There was some discussion recently regarding the reasons that crime had been decreasing for roughly 25 years, the person doing the discussion implied it was only in Australia, but it was actually a trend across most of the developed world. The thing is we don't know for sure 100% why. But there's several theories brought up.
1. The reduction in atmospheric lead
2. The reduction of unwanted births
3. The peace dividend from the end of the cold war
4. Gun Control
5. Increase in Incarceration.

@purple @shibao Wow, that's quite the harsh reaction to my simple comment. I wasn't even debating statistics, just a general sentiment regarding the place of self defense in society, there's no need to use foul language. I don't think it would be valuable to continue a discussion with someone who can't be civil about it.

@shibao @purple If there's any place in society where law abiding citizens aren't allowed to carry their weapons, then that's where the violent criminals will feel the most empowered to do their acts.

@beej @ldottxt Might be worthwhile for people who are right-handed to practice writing with their left hand as well. I for one learned to type with just my left hand at one point, and now I have a keyboard with the number pad on the left side (makes the mouse closer to my right hand's typing position) so I'm learning to use it left-handed as well.

There really needs to be more Scifi Isekai manga. The last one I found was mostly cheating since it was more Scifi officer lands on backward planet. This one though, "Mezametara Saikyou Soubi to Uchuusen-mochi Datta no de, Ikkodate Mezashite Youhei Toshite Jiyuu ni Ikitai", actually has the main character flying around in a space ship taking down pirates.

@eniko Yeah, I got frustrated after awhile with the amount of noise on Twitter, and cut my follow list down to just people that I knew from elsewhere. It was much less stressful after that.

@gamingonlinux The web browser on steamdeck desktop mode couldn't even stream it.

@gamingonlinux @rotopenguin Ah, checked Steam, and it doesn't even have a Linux version. It does have gameplay videos there though.

This Isekai Walking comic is interesting, but I don't know if it's going to keep getting translated. It's had 3 chapters translated, each by a different person.

@requiem @ajroach42 Well, they also have that they are making their own custom chips as well now. Almost all of the other SBC companies are repackaging someone else's chips in ways that the original creators didn't intend. Of course, that only applies to their lowest end products right now and not the Pi 4.

@requiem @ajroach42 I like Pine64 and their products, but I've never had good luck with the OSes for them, always seems like the selection of distros is extremely limited when compared to the Pi. I used to use a Pinebook Pro, but basically they started pushing Manjaro to the exclusion of all else on it, and Manjaro wasn't working correctly on my system. I finally gave up and switched to using a Steamdeck with some accessories as my low end laptop for trips.

@stuff That video definitely jumped the helicopter. I didn't see any sharks however.

@ademalsasa Atari 130XE.

@benjedwards Even in the 56k era there was somewhat limited upload capacity compared to download for home users, it's just a much bigger disparity now. Of course, with cloudflare I actually do run some services out of my house via a tunnel.

@anime His wife going after him with a bow after that was amusing.

@benjedwards Nice. I was 12 when I started up my BBS in Colorado. 1200 baud modem and a 286 with 114mb of hard disk space...

@unascribed (though the conversion isn't exactly the same.)

@unascribed Or Furlongs per Firkin, if you want to use the mass of the fuel rather than the volume. With pints you're really hand-waving out an additional "at X temperature" factor.