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- Comment on How long do we have before PCs get locked bootloaders and corporations ban installation of "non-approved" software? (for context: Google is restricting sideloading worldwide on Android ETA 2027) 1 day ago:
!Remindme 4 January 2026
- Comment on XC Running: Does anyone else's parents do this? 3 days ago:
Much of what you describe sounds bad, and reflects poorly upon your parents and especially your mother, in particular the very strange act of texting the coach WTF? But for the sake of a complete perspective I’ll offer you the most charitable defence I can of why she’s acting this way.
One lens through which these years of discouraging behaviour is that early in as you say, you came in with a lot of excitement and confidence that perhaps may have been premature at the time and maybe at the time she was concerned that you were setting yourself up for a fall and in a fairly misguided way was trying to protect you by trying to pull you back a little and keep expectations realistic so if the reality didn’t reach giddying heights you wouldn’t be devastated. If that is why she’s been acting this way, it seems she went all in on this notion and didn’t realise it was doing a lot more harm than good. I think that this probably then accidentally have became a sticking point between the two of you and she lost sight of her original intention and became more focussed on “bursting you’re bubble” and began to take all evidence that there wasn’t really any such bubble and that indeed you really did have realistic ambitions as a need to be even more critical than ever and so the goalposts have moved and moved.
This interpretation doesn’t exactly make her look saintly either but without knowing too much about her outside of your story it’s at least plausible and at least started with arguably good intentions. I’m not saying necessarily this is definitely what’s happening but you’ll probably have plenty of responses already covering how bad this looks so an extra perspective might be helpful to you. Up to you with you proximity to it to assess how realistic this could be.
- Comment on What strategy would you use to estimate the number of hazelnuts 5 days ago:
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- Comment on Perplexity AI is complaining their plagiarism bot machine cannot bypass Cloudflare's firewall 2 weeks ago:
Gee that’s a real removed it ain’t it perplexity?
- Comment on If I wanted to bury a hard drive for archival purposes (e.g. Country becoming Dictatorship), how to keep the contents from being damaged and where is the safest place to bury it? 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on If I wanted to bury a hard drive for archival purposes (e.g. Country becoming Dictatorship), how to keep the contents from being damaged and where is the safest place to bury it? 3 weeks ago:
Ok but now how do we keep the Bluray drive and any additional materials to make it itself compatible with future hardware it’ll have to interact with, in working order for the same timespan as the media it reads?
- Comment on If I wanted to bury a hard drive for archival purposes (e.g. Country becoming Dictatorship), how to keep the contents from being damaged and where is the safest place to bury it? 3 weeks ago:
Would you have to worry about the records of your ongoing business with these data storage providers though?
- Comment on What are the easiest types of internet videos to make that are not slop? 3 weeks ago:
This is really only if you make commentary style of videos. Which is a huge part of what YouTube is now but still not the only thing on there. There’s skits, there’s not a lot of it, but still people’s films, there’s just something interesting that happened and you had the presence of mind to film it, there’s animation, I think there’s a degree of citizen journalism on there too though I’ve ot really seen a lot of that. That would be maybe commentary adjacent but still slightly different than just a person and a topic.
That said you could do all of those solo, with varying degrees of difficulty.
- Comment on Should I unplug my smart tv from the internet? 3 weeks ago:
I seem to have misunderstood the point to their comment. They’re lending support to the idea that you should unplug it from the internet whereas I initially thought they were saying that even if “unplugged” from the internet, OP’s current setup wouldn’t save their privacy anyway because the TV will send those screenshots to the internet whether it’s by via the TV’s own apps, or “through” the HDMI cable which in my mind implied either getting internet connectivity through that cable or at least sending the images to the laptop and having that send them. I couldn’t see how that was supposed to work.
I realise now that’s not their point at all, they’re saying that if it’s allowed to remain connected to the internet, simply abstaining from using the TV’s own apps and using persistently a connected device via HDMI instead, it’ll still send screenshots of that HDMI output through its own internet connection and so yes, indeed OP should disconnect the TV from the internet.
- Comment on Should I unplug my smart tv from the internet? 3 weeks ago:
I don’t see how they could, the laptop isn’t going to know what to do with them, they’d have to also get you to install something on the laptop which you’d obviously not do.
- Comment on Does anyone say "What ho!" anymore? 4 weeks ago:
Have you by any chance just stepped out of a Cryo chamber some mad Edwardian scientist made for you?
