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Same here, although it did eventually lead to years of employment as a web dev.

It was around 1991 in the university computer lab. Just a green screen dumb terminal for email and newsgroups. Played too much Nettrek after hours on the Spark workstations later on.

My Internet has Pihole and uBlock. I don’t know what these ad things are.

I’m not sure I realized that. Are you getting that info just from the app store, or are you detecting it somewhere else?

Podcast Addict has worked for years for me, and he’s constantly improving it. Why the fuck would I ever want a paid service to manage and profit on the podcasts I’ve always listened to for free?

Ditto on the Arduino. I built a pickup winder for electric guitar, and it’s more than made up for its price in entertainment alone.

Both of the tools I tried from there failed hard and fast. The first was a rotary tool. I ended up keeping the plastic and using a motor from a printer instead until I bought my Foredom.

The second was a vibratory tumbler. After running it for a few hours, I walked into my garage to find it filled with smoke and the acrid smell of burning electrical equipment.

I took it back to the store for a refund and the manager threatened me, saying that he wouldn’t let me make any more returns after bringing back an obviously defective piece of garbage.

Glad you had a better experience, but that place is definitely not for me.

Hmm. Kinda rhymes with “garbage crate”. Horrible store. I’m never going back.

I’ve used, administered and coded on Linux for a very long time. So yup

Obscure keyboard shortcuts.

I was just [insert action here].

There have been plenty of studies on psilocybin with human subjects. None of them included vivisection or bisection. We have other ways of testing this sort of thing.

In rats. I’ve yet to read a human study on microdosing that showed any effects greater than placebo.

What, again?

I’ve been thinking exactly the same thing. Facebook, Twitter and Reddit. Each of them a complete shit show of disinformation and censorship. Blogs and personal web sites are pretty much dead. It’s getting harder and harder for anyone without buckets of money to stand on equal ground.

After breakfast and coffee things tend to get better.

First, I appreciate your calm response in the context of my sarcasm. It’s not what I’m used to on the Internet, and it’s refreshing.

My simplest answer is that I don’t know. Neuroscience has made a lot of progress in the last several decades, but I’m unaware of any credible researchers claiming to have a unified theory of consciousness yet. We probably still have a long way to go, assuming it’s even possible to know.

Wow. I’m glad you figured that out. I thought it was going to be so much more difficult.

Krita is amazing.

It doesn’t. Gravity is related to its mass, not it’s orbit or rotational velocity.