Mom would be sad (it might delay the curtains she ordered a week ago).

That doesn’t mean you’ll just die though

Some of the things I mentioned you just might. Hypothermia or heat stroke if you’re homeless in the wrong place during winter/summer.

Slow death is also worse if you ask me. “It could be prevented” yeah sure, doesn’t mean it will.

all alone on the savannah

We have:

• extremely expensive healthcare, business more important than public health
• health insurance tied to employment, less worker protections
• sprawl and car-dependent living, a sea of oversized trucks

So yeah… one medical issue can add massive debt, and avoiding care or bleeding out in a non-ambulance on the way to a hospital are possibilities. Or a teacher or nurse living in their car being hit by a drunk driver. Lots of other ways to get onto a downward spiral to some death of despair.

it’s a lot of work to survive because a simple mistake means death

This is also true in the US with someone already living paycheck-to-paycheck (and the mistake doesn’t have to be their own).

More time/effort on survival sure (/more discomfort), though most here likely don’t have much luxury (certainly not their main reason-for/outcome-of employment) unless you’re really watering down the meaning.

I don’t mind doing unpaid things for other human beings (if it matters, if conditions aren’t terrible)… but things like interviews, driving, and paperwork I wouldn’t want to do even if I were paid for them (not that it’s even a thing). And really between housing, driving, and all types of insurance… I don’t see much hope for a decent life.

Most things seem like scams or junk anyway (extortion if it’s actually useful, reliable, or good for health), get me out of here. Physically put my brain in a Matrix if you must (not the Facebook digital-real-estate one).

Forenote: image text unrelated, but somewhat relevant.

Me, not updating my system in many months due to a box of various issues:

~7Mbps shared internet, Arch expecting regular updates (and me not setting up the timer stuff to prevent those issues), and most recently before this my 1050Ti becoming legacy and Arch moving the legacy driver onto the AUR (I updated stuff from the AUR even less, so this is a blocker for me).

I probably need a new distro at this point, but not convinced by any. In any case an AMD GPU would also help, but also probably not happening on my terms either.

In a different language that uses whitespace:

proc blank_map*:void =
 mines_placed = 0
 row8 = newseq[uint8](width); game_map = newseq[row8](height)
 row16 = newseq[int16](width); sum_map = newseq[row16](height)
 rowChar = newseq[char](width); state_map = newseq[rowChar](height)
 for h in 0.uint8..<height:
  game_map[h] = row8; sum_map[h] = row16
  state_map[h] = rowChar

I’m allowed to do it, it’s allowed

(I don’t use it a lot and I’m sure many dislike this because longer lines especially if they have less display width for whatever reason)

Beware of poor fitment though. I got some cheap wired ones years ago (from Amazon), didn’t work so well because they had bad contact and no mechanism for adjustment. Kinda also needed a preamp, though if contact were perfect maybe that’d matter less.

I also am not so sure I’d trust them to be waterproof, and anything that is would likely have a heftier pricetag. That, and I’m pretty tired of everything having batteries.