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Foundation is great, have you also read the Empire trilogy? Also after reading Empire + Foundation you should read The end of Eternity, it's an amazing book whose impact is only felt if you've read the other books.

Yup, but most of that is easily solvable by being consistent, e.g. always use lowercase and your email (even if it's not the login for that site). But yes, you need to know to be consistent so it's a good point to make.

No, you're not, you cheated that's the most fundamental thing not to do, that's like saying "I'm a great cook, I would argue better than the majority of cooks, I only put rat poison in my food once!", would you eat in the same restaurant where a cook intentionally put rat poison in your food once already?

I noticed that my Ansible playbook failed to do a docker pull on readarr, I just commented it and was going to investigate further today. This sucks, especially because rreading-glasses did in fact completely solve the issue they're facing. Not sure why they didn't consider migrating to it officially, it's only a config change.

Honestly, I'm absolutely happy with my Steam Deck, I think it ticks most of your boxes (it even runs Linux, so it's essentially a portable Linux computer designed for gaming), so I think it's the better option that you're looking gor. To your points specifically:

it's really geared towards family/party gaming

There are plenty of party games on Steam.

it's Nintendo, so you get the whole usual games (Mario Kart, Zelda, etc.)

This is the only reason to get a switch, if you want a Nintendo console and Nintendo games this is the way. Everyone who gets a switch understand this is the reason they're getting it. If this is as strong a point to you that it makes you overlook everything else, then get the switch.

like most consoles, it's plug and play and can be enjoyed in the living room (I kind of gave up trying to set up a proper gaming experience with my Linux PCs, given that I don't have the hardware for it)

Steam Deck also has a Dock that you can plug to your TV, you'll need controllers but even so it should be much cheaper in the long run since games are extremely affordable compared to Nintendo.

the battery life is not great to say the least (2.5 hours takes me back of the Game Gear in early 90s!)

Haven't seen many benchmarks of the switch to be honest, but that does sound bad, the Deck only gets that bad battery life if you're playing Cyberpunk or something, for more casual games it can get upwards of 6h. Plus you can get power banks that fast large it while playing, which I assume is also possible on the switch although the switch 1 used to have some issues with power banks.

the screen seems to be pretty bad too (at least it's a step back from the OLED one of the Switch)

All but the cheapest Deck models now use a 90Hz OLED panel

the joycons are still not using a Hall effect sensor, meaning they might still be prone to drifting

While the Deck's default sticks are not hall effect, they are easily replaceable and Valve sells hall effect replacements on ifixit, so if you ever get drift in your sticks it's fixable.

most of the games will not be sold as proper cartridges but as download codes

If you're going down this rote Steam sells download codes for much cheaper

the whole thing (console, additional gamepads, games) is quite pricey

The Deck is about the same price, but like I said you'll end up saving in games since you start with your whole Steam Library and can get more games much cheaper.

it's Nintendo, famous for their anti-everything (anti-homebrew, anti-emulation, anti-piracy)

The Deck is by far the most open console you can get, you can even replace the entire OS if you want to, but StramOS is great and you shouldn't need to.

I rarely get into these sorts of debaters because they're almost always pointless, however a few of the things you said made me want to answer this.

You're completely missing the point for the first argument, people can't choose to fly or kill each other by staring, so if humans were created by God then any flaws in humanity, including but not limited to ability to suffer and cause suffering, is part of God's design that he could have removed. In other words, if God gave people the option to cause harm knowing they would (omniscience, remember) then he's directly responsible for everything bad that happens, it's like a father that gives a sharp knife to a kid and tells him to go run and play with his friends. God could have prevented suffering to begin with, therefore the fact that it exists proves that suffering is part of his plan. If that's the case then yes, you being bullied and your bully being in an abusive home is all done by design, which is very twisted if you think about it.

As for the second argument you admit that things exist outside our universe that can affect it, if that's the case you don't need God to create the Universe, we could be the result of a collision between two extra dimensional rocks. And that's sort of the point of that argument, i.e. that you don't need God to explain the beginning of the Universe because whatever question you have about the origin of the Universe can also be directed at God (e.g. and what caused that) and whatever answer you give using God can also be used for a non-God answer (e.g. extra dimensional causes)

Those two arguments are very biased. The first one is only a problem in Christianity, and like you said it's a silly argument, God can be malicious and that solves that issue.

