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  • Meeting face-to-face taught people that words and actions have consequences, sometimes to be counted in the number of teeth hitting the asphalt.

    Lower physical contact reduces some risks, but also fails to teach about them.

  • Pre-portal?...

    Nah, there was a time before all the legislations and regulations, a time with more freedom to... do whatever. It wasn't all for the best, though.

  • The typical guides for installing Jellyfin and friends, stop at the point where you can access the service, expecting you to secure it further.

    Turns out, the default configuration for many (most) routers, is to allow external access to anything a local service will request it to allow, expecting you to secure it further.

    Leaving it like that, is an explosive combo, which many users never intended to set up, but have nonetheless.

  • Depending on where you live, it can be up to "all and anything that you may come into direct or indirect ownership of, for the following x years". Get a job? No salary for you. Want to drive a car? Can't have insurance on a car that's not yours. Inheritance? Nope. Get married? Now half of your spouse's salary is gone. And so on.

    You better hire a good lawyer if you want to declare bankruptcy... and how are you going to pay them?

  • Kind of. Personally, I started using them precisely because I can be reasonably sure that I'd get some without nicotine. My favorite active compound is menthol and "cool effect", with other flavors from time to time.

    Used to be an "After Eight" chocolate fan, but a vape juice bottle plus any random chocolate, is way cheaper.

  • You call it "bullshit propaganda", because you haven't seen black market disposables from China advertised at you local vape shop? Have you considered that, maybe, you haven't seen them... precisely because they were stopped at customs?

    No, I'm not even going to look for a SKU listing, just for your dismissal. Go believe it's FUD if that makes you happier. Ask your government agencies to lift all bans, for extra un-FUDding.

  • Can you elaborate in detail on what makes it "toy shaped?"

    If you didn't get the memo about marketing targeting, there are courses for that. You can drop the sarcasm.

  • If you don't want to use AI in WhatsApp, make sure you keep your hands off the AI button that appears right above the new chat button

    There, that's how you turn it off: exert self-control.

  • Red herring. QDs are not a measure of display quality. These ones are:

    • Resolution
    • Dynamic range
    • Contrast
    • Gray-to-gray transition time
    • Color gamut
    • Viewing angle

    Add power usage and price, and I couldn't care less about it being CRT, TFT, IPS, OLED, QLED, Laser, or hologram.

  • The KGB became the FSB. Historically:

    • KGB officer 1975 and 1991: Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin
    • FSB director 1998-1999: Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin
    • First premier 1999: Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin
    • Acting president 1999-2000: Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin
    • President 2000-[...]: Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin

    ...and so on.

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Putin

  • Nothing new. Working for the UAE, Saudis, Kuwait, etc. has always been the same: they take your passport, and/or withhold payment, and/or you need to get your employer give you permission to leave the country.

    Unless you're wealthy enough to hire people to work for you, never ever go to work there.

  • I'm not into nicotine (menthol extra cold nasal cleaning is my thing), and after comparing prices... went with the 100% modular Vaporesso: mod, pod, coil, custom juice. Initially it's slightly more expensive, but pods last forever, grabbed some coil packs at a good discount which pretty much offset the rest, and after almost a year still haven't gone through a full bottle of juice.

    In EU, Spain in particular, we get 3 years of warranty on customer devices, so the mod itself better last that long!

  • Not exactly. Toy-shaped non-nicotine fruit-flavored cheap disposables, are the best thing to get children hooked up on vaping.

    Tobacco companies used to promote candy cigarettes for the same purpose.

  • They're not. Check those laws again, only nicotine ones are banned.

  • Android is Android/Linux, not GNU/Linux.

    The Linux kernel is compatible with a closed source userland, what makes GNU/Linux attract the userland towards open source, is GNU's glibc, other libc alternatives don't have that effect.

  • Two papers I used to work for closed up shop, and I'd not done so.

    Try the wayback machine, but put the URL with "http" instead of "https". I've recently found a page of mine they archived in the early 2000s, with data from as far back as 1997.

  • "Right of withdrawal" is quite easy: allow cancelling the transaction before the in-game content has actually been used.

    It only takes a "has been used" flag, and maybe a log entry to prove when.

  • The newest take on cookies, is "accept all, or pay to read". Quite shady, if you ask me.