- Comment on Could one legally get a hold of those bank bill dye security dye packs, dye your own legally obtained cash with it, and spend it places? Just to make people suspect you're secretly a bank robber. 5 weeks ago:
If that’s the case, wouldn’t the bank be liable for destroying money when they place those anti theft dye packs on money and then get robbed?
- Comment on Ice cream trucks still around? 1 month ago:
I thought it was kinda mandatory for ice cream trucks to play Greensleeves.
- Comment on Ice cream trucks still around? 1 month ago:
Still got them here in Australia. They’ve always been a rarity and somehow they’re always somewhere else where you can’t see them yet they sound close by but they seem about as common now as my childhood in the 90s.
- Comment on What's the equivalent of rose coloured glasses for always seeing something in a negative perspective? 1 month ago:
I’ve seen a lot of various 3 word combos mostly revolving around shit and shot adjacent coloured eye ware and that was my thought as well but one thing I think everyone’s missed is that it you want to try and stick to the template so it’s recognisable the antonym for the phrase but still change enough of it to be clever, we should change tinted as well and I think “tainted” is perfect since it sounds almost the same and has a similar meaning in context but still adds it’s own negative connotations.
“Shit tainted glasses” is the chef’s kiss in my mind. Unless anyone’s got something that means the same or almost the same as glasses but also adds additional negative overtones.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Other than in some very niche and select circumstances that I honestly can’t really think of, nobody is going to think it’s cool. However if you like it and want to do it then that’s really more important than if others will think it’s cool. However, I should add some caveats to that.
In some environments, if you’re young than school especially, can be very cruel and very conformist. In those sorts of environments, being “weird” can seriously make you miserable because you’ll be ostracised and while being authentic and true to yourself is important you’ll need to decide how important this specifically is to you, because if it’s not that important then in a context like school I’d say don’t risk it.
However if you want to try it out sometimes around friends who already like you then why not? Just try to keep an eye on people’s reactions and see if they start to get tired of it or roll their eyes or visibly cringe, that’s a sign you’re doing it too much and it’s getting irritating. Definitely don’t change your entire speech pattern to whatever you decide equates to “old timey”, all the time in every conversation with everyone, it won’t land well.
- Comment on What are the privacy risks of exposing IP adresses? 1 month ago:
There’s stuff on there I didn’t download… Hundreds of gigs. Eek.
- Comment on Oh to go back... 2 months ago:
It was pretty impressive, I remembered wondering if that was something Americans got to do that we didn’t in Australia. Seems like other than a few localised experiments in some states it was fiction even for the yanks at the time. I must say I actually still think it’s pretty dope doing that. I liked the little remote controlled fireplace screensaver too. Seemed very cosy.
- Comment on Why is my GPU's "3D" usage spiking so wildly when I'm not even playing a game? It keeps throttling up and throttling down and the noise is extremely annoying 2 months ago:
What turned out to be the problem application?
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
I was unbothered by it as well, at least intestinally, the physical pain of something hot enough was certainly something I could experience and dislike at the extreme end but my stomach and bowels would have been fine. That it until about the past 5 years or so when my stomach suddenly decided it couldn’t handle all kind of things that were never a problem before and now I totally get what people were talking about. It’s pretty sad, I miss being able to reliably tolerate highly spicy food.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
The easy answer is no, that is not an overreaction to the problem as you’ve assessed it. You didn’t want to drive to begin with, because of doubts about your capacity to drive, then when you did drive you encountered a dangerous situation and now you don’t to do it again, that’s just rational.
The tricky part is deciding if you’re going to persevere anyway. Though not wanting to drive again is rational and probably good for everyone else on the roads, you are also most likely not uniquely incompetent even if you’re self critical and doubting. This might be where the idea that you are overreacting comes from, the tension behind this rational response and the simultaneous idea that perhaps you’re being too self critical. Ironically, I think both are true.
