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I was trying to find advice on sharpening a straight razor, and the first page of both Google and DDG were SEO'd too heavily for me to bother reading them. Eventually I reverted to the 'use a website I have memorized that I think will have something on the topic' (art of manliness).
But still, a web search for an obvious topic with (probably) thousands of good useful results returned me garbage. What is the role of search engines? How can we fix this?
Curiously, marinalia.nu gave me some fairly sane results!
Have we already hit technological singularity? How would we know?
Today and Yesterday I sank about 14 hours into.... hand sewing a tunic. That places it's labour cost at $280 or therabouts. That's not including the cost of making the fabric, or creating the thread. Factor in the time to do those manually and the cost quickly goes into the thousands. (Having spent an hour and making ~1m of string from hair, the kilometers of thread in modern fabric is crazy)
The local store stocks t-shirts for $10, and curiously a very basic sewing machines for $12.
When last did you see a team of road workers without an excavator? It is cheaper to throw tech at a problem than to use people.
Playing board games and stroking cats while sitting around a fire. What a lovely evening.
And yes, of course the cats walked over the board games - but they were cute enough it didn't matter....
Pipewire = amazing. If you aren't using it for your linux audio server, you should be. It replaces Alsa, Jack and Pulseaudio. And it works out of the box, no config needed.
How secure is secureboot if you can just go into the bios and disable it? I guess if ypu set up an bios password, but how many people do that?
Setting up Windows machine for work. Had checkbox for 'information entered is correct' that was ticked by default. I unticked it and it still let me on to the next step. \_õ_/ Am confused about the purpose of that option....