Of course, of course. Nothing to do with corruption and incompetence of an authoritarian regime.

YSK that 20% of the population left under Chavez and Maduro. But those were of course all filthy counter-revolutionaries who just weren’t ready for the socialist paradise they built.

No you’re in 1930s Germany. The Machtergreifung is still ongoing.

The Romans and Greeks were also influenced by the Far East. And all of these things can be true at the same time. All religions are built in the foundations of those of earlier cultures.

Those philosophical dilemma questions (basically always some variation of the trolley problem) have almost no practical relevance. Situations like that practically never happen in real life and if they do, you won’t have time for moral or philosophical reflections.

And the christians stole most of their lore from the Hindus and Buddhists anyway.

I vividly remember my mother griping about how expensive everything had become and asking how anybody was supposed to afford that. Some things just never change.

Unless you want to go professional or do something for profit, I’d just get some cheap old box and start mucking about. Just make sure you don’t put any important data on it and be prepared to wipe it and start from scratch a few times. After a while you’ll have a better idea of what you want to do and a clearer way forward.

If you use something like Mint or Ubuntu, you never need to see the terminal.

The Deck probably looks too toylike for many people. The GabeCube might really make an impact, if the price is right.

What it takes is people being able to buy a Linux machine at the local electronics store. Installing your OS yourself is still a major hurdle for most people.

Unfortunately, RAM production is not something you start up on a whim. There are only a few players and adding new capacity is a very long process. They won’t do that unless they’re convinced that the market will still be there in a couple of years.

…said the n word in an unprovoked rant about black people, then praised trump for allowing him to feel comfortable saying it again…

There’s the whole MAGA movement summed up in one sentence.

One of my exes once sent me a Facebook friendship request more than 10 years after we’d split up. I’m still traumatised.

Damn! I’ve never had Instagram and i haven’t opened Facebook in five years. So why aren’t I happy?

Those aliens from the future will be so amazed when they find a disc with 360 TB of cat videos.

Yep. Definitely both.

A bit isn’t represented by a one or a zero, that’s nonsense. A bit can take the state of a one or a zero and is represented in various ways in digital circuitry.

So what do bits represent then, if not ones and zeros?

…disrupt tiny bits of data stored in the computer’s memory, switching that bit – often represented as a 0 or 1 – from one state to another.

Top notch science journalism there.