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Alosraon Ask HN: Who needs holiday help? (Follow up thread)

What you are doing is inspiring, I'm currently a student with not so much money but doing somthing like this is definitely on my list when I can afford it. Thanks for doing it and also the Idea. I'm sure, as you know, that there are many who are grateful.

Alosraon Python 3.12

Everything aside, I enjoyed the "And now for something completely different" part.

Alosraon A Lost World: On Travis Zadeh’s “Wonders and Rarities”

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aja%27ib_al-Makhluqat

Also the persian sourcebook: https://www.loc.gov/item/2017454465/ Which I had as bookmark.

Alosraon Someday aliens will land and all will be fine until we explain our calendar

I get that it's about being funny, but the roman calender is not completely universal either, there is at least Iran, my home country and afghanestan which has the solar hijri calender as it's first official calender which is very much logical and accurate. You can visit https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_Hijri_calendar For more info

Also in Iran the week starts with saturday.

If you look from an american or a british person these are all valid points and I got the fun and laughed but couldn't help my self not saying all these And I'm sure Iran is just an instance

Alosraon There’s no place for expensive laptops with 8GB of RAM anymore

This is all based on windows. I use kubuntu, 20.04. have 12 GB of ram and right now with total of 222 processes, firefox and clementine open, I use less than 2 GB of ram. so, no, not if you want to run some decent linux, but hey if you wanna run windows.