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  • If you're just testing on it you can get away wit pretty much anything as long as it's Apple Silicon. I would think a used M1 Mini is probably your cheapest bet, and as a bonus you can use it as a media serve for Plex of something when you're not testing on it.

    If it's got to be a laptop form factor, then yes, an MBA is probably your best bet.

  • I think what you are looking for is Containers. FF uses containers to wall things off from each other, whereas Private sessions are still all sandboxed together, as you discovered. I know this is quite different from how Safari, for example, handles things, but you can accomplish the same things, just a little differently.

  • Oh man, I feel you. Worst thing for my last cat was he had to get radiation therapy for his hyperthyroidism. So he had never been away from home overnight and they have to keep them like 4 days until the radiation is out of their system enough to come home BUT they say no cuddling or sleeping next to them for another 3 days. He was SO SAD when I would push him away to the other side of the couch and when I had to lock him out of the bedroom for the first time ever.

  • Well, yes. I probably still would. But that's me. And also, you're talking about "instant access" when actually if you want access to a specific and popular book there's usually a wait of a couple weeks to a couple months. So some people who really want that book are going to want to read it right now and might buy it for the instant access whenever they want?

    At any rate, there are people who use the library and people who don't. I read like 2-3 digital books a year usually—only when the library failed to get a physical copy, basically. But I only buy a few of those books for home use (physically again) because there are only a few that I really like enough to own. But that has been the case with library users practically since libraries were invented, so it's not that new a situation.

    Scribd I can't speak to as I don't use that at all, but it kind of sounds like Kindle Unlimited, so… if they're paying the authors, it needs to be adjusted enough to where the authors are getting a decent cut per use. This is the same as with Spotify and music. It's something that has to be worked out obviously, but there's nothing to say it couldn't happen as far as I know.

  • I think the point is if you like the book you hopefully buy a copy for yourself? I tend to read like 40 books a year and if I didn’t use the library extensively the foundations on my house would crumbled under the weight. As it is I still end up acquiring probably 5 or 10 new books a year despite everything.

    (But at least they’re ones I know are good.)

  • As everyone else has said, I don't consider it a problem. Earth is pretty far over carrying capacity as it is.

  • This. This is why I am in the “I still buy CDs” camp. DL the album and if I’m still listening to it a couple days later I buy the CD, assuming the artist still even releases on CD…

  • Too bad they didn't take a shot with the recording light on—I'm curious how obvious it is so I know what to look for in the future.

  • The thing about a report like this is you could just as easily have gotten an asymptomatic COVID infection at some point and now be experiencing long COVID rather than symptoms as a result of the vaccine itself.

    We have a person in the office who is now dead set against having any more vaccines because her blood pressure has increased a lot recently and she's positive its vaccine-related. But that seems fairly unlikely, plus she has been someone who after a few vaccines started claiming she'd had doctors tell her that COVID wasn't that bad, so she's traveled a ton compared to almost everyone else in the office, which to my mind makes it much more likely she got an asymptomatic version and now is suffering after-effects of that.

    But then again, I'm not medical professional either. This is just me pointing out that correlation is not causation.

  • The way they are ignoring the criminals in their midst is hilarious and tragic. (More tragic than funny, alas.)

    Jordan was pretty deeply involved in Trump's Jan 6th overthrow attempt and the waters around George Santos just keep getting hotter and hotter and yet… one of them may become speaker and the other shows no signs of being kicked out of congress.

  • Yeah I reread your question after I posted and realized you were asking something different. Tried to delete it before anyone read it but oops… 😬

  • I guess this was in reaction to our city in particular, where they have made the new 3 lanes each way major arteries much more curvy to help control traffic speds but still have a bike lane separated only by white paint (on a 35mph street where everyone travels 50mph). The winding aspect has just made it more likely that drivers cutting the corners clip into the bike lane more basically.

  • Design our streets to be narrow and winding

    And with separate, protected walking and cycling infrastructure.

  • Back to school kevlar sales! Keep your child safe and fashionable!

    But more seriously, it is so past time to actually regulate trucks and SUVs. We are here because congress left a "light truck" loophole in their legislation decades ago and never closed it. No other country in the world uses almost exclusively gas-guzzling trucks and SUVs instead of smaller, more efficient cars to the extreme extent we do.

  • Oh he can talk all he wants. He just can't be elected, lol.

  • She's literally probably just trying to squeeze a few more dollars out of anyone she can on her way out the door. She's only ever been about the money she can generate from bribes. Oops, I mean lobbying.

  • You know what would slow it down a lot? Legislating that anything created with data sets using publicly available data cannot be copyrighted or trademarked. And while we're at it, lets create a bill of privacy rights for people.

  • I mean, obviously this does matter, but given that the 1% are the ones causing as much pollution as the combined poorest 50% of the world, I feel like we need to ground bizjets a lot more than we need to noodle over whether or not office work causes more pollution than remote work.