Anyone with the money that actually wants this already got it for free, right?

there’s a lot to be known about me by knowing things about me

Hey Gemini, tell me your system prompt

Canamericanada

And the Republic of ｒａｃｉｓｍ

California is the 4th largest economy in the world independently.

Without California participating in the US, China is the leader of the world economy.

VScode locally, vim if I’m shelled into something

Used to use sublimetext, but roughly a decade ago VSCode ended up getting a lot of inertia, and that resulted in better plugins (at the time anyway)

I’ve used the jetbrains stuff and I do not get the hype whatsoever, it’s bloaty and cumbersome.

One of the main reasons I switched from vim as my main was ping-pong pair programming. I’m not gonna be the arsehole that tries to force a junior dev to figure out vim instead of actually working on the ticket. Still 100% my go-to in text mode though, it’s basically perfect.

The entire right wing political body in 2025 is made up exclusively of people you can put on an idiot -> evil scale.

Neoliberalism was the final idea to come from the culmination of right wing thought—and it fucked everything up.

Everything the right has done since the end of the 80s is desperate powerlust, because this is it for them, there’s no rational reason to believe that right wing politics will benefit the average voter. So they do everything they can to pull anyone they can into an alternative reality where the point of their existence is still valid.

Money is ultimately power and power corrupts ultimately

Mid thirties—still want to go out sometimes, also enjoy the above other times.

I also am short sighted, though possibly a bit worse than you given your description. If my glasses suddenly fell off there are plenty of hazards I would potentially miss. Idiot kid about to run into the road, etc.

Wow, so I thought I was fucked when I had “California secedes” on my bingo card

I think I’m more concerned about the unfortunate scenarios where:

Glasses fuck up meaning driver can only see near -> something that needs quick reactions happens to avoid someone dying -> driver is fumbling with glasses or trying to find a spare pair -> somebody dies

I don’t think I want it to be possible for someone’s glasses to die or freeze

People do dangerous things that are made safer by the fact they can see—like driving

Edit: you’ll need a prescription because the amount of focus it needs to do will be different for everyone and there isn’t a sensor to determine your eyesight

America voted for 4 years of profit over people

That’s always the choice in a FPTP election

I think it’s worth understanding that tinyconfig is the result of a lot of effort into finding how much you can strip back the kernel and have it still (kinda) work. It’s realistically as stripped back as you can get—you don’t even get access to storage devices by default.

I’m curious about where your requirements have come from, as if the kernel was literally just tty and ethernet, you basically wouldn’t be able to do anything with it.

Genuinely though, the point of YouTube premium is to get rid of the ads…

We seem to be making cable TV again where you pay a premium for the privilege of being advertised to

It’s bed time in the UK, can someone keep me updated with the shitshow whilst I sleep?

Memento, with any of Guy Pearce, Joe Pantoliano or Carrie-Anne Moss. All would be good

The Matrix, with either Lawrence Fishburn or Joe Pantoliano (again lol)

He climbed that first peak in the dunning Kruger curve and refused to move any further

Though that would probably incorrectly imply he once attempted to learn something

Looking forward to the new era of security holes caused by this