What if I use a stovetop kettle to pour hot water into Jacobs instant coffee?

https://nlihc.org/oor

This covers at least the first two items you mentioned, at least regarding affording an apartment.

Damn, already reaching Threadripper levels in the RISC-V world. Nice!

I bought too much G-Fuel and have been using it to make carbonated energy drinks. I may buy another brand of energy powder when I run out of my current stock. I also bought concentrates, citric acid, and sodium benzoate from https://www.heavenlysnowcones.com/ and Acesulfame Potassium from https://pforlife.com/acesulfame-potassium-ace-k-200x-sweeter-than-sugar-kosher-semi-natural-granular-sweetener.html that I still need to get around to using.

I have carbonated various other things before, including lemongrass I grew in my garden to make lemongrass soda, but it was too sickly sweet and the recipe needed to be tweaked. I bought a grape-like concentrate from a local African store that I didn’t care for too much. I bought syrups from a local Bosnian store that were decent. I have used Mexican drink mix powder. Crystal Light packets were pretty good. I have also just drank carbonated water alone, and my wife mainly makes carbonated water.

There’s probably more I have experimented than I have mentioned. G-Fuel powder tastes really good when carbonated, but I may not recommend G-Fuel as they are not really an ethical company, and their powder has a weird composition that doesn’t really do a good job for energy and concentration. You can be very creative with your carbonated drinks, and you are not limited to the syrups that are typically sold for the sole purpose of being used with SodaStream bottles.

Also, I would love to figure out how to grow and use miracle berries as a sweetener than sugar or a carcinogenic compound to make sweet and healthier carbonated drinks.

Wow, I did not expect Fiverr and Wix.com

I knew SodaStream was an Israeli company, which is why I stopped paying for replacement tanks and bought a CO2 tank from eBay to refill at some local shop and an adapter kit from AliExpress (recommended guide for SodaStream tank and flavor alternatives), which saves a lot of money anyway.

Contributing to the economy in general helps Israel. It’s a good idea to spend less in general to hurt the American economy.

I would argue both parties are the same as the left at this point (and always have been). Both are bloodthirsty, corporate, ruling class parties committing horrific acts of austerity and genocide.

Also,

https://www.dictionary.com/e/longest-english-words/

methionylthreonylthreonylglutaminylarginyl…

At over 180,000 letters long, the chemical name of the protein titin is often said to technically be the longest English word. If spoken out loud, this word takes over three hours to say! Its absurd length is due to the fact that proteins get their scientific names by combining the names of all of their joined amino acids together, and titin has quite a lot of them. For obvious reasons, titin’s official name has never actually appeared in a dictionary or scientific text. Because it is a scientific term, many would disqualify the Big M from actually taking the crown as English’s longest word.

BreakThrough News from PSL, and I believe New Economic Thinking is good.

https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/118142

It sounds like the Linux kernel is a separate project from the actual distros which tend to use the same or similar kernel. The way BSD distros came about is that they are derived from 4.4-Lite2 BSD, and they developed their own fork of the kernel. FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, and some other BSDs (I’m not sure if this applies to all, plus OpenBSD is a fork of NetBSD) each develop their own kernel as part of their distro as opposed to pulling it from a separate, standalone project. This is probably why they are distinctively listed and count as each their own.

Forgive me if I am wrong, I haven’t researched much into it and haven’t played with BSD yet.

There’s a fork now: https://github.com/FossifyOrg

They made Marx obviously win; he was a banger. I appreciate they read Marx and favored the song to him over the Nazi fanboy.

Yup, my overprotective family really hurt my ability to succeed in college. When you are in a situation where you cannot thrive living at your parents’ home, your first goal should be to find the means to be independent from your parents and manage to be stable for a year or two. Also, find good friends, or risk depression like I experienced. I hated living in dorms, and I wish I started in the college provided apartments as they were much cheaper, didn’t enforce an expensive meal plan, and allowed students to stay year-round. However, I went to apartment dorms in my second attempt at community college, and I didn’t succeed in major part due to a toxic roommate (and needing to walk an hour each way to an exhausting, retail part-time job that paid peanuts). It may be preferable to find an affordable apartment (difficult to come by these days) further away from campus as rowdy young adults can be difficult to live around (maintaining a quiet voice can be difficult, and I accidentally disturbed neighbors when I was singing to myself to help me focus (I have AuDHD)), though one’s mileage may vary, considering the first apartment dorms I moved in at the first university I attended had a decent roommate (I didn’t succeed in my second semester because it took me over a month to move after classes began and led to me being extremely behind on classes). Online college in this scenario is highly recommended because attending physical classes on top of work is very demanding and will cause burnout.

This is some really solid advice. Lurkers and OP, I recommend these links.

@Lenom@lemmygrad.ml I was very burnt out from high school, and I made it to a 4 year college and was overwhelmed with independence after coming from an overly strict and overprotective household. I failed college multiple times, and it took years before I managed to acquire an apartment and a vehicle. I eventually was able to have a stable environment to do community college online. Now I am going to do online university for Electrical Engineering soon (probably in a year or two, I plan on getting soldering equipment so I can learn to repair devices on the side as a side gig while I am doing college to keep myself afloat), and I have been recently accepted into the program.

