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  • And if you want to have two weekends, 60 hours in 5 days is 12 hours of work a day, minus 8 hours for sleep you get 4 hours, minus ~2 hours commute you get 2 hours, and the rest is basic cooking and eating. This leaves 0 hours for anything else, including rest or even any other duties that you'll end up resolving throughout the weekends. This will absolutely kill you in the long run.

  • Zen for regular activities (I pin all important services), Firefox for browsing for something else.

    GNU IceCat is also amazing as concept, but generally unusable since it ends up blocking too much and manually allowing everything is a hassle. But still, the pages that work are clean, and I love that by default the browser doesn't do anything without your permission - it doesn't even connect to update and telemetry services, it has 0 connections on startup, unlike almost anything (qutebrowser does the same, but, unless you are a strong Vim fanboy, you won't like the experience).

  • My question is essentially as to why you use two systems at once

    If you know what gram is, you can imagine a kilogram as well: the conversion is easy, measurements are consistent with each other and the entire world, and it makes it very clear both units are tied together and represent mass.

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  • Because history is cyclical, and at all times some forces are on the losing side of it. Back in the days when the left was more powerful, the right complained about winning evil. Now it's the other way around.

    Note: this is not a "both sides" argument, I am left.

  • Yandex.

    In Russia, Yandex is, like, everywhere, and it is a massive evil.

    • Search, maps, mail, browser, cloud, and everything else Google offers? Check.
    • Music, films? Uh-huh.
    • Taxi and food delivery? Gotcha.
    • Tickets to anything from a bus or a train to a concert venue? Yes.
    • Four marketplaces and one freelance platform? All Yandex.
    • Tax processing? Yes!
    • Home assistant? Yep.

    It's increasingly hard to avoid, and it is absolutely everywhere. Its use can be mandated by your workplace and in various state institutions, and for the rest, it has acquired so much of everything that going Yandex-free in Russia is one step away from going Amish. It's way way worse and more incidious than Google could ever hope for.

  • Linking Microsoft and allowing them to read into everything you write is a massive privacy hit.

    But their target audience is indeed not the privacy-minded folks. It's still an unfortunate precedent of Microsoft mandating the use of OneDrive and injecting ads, which may get worse and even get included in some form in paid products.

  • I don't think it's even possible to untangle storytelling from experience in TES games. Their magic is that they immerse the player in a way no other game ever managed to, in my opinion. Every stone is part of the lore. And when you put those games into the time context they belong, you see the masterpiece.

    That said, Avowed did a fairly good job, and storytelling has also advanced in 14 years since the last TES game.

  • Most men are not much into the idea, either.

    Intimacy is something very human, something most people are not ready to trust a machine to do, even if it's capable of visibly empathetic reactions.

    There is a desire to connect with another human being, not programmed to like you, but actually choosing you freely. It's what people call "feeling it real".

    Most folks I have seen pushing for robotic partners are incels craving at least some form of closeness - having something like this might be better than nothing.

    Also, dudes, let's be real: would you put your dick into a machine much stronger than you? Something goes wrong and you don't have your precious parts anymore.