The user would be on Windows, though, which uses UTF-16LE, so the message would be 14 bytes:

0x57 0x00 0x69 0x00 0x6e 0x00 0x64 0x00 0x6f 0x00 0x77 0x00 0x73 0x00

To be fair, Middle Earth isn’t necessarily Medieval Europe, but Samwise Gamgee was described in the books as having darker skin.

If we are including OpenSCAD, I would also suggest cadquery and build123d, where you have the capabilities of the entire Python interpreter. I’ve been also interested in a couple of CAD kernel projects written in Rust: Fornjot (it looks like this was archived recently) / Truck

FreeCAD’s recent updates seemed to have fixed a lot of issues I have had with it. When I have free time, I have been practicing FreeCAD so I can start creating a part to 3D print for my desktop so I can fit all of the high capacity hard drives and maybe add supports to some areas.

Poor Mao, lol, he seemed like he had a rough time communicating.

Here’s the rest of the conversation: https://en.prolewiki.org/wiki/Library:Memorandum_of_conversation_between_Mao_Zedong_and_Ernesto_Che_Guevara

Based on my limited research, it sounds like some optimizations may occur for built-in types, but may not occur for user-defined types.

https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/358725/pre-increment-vs-post-increment

https://cplusplus.com/forum/general/102639/

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/38947790/efficiency-of-postincrement-v-s-preincrement-in-c

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/24901/is-there-a-performance-difference-between-i-and-i-in-c

I prefer pre because if I ever intend to use an increment in an expression, usually I want the operation to be performed before the expression is evaluated. I believe prefix operators avoid mistakes more.

Also in C++ land:

Because a temporary copy of the object is constructed during post-increment and post-decrement, pre-increment or pre-decrement operators are usually more efficient in contexts where the returned value is not used.

https://en.cppreference.com/cpp/language/operator_incdec

Definitely looks much more usable in the bright sun, too.

There are a few e-ink phones already, such as the Bigme HiBreak Pro. It’s only ~21 fps, though.

The soundtrack is chill af tho

The feet and wings are almost proportionally accurate to the rest of the borb, yet the head is still tiny. So the borb is just a giant pigeon with a very teeny weeny head.

Italians have some of the best bangers amongst communist music.

Is that AI machine turning kids black? Uncritical support to AI!

I wonder what the mouse person looks like under the mask.

I don’t remember the lumber mill boss’s name, but I like that his attire has changed to signify his proletarianization.

Sadly the most mild

I agree with everything you said. We really need more leftists contributing to the Linux and FOSS space and making media content. There’s too many fascists that have a lot of spotlight in the community. I also believe Flatpak can be a really good way to install user software to minimize maintenance issues of native system packages (as well as the benefit of sandboxing applications and restricting permissions), but I’m really disappointed that they are now considering age verification checks.

It does make me feel gross to make valid criticisms of these tools being exploited by capitalists, and it’s muddied by chuds who exclaim “muh freedums” and harass developers who don’t have infinite time to support every system.

I’ve never been presented with any reason as to why people dislike systemd other than “Linux is about choice”, when the choices in my eyes are like having 50 cans of the same soup at the store with slightly different ingredients and half of them are expired.

My issue with the Linux ecosystem becoming heavily centralized on a few tools that most distros are built on and reducing the modularity of these tools is that it leaves most users vulnerable to attacks on their privacy (and supply chain attacks) and ability to protect themselves from capitalist surveillance when age verification and other dystopian laws take effect, and it becomes more difficult to escape from these dependencies. I also don’t like systemd as much now because of the poor code quality from its heavy use of AI slop.

I get that many tools are reinventing the wheel, and developers’ free time and funding are very limited, though I believe many tools still serve specific purposes better than others, and it’s good to have a backup when one dev team decides to make a controversial, unethical decision that puts users in jeopardy which happens very frequently.

When people say “Linux is about choice”, it does sound idealistic, but honestly I believe they are not wrong to an extent. The Linux ecosystem needs to retain its modularity, otherwise it becomes easier to exploit and enshittify like other corporate proprietary operating systems. I wouldn’t care about this as much if we weren’t under threat of this capitalist dominated world.

Yay!