If I could go back in time, I would have taken a break for a year or two after high school and focused on getting out of my parents’ home. It is a massive challenge to be independent, and this is necessary to master because college is way more intensive than high school. You will likely be pulling all-nighters, though that may be because I still struggle with time management to this day.

College is filled with a lot of bullshit, including ridiculous amounts of coursework, an unreliable way of gauging coursework by credits (I took way too many my first semester, start with 12 credits, please (even after reducing my credits mid-semester, I had to take more single-credit courses to make up the minimum full-time requirement, and they had a similar workload to 4-credit classes, and I had 4-credit classes that didn’t require a lot of work)), professors that will not teach and only give you assignments (especially online), crappy proprietary software and test-systems that will make you fail test questions even if you made the correct answer (looking at you, Pearson), etc.

Also, limit your extra-curricular activities to one or two, preferrably zero for at least your first semester. I was too eager to join many clubs, and then burned out even more, played video games in my dorm, and struggled to attend classes.

My state has a program to pay full tuition for “high demand” fields in community college, which made it possible for me to get a two-year degree. My head was in a better place, especially since your brain doesn’t fully develop until into your twenties. I really recommend online college. It comes with many of its own problems, and the courses are much worse in quality, but if you are an autodidact like myself, you will find better material online to teach yourself anyway. Online college makes it more feasible to work to support yourself as you usually don’t have to attend classes at a specific time (I had to attend one online class meeting during work for JavaScript, but the rest of my classes were online-only with assignments due each week (not self-paced)).

Be prepared to be disappointed if you do not acquire a job you hoped to achieve with your degree. To be honest, I may have a better chance getting an entry-level job in software development if I wasn’t building my Gentoo system from scratch and instead focused on practicing programming and making git repositories of web applications to show off to employers. I have spread myself very thin trying to customize my machine (biting off more than I can chew with my limited experience) while learning to be a jack of all computer trades (because I am paranoid about security and privacy, and often the alternative to surveillance tech is to DIY) on top of managing life responsibilities and working with PSL. But I am doing what I love to do, and I have always been interested in open source computer hardware and low-level programming. My hope to get a software development job to make ends meet before I went back to my true dream career pursuit was unfortunately not feasible, especially since I am competing with many experienced developers in the midst of massive tech layoffs post-covid. By the time I would get a software development job with a two-year degree, I would have invested so much time to make restarting from scratch to go into electrical/computer engineering much more risky. Plus, if I waited to go to college in the next 10-20 years, it may become $100-200K per year, which is why my focus is getting back into a 4-year degree as soon as possible.

If and when you do college, research reviews of colleges, and look up college experiences from students online (including reddit). I learned, for my university, the general education classes I will be taking first are typically done with many students in each class with a professor as a moderator that will not let you reschedule tests even if you plan in advance and even if you have to help take your family to a doctor’s appointment that day. The coursework in the first classes I will be doing is much less than the mid-tier classes, and it lightens a bit at the end, so I will likely take an extra class or two beyond the 12 credits for my first semesters, do strictly 12 credits for the middle semesters, than take maybe an extra class in the last semesters. Because of the side gig I want to do, I may just do only 12 credits for each semester for the entire degree. Also, I can expect lessons and assignments to have very contradictory instructions, and this is a frequent experience in software related fields. Ask or research online about specific classes when deciding your course schedule as students can give feedback on whether a course is bad or too much work in combination with your selected classes in the same semester.

And expect some hilariously liberal education, especially for the economics or business class that is shoved into your degree as a requirement.

Forgive my stream of consciousness and run-on sentences, lol, I typed this from my phone.

It still seems RISC-V and RISC-like CPUs are making a lot of progress, though. I still find 3A6000 to be quite impressive compared to a few years ago, and I expect exponential gains to be made in performance soon.

Take my words with a grain of salt as I do not have a lot of experience with low-level software and hardware, but from my understanding, traditional software will run poorly on these new architectures as they are designed to run on CISC instruction sets, and a new ecosystem of software needs to be developed to work with the new instruction sets. I am assuming the binary translations required to run current software is what hurts the performance of these machines, and a lot of performance could be squeezed out if software was built according to 3A6000’s architecture from the ground up.

A lot can be done with 2-3 GHz, and I find this to be an impressive speed considering the current stage of reduced instruction set architectures. Having the performance of an HP EliteDesk/ProDesk Mini and a similar efficient power usage is a great milestone achieved, imo.

If a RISC-like computer can do this, I’m happy: https://yewtu.be/watch?v=amVP96OYfUg

Isn’t it more the case of software development needing to catch up so hardware acceleration and optimizations can utilize the processor to its fullest capacity?

https://yewtu.be/watch?v=fB9vItIDhnw

https://www.laitimes.com/en/article/63eyz_6js04.html

https://yewtu.be/watch?v=j9V78UbdzWI