Don't forget to stay hydrated.🍉🍉🍉🍉🍉

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I’d want to get a finger trackball, but they’re kind of expensive. Something like Kensington Orbit.

I recommend writing a log of donations. Then you can look at where you donated, when and how much, and remind yourself of where you want to send money again.

Now, I am pretty lazy. So it’s just my_donations.txt, open with Vim and whip out that calculator. Should probably be a spreadsheet instead. I don’t know if Calc let’s me do math based on key (place of donation).
I guess I could have separate columns per key (to maintain log nature), then do subtotal per key to specific cells, then grand total from those cells.
Still begs the question of how I would do that per year.
Sperate columns each year?
Just make range selection at the end of year?
To be honest, I never actually used any spreadsheet software. I suppose there might be some logic, if so, there sure would be a way to check the date column on same row as amount.

But anyway, Vim + calculator. 👍

Yeah, it’s… interesting. Especially with donations.
Apple takes a 30% cut, then Google does so as well from the remainder.

Feeling generous? Congrats, more than a half goes to corporations.

Also to note are regional pricing differences. Let’s for example compare US and Ukraine pricing:

Though I don’t know how much that would seem over there.
But anyway, I pay $1.99 for DNS (NextDNS), so $2.28 for streaming high quality video without ads? Sure, would seem fine.

I wonder how much cost difference there is on the Google side between the regions.

I thought that was just my father.
He also told me many times how that was their chewing gum.

And also the bottle of mercury they used to pour down a slide.
Oh, and also the tradition of melting lead on Christmas and pouring it into water, getting prediction of the future.

Almost all of the ads I see on the home page are of type “Hot ${GROUP} in your area.”

Also, Trump referring to Jeremy Hansen:

And the 4 brave astronauts of Artemis II are our modern-day, you really are modern-day pioneers, all of you. And one of them happens to be a neighbor. You know who that is, right? You have a special person over there, a neighbor. And, uh, we like our neighbor.

Source

In 2021, when Amazon launched its first “just walk out” grocery store in the UK in Ealing, west London, this newspaper reported on the cutting-edge technologies that Amazon said made it all possible: facial-recognition cameras, sensors on the shelves and, of course, “artificial intelligence”.
An employee who worked on the technology said that actual humans – albeit distant and invisible ones, based in India – reviewed about 70% of sales made in the “cashier-less” shops as of mid-2022

Source: The Guardian

UK AI company builder.ai has been tricking customers and investors for eight years – selling an advanced code-writing AI that, it turns out, is actually an Indian software farm employing 700 human developers.

Source: ACS Information Age

I’ve already seen this one.

Plus it’s done using re-used parts which will just become single-use: https://old-man-par.com/2026/01/21/previously-flow-components-of-artemis-ii/

Oldest one first flown on STS-5 in 1982.