It’s not FOSS, but it uses markdown which is open, so even if Obsidian went down the path of enshitification, you could still (in theory) move your content over to an alternative. I know, I know, plugins, non-standard etc. etc…

I get your point, but when a part broke on my Prusa, I jury rigged it, downloaded and printed a replacement part and swapped out the broken part for the (improved) new one. With many other brands it would have been an expensive purchase and I would have had to wait for parts to arrive.

In archery, arrows have three feathers (in a Y shape) rather than four (+) so that it can slide past the bow without damaging the feathers or the bow. This means that the arrow can be nocked either the right way (with the leg of the Y away from the bow) or the wrong way (with the leg of the Y towards the bow).

In medieval Europe, the arrow would be nocked with the bow held horizontally. To make it easier for archers to quickly and easily nock their arrows, the feather to go away from the bow (pointing upwards) was a different color, and came from a cock (rooster). So when drilling new archers, if they nocked the arrow the wrong way, the instructor would shout “Cock Up!”.

This came to mean a mistake.

Floors in the Middle Ages were dirt covered with straw for insulation and other reasons.

Threshold = thresh (straw) + hold (a piece of wood across the front doorway to stop the thresh from spilling out)

This is also why the symbol for a British pound Sterling is a stylised “L”.

Edit: the currency was at one time backed by silver, so 1 GBP used to be = 1 lbs silver.

Sigh, Rule 5 definitely needs clarifying…

This is either a flat out lie or grossly ignorant.

The Soviet Union was responsible for multiple geocides.

Don’t spread misinformation.

These links support your assertion. Thank you.

I get the feeling that research is circling around consciousness arising from quantum effects inside nerve cells. If it’s not that, and it’s just an emergent property of complex neural networks, then:

• smaller animals are less conscious (note, I’m not saying intelligent) than humans, and
• we are all fucked, because AI definitely is/will become conscious, and when that happens Terminator will come true.

User name mismatch with comment…

| Maybe that is just dislike of U.S. citizens.

Quit possibly. I live in a country without a strong tipping culture and people are (generally) nice.