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Removing all clocks from my life made it more enjoyable. There is no time visible to me. I took down the wall clock. I hid all digital clocks on my devices. I never set alarms unless I absolutely need to. I can still access the time if I need it, which is rarely if ever.

It took time to adjust to this. It only really hit me how frequently I had looked at the time when I constantly caught myself looking at the empty spot on the wall where the clock had been. I realized I'd look at the clock to decide if I should eat, instead of listening to my body's needs as I should be. I'd look at the clock to decide if I should sleep, instead of how tired I felt. Etc. Living without clocks has made me more aware of my self.

One experiment I did was installing an app on my phone that vibrates it every 10 minutes or so. It was interesting observing how the passage of time changed depending on circumstance. When e.g. waiting for a bus, the phone took ages to vibrate. When out drinking with friends, it seemed to vibrate constantly.

There are multiple blatantly obvious reasons why text on screen SHOULD be different. For one, IT'S NOT PAPER. Second, you should avoid blasting unnecessary light into your users' eyes. Third, bright screens consume more power than dark ones.

Under cost? My understanding is that consoles cost MORE than an equivalent self-built PC, and that the expectation that sells them is the guarantee that the games will WORK. On an actual PC, there's no guarantee that any software works with your particular configuration. That is, consoles standardize system specs, and include a markup reflecting that.

You're using the term 'adventure' quite liberally. Disco Elysium is, at best, a really drunken, long-winded and exposition-heavy stroll in a pretty mundane harbor area the size of a single city block.

It's not really even that weird of a fiction. Everything is extremely based on reality, with a mere facade of "look we changed the names of everyday things! they are now strange!"

I went looking for these things you claim are there, and you're right! They are hidden in the screenshots without nary a mention!

This is what the website SAYS:

"What if we had a tool that could work in straight lines or… well… not straight lines? [...] We built a new style of text editor from the ground up to better support creative thinking. Clover lets you explode traditional documents and work in a more free-form manner for better brainstorming, mind-mapping, and exploration."

Notice the difference between what YOU said, and what the WEBSITE says? You produced a useful list of features; the website blabbers in incomprehensible marketing-speak.

"Well thought out"? There are TWO features listed, some kind of non-straight line writing thing, and the ability to change color. No mention of literally anything else - like, if your notes are stored in accessible format offline or if they are lost when the business goes belly up.

Never, ever take notes into a proprietary cloud silo!

Last I checked, Gemini can't have pictures, only text.

I wouldn't call this "no idea"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shark#Reproduction

More likely, an emergence of curated and policed search/indexes [sic] of sites voluntarily subscribing to a particular web philosophy.

Simultaneously, blacklists of domains and browser extensions to scrub viewed pages of any references to sites not subscribing to particular philosophies.

Yeah but if you're building a house, you need the bricks anyway. Why not make your walls a battery while at it?

Eww, games trying to substitute 'real life'. Realism is boring. Games should be ART. Something you CAN'T experience in real life.

It really makes the US sound like a third world country to me. I have a confession: I've never ever not once in my life worked a job for pay. I have free housing, medical care, electricity and a fair amount of money to spend on food, even the occasional luxury. The social security landscape benefitting me has allowed me to live my life in pursuit of arts and technology, at no cost and no sacrifice. Computers are cheap, and living here is free. I'm in the poorest underclass in my society, yet I feel wealthier and luckier than an average American, apparently. Best of all, I almost never have to wake up to an alarm clock. ^_^

I looked directly at the Sun for 20 seconds without blinking. My brain could not settle on any particular color - it kept shifting hues.

And a car is just a faster horse, but it sure changed society in fundamental ways. Often, incremental progress leads to unexpected critical mass, which opens new unimagined avenues for exploitation.

Could you link me an online resource detailing that process? I've been wanting to put the accumulation of old phones to use.

Ever heard of Linux? Consider it disruptive? Did you know it was invented in Europe?

Sounds pretty horrible to me...:

> DDT is classified as "moderately toxic" by the US National Toxicology Program (NTP) and "moderately hazardous" by WHO

> studies document decreases in semen quality among men with high exposures (generally from indoor residual spraying)

> Indirect exposure of mothers through workers directly in contact with DDT is associated with an increase in spontaneous abortions

> studies found that DDT or DDE interfere with proper thyroid function in pregnancy and childhood

> Mothers with high levels of DDT circulating in their blood during pregnancy were found to be more likely to give birth to children who would go on to develop autism

Absolutely nothing will make it a smartphone replacement unless it has good battery life. Smartphones are batteries with computers attached.

Disconnect entire network. Factory reset all devices. Reinstall latest everything.

What? I mean back up your data. Not your whole... computer, or whatever. Install latest software, import data from back up, back in business. It's trivial to tell intact data from ransomed data - the latter looks like random noise, as it's encrypted.

If your backup process "isn't that simple", then you should make it that simple. Otherwise failure looms.

Even just hiring one guy whose only job is to take backups would solve ransomware for much cheaper.

So why can't they get Internet via a phone like you do when you go there?

Has the slowest scrolling by wheel I've ever seen. I scroll and scroll and watch the next page inch over for an eternity.

There is no such thing as risk free investment.

This page has inaccurate data. I checked for my country and the listed number disagrees with the linked source next to it!

> Memory is not very useful when you're not using it

It's also not very useful when someone else is hogging all of it! There is an opportunity cost to the user and other programs. It is supremely selfish to only think of oneself, and reserve all the common resources because "well it was just laying around".

I PAY for the capacity in case I NEED it, not for some bloated browser to snorf it all up because they can't be assed to write reasonable software.

Considering he managed to lose his life over the app, I'd say the comparison is fair.

A fast SSD won't solve the network latency of connecting to a server and downloading all its data.

If you bother to read the manual [1], it explicitly states that this happens. Almost at the top of the page. Hardly "silent".

[1] https://www.php.net/manual/en/language.types.array.php