It did, but if you choose to live in a universe where cats don’t try to emulate humans, I’m not going to stop you.

I miss that cat. We used to chill out and Doritos together.

The cat I had when I was a kid would occasionally use the toilet. Just for peeing.

When he was done he’d paw the handle. He wasn’t strong enough to actually flush it, but he tried.

I don’t believe so - the docs mention several ways to boot a pi but most only work for newer models.

An option might be to boot an SD card read-only and run everything over NFS. It’s trivial to do that sort of thing with some UNIX clones (OpenBSD, for instance), but I don’t know about a modern Linux.

Or make your own, like the tankie mod is doing.

It might be too outdated to do major services, but it’s still fine for its original use - interfacing with electronic components.

You could build a weather station, monitor temperature and humidity in your attic and crawlspace, automatically water plants, etc. You don’t need much electronics knowledge for that sort of thing.

Why vegan/vegetarian specifically? If it makes them cannibals, it makes everyone who swallows cannibals.

That’s true. Without economic pressure it’s a lot harder to get governments to cooperate, though. If economics favor you it’s easier to get the right laws passed.

I’m not an anime guy, but I loved the manga (except Marika). How’s the anime compare?

Economic reasons are the best reasons. They’re the reasons that work.

I don’t think it matters why we move away from oil, as long as we do.

If I remember right, it was sponsored by DARPA. It was in the early 80s, so it would have been on VAX. It wasn’t the first implementation (there were several prototypes), but it’s the design that stuck; all the major OS implementations of TCP/IP today use the sockets API (if not the source code directly; several identical network vulnerabilities on different OSs are due to the fact that BSD code was free to use and copy).

Ah, DEC. Some really cool stuff came out of Maynard, MA.

A few notable things about DEC:

• They made computers that were affordable by smaller businesses and universities.
• The PDP-10 - one of DEC’s only mainframes - was where the bulk of early Lisp development occurred, mostly for AI research.
• UNIX originated on DEC hardware (before VMS).
• The team that developed the Alpha (the successor to the VAX) was hired by AMD to develop the 64-bit Athlon architecture (what became X86_64 - i.e. what your computer is probably based on).
• Intel chose a little-endian architecture for the 8086 because that’s what the VAX used.
• TCP/IP was developed on UNIX running on a VAX.
• After the minicomputer market crashed, DEC was bought by Compaq, taken out behind the woodshed, and shot like a dog.

It’s fun! And it pays well. Get your engineering or comp sci degree and give me a call.

That’s a valid way of looking at it, too.

Realistically, the concept of “purpose” doesn’t exist in the universe outside of our imagination any more than justice, beauty, or morality. Things just are what they are and follow the laws of physics.

If we’re making it all up as we go along, there aren’t any wrong answers. I claim the purpose of living things is to reproduce, but it’s true that living things reproduce because that’s what living things do (otherwise we’d have run out of them by now). Kind of a chicken/egg thing there.

The only objective purpose in life is to spread your genes. You share that same purpose with every other living thing.

Other than that, it’s up to you. My purpose in life is to keep my girlfriend happy and destroy as many jobs as I can. My career in industrial automation is the key to both.

There is a shortage of cheap oil.

Time was you could find it bubbling up on the surface. Then you had to dig for it. Then you had to frack. Then oil was expensive enough to justify going back to the old oilfields and pumping water down some of them to push it into the others.

Sure, there’s oil there, but it’s harder and harder to get. That’s why protected areas that still have easy oil are a target for the oil companies.

I had a guy from Florida tell me that the oil wells just fill up again after you empty them, so the whole oil shortage is a scam.

I mean, they do, for a while anyway… but it’s like that last little bit of a milkshake that you never quite get through a straw. There’s no new oil - it’s just the stuff that is just now making it into the well. He thought you just waited a handful of years and you’d have another gusher.

It’s like the old saying (which made more sense back in the CRT days):

If I wanted your website to make noise, I’d lick my finger and drag it across the screen!

Borderless windows. I don’t know how many times I’ve clicked the window behind the one I’m using because I can’t see where one window ends and the other begins.

Looking at pictures of external design is usually pretty safe to look at when you’re at work. I imagine architects do it all the time.

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