Got it. Jetbeam mini one, metal body.

I don’t like those polymer bodies, but I wanted the multi-color LED options, and the Jetbeam had those. USB-C charging, metal body, RGB&UV, all in a keychain. Plus, it was, like, $35. Probably not as nice as an Aurora, but it had all the features, and it’s survived heavy use. I’d get it again.

Yeah, maybe, but mine’s all metal, not that clear plastic. And I’ve been searching for it all morning and can’t find it!

The Arkfeld doesn’t check a lot of your boxes; there’s no beam adjustment like you wanted, either. I’ve got a lot of lights and it’s the one that’s always in my pocket. I agree, the bespoke charger is a not ideal. It does allow for that fantastic tail magnet. The lack of USBC would bother me more if the battery wasn’t so insanely high capacity. I’m not kidding; I think I’ve charged it twice in the 2 years I’ve owned it. It’s almost comical. The UV has been handy, and the laser more in theory than practice, but I’m glad it’s there. The UI is really simple; I like the hardware mode switch.

Anyway, they’ll probably do a USBC version, but that doesn’t help you right now. Good luck.

Belts. I have no trains on Gleba, it’s all turbo belts. So far, I haven’t expanded so far on Gleba that fruit is spoiling on the belts, except when they back up, but if that happens I’ll just move processing closer to the fields. What with spoilage management, I’ve found density is itself an issue, so spreading out to multiple smaller bases is easier. It helps that the native wildlife isn’t a robust or aggressive as Nauvis; Nauvis encourages building a giant wall around a mega factory (IME), but Gleba I find it’s easier to spread out. Energy being essentially unlimited, I just sprinkle laser turrets around for peace of mind, and a Spidertrons hanging out for just in case… but, really, the most dangerous the wildlife has been is when something got wedged in egg production and spoilage led to outbreaks. It’s been ages since one of those happened. Gleba isn’t Fulgaris, but it’s pretty peaceful, at least around my bases.

I… what? Landfill? What does landfill have to do with egg breeders? Is this related to your passive approach to rafts?

I just have a bunch of breeders on one side of a circular belt, a bunch of ag science plants on the other, a nutrient feeder stacking nutrient onto belt and something on the other side to pull off spoilage. There’s some minimal circuitry to ensure eggs don’t spoil in the ag plants, but I’ve got things tuned so eggs never stay on the belt long enough to spoil.

I’m trying to imagine how landfill figures into this. I only use landfill to create overgrowth products, and for expanding farms.

It’s beautiful, man

Of all the flashlights I own, one of two is always with me:

• OLight Arcfield Pro. It’s chonky and uses that OLight proprietary magnetic charger, and no USB-C. However, I carry out around the house, use it all the time, and charge it maybe once a year. I’m not exaggerating. Seriously, I sometimes think it has some perpetual energy device in it, but probably the battery is simply massive. Using the blacklight sucks the battery down, but using the laser and regular white light LEDs it just lasts forever. There’s no noticeable passive drain over time, either. At just under $100, if I could have only one flashlight, it’d be this. It is still comfortable to carry in jeans, and I’ve left home with it forgetting it was in my pocket, but I generally don’t like to have a lot of stuff in my pockets. So,
• the second is an EDC, and is currently in one of my pants pockets somewhere. It’s one of those little Rovyvon (or knock off, or one Rovyvon knocked off) keychain lights. It’s a metal (titanium?) body but has RGB LEDs in the body, which makes me think it’s not a Rovyvon because I think all of their’s like that are clear plastic bodies; but it’s of that design. Acebeam makes one almost indistinguishable, IIRC. USBC charged, and it fits in a jeans coinpouch; it’s even small enough to fit in a standard women’s jeans pocket! The battery lasts a long time and also has imperceptible battery drain, and I don’t fret about keeping it charged; the battery indicator gives plenty of warning, good for another night’s use before going empty. That’s around $60.

Now I have to go digging and find the keychain light; usually I keep it on my valet, but I sometimes forget to empty my pockets and especially the coin pouch, which is where I usually carry it.

Honestly, I could probably get rid of every other flashlight and keep just those two; they’re the only two I ever use.

They don’t mention enshittification - I think Doctorow popularized the term later - but this is a perfect example of a process that contributes to the phenomenon.

I had never thought about it in these terms, but they repeatedly mentioned curation, and it’s so clearly a fundamental topic in today’s online world.

This was an incredible video, thanks for sharing. It gave me a new perspective to consider.

That’s the thing with ethics: they aren’t generally written anywhere. That’s where being a decent human being comes in.

How so? There’s plenty of rock, or at least I’ve found enough. You use the big miners and get tonnes of the stuff from small patches. I haven’t done the math, but… I’ve always got boxes full of bricks and walls, and idle miners.

Steel and computer are essentially infinite, of course, so technically I guess you’re right. I just… have way more wall on Gleba than I could ever use.

Mine you, this page is clearly targeted at an audience who’ve never opened a shell before; they’re all quite common, and it’s almost impossible to have spent any time in bash, zsh, or any bash-ish shell without encountering or using these. Also, a couple are not going to work at all in non-standard shells like fish, nushell, or even more common shells like ash, BusyBox, or the venerable csh, because they’re bash built-ins. There’s dependency on the GNU toolset, too; some of these commands won’t work on FreeBSD, even when running bash, because the SysV tools have different argument lists.

Without the Holocaust, there’d have been no international horror over the atrocities of concentration camps, gas chambers, human experimentation, genocide. Anti-Jewish sentiment was rampant around the world.

Progressives made a lot of progress off the back of WWII, and the anti-fascist sentiment in the US that survived until the greatest generation died and their grandchildren took over. It’s entirely possible that, without WWII, the fascism we see in the US today would have happened much earlier, and we’d have run our own concentration camps.

Ironically, the people who probably would have benefited most from preventing “Hitler” would be the modern Palestinians, because without Hitler, Israel would not exist today, and it wouldn’t be carrying out a genocide.

Motion to change the community icon. All in favor?

Huh. My cousin is a professor, and my best friend is a high school teacher. They’re both responsible for developing their curriculum. That’s only an n=2, but it’s 100% that if they (the people I know) hate their curriculum, it’s their own damned fault.

Sliding chair. I went through a 70’s phase and have a furnished room that wouldn’t look out of place in A Clockwork Orange. The colors kind of make my eyes hurt, but I still like it.

Redhat, for at least a decade, has focused on services, with which I already said I have no issue. I haven’t seen or heard of anyone paying for Redhat just to get a base imagine with no support.

What? Teachers hating their subject?

Yeah… for the authors. That’s fine. You downloading my FOSS, packaging it and selling it is slimy carpet-baggery.

This is exactly why nobody has announced they’ve cured aging. The scientists are all afraid of being kidnapped.

A thing that keeps me from believing in any conspiracy theory about aging having been cured and only being reserved for the powerful is because of people like Elon, Bezos, Trump, and O’Connell. They’re each powerful in their own way, and none of them are aging gracefully. O’Connell looks like the fucking Pale Man.

Seriously. Nobody’s seen these two in the same room at the same time. Coincidence? I think not.

“You get a scientist, and you get a scientist… everyone gets a scientist!”

With my luck, I’d get a mycologist or something.

I first read this as, “Everything forbidden is compulsory” and I thought it was some sort of resistance manifesto.

TBH I kinda like my first interpretation more.