That’s just, like, your opinion…

First OS: MS-DOS 5

First Linux (many years later): Yellow Dog on one of those dome-shaped iMacs with the PPC chips

It’s a described feature of a paid service though, so it goes a bit beyond just being nice. More importantly for me, the app also leaks memory insanely, at least in the latest Debian build. I spun up a Windows vm with ProtonVPN because the Linux experience (which, again, I pay for) was too frustrating

The answer is easy, but to get to it, a little bit of a thought experiment is probably helpful. I say, look to how we define our own left and right sides for guidance. When facing forward, our left hand is on the left side of our body, and the right hand is on the right side of the body. Perspective doesn’t matter, and there is no ambiguity.

Now we need to extend this to the bed. A bed has a head, just like a person does. So where would its face be? It seems clear to me, unless you are sleeping on a dead mattress, that the face is clearly going to be looking upwards at the ceiling at the head of the bed. So the left side of the bed, if you are standing at the foot of the bed looking at it, would be on your right. Just like the left side of your friend, when you are standing in front of them and looking at them, is on your right.

Now if you just imagine the mattress to be perfectly spherical and in a frictionless environment…

(Obviously just having fun with this answer, but it’s also the right answer)

The Mordred answer is a great one. To add a new name to the list though, I’ll pick the Korrigan. Old stories of them would eventually inspire Tolkien to write The Lay of Aotrou and Itroun, which is a delightful read about a couple that wants to have a child but struggles to conceive. The noble husband encounters a strange woman in the woods that offers to help, fuckery ensues.

Edit to add, just in case that doesn’t scratch your mythology itch the right way, another great one: Set or Seth from the Egyptian pantheon

Another edit because I can’t help myself: Enlil! He’s from the Sumerian mythos, and in the Atrahasis story he is the god that decides to send a flood to wipe out humanity. Luckily, another god named Enki has a human he really likes that he gives a head’s up to. Another fun story that shares some similarities with the Noah’s Ark story.

I see what you mean, thank you for sharing, I could make this a bash script and that is one of the changes I’d want to make to make it more user friendly for sure. For now it was mostly notes I made and felt like sharing in case it was helpful, but cleaning it up with file edits and even a menu to drop in the compose files and a screen for optional external storage integration would be a good idea

Maybe, I’m a bajillion years old and have a knack for choosing poorly, but it’s in the documentation still and works really well on Debian boxes for homelab services so I’ve been having fun with it. It also brought me into the world of Proxmox and LXC containers as the very next step on my learning journey. So, it can’t be all bad, right? :)

Regardless, setting up a single Docker node is the same as setting up a cluster in terms if the initial steps, you just leave out the swarmy bits.

Former Marion Police Department Chief Gideon Cody should be held accountable for the death of Joan Meyer.

I was just gifted a dictionary of etymology. The Barnhart one. I might be leading you down a dark path here, but you may want to consider adding it to your word-lookup routine if you’re having fun with what you’re doing already.

Hang on, the features are not necessarily locked behind the paywall, I don’t think you gave this a fair look at all, and I’m encouraging to give it a second pass before you write it off entirely. I’ll admit the screenshots I found were behind the paywall but I am presenting them here under fair use which should be entirely fine because it’s only a very small sample of some content and it serves as a powerful visual aid, and that’s really all my post was supposed to be - a cool graphic that tells a story all by itself.

Try this instead. it’s how I found them initially and this was all free. Start out in Peru in the year 200ad.

I started there myself to learn about the Chavin civilization and what they were doing at around that time. And when I was done reading, I noticed in the top right corner I could zoom out from Peru and look at all of the Americas. And further, I could zoom out to look at the world. That’s still all on 200ad, and it’s still all gratis. But wait, go back to the Peru page you started on and now click the arrow to go back in time a few times and check out the green area that the early people were inhabiting as it shrinks. Still free. And still, you can zoom out from Peru and look at the continental or global views, and move around to different parts of the world.

Go to their Atlas page. Literally the entire left side of that page is free content.

Another way to think of it: This time lapse takes you from the dawn of farming all the way through the dawn of writing. It just seems so cool to me.

I have no idea what drove me to make this and I am so very sorry for everyone with functioning eyes that stumbles upon this post. All the mug shots, looped forever, to fuel your nightmares!

I’d move the pointer back to the Southern Strategy and Nixon I think, but otherwise I agree.

Bro it’s fucking GIF tho

I learned a new word today that I think can help here by way of a story. “Ooftish” is the word, it’s a Yiddish word that translates in English to money. And I don’t know a lot of Yiddish words, but I’ve been getting into etymology so I read more about it. The word comes from a phrase that means “money on the table”, and the phrase was pronounced roughly “gelt af tish” (from one snapshot in time, anyway, according to wordsmith.org, this isn’t meant to be an absolute) where gelt is the word for money and tish is the word for table.

That made me wonder, how did this word “ooftish” come to be, because there was a word in the ancestor phrase that literally meant money already. One idea: someone that maybe didn’t speak the language but had been exposed to it heard someone say “gelt af tish,” understood enough context to know money was being spoken about, and took the part of the phrase they remembered and started using it to refer to money. And then it caught on. That doesn’t have to be true to make my point, because the next part is really the important part of the thought experiment.

Imagine this person starts using this word “ooftish” and it catches on as an inside joke among friends. They teach their kids, it spreads, more people are now using the word. It’s still a local thing, but it’s catching on. Another couple generations, and it’s become the defacto in-group way for a population to refer to money. But they’re all talking about a prepositional phrase referring to some unnamed thing that is situated on a table, and they’ve all long-forgotten the birth of the phrase and never use the word “gelt” at all anymore. Let me ask you: Is that entire population wrong today for using the word “ooftish” even though it is a linguistic travesty in this hypothetical world? Or does it make sense for them to keep using the word, because they all know what they mean when they use it and it would actually be more complicated to try and backfill this word with the more linguistically pure word that was used before?

You can’t use logic like “everyone else is wrong but me” about language, as satisfying as it would be sometimes to do so. We use language to communicate, and if we’re trying to get a message across, we communicate in the way that best accomplishes the need at hand - sharing an idea with others. That means the way words are used by a population is more important than grandstanding over how anyone thinks particular words should be used.