U de Recife

I find useful not to think both myself or others as smart/not smart, but wise or wiser. Being smart is not always wise. Playing dumb may be wise at times. Wisdom goes way beyond smartness, as it’s a mixture of kindness, experience, sensibility, and virtue.

… without checking it. If that’s your understanding, you’re correct.

On the affirmative, ALWAYS check whatever advice you hear/read on the internet. Be ultra careful with your health and safety.

When you’re about to face a high risk, high reward situation, you should willfully, willingly start to hyperventilate, as this helps your brain …

NEVER take any stranger’s advice on the internet as credible without checking it with a specialist. This is especially true when said advice relates to your health and/or safety.

From the top of my head, I would name Okular. No other FOSS pdf reader is as complete and easy to use.

http://emojidick.com/

Emoji Dick is a crowd sourced and crowd funded translation of Herman Melville’s Moby Dick into Japanese emoticons called emoji.

It’s crazy to think that this level of intrusion is considered fair game. The way these behaviors are normalized is completely dystopian.

I’m techie by gift, not by trade. I’m an MA in philosophy. Teaching is my main activity.

Well, I’m here. I’m loving the fediverse. And I’m kinda from outside tech, although being IT literate. So perhaps I should be counted as having a technical background.

Lemmy, currently. This comment proves my point.

Vorta (Borg GUI). It’s simple to use.

Howl’s Moving Castle. I had an obsession with it at the time.

Any BBC production of Jane Austen’s novels.

I’m already exploring it. I just happen to travel on spaceship earth.

Arch Linux. Because… it’s rock n’ rolling!

A lot. I lost count, really. I’m a professional ‘middle of the book’ reader. It’s a way of living.