The second one is a bit trickier, because you're making the same mistake you accuse others of making. There are two possibilities, either something can come from nothing, or it can't. If stuff can come from nothing God is not needed to create the Universe (and while physics have been able to prove this, let's look at the other possibility just in case). On the other hand if stuff can't come from nothing then stuff must have always existed, otherwise you will get the problem of where the stuff that did that came from, and that applies to God too, so of you can ask "where did the Big Bang came from if there was nothing" you can also ask "where did God came from if there was nothing", so in this scenario you also don't need God, because if it can come from nothing then other stuff can also come from nothing so we're in the other scenario.

Also those are two of the weakest arguments against God, and they specifically go after the Christian God of the gaps. Better arguments against the existence of God are usually about pointing at contradictions in the definition, similarly to how you said nothing can come from nothing but made an exception for God, another example is omniscience vs free will (if someone knows what you will do then you're not free to do different), or omnipotence in itself (can God microwave a burrito so hot that even he can't eat it?), and if we're talking about the specific Christian deity the fact that he needs an innocent blood sacrifice to forgive people should be a clear indicator of the type of being you're dealing with, and it's not an all loving entity.

It's strange how I never see this mentioned anywhere, but there's a way to get unique secure passwords for every site/app without needing to store them anywhere. It's called LessPass, and essentially generates passwords based on 3 fields (site, username, master password) and works relatively well, because the advantages are quite obvious I'll list the potential downsides:

• If one password is compromised or needs changing for whatever reason you need to increase a counter and need to remember which counter for which site (this is less problematic than it sounds, except in places that have a password policy that forces you to change your password periodically)
• Android can store the master password and use fingerprint to input it, but in PC you always have to type your master password which can get annoying.
• You need to change your passwords to this new format, which can take a while, and years down the line you're trying to login somewhere and don't remember if you've already migrated it or not.

Both are good games, but they're very different from each other. Also neither is made by Bethesda.

Trying not to spoil too much, there's a timer but it doesn't really matter, you will almost never run out of time and retrying is encouraged. There's almost no time pressure in this game, and the amount of time in that timer is over 20 minutes, which should be plenty of time to do what you have to, and if not you can reset the timer and try again.

You probably missed one entry that told you they were blind but not deaf

I have been using Nova for a LONG time, and wasn't aware of them getting bought, what nefarious thing is it doing now? Do you have some reports on it? Although I can imagine the sort of things analytic companies are doing.

Oops, thanks for the correction I'll update the post

Damn, I thought I had sent the reply and it's been erased.

I'll keep it short, muscle memory for qwerty doesn't go away that easily, at least it didn't for me, but I'm able to type blindly in qwerty (just not touch typing). Still I think that something I can use in my laptop is very useful so I can keep the ergonomics on the go.

I don't have the exercises, it was just something someone told me to do, I'm sure whatever your doctor is telling you would be better.

For the split vs ortholinear I think split makes more difference, whenever I use a normal keyboard I feel this, but never had any pains related to it, it's just more comfortable.

Yes, but most Europeans tend to underestimate how expensive medicine is in the USA, from personal experience here in Spain an ambulance ride to the hospital + consultation + x-ray is free for residents and costs €200 for tourists, whereas the same stuff in the USA can cost around $5000 even for residents.

As a general rule yeah you can, however the price for stuff if you're not insured is very expensive, but it will likely still be much cheaper than the USA, and also if it's not an emergency you might have trouble being able to get to a doctor. Let me give you an example, we were visiting Spain when my wife fell and twisted her ankle, we had to call an ambulance, she had an emergency consultation with an X-RAY (luckily she didn't broke anything), and because we had forgotten our sanitary card we had to pay foreign prices, i.e. €200. That looks expensive to us because if we had brought that card it would have been free, but that same thing in the US could cost us $5000 so overall lot cheaper.

