https://bookshop.org/ (formerly https://www.indiebound.org/ebooks I think) donates a percentage to a local bookstore (of your choosing iirc, haven’t bought or even torrented a book in a while).

They don’t have everything, but a lot.

Kobo for other things.

As someone who has to interface professionally with solidworks and everyone at my company on the mechanical side uses solidworks, it is also slow as fuck when the part or assembly gets a bit complicated. Just opening it takes a few minutes. If we have to open solidworks and an assembly from scratch during a meeting, that is 10 minutes gone.

Definitely has 10x as many QoL and productvity features and much better TNP solutions and heuristics built over decades, plus very useful plugins, but speed and stability are not its strong points 😂

As a vegetarian (environmental, so like 1 flex day per month), so getting fiber isn’t bad. I eat a lot of beans and lentils. A bit harder to go low calorie while getting enough protein.

I have been getting back into running and started eating healthy again at 1500kCal with watching macros and getting enough fiber. I have lost 5 kilos or in the last month. Easy peasy. I am also eating giant meals just from volume of vegetables and lentils and weighing the ingredients like I used to do when I worked out 2-3 hours a day in university. Feels good

Asbestos is kind of a wonder material.

Easy to manufacture in complex shapes, inert (acid resistant, so great for chemical pipes), flame retardant, great insulator, and fairly cheap.

Shame that it causes really bad cancer…

I always found trivia murder party quite boring, myself. My friend groups always just ended up having conversations during it

This is absolutely so true. All of the “hunting” survivalists don’t realize that you would essentially have 1000 people hunting every 1 deer if you live in the suburbs and not that much better rurally. This isn’t 1800 anymore.

The best thing you can do is have enough land to farm, learn how to farm, and stock the hell up on base ingredients (wheat, rice, dry beans, lentils) and stock up on as many seeds as you know how to grow. Even then; one bad harvest and you starve.

But seriously, I can’t stress dry beans and lentils enough. They last forever, they can be sprouted and replanted, and they have many many times more protein than corn or rice which is very important when you go vegan.

Also getting ducks will give eggs for additional protein and B12 vitamins that you would miss out on otherwise.

Dropping instead of blocking might technically be better because it wastes a bit more bot time and they see it as “it doesn’t exist” rather than an obsticle to try exploits on. Not sure if that is true though.

For me:

• ssh server only with keys

• absolutely no ssh forwarding, only available to local network via firewall rules

• docker socket proxy for everything that needs socket access

• drop non-used ports, limit IPs for local-only services (e.g. paperless)

• crowdsec on traefik for the rest (sadly it blocks my VPN IPs also)

• Authelia over everything that doesn’t break the native apps (jellyfin and home assistant are the two that it breaks so far, and HA was very intermittent so I made a separate authelia rule and mobile DNS entry for slightly reduced rules)

• proper umask rules on all docker directories (or as much as possible)

• main drive FDE with a separate boot drive with FDE keyfile on a dongle that is removed except for updates and booting to make snatch-and-grabs useless and compromising bootloader impractical

• full disk encryption with passworded data drives, so even if a smash and grab happens when I leave the dongle in, the sensitive data is still encrypted and the keys aren’t in memory (makes a startup script with a password needed, so no automated startups for me)

For more info, I followed a lot of stuff on: https://github.com/imthenachoman/How-To-Secure-A-Linux-Server

HealthyPi will be a too option too. Much more fitness focused than pinetime or banglejs

Our fucking corporate HP printer requires every single employee to make a separate fucking HP account in order to scan anything on the stupid piece of shit.

Not to mention in CONSTANTLY freezes and crashes.

We are replacing it. Fuck HP.

Hey, I have done something similar to this.

I turn the VPN on every time I connect to a WiFi without the SSID of my trusted places.

Super easy with tasker.

Here is the XML to import and experiment with OP:

