What you're looking for is Stoicism. You can start with Emperor Marcus Aurelius' Meditations or Epictetus' Enchiridion.
mdhughes
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They're on the prop from Mel Brooks' History of the World Part I
Budget's about half what it should be, but Keychron makes really great mech keyboards, you can pick a range of switches (I use Gateron Red, clicky but not too stiff; YMMV).
You should reconsider bluetooth if you can, there is lag in it, and sometimes just random disconnects if there's interference. USB's the way to stay fast & stable.
Use Apple's Numbers. Set up a small spreadsheet with autofill date, expense, note field. Sync it with iCloud and you can just open it on desktop as well.
Good programmers - AI = best code.
I'm staying with Vim, mainly because I hate Lua.
Vim9script is fine, I write enough small scripts in it that it hasn't annoyed me. Vim's plugins, and NerdTree in particular, make it a perfectly good editor for this millennium as well as the last.
Sure, use the Y2038 problem to ship secure computing to everyone.
Well, two obvious ones:
Society. Except it's not punk, it's the rich who are a different species.
Species. The first film is just Humans making a massive mistake about alien contagion, but the sequels, lower and lower budget, "democratize" the alien infection. So many tentacle babies. Everyone can have one.
Videogame companies literally did use "megabit" when the truth was "128KiB", because it sounded better. Actual computer companies were still listing binary power numbers, because buyers had more to invest and care about accuracy.
You say "sensible", but it's lying for profit.
It's a scam by HDD makers to sell less storage for more money.
Well, I don't believe in reincarnation, so NO.
But suppose that I did. What does that mean? Do you retain your memories and respawn like a videogame character? Get to be a baby who knows everything as an adult? That's a weird life, and probably not "best".
If you don't retain your memories, then what is "you"? Some kind of … virus? Whatever, hopping between bodies, unable to do anything to affect their outcome. So now it's down to random chance.
What's the "very best life imaginable"? Imaginable, not real? The real life you spawn into isn't going to meet that standard, so never.
Like most religious ideas, it doesn't define any of its terms, and they don't make sense when you do.
Radio Shack TRS-80 Model I. I first saw one in school, and while the rest of the kids took a turn playing a snake game, I read the instruction card. Hit break, read the program, decided I could do that. Took a summer class (for adults, I was the only kid). Got my own. Programmed a lot. Despite (because of) the limited graphics: 64x16 chars, or 128x48 B&W pixel graphics, there were a lot of games on it, very low barrier to writing your own.
Couple years later got an Atari 800, which is still my favorite computer of all time, and I make retro games or demos for it.