Here’s a good read about it: https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2025/aug/05/how-did-british-pub-food-get-so-grim-gastropubs

TLDR: it got better in 2000s but then it went down again because of raising costs.

Tha**s, great st**y.

For me it was Mandrake -> Debian -> Mint -> MX -> Debian

So nothing like that graph.

With USB-C dock you can easily have 8 more…

Good thing I have 3 monitors to spread my widgets around.

Oh shit. I’m better at installing Linux than Linus. That’s freaking amazing!

‘”I have written only one Rust program, so you should take all of this with a giant grain of salt,”

I will listen to his sound advice and not take it very seriously.

(Borat voice): Booyakasha!

In Poland they would just say “do you have extra .50/1.73/3 zł”. No need to explain why. Everyone knew why.

Thanks, you saved me a sleepless night or two.

Shortly after pandemic I was on a couple of flights where they would make people leave in 5 row groups starting from the front. I saw one or two flights where people actually understood the instructions and everyone just stayed seated waiting for their turn. Then 5 rows would get up and leave. Then the next 5. It went very smoothly. I didn’t time it but it looked faster than the usual way.

Is it illegal to own a sedan there?

System vs Toy?

Depends what SciFi we’re talking about. “2001: A Space Odyssey” plays like a total fairly tale now but I would say it was technically achievable to have lunar base in 2001 (but not going to Jupiter if I remember the plot correctly). Mars trilogy by Robinson starts in 2035 if I remember correctly and initial mission was based on cheap launch system to orbit. I think this was also feasible with sustained investment. A lot of other SciFi is based on FTL travel, AI or hibernation which we cannot place on some tech roadmap so we cannot say what does and doesn’t “lead” to it.

Plenty of things could have been done with proper investment even before going to Mars. Reusable rockets, cheaper launch systems, more flights to the moon, moon bases, space stations. Yes, Mars is difficult but it would be easier with well established presence in the orbit and on the moon. All of this happened way too late (or never) because no one wanted to invest in it.

It is. It’s about people fighting a war in space. Saying that it happened “long time ago” in a different galaxy or in alternative reality doesn’t make it a historical drama.

I don’t know what you’re getting at. It was a show about war. It was grim. It’s not a optimistic take on the future. I don’t care if it had happy ending or if technically it was set in the past.

I think that global war with machines and death of most of the population is quite a pessimistic take on the future.

I also never watched original BSG but I assumed the part about aliens blowing up everything and the war with robots in general was still there.

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