Scratch that, maybe don’t use Proton Pass. Just did some more searching, their CEO has donated millions of dollars to the Republican party. They’ve also supporting some alt-right French influencer (from my quick searching, a lot of racism, conspiracy, Holocaust denial, homophobia, transphobia, that sort). Yikes!

My bad for not looking more into this!

Proton Pass is another option that’s open-source and is good if you already use Proton services. Aside from the controversy regarding donations towards the Republican party in the U.S. (which was handled relatively well all things considered, but still something to be aware of), I’m not a fan of having all your eggs in one basket (email, calendar, drive, passwords, etc. in one account), but it might work for some people. I also prefer having passwords stored locally, since it makes it easier to backup + I don’t need to rely on yet another cloud service.

Secrets is another decent KeePass client and works well with Gnome and other desktops that work well with libadwaita. It doesn’t have browser integration though, so it’s a non-starter for me.

From reading the thread, it looks like they are dodging the question of what features will be restricted to the commercial license versions (“case-by-case basis” apparently). They keep repeating “no change to people using the app currently”, “no change to self-hosting right now”, etc., but it doesn’t inspire confidence.

I would recommend to read the thread and ask questions there if you have any, but I would definitely have a backup plan ready.

The KeePass ecosystem is awesome and it’s what I use, it’s local-first and you can use Syncthing to have passwords across many devices. KeePassXC for desktop (+ browser extension if you need it), KeePassDX on Android (w/ Syncthing-fork), and if you use iOS, you have KeePassium and Strongbox (w/ Synctrain). The iOS apps are more limited, blame Apple for their restrictive ecosystem and high entry fee.

I actually went to a competition where you got 0 marks for an incorrect answer (so no negative marking), BUT you got 0.25 marks for leaving the question blank, so you had to be strategic on whether you guess (e.g. if you’re confident it’s 50:50) or not answer. I imagine the boundaries for the awards are adjusted to account the 25% being the “baseline”

The bacteria don’t produce calories out of thin air, even high school physics will teach you that energy needs to be conserved!

I didn’t do biology, but from my understanding, energy (mostly) comes from the food you eat, and any excess is stored as fat. Obesity occurs when you have too much of that excess where it is a health risk, and differs depending on your metabolism and that sort (which things like gut bacteria can change because of weird biology shenanigans, don’t ask me, I’m a physicist).

But if there is no food, then you don’t intake any energy. Famine is defined as the widespread lack of food (by natural or artificial causes, unfortunately it’s often the latter), and when you don’t have food, you don’t tend to have high obesity rates.

That’s the best suggestion! Probably not a good idea to use the power of randomness for any actual tests, otherwise it’s random :D

I believe those are usually done by modifying an existing ROM, but there are tools to make games from scratch too I think, at least for GBA. It’s pretty neat! The cartridges do have size limits, so if your game / ROM hack is particularly large it might not be ideal, but it’s cool that you can play modern-ish games on an OG GBA (most people emulate nowadays, but lots of people still have original hardware!)

Yooooo nice! Congrats!

One of the only reasons why Orion is neat, it’s the only one out of the lot in iOS that supports extensions, since on iOS, all the browsers are based on WebKit. It’s not particularly great otherwise, it’s just Safari with extensions support + a couple productivity things after all, and it’s closed-source (it doesn’t look like the iOS app will go FOSS any time soon)

On Android, we have a duopoly instead, which isn’t that much better, but at least one of the two (Firefox) allows extensions on mobile browsers.

And there’s no reason why you should use Orion on a desktop OS, since better options are plentiful (Firefox and forks, even Chromium ones like Helium or Ungoogled Cr)

I do hope that some of the tricks in Orion could be used in Linux browsers that are actually good, especially for mobile Linux! Firefox does work on it, but only with tweaks (and even then, it’s not fantastic compared to something like GNOME Web)

Other factors might include the design of the car (how it distributes the force, for instance), the rails (friction, tolerances, etc.), or the environment (decorations around the roller coaster, lighting effects, sound, etc.)

