I would also argue the bridge is ever changing as well. It has different vehicles crossing it, every tire wears the surface, the materials expand and contract with temperature, the structure weathers continuously.

Just because one doesn’t notice, doesn’t mean something doesn’t change.

Philosophically, it really all boils down to the only thing that exists is the present. The past doesn’t exist, the future doesn’t exist. The only thing that is real is what is happening in this very moment.

The river is not the same as when you crossed it this morning, neither is the bridge. It is only as it exists now, and it will never exist in this same way at any other time.

The metaphor is that the river is always changing. The water is different water, and the water is continuously shaping the earth around and beneath it.

Just as you will never cross the same river twice, you, and those around you, are ever changing. You are a completely different person in a completely different world than existed that 17 years ago.

One would’ve thought the organization that stands for open source software to be quite democratic. Seems that may not be the case.

Two people at 69!? Seems like an outlier, we should remove it from the dataset.

And so continues the enshittification.

I’m not American, but why would a rental agency need a customer’s SSN?

Every few mornings will work until your yeast give you the middle finger, shift in to top gear and blow that baby apart.

You’ve made a bomb. Please vent properly or you’ll be cleaning your concoction from every cranny of that room and hopefully not removing glass from flesh.

You won’t lose them if you back them up. SMS Backup and Restore can automate the task for you.

1. Don’t go to the United States

If you really have to…

1. Backup phone.
2. Factory reset (make sure you really backed up everything)
3. Install only essential apps (not from backup). Don’t log into anything.
4. Cross border. (you just got a new phone and haven’t set it up yet)
5. Restore backup.

I agree with this, though if you have something like Sonarr or Radarr, the titles you have (or had) would all be on there, so reaquiring isn’t quite as significant a task.

Unfortunately I’ve recently had to put this into practice because I didn’t understand hardlinks and zfs subpools…

Ideas 1, 2, and 4 could come together with a permaculture food forest/farm. First task would be to cover crop the land to protect from soil loss and start replenishing some nutrients. Then, you have some time to make a good, phased plan of how you’d want to develop it.

Talk to experts and professionals whichever direction you take. They’ll often save you much more than they cost.

You must be American…

Very clever use of a cymbal stand.

I’ve heard of folding@home but haven’t really looked much into it.

I find the same with perplexity. It’s more of a search assistant in finding some sources that a search engine likely wouldn’t. Sometimes it’s summarized answers are accurate, sometimes it’s a jumble of several slightly unrelated sources.

No torrent needed, yt-dlp has you covered.

Right, but I would say the same thing and for a gaming machine, I would much prefer something that did the Arch install for me and worked for most games out of the box.

I’ve found CachyOS to be fairly uncomplicated and it’s gaming tweaks make most things work out of the box through Lutris. I’d probably avoid the standard Arch install for a newbie

This is my setup too. I use WG-Tunnel to manage the VPN connection on my phone. It just monitors whenever you disconnect from your trusted WiFi network and automatically enables the VPN.

Only hiccup I’ve found is wireless Android Auto isn’t a fan of a VPN.