I can't speak for Motif but Fluxbox works fine on my 4K monitor

If you've got 15 minutes, here is your answer: https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-men-who-killed-google/

It's only got a few sample paragraphs before it turns into random word-shaped characters.

haha yep! https://i.imgur.com/mtGggJq.png

For some people it's important to establish facts, rather than just shaping an understanding of the world using vibes.

I think most people who follow these issues would not expect a ban like this to be effective. To think otherwise is extremely naive, not unlike the Biden administration folks who thought they could break the Russian economy with their sanctions and ended up doing quite the opposite, not to mention laying the groundwork for the US dollar to lose international reserve currency status.

and what is the new reserve currency taking its place? euro? threatened in reliability by ...russian psyops.

chinas yuan? not reliable.the rubble? the dollar will never dissappear as much as vatniks want that..

brics cant even stop fighting among its members

Hilarious. Do you think that there was an obvious replacement when previous international reserve currencies fell out of favor?

>the dollar will never disappear

Wow, you think highly indebted empires just go on forever, eh? You must have paid a lot of attention in history class!

"The Earth is littered with the ruins of empires that believed they were eternal." (Camille Paglia)

> yuan? not reliable.

Some say that the USD was "reliable" because it was the only used curency.

Exactly. Have you seen US debt to GDP ratio lately?

I didn't end up using mine, as walking while keeping both hands on the keyboard doesn't work the right places in my back. I also get really sweaty when walking indoors with no breeze, it turns out.

I'd recommend a cheap second-hand treadmill if you're going to try -- people are always selling these after shelling out a heap of money and realising that they mainly collect dust.

What's the intended purpose of the system alerting you when you're out of town?

Presumably, an unexpected increase in CO2 would be a proxy for intruders.

Yes, what is kinda fun is I can tell what time my kids are out of bed (really it if their room) just by the changes in co2.

Everyone was gone today at the same time (rare with WFH and home school). I can see within about a minute when we arrived home.

Or houseplants dying.

Ha, if only it were that sensitize. I have an air exchanger, so I don't think the plants will change it enough to matter. I expect that normal air infiltration would cycle more air than plants.

I've had a single catfishy-looking message request, I'm guessing it's because I set up a short username.

You probably wouldn't want an app to be able to press buttons on another app so if that's how it works (or worked) then that seems fair enough to me.

You probably really wouldn't want it to be doing that on someone else's server, using your authentications to all your apps. Which is what it actually does (or claims to, anyway).

Well if you're looking for a real use, I ask a local LLM the setup for a child's joke several times a day, and post its answer to my tens of Mastodon followers: https://botsin.space/@jokeunderstander

So it's not all useless.

Well, not useless, but still not fully explaining to me why Nvidia/Intel/etc are investing billions (trillions?) into AI.

All bubbles pop eventually. MongoDB had a stupid bubble for a long time because “SQL databases are dead! Everyone will be on MongoDB!” $570/share it was trading at in 2021. It’s $355 now. Still too high for a company that loses more money each quarter than it makes.

Seems more reasonable to use milk when talking about Starbucks.

I would probably use coffee... or at least a blend of their inputs based on quarterly filings or something.

Anyone who's worked at Starbucks can tell you that milk is 90%+ of the commodity being consumed. The back area of every store is just a massive cooler to store milk jugs. The beans themselves are almost a foot note in comparison.