I should have gone to the military, like I wanted to. When I finished school, I wanted to serve to learn discipline, order, and structure. My parents are both strict pacifists and had dragged me to peace protests from a young age. I didn’t want to break their heart, so an undisciplined civilian life it was. Still lacking discipline, order, and difficulty sleeping.

10 minutes

How do you wash in that time? That’s just enough to get wet.

I’m sure someone will use rust to build a bloated reactive declarative dynamic UI framework, that wastes cycles, eats memory, and is inscrutable to debug.

Lingerie, drugs, snacks, toys, etc. cost money!

Start a cocaine or ketamine habit and you will always remember to have it on hand.

Maybe he had his shoes on the seats and is now crying racism.

This is also true for other people.

Political alliances are bad because they would mean actually taking action. It’s much more comfortable to just sit around, criticize, and preach your moral superiority.

There was an international arms embargo by the USA and the UN on Israel/Palestine in 1947-48.

The Zionists bought and smuggled in surplus WW2 weapons from Czechoslovakia during that time. The Soviet Union helped the Zionists, which were dominated by socialists at the time in the hopes of gaining an ally.

https://history.stackexchange.com/questions/55228/why-did-the-u-s-place-an-arms-embargo-on-all-belligerents-in-the-1948-arab-isra

Between 1948 and 1967 there was no slow removal of Palestinian Arabs. Almost all of it was quite sudden in 1948. Keep in mind that Jewish Palestinians were expelled from the Jordan occupied West Bank and half of Jerusalem. Gaza was occupied by Egypt and Jews were expelled. Arab and Muslim countries persecuted and expelled their Jewish population after 1948, resulting in 800,000 to a millions Jews fleeing, many to Israel.

There was an international arms embargo by the USA and the UN on Israel/Palestine in 1947-48.

The Zionists bought and smuggled in surplus WW2 weapons from Czechoslovakia during that time.

The biggest issue is security updates and a current internet browser.

Of course I can use a 30 year old computer that still works with the software it can run.

LibreOffice is okay for some stuff, but shows its limitations pretty quickly once you use it for more serious tasks.

• Writer is the best of the suite and has deleted comments for me several times without ability to recover.
• The spreadsheet is a toy compared to Excel spreadsheets used in pretty much any business.
• The presentation software produces ugly results by default.

The only things LibreOffice has going for it, is the price and that the UI doesn’t change. LibreOffice has no good mobile apps.

Better alternatives to Microsoft Office are Google Docs etc. and Apple’s iWork suite. Both have good compatibility with Microsoft’s files and run great on mobile.

Google has ease of use, easy sharing and collaboration. Apple’s iWork has great usability and features and produces beautiful results by default. The suite comes free with every Apple device. Google Docs is free to use as well.

That’s of course ignoring the workhorse called Outlook. You can kind of approach its features with a handful of other applications, but won’t reach the same functionality.

LibreOffice has one unique application in its suite: Base local database. Microsoft Access and FileMaker used to very popular, but faded into the background over the last decade.

15 years is actually reasonable.

I have a ten year old laptop with an i7 processor, 16 GB RAM, and 1 TB SSD. It still does most things, I bought it for initially just fine. Granted this was one of the best laptops you could buy at the time.

Apple stopped supporting it with a current version of macOS a couple of years ago sadly. It’s still possible to patch newer versions to install and run on the old machine, but it’s a bit of a hassle.

Chat GPT makes up everything it says. It’s just good at guessing and bullshitting. These are excuses, not reasons. There used to be waterproof phones with headphone jacks. Phones have become bigger since the headphone jack disappeared as well. So space isn’t really the reason.

Chat GPT makes up everything it says. It’s just good at guessing and bullshitting.

Chat GPT makes up everything it says. It’s just good at guessing and bullshitting.

There’s still enough space for a headphone jack in current phones. They are omitted as a cost cutting measure.

Latency is still worse than wired. For gaming its somewhat okay nowadays, for making music its not.

It’s correctly used in the text.

Number of steps < 500 is equivalent to 500 > number of steps.

I agree with you.

Lots of open source software uses arcane concepts because lots of it is old. See Xorg as a prime example. That was outdated 20 years ago already.

Closes source software gets exploited and hacked all the time. They take security seriously as well.

Look at OpenSSL and the heartbleed and similar high profile security failures for how even using high profile open source software is not automatically more secure.