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My concern is very much those two concerns plus the fact that I value being able to be anonymous. We're increasingly losing that in the real world with CCTV and AI that would event…

In middle school, I had good grades but was considered a bit of a teacher's pet and was not well liked (especially since I sucked at sports). So I stopped doing homework, I showed …

I mostly like it when writing quick shell scripts, it saves me the 30-45 minutes I'd take. Most recent use case was cleaning up things in transmission using the transmission rpc ap…

I like perplexity when I need a quick overview of a topic with references to relevant published studies. I often use it when researching what the current research says on parenting…

Yes, I'd be fine as long as there's a clear documentation and that I can control it within my local network even if the company's servers are down

They're just white labeling Toshibas

While it's not officially supported you can use nvmes to run containers. I do this on my own nas and it works great. See https://www.reddit.com/r/synology/comments/1gobb14/guide_ho…

Do you have a link to your script? Mostly I'd love to have a good dashboard for that data.

Cult indoctrination could be explained by this but could also be explained by the fact that a certain number of formerly gifted kids, who have been ostracised during their childhoo…

For some reason, I find the ANC of the quiet comfort to be very uncomfortable. When I turn on the ANC, it feels like there's a sort of pressure and I really dislike it. On the othe…

It's such a pity that bitwarden's client doesn't work offline for modifying vaults (need to be online to be able to access the server implementation). I would switch from my old lo…

20 years ago when I was living in Shanghai, my girlfriend was a member of the communist party (meritocratic she was enrolled because she had great grades). She had regular meetings…

That saying in France is usually understood to be for cities outside of Paris and only referring to "Gares" (that word is used for train stations, not for subway stations). Anecdot…

I regret deeply investing in some of Musk companies (xAI, spaceX) in the past. Especially for the last investment xAI, I should have had a wake up call before that.

I used to just buy whatever tool I needed to do hardware jobs and collected a hodge podge of poor quality tools like this. One day I decided to research, buy a bunch of high qualit…

You mean kindle unlimited? That's the only monthly subscription they have?

I mean Project Hail Mary is also far from being exceptional. I didn't dislike the book and it was enjoyable but I would never think it deserves an award. In particular, the scenes …

In my experience, the positive attributes you list tend to be more associated with middle class than upper classes. At a certain amount of wealth, you can see very problematic beha…

As someone who was bullied in middle school (highlight includes being held down by 2 guys while someone else peed on me), trauma does stay. I mean, I'm a relatively well balanced i…

I absolutely hate cloudflare for the same reason you have. Besides traveling and using a VPN, I like in Hong Kong, a country that many sites have decided to block completely. It's …

What's interesting is that some of the Asterix were even translated in local dialects. It's the only comic I've ever read in Plattdeutsch ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low_German…

Same. I did really like webos when it was finally released, I got one of those HP touchpad and happily used it. But it was too little, too late.

It gets worse, the banks I use have phased out sms for 2FA. Only using their app on a non-rooted phone is allowed. So getting a dumb phone doesn't work either.

I don't know, most people in Hong Kong, don't expect China to hold any promises nowadays... Outside of people who live in mainland China, I don't think nowadays many people trust C…

That particular bit of insanity is mostly restricted to the US. Other western countries still allow children to roam free for now