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What are the "trusted sources" that are better than Amazon (which is itself no better than Aliexpress)? Or Walmart, or target, or Newegg, which, ditto? I buy straight from brands I…

Yeah, it's great if you have money already, or are willing to roll the dice on your family's health. Or have another country to go back to if anyone in your family gets really, rea…

Wrong. For that, we’d need universal healthcare.

I had a disk in my ZFS pool (a relatively tiny one, among the kind of people who have a home ZFS RAID5 array) go bad earlier this year and bought a used disk for the first time eve…

> Eh, more like cringe. Yeah, true. > They'll get over it. Has not been my experience. > You'll also get better. Ditto. I am not gifted at music but my affinity for it and ability …

For some of us, attempting to dance causes greater amounts of depression in those nearby than it cures in us.

Meh. I never have more than one at once, and destroy my access to old ones before creating a new one (often taking weeks or months off from posting in between). I'd be a lot more "…

I abandon accounts when they get way into the hundreds of karma, generally, or a couple times I’ve let it get a ways into the thousands before destroying the password. I prefer not…

> Also, sarcasm isn’t welcome here. Please read the HN guidelines. Ah yes, I didn't couch my post in any of the various, rampant HN-friendly versions of shitposting. I'll try to fo…

I've build some moderately sophisticated server systems up on "bare metal" (as the kids say), know my way around a shell better than most programmers, understand networking better …

Oh good, nothing's possible then, we should give up on regulating bad things because hitmen think murder isn't bad when they do it.

"Accept all" always makes it go away immediately. Some variant on "reject" takes more effort like 70% of the time. Which is on purpose, of course. The ones that aren't maliciously-…

Anything with the Red Hat stink, these days. Which, yeah, a lot of that’s Poettering. If they haven’t been executing a plan to make it extremely painful to maintain a distro that d…

That is a weakness of sorts, but yes, unless one is attempting a particular, niche affect, an urge to nest parenthesis is usually a cue to re-write the sentence instead.

Bahrain is host to the headquarters of the US fifth fleet, a notable US airbase, and thousands of US military personnel. These assets are being used to attack Iran. They’re involve…

I sometimes prefer parenthesis for very short asides—say, three words or fewer. I find m-dashes easier to read for most other purposes. They’re nicer in longer asides because they’…

> Ecosystems are either too fragmented or too monopolistic. In this case, it's actually both at the same time! No, for real, that's why it sucks so bad, both of those things are si…

Thanks to Jellyfin + Infuse (on AppleTV), even family and visitors have no trouble using my "streaming service". And I can reach it on the road with TailScale. Takes me laughably l…

Haha, this thread has prompted me to follow some of the discussion about stupid bullshit like requiring "user is present" attestation and banning passkey programs (LOL wut?) if the…

My usernames and passwords auto-fill with faceID already. Lots of forms even (somehow?) auto-submit after that, don't even have to press a button.

I’ve just been operating under the assumption passkeys are gonna lock me out unrecoverably in some way at some point, and have been avoiding them for anything important while allow…

LLMs really shine at speeding up corporate bureaucratic busy-work and nonsense. We’re in a golden era when same busy work has not yet expanded due to LLM influence. Let’s appreciat…

I don't see how it's not him, Whitman (the timing of his work is a strong point in his favor, being so concerned with the civil war and that apparently-neveaending struggle in Amer…

Which of the proposed answers in the linked article would you characterize as one or both of "inaccessible" and "politically charged"? I think a couple are bad answers (Wilder? She…