arsCynic

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[–] arsCynic@beehaw.org 15 points 1 day ago

Meanwhile Mangione is in jail sentenced with terrorism. Even GTA is less surreal.

[–] arsCynic@beehaw.org 0 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

The sacrifices we make for not supporting corporations.
Anyway, water is non-coke and it's an alternative to coke zero. Therefore logically my answer is valid and true, but I can read between the lines and accept your rebuke.

[–] arsCynic@beehaw.org -4 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

Water.
Go run 5 ㎞ at a decent speed and water will be the best drink ever. No need for poison-water.

[–] arsCynic@beehaw.org 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

A bath is too excessive/extravagant to simply make the feet a little warmer.

[–] arsCynic@beehaw.org 18 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Goddamn I love that this isn't written on Reddit.

[–] arsCynic@beehaw.org 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

To anyone about to leave on an excursion to Siberia: alcohol numbs the cold too, leading some to remove layers. However, the onset and effects of hypothermia and frostbite still apply. Don't get wasted while taking a hike.

[–] arsCynic@beehaw.org 4 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (2 children)

afaik battery socks don’t have radios. It’d be really fucking costly and really easy to spot if they snuck one in.

I had hoped the joke would be just as easy to spot. 🕊️

But in all seriousness, I am in fact paranoid about having non well-known batteries strapped to my sometimes sweaty feet, within fabric. If I can decrease the risk of a house fire by .1% by having cold feet a bit longer, then I'd easily incur that discomfort.
Moreover, because I believe the likelihood of World War 3 is increasing, I want to rely on luxury products even less than I was before. I already haven't used heating for 2.5 years, and last month I turned off my boiler, so I'm showering cold. The contrast with battery-powered socks would be too absurd.

[–] arsCynic@beehaw.org 4 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (4 children)

You say non-electric, but since battery tech has improved drastically over the last decade, battery powered warming socks are much more useful today.

Yeah but I'm biased towards socks that Mossad cannot detonate from a distance.

[–] arsCynic@beehaw.org 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Indoors.
But both if it doesn't take much of your time 🙃.

 

The simple trick to keeping one's upper body warm is adding layers. However, wearing multiple socks does not work for the feet. At least not for me. Any advice? Preferably non-electric solutions.

Photo credit: Shashi Chaturvedula.

[–] arsCynic@beehaw.org 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The problem is that Linux just isn’t usable for the largest home computing demographic.

Linux users can’t even agree on anything significant to make progress on the distros because they’d rather abandon it and try again in a new setting. It feels like a modpack of the month, year, etc, at this point. Unstable, filled with crashes and bugs, even fedora. Incomplete documentation with half defined terms and uses due to the constant splintering. It makes it worse to learn than whatever the fuck is Microsoft’s shit documentation.

I guess you too only see the trees. A solution is not to leave the forest but to bend the trees to your will. Wherever the forest is, instead of cowering before it. A shoddy tradesman blames his tools and all that.

Is this all AI generated? None of these arguments are valid nor true. So much so that I don't see the point of refuting them because of Brandolini's law: “The amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than that needed to produce it.”

[–] arsCynic@beehaw.org 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I’m going to be honest here. If someone asks you for Windows help and you comment to tell them to use Linux, you’re an asshole, not clever.

If every year people ask for help because they've been weakened by a COVID infection, yet they refuse free vaccinations, then they are the assholes.

Stop defending tax-evading unethical monopolies who don't give a crap about their users, only their profits. And stop defending lackadaisical people who have the potential to literally change the world by being part of a snowball that could eventually avalanche Microsoft's monopoly away. Instigating change here could be so easy. For goodness' sake we're talking about a change of software, not sacrificing one's life by taking a bullet or shooting one. Stand up for what you believe in. To hell with Windows. To hell with Microsoft.

[–] arsCynic@beehaw.org 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

He tripped multiple times in short succession while cleaning his gun. Could happen to anyone.

 

Money corrupts; bitcoin corrupts absolutely. Disregarding all of bitcoin's shortcomings, a financial instrument that brings out the worst in people—greed—won't change the world for the better.

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Free dissemination of knowledge that benefits the advancement of mankind should never be illegal.

 

cross-posted from: https://beehaw.org/post/17069345

Because I've been eating rice more often I realized via my energy bill that cooking in a pot on an electric plate for 30 minutes consumes massive amounts of electricity. Therefore I'm currently browsing for rice cookers, but the info on energy efficiency leaves much to be desired.

What would be the most efficient method to cook brown rice? Which appliance would be recommendable and ideally be in line with the Buy It For Life philosophy?

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