Commodity hardware & open source software for the win.
When my Western Digital NAS was never going to get critical security patches, I was so freaking glad to find out that they just used software raid… I threw the HDDs in a Debian server and never looked back.
It’s certainly nice to have things that are turn-key, but if you can find your way around any OS, just avoid proprietary everything.
On the contrary, I learned nothing first and I struggled pretty bad.
After a while though you start to get a grasp on things.
0.8, 0.9, etc…
Isn’t building a CRM a sort of rite of passage for tech entrepreneur failures?
That reminds me, I once heard an irritated dad at a kids playground yell “cheese and rice”!
I love it. I’ve been enjoying “MotherFather” as a soft landing out of habitually cursing when frustrated.
Grayjay can stream nebula, so there must be a way.
I always hated his pupils.
Moira Fogarty and Ruth Golding
Do you ever use librivox? There are a few specific readers I found there that are great for me to fall asleep to.
Utilizing the library is a good idea, I should really do they more. I know in the US they need our support too.
Lately I have been trying to notice my doom scrolling actually using it as a cue to convert that energy into reading something I’m interested in.
I’m trying to quit scrolling like I quit smoking decades ago: with intentional anger for being controlled and then redirection.
I have, on a few occasions, rebooted my reading habit from traveling by airplane.
I have found that if I do everything I can to feel as good as possible before a flight, and bring a book in my carry on, it’s one of the rare situations that there is nothing pulling me away from reading. I went somewhere for work last month and I finished 2 books on that trip. That made me really happy and motivated to keep it alive.
Yeah, I think asymmetric warfare is they key word I was grasping for.
I guess I wonder what other games, besides geopolitical competitions (or conflicts specifically) represent similar asymmetry
Chatbots can’t “admit” things. They regurgitate text that just happens to be information a lot of the time.
That said, the irony is iron clad.
This is probably true of a lot of covert operations. Thanks for the history, I did not know that!
But those are just different debuffs!
You still have brackets, but they’re at every $0.01