<TaskerData sr="" dvi="1" tv="6.4.15">
	<Profile sr="prof7" ve="2">
		<cdate>1693206728189</cdate>
		<edate>1742652330550</edate>
		<flags>8</flags>
		<id>7</id>
		<mid0>8</mid0>
		<mid1>9</mid1>
		<nme>VPN Automation</nme>
		<State sr="con0" ve="2">
			<code>160</code>
			<pin>true</pin>
			<Str sr="arg0" ve="3">HomeWifi/telenet-C6DE3/My VW 4685</Str>
			<Str sr="arg1" ve="3"/>
			<Str sr="arg2" ve="3"/>
			<Int sr="arg3" val="2"/>
		</State>
		<State sr="con1" ve="2">
			<code>110</code>
			<pin>true</pin>
			<Int sr="arg0" val="1"/>
			<Int sr="arg1" val="1"/>
			<Int sr="arg2" val="1"/>
			<Int sr="arg3" val="1"/>
			<Int sr="arg4" val="1"/>
			<Int sr="arg5" val="0"/>
		</State>
		<State sr="con2" ve="2">
			<code>160</code>
			<Str sr="arg0" ve="3"/>
			<Str sr="arg1" ve="3"/>
			<Str sr="arg2" ve="3"/>
			<Int sr="arg3" val="2"/>
		</State>
	</Profile>
	<Task sr="task8">
		<cdate>1693214693841</cdate>
		<edate>1694095080534</edate>
		<id>8</id>
		<nme>Turn On VPN</nme>
		<pri>100</pri>
		<Action sr="act0" ve="7">
			<code>365</code>
			<Bundle sr="arg0">
				<Vals sr="val">
					<net.dinglisch.android.tasker.RELEVANT_VARIABLES>&lt;StringArray sr=""/&gt;</net.dinglisch.android.tasker.RELEVANT_VARIABLES>
					<net.dinglisch.android.tasker.RELEVANT_VARIABLES-type>[Ljava.lang.String;</net.dinglisch.android.tasker.RELEVANT_VARIABLES-type>
				</Vals>
			</Bundle>
			<Str sr="arg1" ve="3">WireGuardSetTunnel(true,BE-wg)</Str>
		</Action>
	</Task>
	<Task sr="task9">
		<cdate>1693214759029</cdate>
		<edate>1693374826981</edate>
		<id>9</id>
		<nme>Turn Off VPN</nme>
		<pri>100</pri>
		<Action sr="act0" ve="7">
			<code>365</code>
			<Bundle sr="arg0">
				<Vals sr="val">
					<net.dinglisch.android.tasker.RELEVANT_VARIABLES>&lt;StringArray sr=""/&gt;</net.dinglisch.android.tasker.RELEVANT_VARIABLES>
					<net.dinglisch.android.tasker.RELEVANT_VARIABLES-type>[Ljava.lang.String;</net.dinglisch.android.tasker.RELEVANT_VARIABLES-type>
				</Vals>
			</Bundle>
			<Str sr="arg1" ve="3">WireGuardSetTunnel(false,BE-wg)</Str>
		</Action>
	</Task>
</TaskerData>

Then the question is: what is being smart or dumb? If acting dumb in 90% of life while having the capability of being smart isn’t “being dumb” then what is?

If someone who has the capability of being 50/100 intelligent and is always acting 50/100, I would argue they are smarter than someone capable of 80/100 intelligence but acts 20/100 intelligence for 90% of their life.

And then I get down voted for laughing when people say that they use AI for “general research” 🙄🙄🙄

It is better in every way except easy printability and water absorptionon the spool (wet petg Is much harder to print but it can get wet after printing no problem)

Stronger, UV resistant, more watertight, much more heat resistant, more resistant to creep at room temp, less brittle, can print clear, and doesn’t have a bad warping problem or need and enclosure like printing ABS.

It is essentially just PLA but better and a bit harder to print. I completely switched over to PLA because I found good settings for FormFutura recycled PET (more stringy than petg)

This is what feddit.nl uses as an alternative UI. It seems to me pretty much the UI of new reddit vs the default which is more the old UI of reddit. Also images don’t load well on photon. If you click into them, they are often the thumbnail just blown up instead of the full res version.

This is a better list than the actual list probably 😅 Not having hollow knight or cuphead on the actual list is pretty insane and it is much more of a “non-mainstream best indie games” list

That is a fantastic idea. Wtf how is this not commonplace? Or am I just way behind 😅

Don’t worry. Companies like Bambu and others are trying to lock down shift their printer business in the style of 2d printer companies. I hope it at least happens very slowly, but the enshittification is happening…

I love how they say

there are moments when Arceus is genuinely pretty

and then show a screenshot of a game that looks objectively worse than a low-budget movie tie-in from 2007. I mean look at the 1 tile, non-randomized, no noise, no depth, repeating light effect on the water with 0 effort put in to even make it look slightly good. The depth of field and fog looks like it is from pokemon pearl with a gaussian blur put on top of it.

Super mario sunshine from 2002 looks almost as good at the water looks 10x better lol

Gamefreak puts literally 1% effort into any of their games…

Hell I wish the big phones had SD card slots…

There are very very few phones that have them anymore. Chinese phones, Sony, fairphone, and Samsung midrange, that is about it…