As someone with far less and fully satisfied, there is truly no standard. The idea of always wanting or needing more is something that is pushed upon us at a massive societal level. If you have the things you truly need, you can work towards things you want, and if you have the things you want, congrats. You’re there. It is an option to feel like you need more than what you have once your essentials are met. No one other than yourself actually cares if you’re ambitious and if you don’t get satisfaction from the ambition to pursue more, then don’t.

Make easy money for the low price of spending lots of money!

I’m currently self hosting Gitea and have had a great experience so far. Only took a day to setup and migrate all (6) of my repositories.

I’m usually on roughly a 5-6 year cycle. I typically aim for one or two notches below the best available and that tends to get me about 3 years on high-ultra, and another 3 on medium-high.

“Those leopards have got to run out of faces eventually. I’m sure they’ll be done before they make it to me though.”

It’s the same persons left and right hand.

Just mentioned this in another thread, but the XTEInk X4 is one of the most focused and portable e-readers I’ve come across. Less than $100 and isn’t locked down so you can load custom firmware on it. For anyone like me who finds most e-readers go unused because they don’t go with you, I’ve yet to find a better option.

I’ve heard the explanation being that it’s a defense against treating dead bodies as alive and spending resources on them at a primal level. Just imagining when we first developed empathy and tried at length to care for those who we lost and evolution needed us to focus on the live ones.

“Go sit in the corner and think about what you’ve done, Tim.”

A/S/L?

The goal of technology is to make our lives better, not make everyone else’s worse. Or so I’ve been led to believe.

What about 2 Raspberry Pi 3s?

I wonder which of the 3000 things over the past decade changed their minds.

What?! Is he trying to improve the lives of those that don’t normally have easy bathroom access? How dare he! Government money should be a spent on improving his self image and ego!

I’ve never heard of Zardos personally, but it sounds like you’re looking for movies that have deep significance and application to the real world. My number one recommendation is Waking Life. It is a movie that thoroughly explores what it means to be human all without imposing any specific viewpoint or agenda.

It’s a series of borderline interviews taken from all walks of life and then rotoscoped into a beautiful dream sequence.

I can find ways that it’s relevant to just about every day of my life. It’s packed full of serious challenging conversations about the self, spirituality, morality and mankind.

If this isn’t the type of thing you’re looking for, maybe elaborate a bit more on what you mean.

I ended up making the choice to just avoid the games that don’t work under Linux. They seem to all be almost exclusively AAA twitch shooters that require far too much from me as a player anyway.

The only way I can vote on the topic is with my wallet.

Yeah, cause the way I want to be honored is to have my murder scene recreated. These people only know how to put themselves in a spotlight.

What I keep wondering is who is taking the pics. Who just takes random pics of two people talking in a room during a conversation that is supposed to be ultra-private/exclusive? Is it just for blackmail? If so, it’s not working well enough.

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I like David Cronenberg’s approach. Make it visually horrific, but so alien that you don’t know how to visually parse it and it just overloads your brain into ‘blech’ territory.

Loved The Thing and Videodrome for this style of horror.

Otherwise, give me omnipotent horror. Things like Oculus really get me.