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Huh, the more you know!

This is an absolutely beautiful story! My mother always whistles back at the birds, but mostly just tries to imitate their songs. But she used to play "Für Elise" on the piano when I was a child :)

I saw that video of the experiment with the thin glass as well, it's been years since then but I still tell people about it. Crows are awesome!

The blog post said bike theft prevention, yes. I'm not familiar with the ways AirTags work, so I had absolutely no idea how "silencing" an AirTag would help with that. I actually came here to the comments in the hopes of finding an explanation (which you thankfully included).

I think they meant it in a tongue-in-cheek way, as in: my private key is "obscure"?

I think you're right, and in addition to that there is also a lot we could do other than AC. Just having some shade from trees already helps a lot. Modern cities can be a man-made hellscape with regards to heat. But we did that to ourselves.

It's the same here in Germany, and I very much dislike this development. We used to get so much beautiful fireflies in the summer here. Now they're mostly gone, and that's probably only the most visible damage.

Very appropriate nickname!

When my dad grew up, he wanted to be a locomotive driver. Locomotive drivers were cheered upon by kids and greatly respected. Today, bus drivers complain about kids spitting in their faces. Something went wrong. I'm not sure what.

Doesn't "last gen consoles" include the original Nintendo Switch? That thing was underpowered when it came out, let alone compared to a Steam Deck. Also, PS4/5 and friends are not handhelds.

Feels like the whole western culture is coming apart (I'm saying this as a European, counting myself as part of the culture as well)

I feel like a lot of the hounding was more due to the fact that Cringely wouldn't admit the failure and instead chose to lie again and again, and less because of the money.

For what it's worth, aside from the hacks I had to apply and having to ignore the webcam, I'm really happy day-to-day with my x13s on Fedora.

I would very much like to believe you, but what about hormones and antibiotics in livestock's diet?

Well, in theory, I don't even care. I want to download an ISO from randomdistro.org and boot it.