well shit. Have it your way.

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If you will allow me the context of what we know about the outside world in mid-2026, as well as the use of my eyes and ears, then the first one for sure.

Unexpected?

I appreciate all the funny comments about the gay tie-in, but the "unexpected health benefits" of WALKING is the dumbest attempt at clickbaitizing a headline that I've seen in a while.

The suburb where I live is closer to rural than urban, but I could totally see getting one of these for commuting and errands around town.

Just give me an upgraded $10K version that can do 50 mph instead of 50 km/h, because once I get to the end of my street I'm turning into traffic comprised of F-150s and Escalades already going faster than that (illegally).

Just think of the CoSt SaViNgS when 3 years from now and all that shiny new hardware is obsolete compared with the nvidia Orphan Crusher 3000, and instead of paying for a silly decommissioning and responsible recycling project you can just cover your eyes for 30 seconds and let the meth heads scour the site.

This brings a whole new dimension to calling yourself a Secular Humanist.

It's great to see the pope occasionally acting like a humanist, even if he is very much not secular, lol.

iirc, apt-get is the version to use in scripts. They keep the input & output consistent so that it won't break things.

Regular old apt is for humans to use at the command prompt, and that's what I use all the time.

If I'm gonna build stuff I at LEAST need my 3-4-5 triangle. Pythagoras sends his regards!

I did use trig at work a few months back to calculate some mechanical weirdness of our product that I do the embedded software for, though.

Here's my personal anecdote that supports this.

I live in Pennsylvania, which is considered a swing state, but it did vote for Trump both of the times he won. Pretty humiliating.

AGDQ this year was in Pittsburgh so I got to attend a couple days. It is by far the most inclusive crowd I've been in locally, where people can just let their true colors out without constant fear. I think it's the only crowd where I've heard "trans rights" exclaimed and met with cheers. And it's truly inclusive in both directions. I'm a big old bearded straight cis white guy and nothing made me feel out of place either.

Between gaming communities and FOSS/linux communities, I think it's we nerds who are so inclusive!

This feels like such a double edged sword living in the US where Israel-supporting police-loving rich capitalists are widely labeled as the radical left if they dare to suggest that people should get healthcare or maybe we shouldn't spend trillions blowing up brown people on the other side of the globe.

You know, the land of fucking geniuses where the batshit crazy pedo Nazi choice won the popular vote in 2024 against the Israel-supporting actual-cop capitalist who is right-wing to most of the rest of the world.

I'm not even sure what my point is here, maybe just expressing frustration. The overton window here is so far to the right, and people so passively absorb propaganda every day, that it feels like the entire spectrum of people from leftists to liberals need to form a coalition to at least slow & reverse the movement to the right, even if their end goals are all very different.

What it feels like is that the Republican party was actually supposed to be the controlled opposition to scare people into being comfortable voting for liberals, but then the propaganda worked too well and the mustache twirling evil caricatures got to be in charge instead. At this point I can only hope the level of ridiculousness knocks some sense into more people.

I've pretty much gone back to my 2000s era mindset of "I don't need a smart phone when I have PCs in front of me at work and at home."

But really it's more like I already have an old smart phone but hate using it and never want to have to upgrade. We'll see what Motorola can make happen.