FreeLikeGNU

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I like art, Linux, Zelda games and modding Minetest in Lua

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I feel the same, though having more options for lightweight DEs is better. I came from gnome 2 after Ubuntu switched to Unity DE back in the day. Xubuntu ran nice on all of my kids low power devices and it became my desktop as well ever since. It's just as happy on my work laptop as well as Ryzen thread ripper with 3 rtx4000s and 3 magewell hdmi capture cards we use for visualization at work too. It really feels like a solid DE with less fuss than most.

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Heh that is annoying, then I learned about alt-rmb. They really do need a way to allow for larger grab areas easily, if not already possible.

I found this solution to border theme for increased grab area and will try it as well:

https://forum.xfce.org/viewtopic.php?pid=54045#p54045

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Passengers being treated for scurvy, news at 11

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Me boarding a 777 on Friday after a very long week of business travel, a true story:

Pilot: "Looks like we'll get to San Jose 30 minutes ahead of schedule"

10 minutes later...

Pilot: "Just waiting for some paperwork before we can leave the terminal"

30 minutes later...

Pilot: "Sorry we can't leave until the maintenance records are updated".

30 minutes later...

Pilot: "We're still waiting for sign-off"

5 minutes later..

Pilot: "By law, we have to allow passengers off the plane as it's been over an hour at the terminal"

I de-board looking for any other flight, but it turns out there are no seats on any other plane in this airport...

Terminal attendant: "They have the paperwork now you can re-board if you wish"

What would you do?

Me: YOLO

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I found PROTON_LOG %command% insightful.

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We have a fusion reactor in the middle of our solar system solving the spicy half of the problem already. If we are having a solar heat capture problem, how is a new source of virtually unlimited power (and heat) here going to work? How is superconductivity coming along to help mitigate this?

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I hope having a transporter device is more like folding space than particle-scanning and reconstruction. The scanning and reconstruction would still be great for replacing or repairing lost or deteriorating structures. Regardless, I have a number of questions that come up as we learn more about how our brain might work.

If our brain is changed in (near) death how would we determine what was lost?

Could we even reconstruct consciousness (this could be also gradual, but what is the speed of consciousness)?

It seems more like we would have to gradually move our conscious processing from per-existing wetware to whatever replaces it (even more wetware). It should behave like our brain as much as possible, but I don't think we could avoid being different from what we were.

Our own brain changes over time, do we think the way we did when we were 5? How different will we think far later in life (assuming our brain is at least healthy)? I think we would have to accept changes in our fundamental being (which is already very challenging). The difference is that not only could we live for longer physically, but within the pure consciousness an entire lifetime could be lived in less than a second. We experience this temporarily in dreams, or while experiencing a life threatening event such as an automobile accident or the final moments of death itself. What if that was extended over physical months, years, decades? How would we deal with such a inheritance, who would teach us how to cope and find meaning?

Would we want to live life at the speed of the physical world after such an experience?

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In other news, social interaction is linked to higher risk of everything else that can happen to a person.

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If you wanna believe, it can be daybreak....

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Rad concept and execution! Do you plan some more pieces in this medium?

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