I have a keyboard hotkey to take the copy/paste buffer and display a QR code on screen. Straightforward to implement on macOS, and presumably Linux too.

macOS: pbpaste | qrencode -t ANSI

Humans weren’t meant to live with zero autonomy.

Not every parent removes all autonomy from their child. Sorry that happened to you, sounds like it sucked.

Having trouble finding it but I swear my PNY Nvidia GeForce FX 5200 (I think?) circa 2003 came with a Linux 3D desktop/launcher software that sounds like this. (X11 based I guess.)

Not sure if it was bundled with the card, came with the Nvidia drivers, or what…but it worked just fine with Linux at the time (probably Slackware, not positive what I was running then).

I’ve heard stories of grad students flat out refusing to work with HF. (Never relevant for me, other than being something very scary.)

Having kids has made random conversations somewhat frequent for me.

At this point, they no longer obey the laws of classical physics, and the resulting quantum phenomena — known as relativistic effects…

This is…not how I would word things. Atomic physics is usually not in a classical (Newtonian) regime, and a quantum treatment is standard.

Adding relativistic effects to the quantum treatment is also standard, but many aspects of e.g. the hydrogen atom are reasonably well described without relativistic effects, though of course relativistic effects do matter.

Nitpicking aside, neat stuff!

I’m really really glad that I get root on my work computer.

Fare from Mars back to Earth should always be free.

“…I really don’t want to have to wipe the thing because it’s running a headless OS”

I feel like logging in as root on a headless system and hoping you type the command(s) to restore functionality is a rite of passage.

Sorta, but the sunrise/set are due predominantly to the rotation of the earth about its axis, not the revolution about the sun.

Well f2k me, T1L, t4s!

But I thought they smelled bad on the outside?

Global Outbreak World Response Outreach Network, perhaps?

Obviously you should use an exponential search, assuming you don’t know the age of the oldest human.

Torvalds uses it too I believe, so you’re in good company (Debian for me, though my heart belongs to Slackware).

The difference between a cheap bike and a nice bike is similar to the difference between a Chromebook and a decked out ThinkPad or Macbook IMHO.

You’re absolutely right: most folks just browse the web, and a Chromebook is enough. But the other products do have value.

Whenever I mess with my bike brakes, I only do one wheel, then a few rides later allow myself to do the other. That way if I botch it I should have another brake that sorta still works.

Except it would probably end up being a sequel and prequel at the same time…

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13, without the pillow, is kinda how babies/toddlers sometimes sleep (once they can roll over).