That being said, in Ireland for my wife to go to an Endocrinologist we had to:

• Register with a GP
• Book an appointment for that GP
• Pay that appointment
• Convince the GP you need to see an Endocrinologist. If he disagrees you won't get to an Endocrinologist.
• The GP books the Endocrinologist appointment for you, or sends an email to the endocrinologist allowing you to book it
• You pay for the Endocrinologist appointment
• You go there and explain your symptoms, he'll likely order blood exam and ask you to return on another day
• You book and pay the blood exams
• Do the blood exam
• Book and pay the return consultation to the endocrinologist

Overall cost was around €1000 and took us over a month to go through all of that. And again this might feel cheap for you, but to us feels expensive. And because of the initial requirement to register with the GP tourists can't do it. Not sure how other countries work, in Spain we book stuff through our insurance and just show the insurance card and haven't paid anything in over a year.

The reality is that mostly people aren't going to leave Windows, so if Valve and Linux force Windows to improve it's still a win.

While I mostly agree with this, every time I see this mentioned it reminds me that MS-DOS Windows was not very popular, until a Microsoft employee offered to port Doom to DOS Windows, because he saw that if games ran on a platform people would use it and migrate naturally, that employee was called Gabe Newell. So I do have some hope that there's some bigger migration, and in fact we've seen the numbers steadily rising, and these sort of things tend to be exponential, so I wouldn't be surprised if it picks up speed.

Why not use thefuck which also corrects typos?

• It lacks a d-pad
• It lacks a right thumb stick
• The thumb stick it has is not capacitive nor drift free
• It only has one back paddle for each side
• Ergonomics of the deck are way better, at least for me
• It lacks the ... button (although this is minor because Steam+a opens the same menu)

Don't get me wrong, the SC 1 is a great controller, but the Steam deck is better, getting a Steam deck like controller would be awesome.

I understand, and I agree, although I'm reading all the replies are already becoming wall of text so I'll skip parts but I have read them and they're all interesting.

I've landed on Night.

That looks interesting, although I would be weary of learning a layout that only works on specific keyboards, it will make it hard for you to use a laptop on the go, work in an office with a normal keyboard or any other similar situation.

Furthermore, how bad did things become?

I think it's easier if I answer this first. At the worst I had problems holding heavy stuff in my hand, as in fingers lackesld strength or didn't respond properly. And for my lower back at the worst it was constant pain where I needed to lay down with a pillow on my lumbar to stretch. After fixing those I became very aware of the initial feelings, such as numbness or feeling pain when stretching (which btw I strongly recommend you check out wrist and finger stretching exercises as they help a lot). Lots of the changes I made (e.g. split ortholinear keyboard) were probably not needed, but the wrist pain that kickstarted everything got me worry enough that I don't want to take any chances.

After a couple of hours, I do experience strange sensations that border on pain. Furthermore, there's (almost) always some level of unease/discomfort. Thankfully, resting continues to feel good and I get especially revitalized after sleeping well. But I acknowledge that this isn't sustainable.

It's not, those are exactly the early signals that you asked me about, you think that because you're able to rest and stretch and it goes away that it's all fine, but it will require ever more stretching and resting until they don't go away ever. At least that's what happened to me, at the beginning I would stretch my wrist and fingers and rest for a while and be fine, eventually that became next day I'll be fine, then over the weekend, then never.

Wrist pain and fingers that feel wacky. So, this is basically carpal tunnel 101.

That's exactly what I had, although mine was never actually diagnosed, but I had all of the symptoms and my dad had to do the surgery so I have family history. It does get better if you adjust, I don't feel any of the symptoms I once did, and it is sustainable I haven't had any symptoms in about 10 years since I switched to a more keyboard centric flow and the layout, so putting in the work does help out. I should say I had 24 years when the symptoms first appeared, so it was kindof young which was one of the reasons I got very scared about getting those symptoms so early.

org-mode seems to be Emacs' forte.

Org-mode is absolutely wonderful, I haven't tried any replacement because the reason I abandoned org-mode wasn't emacs related, I kept using emacs for org-mode for a while after I dropped it as my main editor. The reason is that there's no compatibility with other editors or apps. Everything uses markdown, and for most basic stuff markdown is good enough. I do miss habit tracking, task management, table calculations and other neat stuff, but the commodity of using the same format for everything and that other people use it as well outweighs all of that for me.