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Humans going around the moon will be amazing every single time for the next 10,000 years it happens for anyone who isn't already a miserable person. Going for a swim in the ocean is an amazing experience every single time and I can do it every day. It's still a great feeling. Going to the moon is so much more extraordinary in the literal sense of the word. The fact that any collection of creatures is able to do it is remarkable.

> AI generated videos are indistinguishable from reality.


Is it educational to do this on a VM or should I break out my old thinkpad?


Both. Whatever works for you I'd say. I targeted the Raspberry Pi (Cross-Linux From Scratch variant), and a fake root (via chroot) and qemu. This was circa 2014 though.

These days the ARM64 processor on the Raspberry Pi 5 is probably fast enough to just build natively on it, no cross-compilation necessary. Cross-compiling adds a metric ton of complexity.


Having done this way back when on both: go with a VM first.

Targeting a known set of virtual devices makes a lot of things much easier when building LFS. Dev ux is also much nicer:, you get faster restarts, a socket and optional snapshots to go back to a known less broken state.


In my opinion having it on a separate computer is easier, but you can also run this in one or three KDE konsole tabs, for instance, on an external hdd/sdd.


A: There's the right way, the wrong way, and THEN THE MAX POWER WAY!

B: Isn't that just the wrong way?

A: Yes! But faster!


Honestly sometimes that's the right way.


Great website also.


I know something is worth reading when I see a wall of people being defensive of whatever the author presented.


We could also talk about lb•AU (pound Astronomical Units), but generally it's best to stick to what's standard so readers don't need to do conversions. Watt hours is great.


It's not terrible... The iPhone 17 has a battery capacity of 63 nano lb·AU. Around 16 million would equal 1 lb·AU.

Another fun one would be milli hundredweight leauge (mcwt·lg). Both hundredweight and league have multiple accepted definitions to make it more "fun". But the range maps quite nicely to everyday things:

AA battery - Around 5 mcwt·lg

Phone battery - Around 20 mcwt·lg

Laptop battery - Around 200 mcwt·lg

Car 12v battery - Around 1,000 mcwt·lg

EV battery - Around 100,000 mcwt·lg


My dad recently told me a funny story about something that happened to him. Except it actually had happened to me and I had told him about it years before.


I recognize this in my self, so I usually preface the story saying something like "this may or may not have been me, but I'm telling it from the first person". First person stories are funnier. This is part of the "telling a yarn" or "tall tale" tradition I grew up with (in Texas).


Better your Dad with a funny story than your boss with a victory tale!


Heh, my wife was recently telling a story about how she taught our son how to run into a hug. She did not, I actually did, but I let her have it since she was so excited about it.


The idea of needing to provide extremely personal information that’s somehow tailored for me just to use a service is so incredibly dystopian to me. I’d much rather use a password.


It defies explanation. This is followed up by an explantation.


Defied unsuccessfully.


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