jmbreuer

I feel most of this is a slippery slope / negative sum spiral.

See e.g. Liv Boeree's video on beauty filters.

In my opinion (see also Dr Gabor Maté), addictions (which, I also think, can be about petty much anything) are very much mostly attempts to escape pain, when better alternatives do not seem available to a person.

So, yeah, video game addiction can be a thing, and certain game designs exacerbate that (similar to what might fuel gambling addictions and such).

But all of this perspective only distracts from whatever is causing the people/kids pain, makes them seek out games in an addicted fashion in the first place.

I'm gonna be interested how that's supposed to work with false positives, err, collateral damage, err, plausibly deniable canceling of free speech of citizens. Nice try.

Started negotiating at 40%, agreed to 10% less "so 10% of 40 is 4, right?"

... And it's rather quite... interesting... how long this has been going on...

I recently came across ReaR and very much like it so far for my "fire and forget" whole system backups (working data I back up differently, typically something rsync-y).

From one perspective, it should work; from another I never thought about how SATA/IDE adapters exactly work in this regard. Would any old one work, or most, or (almost) none at all?

Just to add this idea, I've used internal floppy drives with USB connection in the past, to attach in systems that don't have an old style floppy connector.

P.S.: Love the idea! I'm also a great fan of haptic/physical interfaces.

Working and well-integrated "run this on that rendering GPU", with unused GPUs being switched off (laptop use case).

Hope this can be understood as semi-on-topic harmless fun here:

Yuki installs Gentoo