If nails were standardised then yeah all this would be overkill. But new nails and heck, wood types are coming out all the time, and you definitely can’t build a spice rack with the wrong tools.

Help?

It really isn’t. I do agree that for most purposes a static network with some central public nodes is the answer, but I want something more dynamic

My mum used to be that way sometimes, but we’ve called her out on it enough times in public that she knows that she doesn’t have our support and she has slowly learned to stop doing that

They’re saying it wrong. The question is: “yerright?” which could be interpreted as “are you alright?” but has enough wiggle room for “you are right” and “I acknowledge your rights”.

Easy.

Easy fix: “Hi, I’m Abe/Adi/Dolf”

I love how Tobias immediately knows.

“The game? What game? Admire the sheer beauty of this bold and majestic man.”

For real. I just spent a decade in academia working dog hours with little pay keeping services running wondering how the true devs and sysadmins do it.

I recently switched to the corporate world and have peeked behind curtain of competency: headless chickens running around, patching failing products rather than spending time to properly fix them because immediate results are the only metric that counts.

Stability, scalability, reproducibility? Forget it, that’s someone else’s problem apparently.

If you really want to experience time, stare at an analog clock without a seconds hand, for 5 excruciating minutes.

A washing machine minute is 20 normal minutes

A lot of them have pretty good PostmarketOS support too, so can double down as a Linux server if you ever move on to another devicd

right?!?

Yeah but how do you use it? There’s no searchable index as far as I’ve seen

Its also one you don’t have any agency over.

(I’m living under the dreamful pretence that the american people can hold their intelligence agencies at least somewhat in check)

My HP is genuinely a creepy laptop. In the BIOS is a an “HP remote setting” as well as 3 other remote modes all at the bios level asking to join my wifi, again, at the BIOS level.

I work from my home laptop. I have a small offline private network between my work laptop and home laptop that I send ansible jobs to (since the work laptop is a powerful machine), but that work laptop does not touch the internet.

What is i2p good for? I install it evert now and then, give it a whirl, and then uninstall it

“You don’t need to be smart, you just need to be useful.”

I live by this creed everyday and it’s served me well. I don’t count myself as smart, but I do have some skills that others dont and vice versa and that’s enough to get stuff done

I wanna take you to a gay bar

You gotta admire the creativity and craftsmanship