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Darn it, phone keyboard strikes again. :)

I don’t even have Steam on my Windows install as all my games work fine on Linux. Honestly I should probably just uninstall Windows at this point, I don’t think I’ve used it in months.

Maybe puzzles? I’m not sure whether that’s what you’re going for, but it could fit.

Generally students will get financial aid and scholarships that cover much of the cost of tuition, especially if they’re from a lower income family. I’m guessing that, as an international student from a wealthier family, your son didn’t quality for much aid. Tuition is also generally lower for residents of the state, which he also wouldn’t qualify as.

Even with all that it’s still incredibly expensive and lots of people end up having to take out large loans or work jobs while in college to cover the cost.

A plastic bag in a metal container sounds about as sanitary as it gets. It’s far better to keep the tea in a sterile bag until it’s needed rather than pouring it into another, potentially contaminated, container and storing it there.

You can always have a burner “secure” device for official business, and a privacy-respecting device for everything else.

Yep, SSD latency is measured in tens of microseconds. To achieve that kind of latency with a cloud service, you’d need it to be just a few kilometers away or the light propagation delay alone becomes too great.

Yep, most to least significant is great because you can sort dates temporally with a numeric/string sort.

I did bring killing Hitler up, and they said that’s justified because things are different in times of war. Didn’t really feel like arguing with them any more than that lol.

My parents think it’s immoral to kill someone, even if they’re indirectly murdering thousands of people. Can’t agree on everything, I guess…

Bring back RTGs! They’ve already proven their use in pacemakers.

I’ve heard good things about privacy.sexy.

Technically speaking with enough power you’d start burning yourself, which would probably increase your risk of cancer. Of course the radiation from your laptop is orders of magnitude below what is required to cause burns, and so any that happens to be absorbed by your body is dissipated harmlessly as heat.

Not really. A word with every meaning is meaningless itself, since it doesn’t allow you to narrow down the word’s intended meaning from the set of all possible meanings.

Inhales pure ozone.

You’d notice if it happened on/near your retina, it was very dark, and you were paying attention. Other than that I don’t think you’re going to notice.

Spaghettification is completely independent of relativistic effects; it just has to do with the gravitational gradient near a very massive body. An object near a massive body experiences more gravity on its “near end” than its “far end” which causes a stretching force. This does mean that spaghettification would be noticeable, and likely very uncomfortable as you’re ripped apart by extreme forces.

Yeah I don’t really understand why people care so much. If you don’t like game studios doing stuff like this, just don’t play their games. There are plenty of games out there with great Linux support you can play instead.

That doesn’t really help unless the bag is also soundproof; it could just as easily store what you say and send it off later.

What about fishing boats? They’re coming back with a ton of extra weight in fish.