I wake up during rem or something that's what makes me groggy.

I would love to move off Windows, but I cannot play WoW or Diablo.

I never tried running WoW or Diablo I under Linux, but I do know that Diablo II runs Just Fine. Granted, I do have Wine installed, so it may be running that in the background, but if so, I don't know about it. If those two games are all that's keeping you from migrating to Linux, why don't you set up a VM, run Windows in it and use it for those games?

Fedora my daily driver for ~15 years has been rock solid but reasonably agile at picking up new technologies and packages. And now Microsoft has a vested interest in keeping it maintained. I like this.

Yes, as all rattlesnakes are vipers; pit vipers to be more exact. And, so are all of the cobras, except for the King Cobra, but then, that species isn't really a cobra.

I want to speculate on the motto of new China, but whatever it is, I'm sure that it can't be found in the writings of Marx, Lenin, or even Mao.

Have you ever noticed that Maoism is just a modern version of Confucianism? The only difference is who's words are considered infallible.

Seriously there is no engineering benefit to the vast expense and difficulty in putting compute in orbit. The power supplies are ON EARTH, cooling in space is damn near impossible (radiative only), servicing/hw upgrades untenable, There is obviously a reason, but whatever it is it is not technical

You are aware we decoded the entire proteome yes?

You finally got it.

Yes, I'm shouting "beware, they are thieves" before they actually took something - because they are, in fact, well-known thieves. This is the thing that's called "reputation" (just adding that since you actually seem to be new to the planet).

If they've done it a hundred times before, it is very likely that they'll do it again. It really is that simple.

Exactly. This kind of s--t is why I do my best to support Monero, the only crypto worthy of the name. We *must* create Privacy Currency, because banks and corporations *will* foist Surveillance Currency on us.

Actually there have been not one but *two* chains called TRUMP. USD1 is a stablecoin like Tether but even murkier. This new coin $WLFI is just an Ethereum ERC-20 token that (iiuc) can wrap USD1.

It looks like the scheme a financier would set up to make tracing money hard if he never heard of Monero. In a world where all the ledgers are open and you can see every address and amount, you will want to obfuscate via redirection and "parallel ledgers". But since it's basically just lining up txns on the ERC-20 chain with txns on the USD1 chain there's really no obfuscation whatsoever.

Some investigative journalists or infosec bloggers are going to start connecting names to addresses in the $WLFI Etherscan and when they do, they are going to become (a) famous and (b) heroes

They consume 25x the number of eggs France does too -- but it's because they're larger, not because they get their eggs from super chickens.

I would certainly hope not! Super Chicken was a rooster, not a hen!

And, as an early Boomer, I've never understood the hippies and flower children being so anti progress in general. They probably slowed down progress in general by at least a decade. Now, considering where we've gotten since the '60s, how much further would we have gotten without them doing their best to slow us down?

If you hate so many of the newer mis-features in Windows, why are you still using it? Even if you're stuck with it at work, what's forcing you to use it at home if you hate it so much?