Oh man, your demo gives me Hudsucker Proxy vibes ("You know, for kids!"). I'm going to have to watch it a couple of times to understand what pnk is doing here. My initial take is pnk is a DSL of bash functions that appear to be composing together Tkinter "primitives."
An "APL" for UI. Interesting stuff.
StackOverflow initially had an interesting idea of putting metrics on things, and unfortunately humanity's penchant for "what gets measured is gamed" was amplified and devolved into a hive of HOA Karens looking for infractions of the rules.
I'll bet that if you "relaunched" a SO-like system and removed all human-visible "points" or "scores" you could achieve a less toxic environment. The only "ranking" is implicit based on your topical subscriptions.
Then again, you could "relaunch" the "relaunch" and "AlphaGo-ify" a bunch of AI agents to compose the dialogs and threads without any human interaction at all. I guess we're on our way already to building Culture minds.
Absolutely doable.
I've switched to paid search with Kagi. Best standard feature is I can tell Kagi to block w3schools, mediumDOTcom and stackoverflow from my search results.
I don't expect that from a month-old USB drive however. A month old USB drive that write-locks itself is a lemon.
SanDisk sells very pretty expensive plastic bricks that excel at disappointment and confusion (like when a USB flash drive decides to become permanently read-only).
Check the long list of just the mental Long Covid (aka Post-Acute Squelae of COVID or PASC) symptoms:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8959835/
Recent findings involve research with the endoplasmic reticulum that appears to go off the rails when over-stressed breaking the mitochondria within a cell robbing it of ATP production and increasing lactate (related to metabolic acidosis) in the body:
My current reasoning is somehow to recover you've got to pace yourself just enough to encourage new mitochondria to form, but not so much that you experience PEM/crashing. The ME/CFS people have been discussing pacing for years. So:
This was a purposefully supplement-free/drug-free plan.
So, is there an opposite "disease" where the deceleration-sensitive neurons are non-functional? What would that look like?
Actually that is kind of scary, most companies supply you with a work device so it can be securely administered. That's kind of a red flag that they accept you working from whatever you have.
Get the laptop if you can, you can probably claim it for a reduction of taxes (keep the receipts). Keep it separate, always. You'll appreciate being able to close the "work device" when the day is done. Also, very much lock it down--do not let friends/family "borrow" your laptop.
People do the worst crap on computers that aren't their own.
One of my best monthly expenses. I also appreciate being able to block low-quality domains from my search results.