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  • Just be careful you don't get their "smarthome" line, at least for cameras. It doesn't require Internet to operate, but it requires Internet for configuration and management.

    I'm not sure if that's the same with their doorbells, but it was true of their wifi cameras.

  • I'd also recommend installing whatever quality of life mods/romhacks/emulator settings you can find. Gaming has changed a lot over the years and our brains expect different things than they used to.

    I used to love Gen3 Pokemon growing up, but playing it now feels unbearably slow, but it's a lot nicer with a fast forward setting. Same with adding text speed up cheats, faster running cheats, etc.

    That, and I'd recommend starting with remakes of popular retro games to get hooked. Usually they have some revamping of control schemes or graphics that match your expectations a bit better. Then once you get the momentum going, expand from there.

  • Them both being dead is both convenient and conveniently suspicious. Since Trump is guarded by secret service, conspiracies would arise saying they (under Bidens order, or a Harris power grab) killed him. It would be completely absurd given the circumstances and no reputable source would support it, but people would believe it anyway and Fox would push the story. Widely broadcast funerals for each of them.

    Then nothing... The conspiracies would flow, but nothing much would change.

  • I don't plan for the future, that's how.

    The main "planning" I did was related to my job. I saved a few months of expenses in a savings account. Enough so if I lost my job I'd be able to survive for at least a few months. That removed a ton of stress from the day to day of work since I knew I could always step back if I really had to and if I lost my job I wouldn't starve.

    Essentially I "planned" enough to give me the freedom to live in the moment with less worry.

  • I started with zero-based budgeting via YNAB ages ago when ynab was a local-only app. Over time though I've adjusted and focus on tracking my expenses rather than budgeting. I've found that for me, budgeting is hard to stick to because I can never predict well enough. Ynab helped back when I used it but even then I always had a "rollover" fund I had to steal from almost arbitrarily to make things balanced.

    I do keep a rough spreadsheet budget of my fixed expenses though (rent, internet, phone, electricity, etc) that I use to understand how much of my money is "locked-in" and what is discretionary.

    For tracking, I have a spreadsheet I input all my expenses into every month or two that I use to see how Ive been spending my money, and I use that to decide if I'm happy with where I am.

  • That's a shame. I didn't realize it was that locked down. Ive had a lot of terrible routers but all the ones I remember allowed me at least a port forward.

    I think OP can accomplish some of the same result if he can get a cheap VPS to connect through (have the laptop Wireguard to the VPS, then have a proxy on the VPS forward to the laptop over the VPN, but that's probably not worth the hassle for a starter project unfortunately.

  • With a comment on the test detailing why it matters so people don't just assume the test is out of date when it fails.

    And ideally test the underlying result of x before y, not the fact that x is called before y.

    And while we're at it, assert in Y that X has been called, and again comment the reason for the preconditions.

  • With most consumer wifi networks you can usually enable port forwarding. That would let you access services from anywhere.

    Personally I would set up a Wireguard VPN server on the laptop and enable port forwarding only for the Wireguard port. This will let you access your laptop from anywhere, and it will protect you by limiting your attack surface (basically you only need to have a device Wireguard connection and you don't need to worry as much about securing every other service you want to run).

    Then I'd set up dynamic DNS with any DNS provider so you don't need to keep track of a changing IP.

    Then you can install whatever services you want on the laptop and you'll be able to access them from anywhere by connecting to the Wireguard VPN. It does mean you can't easily let a friend access a service on your laptop, but the tradeoff is you don't have to worry as much about security while you're learning.

  • It's especially weird when the existing targeting can be so effective for much cheaper.

    For tvs for example, they can see what you watch, when, what ads you mute and which you don't, what you display over HDMI (content ID), the other devices on your network, your location, your accounts for every streaming service, what you search for. Then if you install their companion app they learn the other apps on your phone, your location habits, the media you play on your phone (looking at you Bose connect app...), bluetooth and network devices you are near (connecting you to other profiles they know), and probably a lot more.

  • Don't just summarize the content though, summarize the rationale or how things connect. I can read your diff myself to see what changed, I want to know the logical connections, the reason you did X and not Y, etc.

    Or just say "stuff" and provide that context in the PR description separately, no need to overdo the commit log on a feature branch if you're using squash merges from your PR.