Always use an accredited VA rep or VSO

I legitimately might do this if I ever get an interview

Oh wait, looks like it ended in 23? I don’t think I’ve looked since 2018

Wait is GWTB still ongoing?! I need to read it all again in entirety

I’ve been thinking about that, but I haven’t had the executive function to sit down and actually commit to it

Ahh okay, so kind of sandbox your associations

I have never figured out how to prevent fingerprinting. They pull so much data and basically nothing works if you block it. It’s also kind of a catch 22 because if you change the information your device provides too much you become an identifiable outlier.

Maybe someone who knows more can help?

I remember when Hulu was free

And IIRC they also had a handful of (possibly furry) VNs on the list.

Or just Life is Strange

Right so I started using the GUI interface for all of ten minutes, then as soon as I started looking for “how to” anything it’s all terminal commands. Especially since I switched specifically to make an environment to learn computer vision. So I spent an hour yesterday learning the difference between pip, pip3, and pipx then did something with snap. Tossed all that in the “figure it out later” bucket when I realized I needed to relearn how to modify my path and what that actually means.

It’s so nice having everything accessible to me as the user instead of locked behind some windows registry I can’t look at or some oversimplified settings panel. But I’ve also got 20 years of Windows conditioning to unlearn. It can be a lot to dive into at all once.

Having said all that, I’m excited and enjoying it

I just threw Ubuntu on mine and my god it’s so much cleaner than Windows, but I have so much to learn.

It’s all so exhausting. Like most of us, I left Reddit to get away from centralized control of communication on the Internet and the constant performative division, but it’s almost impossible to avoid. Each platform seems to foster its own flavor of identity with no tolerance for nuance or common ground. I try not to block instances or communities so I can stay up to date on the current tides, but much of it is so reactionary and tolerates nothing less than complete loyalty. Then, every day a new line is drawn in the sand by some faceless account going one step further in one direction or the other and that becomes the new accepted and expected position.

I deeply enjoy the fediverse and especially how genuine most of the users here are, but the choice is still between an echo chamber I make for myself or the echo chamber constructed by the loudest voices.

Agreed

Fair enough

Concur and I have no issue with the crossover itself in stories. Fantasy is largely predicated on magic systems and creatures. Science fiction begins with known science. Maybe I should have been more specific and said “hard science fiction.” Some of my favorite stories contain elements of both, but sometimes I want hard science like Rendezvous with Rama, Red Mars, or Tau Zero. It can be frustrating to look through aisles or catalogs for hard science fiction and find mostly stories of magic. It’s a mood

But then again, as Clarke said, “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”

👏 SCIENCE 👏 FICTION👏 DOES👏 NOT👏 INCLUDE👏 FANTASY👏

There’s a social aspect to cognition I’ve noticed recently. Between depression and a recent bout of unemployment, I’ve been a lot less social and noticed my language faculties suffering. It’s harder to remember less frequently used words and it takes me longer to assemble statements. This makes me feel like I’m sometimes drifting in a fog and it’s more difficult to focus. Language is a large part of how we assemble our understanding of and interact with the world and it makes me feel less intelligent when I’m slow to assemble a thought or have to look up a definition to find the word I’m trying to use.

Although, the feeling that I’m slower with my language does not necessarily indicate cognitive decline. This is only a personal observation

I would love to see a diagram of how its morphology changed through time and evolution, I bet it’s wild

Adding Tau Zero to my reading list

The one thing missing from my life is being able to scream like the monarch