For better or for worse we’re living in a world where you can continue to do this and on balance of probabilities, you will get used to driving and get more capable with it, but there’ll be a period while you reach that stage where you and everyone else on the road will be at risk of harm. That’s not a great situation and something that in other contexts for other activities might not be tolerated, but it also might be a necessary one. It might perhaps put your mind at ease (or the opposite depending on how you interpret this), to realise that the road is full of drivers that might not be “good” drivers because they’re, nervous, have bad multitasking, are drunk or on drugs, are tired, aren’t concentrating, are underconfident, are overconfident, angry right this second, inexperienced, over experienced to the point of becoming inattentive and all manner of factors that should objectively mean people just shouldn’t drive but nevertheless we do and in the time and circumstances that we find ourselves in you wouldn’t be against the moral zeitgeist on this to decide that driving is necessary or beneficial enough for you that you’re going to become just one more such driver less than optimal driver in the roads. Hopefully after a while you’ll get past the fear and inexperience and that will make you a driver of at least average competence.
This isn’t to say I think you should do that. One less car on the road, especially driven by someone who by their own judgement thinks they aren’t a good driver and also doesn’t want to drive would, in the grand scheme of things be good, but I acknowledge it would be hypocrisy of me to suggest that you should exclude yourself on this basis when very few of the rest of us would.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Their question seems to be about buying their from outside the US rather than from. They’re asking about risks involved with importing stuff there.
- Comment on A great disturbance in the Fediverse 2 months ago:
What’s this in reference to? I’m out of the loop.
- Comment on Mom sues porn sites (Including Chaturbate, Jerkmate, Superporn and Hentaicity) for noncompliance with Kansas age assurance law; Teen can no longer enjoy life after mom caught him visiting Chaturbate 3 months ago:
In such a case, does the plaintiff have to actually have a kid though? Like if it’s an open secret that the case is manufactured, do you not get in to any kind of trouble if for example you made up the hypothetical damaged child? Because otherwise some poor kid is still going to have a rough time whether the case is “real” in the sense of a genuinely outraged parent who suddenly decided to sue, or “manufacturerd” in the sense that the story is basically hypothetical and can’t be disproven and the motivations for suing are part of a political movement with backing and strategy behind it.
- Comment on Infrared contact lenses let you see in the dark 3 months ago:
Black sight? Binocular Superiority? Better Seeing?
- Comment on >:)> 3 months ago:
I can’t believe I’ve never seen this before! This was fantastic!
- Comment on YSK some cities in the US are starting to build an affordable community built wifi network that goes around big telecom companies 3 months ago:
I noticed the gradual shift from program to app over time since the iPhone took the world by storm, but then again it was never incorrect. Applications are synonymous with programs so an executable on your windows desktop is an app as much as it is a program.
I’ve never come across anyone referring to a Reddit account as an app but I can definitely see someone who interacts with Reddit exclusively using the Reddit app referring to both the platform and a means of accessing as the same thing both out of a conscious choice for convenience or ignorance and actually they’d be right either way except in the latter case only accidentally since it you say “I really love using that app Reddit to look at memes and talk to people” despite not actually knowing the app isn’t the platform, your sentence would still be correct.
The activating thing, I jimmycrackcrack declare that I will allow it. Look it’s a sneaky hardware manufacturer and provider term to imply the device doesn’t work until you give them money but then, as a piece of language with utility, well… your phone doesn’t work without a sim, at least in the common understanding of what “work” means here. Since a phone of any stripe, dumb or smart is pretty useless without a sim card, getting that message across to consumers that you have to do something to make it functional, to “activate” it is necessary. You could choose to frame it as unlocking but then again if you’re selling these things you probably don’t want people thinking you locked them up and then sold them the keys and in fact, the manufacturers kinda didn’t, it’s the service provider that doesn’t provide service to a functioning device until they’re given money, who are doing that and given they’re a business, that’s sorta how they have to operate.
- Comment on Why do we tolerate it that Luigi Mangione is being held in prison. We know its absolutely the least safe place he can be? 3 months ago:
The question is easier to answer with any sympathy and understanding when you ask any given individual if they’re personally planning a jailbreak on behalf of this person. At least that seems to be the calculus for what “tolerate” means here.
There’s little room for parties not directly involved to work within the system and if the independence of the judiciary is under suspicion then “fight and die” is literally the prospect people would have to face to reasonably do anything about this and that’s a pretty high bar, one which I doubt many would-be critics of the “fat, lazy cowards” would be willing clear themselves.
- Comment on Winning 4 months ago:
In terms of therapy, what are you looking for?
- Comment on *Doesn't look like anything to me.* 4 months ago:
I wonder if those dates are always accurate. Is the source date something searchable or likely to come up in results when a user searches for something “90s”? Maybe it really is AI garbage that’s just tagged 90s.