Some drugs, like opioids, create a physical addiction. Their body cannot function without the chemicals.

Saying "Stop taking the drug" to those people is equivalent to saying "Stop eating". The body cannot physically function then.

Nicotine is also a chemical that induces a physical addiction.

Surprisingly, THC (marijuana) does not, apparently... Someone can stop cold with no physical issues, only psychological ones.

Use corner cube retroreflectors instead of flat mirrors.

I like to play AAA games casually. Think Witcher etc... I own a macbook, not really made for that.

Years ago I got a subscription to GE Force Now and never looked back. I can play all the games I want , no problem.

The only thing really needed is a good Internet connection, and my Gbps fiber link works very well.

So... Subscriptions also work well for casual gaming, no problem.

You should explain all that patiently to the drowning polar bears up north.

Or maybe offer an alternative solution to the Svalbard seed bank? They actually need to pump water from melting ice outside nowadays.

Hello Texas!

What about cars? Tesla, in particular does record an awful lot of personal data about you...

Canada is not just english-speaking, but also french speaking. We have TWO national languages, with equal importance.

This being said, I would suspect the english word gaol comes from the french word geôle.

According to Wiktionary (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/gaol), gaol and geôle have a common shared ancestor in Old French/Latin. It's not the result of Canada's multilingual nature.

Try that one instead:

mv ~/. /dev/null

Better.

Extra points if you achieve that one also:

mv /. /dev/null

Slashdot aficionados might object to that last one, though.

Speaking of Slashdot, some fairly frequent poster had a signature back around 2001/2002 had a signature that was something like

mv /bin/laden /dev/null

and then someone explained how that was broken: even if that succeeds, what you've done is to replace the device file /dev/null with the regular file that was previously at /bin/laden, and then whenever other things redirect their output to /dev/null they'll be overwriting this random file than having output be discarded immediately, which is moderately bad.

Your version will just fail (even assuming root) because mv won't let you replace a file with a directory.

Possibly for the same reasons there is no equivalent to JLCPCB outside China.

OSH Park, Aisler, Eurocircuits, DKRed?

So... I ask Gemini to write a technical spec and Claude Code to implement it?

Basically a week-end project...

Any Oura people reading this? That would warrant a 50$ to 75$ up sale , at least.

I would buy that oura-security ring in a heartbeat.