Unfortunately, taking it offline also won’t work, because iirc games stop working if the console hasn’t been online in a month.

The dentists my insurance will cover are the national chains, and they are always trying to tack on an extra $85 for whatever brand electric toothbrush they’re peddling. They’ll even say I’m doing fine with brushing, but still recommend it, and have the receptionist ask while I’m scheduling my next cleaning.

I find I brush more thouroughly with a manual brush and spend more time than when using a powered one. I think it’s probably more a “what I’m used to” situation where the electric brushes are a bit overstimulating and I forget to keep them charged.

Probably an American thing, many of the dentists I’ve had tried to sell me an electric toothbrush. I claim I already have one (which I do, I just prefer not to use it).

Thank you for your service! o7

Starting finasteride to help prevent hair loss helped me a bit (one of the side effects is lowered libido). Didn’t make a massive difference, but it’s enough for me to notice and feels less like a “bad side effect” and more like a bonus feature.

Ah, yeah, guess I never realized it’s a .NET program. Never understood why an open source dev would choose .NET, but what can you do.

Also despise Docker (especially the modern over-reliance on it), but that always gets me into trouble when I admit that publicly.

I’ll admit I haven’t really looked into it, but how is the Jellyfin web interface insecure? I don’t currently, but in the past I’ve used ssh reverse port forwarding to my VPS and then used an Apache proxy and letsencrypt for ssl on a subdomain. Maybe I was just lucky, but I never had any problems.

Almost certainly not. All you would really need to do to stop this is limit who can submit pull requests to verified devs. Things go back to the way they were during the clunkier, before times when everyone used Subversion, when there were more hoops to jump through to contribute code. Make it so you need an existing contributor to “mentor” first-time contributors (making sure they aren’t an AI, are writing competent code that follows project standards, etc.) before giving access to submit dozens of pull requests.

I mean, his support of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq was pretty controversial towards the end of his life. I think many gave him a “pass” on that due to his illness at the time. But I do recall some starting to question even then, his inconsistency of “religious wars bad, unless it’s against religions I don’t like” (at least that’s how it came across).

You guys are looking at other people’s accounts for trustworthiness? Most I do is judge people off what instance they’re on (which I feel is simultaneously both a very and also not very “dot world” of me).

Out of the loop, why is this an Emma Vigeland W? (She’s awesome, just unaware of how this connects to her)

I bought AMD products for Linux support, and even bought one share of their stock back in the 1st gen Ryzen days. I’ve stayed a customer and shareholder because I was happy that they weren’t prioritizing AI. I’ll be honest though lately some of their moves towards AI, and even that deal they made getting in on the OpenAI money circle bubble have left me questioning my continued support. Part of me wants to sell my share in protest, but I know that won’t even be noticed. Another part of me wants to sell my share because it’ll probably lose value when the bubble pops, but even if it went to zero I’d only be out around $30, and at this point, profiting even a couple hundred bucks off the AI bubble feels like taking blood money.

While I agree with you, I’m not sure Chromebooks should count as “using tech” for the sake of learning. If you really want to give a younger generation experience with technology there are far better systems for them to learn on.

Just a minor bit of pedantry, but Social Security Numbers are generally abbreviated as SSN, SSID usually refers to a “Service Set Identifier” aka WiFi network name.

Haven’t had a chance to really look into it, but there’s also spacebar chat which is an open source selfhosted reimplementation of the discord backend that can be used with existing discord clients and bots and stuff. Which depending on how solid the rest of if is, could really help existing discord people move with less effort.

As someone who was a “store manager” at a franchise with only 2 employees (including myself) this is kinda real. I left in 2012 because even in my early 20s I could see the direction things were going because of corporate mismanagement.

One big downside to ham radio (as someone with my license) is that you can’t use encryption. Which is fine for some use cases, but does limit the usefulness in the “government shut down the internet” kind of scenario.

Which, I suppose if you’re already using back-channels to circumvent some broader government censorship, maybe abiding by FCC rules isn’t a priority anymore, but IMO this is an area where large mesh networks of “consumer” devices with encryption very much still has value.

It’s a bit niche, and I’m probably one of the few people who daily drove them when they were a thing, but bring back Firefox OS phones - they were a bit ahead of their time, but now that every app is a browser window anyway it’d probably be fine, and people are craving a mobile OS alternative to Android and iOS.

Sure, I’d personally prefer something a bit more powerful, so maybe a joint project between Mozilla, and a linux phone distro like PostmarketOS would be cool. Or (since I’m already in fantasy land) depending on hardware, considering Valve’s work on ARM for the Steam Frame, maybe a partnership with them.

Granted, it’s been close to a decade since I daily drove FirefoxOS, there’s always a chance I’m remembering things as better than they were. I should dig my old FirefoxOS Phones out and do a bit of a retrospective look at them.

Andy Serkis? George Takei?

… oh nevermind, found the one you’re talking about.