A lot of people can get used to it. I actually can’t sleep without it now, and I use the full face model. It’s almost comforting now. That said, some people truly cannot get used to a full face mask. If it’s an option, they do make nasal masks (only covers your nose) and nasal pillows (kind of just rests under your nose.)

I’ve heard there are even more cutting edge options out there but I never looked into them since I’m fine with what I have, but it’s definitely worth doing some research about. Quality sleep really can be life changing if it’s achievable.

This is by design; it’s difficult to demonize “the others” if you have even a drop of compassion.

Very thought out write-up! I generally use Freetube, as I’m primarily a desktop user, but since it’s been down, I learned how to use yt-dlp, and picked up some GUIs that sit on it to try out. It’s been a little surreal watching everything as a self contained file, but almost nostalgic in a way too.

That said, I look forward to when things get patched up on the Freetube front.

Between that, this, and Disney+ cancellation page “accidentally” going down during that fiasco, this is exactly why I’ve switched to using only virtual cards for subscriptions. Pause/Cancel the virtual card, voila, no more subscription.

Anecdotally, I only keep services that require an account to get past the landing page on my VPS. (I’m very new to self hosting and haven’t figured out ways to stop bots/scrapers yet.) So I think if nothing else, that’s a pretty easy starting point.

Can confirm. On the flip side, I did get an interview once, and I asked them why they reached out to me and it was because of some random part time job I held struck their fancy. All things being equal, there is no reason why you get an interview or not, it’s no different than a slot machine.

Didn’t IHOP do something similar by claiming that they were going to change their name to IHOB?

“IHOb also issued a press release about the change and still used the original “IHOP” in its footer, suggesting the switch was a temporary promotion.”

Seems so. Source.

Right? Bold move threatening a death cult with a good time.

I’ve tried suggesting Peertube to a creator before, the rebuttal was that it’d be too much work/too hard to uproot and move everything over.

Well, this abstract says it’s about 20% effective over not advertising but this is a meta analysis and isn’t focused exclusively on internet ads.

The baked in biases being that the authors are “a German chaired professor of marketing at the European University Viadrina in Frankfurt (Oder), Germany” and his research assistant.

Android only? Desktop client stopped working last night. Did you do anything special?

Ahh, Manna.

Thanks for posting that. I was looking for confirmation or debunk and this adds some clarity.

My favorite personal fuck up was when I accidentally locked myself (and literally everyone else in the company) out of the CRM I was working on by disabling the login pages and enabling SSO before I had finished setting up the SSO inside the CRM’s config, and it logged me out as part of the procedure. Whoops.

My biggest use case has been in data formatting. “Here’s a big list of numbers, output it back to me as (String) (Number) (String) (break) (Number)” stuff like that. Before AI I made a little python program to do stuff like that for me but I lost it on my old work computer pre-COVID and never whipped one up again. Writing it out now, I should do that again lol.

Haha holy shit that got a legitimate out loud laugh from me.

Oh, I know. No preaching required. I’m from pre-internet days. That’s why I agree with you. Being this dependent on the internet is not good for me or anyone else.

It would be a big struggle for me but I still agree with you.

Wow, that’s a way better reception than I would have expected!

Some solution is better than no solution. I don’t mind having a ‘fossil’ version for a pinch. We got along okay with hardcovered encyclopedias pre-internet and this is not that different except it still being reliant on electricity. (I have different, more valuable books on hand if we ever wind up THAT fucked.)