If it’s a Windows machine why overcomplicate it? Just use Samba/SMB/CIFS (File sharing in windows)

I’m pretty sure most file managers on F-Droid will do it

If you want automation, look into Syncthing

The non-can-only-be-used-to-refill-a-bottle kind of water fountains being as ubiquitous as they seem to be, seems to be a uniquely American thing.

I don’t think I’ve ever seen one in the UK since I was in school

Could be the other way, our brains nerfing the incredible flavour so we don’t all die of hyperhydration

If you do root cause analysis on most of society’s ills, you pretty much always eventually arrive at “the economic and political system we use, is actively harmful to the vast majority of people”

Literally I can’t think of a single big problem we’re facing where this isn’t the case.

I’ve never seen something so pointless that I’ve wanted more

I wish I still had time for advent of code…

Oh that’s cool to hear, I was under the impression in research that whilst a lot of the processing actually happens in FORTRAN-written code, it was nearly always reusing already-written functions and primitives in a higher level language (such as python, via the aforementioned SciPy). And then those libraries being maintained by a handful of wizards on the internet somewhere.

Can you elaborate on the kind of research where people are still actively writing directly in FORTRAN? Did people typically arrive with the skills already or was there training for learning how to write it well?

Isn’t it more COBOL than FORTRAN in terms of getting paid?

I thought FORTRAN was pretty much exclusively used via SciPy in research & academia these days.

COBOL is still powering the world economy on mainframes

GPU shortage V.2?

I mean, did the first one ever end?

Oh yeah for PCM it’s CD quality on everything and capable of 24bit/96khz on most hardware made in the past decade (I think there’s some high end stuff that does 24bit/192khz, but funnily enough I imagine you need a somewhat higher grade than typical cable for that, since most are made of super cheap plastic fibre, which is usually fine)

You can also send bitstream over it for most pre Blu-ray multichannel formats if you have a compatible receiver

FWIW toslink supports up to 125mbps theoretically

Much lower in practice of course, but it’s a bit better than 128k

Imagine sniffing your own farts this much

Those are some heavy links

Given the rate this stuff has progressed in a few years, don’t count on being able to recognise it by eye forever.

And frankly, even if a large minority of people can still identify the difference immediately (which tbh I reckon is close to the point we’re at now), that makes for a majority that will glance at an image and take it as real without question.

Those people can vote and shape our world

Where do we go from here?

Looks like oblivion, frankly

Well I’d lean on the shoulder of giants in terms of the actual service and not do it completely from scratch given we’ve got Facebook-likes in the fediverse, you could suggest to them. But basically yes from a network perspective unfortunately

Although you have given me an idea for an angle that the fediverse is perfect for: set up an instance for your local area

That allows you to also do the “screw untrustworthy big tech, keep things local with people you know” kind of angle.

Also obviously a fair bit of work, and you still have to ultimately convince people to use it, but worth highlighting regardless.

You unfortunately are coming at the problem from the wrong direction.

The only social network they will want to use is the one with all their friends on it; and for the older generations, that’s basically just Facebook.

In order to get them to move you’d need to get their friends to move, and in order to get their friends to move, you’ll need to get their friends to also move. It’s called the network effect and it’s why it’s incredibly hard for any non-established social networks to gain much of a market share.

Your best bet (which is by no means a guarantee) is to wait for the latest Facebook scandal to be in the news, and chat to them about it whilst they’re watching it on TV. Plus add a bit more fuel by doing the ol’ “oh this reminds me of something else I was reading a couple of months ago…” And have some other recent scandals in your back pocket to fire out. Bonus points if you can already establish yourself on something like Friendica, which will allow you to say “yeah I quit Facebook a while ago, the company running it just seems skeevy, I’ve been using friendica instead for a bit now” or something like that

Then you have to hope that registers enough as a talking point amongst them and their friends that it sticks. But you have an uphill struggle ahead with no certainty of success.

What a ridiculous take, thanks for saving me the time

Okay so it wasn’t just me that thought the title was a weird way of wording it

These are two of the best games of all time

I’m not sure there’s much better value you can get for £1.90

Also there’s a cool noclip documentary on the making of this remaster