As it turns out, there’s a lot more factors towards the safety of a rolls coaster asides from peak force. Mainly, you have swift changes in force due to rapid changes in speed or direction. A gradual increase in force is safer than a quick burst!

No, the design is not the same. The shape is different and, more importantly, the angle is also different!

Yes, I did mention alternative software for Logitech mice! Solaar looks awesome if you have a Logitech mouse. The mouse I mentioned can also switch between 3 devices, I think that’s a pretty common feature on most mice nowadays.

Definitely more of a hassle to replace the battery, but good to see it’s somewhat replaceable at least. AA batteries are a lot easier to replace though, you don’t need to pry out the mouse feet and it’s much quicker to swap it out when it runs out!

Rubber will wear out faster than a normal plastic finish, but if it has lasted for your hands that’s good too! I’ve just heard lots of people, particularly in humid climates, where the rubber disintegrates quickly. I’m from HK so humidity is a big issue, so this mouse isn’t a good option for me (if you live somewhere drier, it could be neat!)

And again, the one I have is really neat too with the fun colours (!!!) and magnetic grip thingy. The shape is more comfortable for me too, but hey our hands are all different

Well yeah, the Russians teach just one continent, Eurasia. A few other places do that too I think, mostly those who were influenced by the Russians in the past (i.e. were part of the Russian Empire and/or the USSR’s sphere of influence)

And I know many Latin American countries teach a unified continent of America rather than splitting it North and South.

Egpyt does not combine Asia and Africa despite having the Sinai peninsula in Asia (which is only split by a manmade canal)

Personally, I’m a fan of defining continents geologically, since it gets rid of all the politics

Make sure the check the Map Men one too! They are timeless and funny too

Middle East and West Asia are both terms that can be used kind of interchangeably, it just depends on the context. And yes, Europe is a glorified peninsula of the continent of “Eurasia”. Interestingly, Russia and a few other countries that straddle the boundary of Europe and Asia teach it as one continent.

In my opinion, the idea of “continents” is ambiguous if we define it as no sea in between, Afro-Eurasia is a monster that isn’t helpful to categorise the world. There’s good videos on the topic by CGP Grey and Map Men (previously Jay Foreman), you should go look at that I think!

I would rather divide the world based on the geological definition of continents, about the major tectonic plates! But even that can be difficult since what constitutes as a “major” tectonic plate? It’s still better in my opinion, since it’s something that can be discussed by geologists rather than politicians.

According to Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tectonic_plates

Under this definition, the continents are (if we only consider major plates as defined by Wikipedia):

• Eurasia
• Africa
• North America
• South America
• Australia
• Antarctica
• Pacific (mostly ocean)

if we include the some of the larger minor plates (I feel like we should):

• Carribean
• Arabia
• India (subcontinent has levelled up!)
• Somali
• Nazca (again, mostly ocean)
• Philippines (another ocean one)

There are lots of smaller ones but those are mostly ocean too

I think it would be neat if the world was divided to have India, Arabia, the Carribean, and Eastern Africa to have the Europe sort of treatment! India alone has more people than the whole of Europe combined

Vertical mice aren’t a Logitech trademark. The shape is noticeable different from the MX Vertical, it has the cool wrist rest magnetic thing, and the angle it sits is different. The colours are a lot nicer than the graphite black of the MX Vertical. Also, the MX Vertical (at least the current revision) does not use replaceable batteries.

Logitech Options doesn’t support Linux, so no, it’s not “well supported on everything”, though there are community made alternatives that seem really neat! I imagine the mouse itself does, but nearly all mice should work on Linux so Logitech is not unique in this

The MX Vertical is over $100, over five times the price of this cheap little guy, so I don’t think the price is worth it, especially since this cheap one has fun colours + a more comfortable shape for me (YOUR HANDS MAY VARY)

I just like that it has replaceable AAs, plus the fun colours. I don’t think it will actually last “for life”, but hopefully it will last for a long while!

Note that Firefox does bake in some telemetry by default, which needs to be manually disabled, but if you don’t want to deal with that you have LibreWolf! (Zen is another good one if you like vertical tabs)

And still having Manifest V2 support and not supporting a monopoly is always good!

That’s a really good photo, woah :O