Thanks for the analogy, that really helps to put it in perspective. I was trying to work out the number of molecules per metre that would leave you with, but either my sense of scales is off kilter or I’ve got it wrong.

From what I can find, there are approximately 2.5e25 molecules per m³ at 1atm. Given an 11km cube has a volume of 1.3e12 m³, that gives around 2e13 molecules per m³ per m³ released. That sounds high, have I got the figures wrong somewhere?

“Gelatinous tuna mold concoction” is a concept I don’t want to have to think about ever again, and I ate similar things when I was a young’un.

Fastration?

Building up tolerance? That’s a smart move. When the vampire hoards attack you’ll be able to fend them off without risking harming yourself.

It might not be windowless; consider midwinter, when a real window will just be a dark rectangle for most of the important parts of the morning and evening. Having a fake window showing somewhere bright and warm could help lift one’s spirits if you didn’t think about it too much.

Hmm. /me Makes you disappear entirely except for your mouth.

Promptly get stuck in a boobytrapped express elevator.

Ok, fair enough.

Believe it or not…straight to jail.

I’ve just spotted your username, I feel sure one of your relations had some sort of run in with the sysops already, and now you’re trying to convince people that there can’t be server reboots? Suspicious. Very suspicious.

No need, you just allocate users to servers depending on theie average sleep/wake cycle nd bounce the servers one at a time, when usage is at a minimum. Ever had one if those late night brain’s gone blank moments? Now you know.

Fair, that maybe came across harsher than I meant. Refusing to provide packages because you don’t use the system is fine, but please provide a tarball that I can unpack, rather than some dodgy script that has to try to work with the differences in those ststems anyway.

Better to do away with the entire concept of downloading and running a shell script like that, and use distro native packages instead. It’s not hard to create DEB or RPM packages, ebuilds aren’t too bad either, and it sounds like AUR packages are managable too.

The entire concept of blindly downloading a script, running it as root, and hoping that, in the best case, it’d install the version of the software you want is a bit crazy. If the upstream developers refuse to provide packages, please, at least, provide a tarball.

Once you start ‘succeeding’ at what you’re doing it tends to feel like it takes less energy, and if you start to feel good about it, you’ll also tend to feel more energetic, so it forms a self reinforcing loop.

It won’t work like that for everyone. You have to actually be enthused about the idea of succeeding at whatever it is you’re doing and not push so hard you burn out regardless of success, but if you can get into that frame of mind, things becone easier.

Total Recall

While there’s probably no global solution, personally I use a QR Code reader that doesn’t actually use the URL, but just displays it and lets me copy it to the clipboard. That way I can inspect it, and if it doesn’t look right, ignore it.

The joys of distributed algorithms. You can now get more errors, more quickly than before!

I remember writing a chat system in assembler, for DOS, using, IIRC, IPX networking. When it went wrong, one or more machines would just freeze, with the string “NETWORK ABEND” in the middle of the screen.

I should fork vim and call it ‘death’, so I can shout “give me vim or give me death!” any time someone suggests a different editor.

Surgery, especially on animals.

In any other context, someone cutting you open, slicing bits out or rearranging them, them sewing you shut would be considered horrific, but we do it because we know that the short term suffering out weighs the long term harm of not doing it. When you choose it for yourself it might not be too ‘evil’, but an animal would not understand, even if you know it will mean they get to live a long, happy life, free of the pain and suffering that issue would otherwise cause.

That has unironicaly made me nostalgic for the days when the web was a place of experimentation, joy and just a bit of crazy.

Piefed seems to have this, and the ability to subscribe to posts as @TheLeadenSea@sh.itjust.works asks about below.

Migrating is fairly straightforward, it can import your lemmy settings to get you up and running quickly, and the systems interoperate seamlessly, which is fantastic to see.

This is painfully true. I want to say something pithy about it, but my brain is filled with cotton wool and sludge.

Can’t argue with that logic. I always knew those feathered menaces were out to get us.