Blender 5.0 already huh? I think I started using Blender at 2.4.x. I think the it took half a decade for the version number to go to 2.7.x. Blender has been developing at an incredible pace since 2.8.

That's cool. Hopefully it is also safe to make for people and for nature around where it could be manufactured.

Helix is awesome. I've spent many hours these passed months configuring both Sway and Helix to my liking, and it has become joyous to use them together. I prefer Helix's default configs to vim's. Still got to use Vim motions a lot though, in Obsidian etc. Similar in many aspects, but there are many small things Helix does which I find more logical. u for undo and U for redo. Small things.

Huh. I never really thought about what you wrote about airbnb, but it hit me hard now. My partner actually works for an Airbnb and they have an enormous amount of property and apartments in rural areas which could've housed families. And to think there are many more of these businesses doing the same thing.

I rarely use airbnbs, I prefer hotels, so I haven't done a lot of contribution there but still, this has convinced me to never use one. Unless, the stay is in their house, or in a small house in their garden etc, which I actually have been in some years ago.

I hope I live long enough to experience this scenario.

Thanks for the tip. I'll add this to my reading list. I'm currently reading through "the rust book" right now, seems this will be the ideal followup. Also got through a book on data-oriented design recently, then I need to finish reading the book on Bevy, and then I think I'll be ready to switch to Rust and the Bevy engine. A lot of reading this year, but I can tell I'll be happy with rust and ECS before long.

Correct, Tumbleweed is the one I started using.

I switched from Fedora to openSUSE recently and it has been painless. Would recommend to anyone who are looking to get away from US companies and US jurisdiction. Edit: note that it uses RPM package manager though, I don't know yet if that is problematic or not. If someone knows then please elaborate on that.

Alright, I think I understood some of those words. Happy to see Sway being worked on. I did a clean install with openSUSEway last week and slowly but surely I'm starting to get it into the state I want from it. Hopefully this will be my final desktop environment.

We've all had our fun now with watching companies and investors throwing billions on these LLMs but after all that we have something which does not solve billion dollar problems.. They've already scrubbed all the data out there and let's be frank here, the LLMs still suck. It feels like chatting with these LLMs is like overcoming an obstacle, I end up doing web searches myself most of the time anyway. These LLMs can't think or reason, let's stop trying to fake it and start using these models for something useful. Medical is the obvious one. Surveillance and military will probably be where the shift will be to primarily. There will be interesting things with pattern recognition for sound and images, but that's about it.

I switched to Colemak-dh about 2 year ago when I bought a ZSA Moonlander after getting a terrible case of rsi in my left wrist. When I type on other keyboards (which I try to avoid whenever possible) I still use qwerty. Curious thing, I write at about 70 wpm with 99% accuracy with colemak-dh on my Moonlander but I can't pass 10 wps when using colemak-dh on other keyboards, and I have no hope in hell writing with qwerty on the Moonlander at all. The motor memory is completely decoupled between the split keyboard and the non-split keyboard. Which I guess is good, since then when using someone else's keyboard I won't have issues using their keyboard.

I dunno. We like being able to make our own decisions and self-govern. I'd be surprised if the majority voted in favor of joining the EU even now. As the article states, yeah it seems the common citizen want to distance themselves from the US now, but we live a pretty good life already and there are many unknowns regarding what joining the EU will mean for us in the long term. I don't wanna join the EU just to spite the US, however tempting that is right now. Though I believe signaling the middle finger to the US government is important, -- I will do it in other ways in the short term at least. I have started moving all personal products and services out of US companies and into the EU etc.