That matches my experience. My great aunt lost her husband 15 years ago, but kept going strong and relatively healthy up until 92, then her last sister died (quite unexpectedly) and her health started visibly deteriorating.

After a long hospitalization she got back home, but couldn’t walk anymore. We were prepared to a long recovery, but after some promising days, as you said, she ate and talked less every day that passed, at one point she actively refused to eat and drink and just laid in bad. The last day or two she made noises and laments, but was basically unresponsive, with audible stops in breathing that increased as time got along. The only moments of lucidity were when she needed to go to the bathroom (absolutely physically unable to). We believed it was mostly for pride over wearing diapers and to have a last glimpse on independance.

Then she died and we all agreed at some point she just refused to live on, too old and too alone to handle the world. I wonder how much was a concious decision and how much a simple reduction in self preservation (maybe an automatic response of the body when getting to a real old age? I don’t know).

Anyway, our biggest relief was that we could bring her home, so she died in peace surrounded by family.

I am an obsessive thinkerer. For me thinkering means tewaking you installation, get plugins, run weird scripts to do weird stuff. Wasting time kf real work to fix your wifi is not thinkering, it’s just frustrating

Many languages have it. English for some reason does not use it

Because “ai” ad we colloquially know today are language models: they train on and can produce language, that’s what they are designed on. Yes, they can produce images and also videos, but they don’t have any form of real knowledge or understanding, they only predict the next word or the next pixel based on their prompt and their vast examples of words and images. You can only talk to them because that’s what they are for.

Feeding research papers will make it spit research-sounding words, which probably will contain some correct information, but at best an llm trained on that would be useful to search through existing research, it would not be able to make new one

Single = tagliatella Plural = tagliatelle

Globally, it’g gone up. The US is not representative of the entire planet

Except for Milan and Tropea, those pictures are representative of medieval small towns in central Italy (Tuscany, Lazio, Umbria and such) not really of the entire country

12 years ago we got two sibling kittens, an orange male and a black female. I never celebrated their birthday, but this post reminded me of them :)

The black one is still with us, getting a little old but doing quite fine. The orange one disappeared some 4 years ago. I just hope he was unhappy and found a better place, because we once saw him some time after he was gone.

No crash log, under any circumstance, regardless of available resources, should reach 300GB. No useful information can be gathered and it probably meana the program was running an infinite loop.

What I meant is that if they don’t feel the need tp redo it again after the same amount of time, it must mean there was a good reason to do it before, and they probably addressed all the problems they wanted (mainly about security). Also I don’t feel like the iconic look changed that much. The format is the same, the color is the same, and the buldings are similar

Not only they are not accepted in most private places, I think they are being recalled and slowly brought out of circulation

I think the new series also has some tactile strips on the side which should also help

A reminder that the “new” 5€ note is as old as the old one was when the new was released. First series was 11 years old (2002-2013), new is also 11 years old (2013-2024). Higher value notes were introduced later though

This also should be the norm. It doesn’t even reduce your drunkness, just makes it more enjoyable and less unconfortable

That’s weird, I don’t have it

That’s why we need to fight against chromium monopoly

aoe2 works fine under wine, but the definitive edition does not. In my opinion proton pretty much almost works better for games than simple wine

Fallout 3, but especially New Vegas have great stories and hundreds of hours of gameplay, and work fenomenally on proton (I mean, they are equally buggy as in other versions). Fallout 4 is good as well, but I have never tested it on linux

Unfortunately last time I checked, aoe2:de does not run on Proton (but aoe2:hd does), maybe things changed

Laminated paper qr codes for long-term storage could last centuries, possibly much more than an hard drive or a flash drive. That would probably outlive any computer it couls be used on, but it’s an interesting solution.