I put away my phone in the opposite pocket from my keys. When I retrieve it, I always pull it out of the same pocket as my keys. Not sure what that's all about.
A torrent swarm of all the government and court documents that parasites like Lexus Nexus paywall. There is no excuse to not have access to government info online and free. If I understand correctly, some states even have the state statutes (aka laws) hidden behind such paywalls.
I would not be surprised if people on foot and good lighting make streets safer than any camera. It's a city design problem and a data hungry surveillance state problem. A good tourist rule is to not wander down empty streets away from crowds. There is a reason for that. When you have 25 people on a street, that's 25 deterrents to crime. If you walk down that same street, empty at night, the only deterrent is a criminal's concience. Cameras can't intervene,they just document.
I have a few routers by them, but not this one. That's really cool for in the city but I worry about reception. The main reason I got the nighthawk was to see if I could log into work from a hot spring with spotty reception. It has antenna ports hidden under the little rubber feet and it does help the range a lot. Still haven't tried the hot spring, but I tried it at a family member in the country's house where the reception is weak and it got me a usable signal. Thanks for sharing. I'll look into glinet a bit more.
Went through and verified that a number of things were backing up and updating correctly. I feel a little less weight on my shoulders knowing things are working as they should.
I worked for a tech company in a legal state 5-10 years back. There were a lot of stoners there because most people couldn't handle their bullshit in a sober state of mind and the company just wanted asses in seats to fulfill their contract obligations. I'm pretty sure Subway would go out of business if the weed disappeared. Your best bet is to make good enough friends with someone who works there (as a normal low-level employee) that you can ask an honest question without getting narced on. At my tech job, I treated the stoners with the same mild indifference as everyone else. Let me do my job, pretend to be normal, and don't do anything I can't ignore. Do not brag about smoking weed in front of management or anyone who makes enough money to care. The only people who got pinched did it to themselves.
In my opinion, which is based on the OPX, OP6T, OP9, OP10 and many many devices I've used from other manufacturers, Oneplus does hardware very well. My latest phone was a Pixel 8 Pro so I could run Graphene and while I do not regret my choice, I do miss the Oneplus hardware, and most of all the 3-position slider switch. My OP6T is old as dirt now, but still exudes a higher quality feel than my Pixel when you hold it. To the point of the discussion: One Plus has amazing battery life and hardware versus competitors at the same price point.
After that comes the part where the AI hallucinates a world where advertising guidelines don't exist and gets the company sued for some very illegal advertising.
I saved your comment because some of these are now on my todo list and some of them I've done recently. I'm also trying to get out more after 2-3 years of being otherwise occupied. I actually went skateboarding again for the first time in a decade or so. A buddy invited me and I even carved the bowl a little. I'm much more risk adverse now though.
Missing an important message like that is a fear of mine. I've also noticed a number of google products don't function well while on VPN. I've decided to dump the problem, Google, rather than the scapegoat, my VPN. I'm about 70% degoogled right now, but every product counts.
I tried RCS when it was newer, but I didn't see any benefit to me and it didn't play well with how often I reset and redo my phone.
At this point, we should all be very familiar with what it means to be a "Facebook friend". Only someone with the emotional depth of a Lego mini figure would think this is a good idea.
Additionally, real friends don't exploit your weak points to sell you shit, whether products or harmful ideologies.
That tallness modifier is more real for me than I ever realized growing up. Wish I had made better us of that earlier in life. The 4-eyes bonus helped my INT too.
Dexterity 15 because I have long arms and legs and I'm thin (but not super athletic)
Constitution 20 (im so damn tired and people overestimate how much more I can carry)
Intelligence 20 (four eyes and fit the stereotype)
Wisdom 5 (I joke a lot which hides my wise takes which often require emotional energy that I don't like to expend
Charisma 15 (I don't feel charismatic, but people keep annoyingly pointing at hard evidence that shows that I'm doing much better than I think)
I've been working really hard the last few years to put new points into Charisma, and I've been building constitution and strength through long brutal bike rides with massive hills regardless of weather.
I have an oil filled space heater that doesn't work. It just runaway heats, trips the breaker, and tries to melt the outlet. The scrapyard will pay me maybe 50¢ for the metal, but I have to drain the oil and then I have to figure out how to properly dispose of that. I've thought about donating it to the side of the highway, but I can't do something like that so it just lives in my living room, unplugged, broken, space-consuming, and ugly.
All that is to say sometimes people don't know how to dispose of items correctly, especially if they're foreigners from a country that sorts differently or not at all.
Back 10-15 years ago a friend tricked me into trying social dancing (think swing, salsa, tango, etc.) by telling me we were going bowling. They drove so I could not escape. Turns out I like it and since it's not partnered a lot of people come alone and if you can summon up basic courtesy and respect, many of them will dance with you if you just ask. Different dances have different vibes. Swing is wholesome and a bit retro-nerdy, salsa is more flirty and extroverted, tango is intense and deeply technical. I made thousands of IRL acquaintances and dozens of friends doing this over the years. I never went or continued doing it because of the people, but they sure made it worth going. I never saw myself doing or liking this until I tried it. Now I can't imagine my life without and I seek it out in every city I travel to. I imagine other hobbies could be similar. You can find group bike rides for various skill levels. Maybe your area has a nature hike club or a mycological society (people who study mushrooms). Poetry slams can be surprisingly cool too. None of this is advertised well, but a great place to look is in the back of an alternative newspaper that covers music and art and stuff like that. Like the back back, just before the weed and escort ads.
I would be signing all my communications cryptographically and sharing a key in person so people can validate whether a message not delivered face to face is really from me.
I see the controversy in the comments section, but none of us would be here if it wasn't for the work of the devs.
I remember internet forums in the 90s and early 2000s and I've played MMO civilization roleplaying Minecraft servers with IRL nazis, takies, fascists, etc. Some of those communities made 4Chan look like Mr. Roger's Neighborhood. From my own experience ml has "character" and so do beehaw and dbzer0. These cultural differences are enabled by decentralized social media. There's validity to the idea that the sign-up process should capture more of these nuances. You don't have to look any further than your own instance to find bad takes and imperfect admins and moderators, but they're still the best of the best because they actually did it and the people talking about them didn't. Maybe I'm uneducated on this and I'll change my mind, but as it stands I'm cool until they force tank emojis on .world users.
I do think it's good that this type of talk happens, as it allows instances to develop a reputation.
That's a no go for me. I stopped going to the gas stations with the ad screens on the pump for this reason. I want to hear the whoosh of gas going in my car, not some fake-cheerful spokesperson trying to sell me stuff. Some spaces are just sacred.
I put away my phone in the opposite pocket from my keys. When I retrieve it, I always pull it out of the same pocket as my keys. Not sure what that's all about.