I’ve had Mullvad installed for around a year or more. I turn to it from time to time when I wanna keep things separate from my regular browser, like if I’m looking into items on Amazon that I only need once and don’t want recommendations to get polluted. For example, I was looking at the price of spinning platter HDs after one failed in a NAS. I don’t want Amazon trying to sell me more old-tech drives once I replace it.
Has worked well so far. Haven’t tried the other one.
Put them in a huge bowl of cold water to stretch the effectiveness. I did exactly this during an unbearable summer and it worked well. As to the comment about heating a room, you’re providing cool air on yourself. Worked well enough for me.
I went something like six months without my glasses because I still had an old thin frame. It turned out they’d landed on the base of a black standing lamp. I couldn’t see them from six feet away (my rough height). It was when I bent down to plug something in that I found them. I’d probably lost them getting up to go to the bathroom after falling asleep on the couch cause they just “disappeared” one day. They were in plain sight (if I’d had them on) all along.
Yeah, I have Simplenote on my devices so that my plain text notes are always synced. Movies and TV shows we intend to watch, stuff to get at the store, unlock codes for lockers in the mail room of our building, stuff to discuss with my therapist, records I wanna find and buy, etc. I was at a show last night (Santigold and she kicked ass) and was jotting reminders for myself between songs. Having an instant notes repository is awesome.
I hate it despite realizing what a good life I have because I was born here with a lucky set of circumstances (cis white male). But I love parts of it, like the Bay Area and Oakland and all the surrounding hiking spots. If we didn’t share it with lunatics I’d feel a lot better about it from a policy perspective.
Lightning strikes and both candidates die in a horrible freak accident. Oh wait, you asked worst case…
When the character that’s “driving” keeps moving the wheel back and forth just a tiny bit at a time.
When two characters look at something off-camera in the distance and stare at different points in space (why didn’t the directory catch that?!).
Everyone is faking it to some degree.
Most valuable lesson I was ever forced to learn.
I once saw a cop car moving at the same speed as a shadow cast by a cloud. It looked like the cop was bringing darkness. The metaphor would hit me much harder now; this was in maybe 2000.
It’s also a great path to getting people to do what you want. I was already an atheist when my father and I had a philosophical discussion regarding religion when I was an adolescent. He brought up this point early in the discussion. I only need to look around at all the bullshit laws getting passed that religious zealots vote for against their own interest to confirm that this is true.
The Southern Baptist Church just had their annual conference and decided that their position on Invitro Fertilization is against the procedure. How does that help anyone? It doesn’t.
I prefer knowing that my relationships are genuine and no one is sucking up or trying to get anything from me.
Lurk on r/homelab. Look up some vloggers doing homelab stuffs. Start learning Python (it’s the most common language for breaking into a lot of fields right now). Get on forums where people discuss these things.
Don’t go overboard spending money on hardware for the homelab prematurely. It’s easy to get caught up in building the perfect homelab over actually learning how to implement things. Start with the most barebones rig you can get away with and only start investing more when you’ve stretched it to its limit. Buy second-hand hardware when it comes to things like servers, though I wouldn’t recommend buying servers if you can get away with less, at least until you’re established.
We’re at the end-times for western capitalism, where rent-seeking has become the primary driver of markets. It’s happening all around us.
Doctor Who
Edit: Gdi I meant Doctor Strange.
I thought we were well past this topic. I guess everything old is new again. In fact, I’ll dust off a classic:
“Bugs fly through open Windows.”
Boards of Canada.
Tech. Everyone felt overwhelmed when they started, like they’d never be able to catch up, like they were in over their head. It’s not just you. We all went through it.
One of the former guitarists of thrash metal band Anthrax became a watch repairman. I think maybe he work(s/ed) on antique watches, but I might be making that part up. If you like working with your hands and challenging your mind, this could be great. I listened to a podcast miniseries about a guy who, among other things, repaired clocks. There was a lot of commentary about how reverse-engineering the original design was a big part of the job. (The show was S-Town / Shit-Town).
We got CBD oil for our kitties to help them endure 4th of July fireworks. We tried giving it to them a day early to observe their reactions before everything got loud and scary. One of them scratched me so much (out of fear, not malice) that I quickly gave up. We’re gonna try sneaking it on some tuna tonight. The store was sold out of CBD treats, so hopefully this works.