I think once upon a time, some dumb politician used it to announce something dumb and it didn’t work lol

Devices should never accidentally bend. Unless you drove over it with a car, chances are it wasn’t your fault.

Could be worse, mine have started saying “the MVP must be feature complete and 100% bug free” but there’s a 0% chance there’s enough budget for that.

Podman is purposefully built to rely on systemd for running containers at startup. It ties in with the daemonless and rootless conventions. It’s also nice because systemd is already highly integrated with the rest of the OS, so doing things like making a container start up after a drive is mounted is trivial.

Podman has a command to generate systemd files for your containers, which you can then use immediately or make some minor tweaks to your liking.

I use podman for my homelab and enjoy it. I like the extra security and that it relies on standard linux systems like systemd and user permissions. It forces me to learn more about linux and things that apply to more than just podman. You can avoid a lot of trouble by running the containers as root and using network=host, but that takes away security and the fun of learning.

Not sure what scenarios are exceptions to that. Like, you wouldn’t want to get locked out of an account just because you said STOP to your 2fa codes.

I set up automated texts a while ago and IIRC they must comply with the keywords STOP and HELP, otherwise they can get in big trouble with the carriers.

Once upon a time, Google offered unlimited drive storage as part of some GSuite tiers. They stopped offering it a while ago and have kicked most/all legacy users off of it in the past few months. It was glorious while it lasted 😢

Who do you ask permission from and how? Message the mods? Post a poll?

If nobody was allowed to post their own stuff, then things like official comic accounts wouldn’t exist. Or official accounts in general.

Before the internet even existed. You are aware that forums have existed before anyone made an account on Lemmy, right?

People aren’t allowed to post their own stuff now? That’s been the norm since forever.

You just need to be a little more creative

Data is beautiful impossible to interpret

“Population density map”

https://squoosh.app/

Top tier local image compression. Highly configurable. No installation required.

That’s the classic “If I owe you $5 it’s my problem. If I owe you $5B it’s your problem.”

Yeah, companies like Google are too big and have too much influence over society/politics, but calling them a search monopoly seems like a stretch. Of all the evil things companies like Google do, we’re going after them for paying other companies to make them their default search engine? It takes all of 30 seconds to change the default, though I admit most people won’t, mostly because they honestly have no reason to.

Google funds Mozilla by paying to be Firefox’s default search engine (and probably other royalties for search-related stuff?). In 2021, payments from Google made up 83% of Mozilla’s revenue.

You still get this effect if you are active on specific communities, especially smaller ones.

When you pay principal, you are gaining that much value back as equity. It makes more sense if you think of a loan for something physical like a mortgage. If you pay $100 of principal on your mortgage, that money turns into equity that you own in your home so that when you sell you get that much more (in a simplified way).

You aren’t losing the $100 you pay in principal, it’s just transferring into an asset rather than liquid cash. With a student loan, that asset is your degree/education. It’s a little different than a mortgage because the bank can’t repossess your degree, but the underlying logic is the same.

You could also think of it like paying for your degree on a payment plan. You wouldn’t expect to get a tax writeoff on your couch just because IKEA let you pay in monthly installments.

Paying off principal is essentially shifting money from one pocket to another so it doesn’t really make sense to get a writeoff for that.