That's honestly a fear of mine, that I might lose the taste for simplicity.

Like healthy food, simplicity doesn't taste good. At least not on the surface.

It is an acquired taste and is easily lost. When your own instinctual heuristics are being weaponized against you for profit, you have to continually fight to maintain a discipline of nourishment. The sugar high is too addictive.

AI is a fast food of the creative mind.

How much of the fish self-sufficiency of China is due to them plundering the seas across the globe?

Thinking how a secure setup for uploading packages from a CI would look like: the package must be signed by the devs, and for that they must build it independently on their machines (this requires a reproducible build).

"Download more HP" is the new "download more RAM".

I hate to break it to you, but unless you own a mainframe that allows you unlock more RAM (that is already physically installed), unlocking more HP via software is actually how tunning works; and it is mot a scam from the 90s where you buy TurboRAM or whatever snake oil was sold back then.

My colleague's Thinkpad had its fan fail. He ordered a replacement which arrived next day. He swapped it himself and kept on working.

100% agree. I used to watch the sun rise over the river from the train during my commute. It was worth having to wake up when it was still dark.

> This control board uses the same microcontroller GPIO pin to both drive segment A of the LED display and sense the door switch.

Is it necessary to be so skimpy with a safety feature?

Later sections of the article detail how there are multiple different safety features integrated to guard against various different failures triggering the magnetron with the door open.

The post explains how the microcontroller sensing the door switch is not a safety feature.

"If you need subsidies in order to live off art, you don't live off art but live off the state".

As part time artist I see many problems with these schemes:

- Decoupled from people's actual appreciation of the art being done: I feel better when I know people voluntarily gave up their hard-earned money for what I do. - Monopoly-style "winner takes all". The people who benefit from this are the ones already in a position to ask for the benefit. - No one bites the hand that feeds then. That will form a body of "artists" subservient to the state.

The human problem is that no artist is willing to acknowledge that the public is not willing to spend money on their product.

The obvious conclusion is that artists should make the art that the wealthy want and are willing to pay for.

And in hard economic times artists ought to turn to gleaning.

Thats whats happened in Norway, and even worse they gave the artists the decision making process of handing out grants leading to them self dealing or dealing to their friends.

Oh, wow. The absolute worst thing that could happen to this sort of program would be for artists to make the decisions about who qualifies.

Must feel pretty good when rich people get into a bidding war over your product!

I have a hobby and I don't get compensated for it (quite the opposite). It's not making art, but if art were my calling I could quite easily see myself making it without any hope of monetary reward. There are plenty of people who have the same hobby as me and don't have a job -- they pursue it as is it's a job, though most are not paid either. I view that as some combination of privilege and laziness.

If there's any problem here it's that people don't have enough time to pursue hobbies. I only have enough time because I work from home (no time wasted commuting). Perhaps the government should focus on where we as a society waste people's time and energy such that they have none left over for hobbies.

> Society has not disintegrated.

Has art improved in any measure?

That is one of my problems with systemd: it has way to much "magic" built in. SysVinit/OpenRC and related are easy to understand and debug: they only do what's in the scripts.