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This is the time to leave.

I feel sorry for everyone who built a community or business around Twitter.

> Aren't the side-effects of covid well established, on average more severe, and much more common?

There is no doubt that we'd have a lot more deaths without the vaccines. I suspect that is true for at least some of the lockdowns too.

In my experience, people aren't very good at assessing risks. Actively doing something that comes with a certain risk is often perceived as being more dangerous than passively hoping to avoid what is objectively known to be the greater risk.

If those risks are then contested or associated with a high degree of uncertainty, making an active choice often becomes a question of deferring the decision to someone you really trust. If you don't trust anyone, you're not likely to do anything.

An anecdote - I know a few people who didn't get the vaccine, or got it a lot later than everyone else, and more often than not they have had bad health care experiences in the past. When you've been on the receiving end of one or more mistakes of that kind, it isn't difficult to understand how waiting to see what happens seems like the smarter choice.

> I know server admins do this shit like in a couple of minutes

Yeah, but only from the second time on, and just until our notes become so crowded that we start gambling on re-learning being faster than maybe finding wherever the solution was documented ;)

Thanks, this is excellent!

> How is Linux on a MacBook Air?

In my experience, older (pre-T2 and Apple silicon) models are relatively easy to get working.

I'm currently running Linux Mint 21 on an Air 2017 that was excruciatingly slow when running mac OS, and it got a lot snappier on linux. The drive is still slow, and I'd love to replace it, but the adapter that supposedly lets you connect an M2 NVMe to that silly we're-so-so-special-and-you-can't-have-an-M2 port didn't work with the spare drive I had on hand.

Oh, and due to restrictive licensing (on Apple or Broadcom's part) the wifi drivers and webcam firmware can't be included in the Mint installation media, so I had to bluetooth tether my mac to my phone to download and install the correct wifi drivers, and also had to download and install the webcam firmware manually.

If they offer IMAP, they would also need to decrypt your data on their side, which I'm happy they go to lenghts to avoid.

This is a case of Proton sacrificing convenience for privacy. If the former is more important for you than the latter, there are better alternatives out there.

Thanks for the tip!

> (I also didn't understand why old people would play golf when they could ride bikes)

That's it, I'll never become an adult.

Having traveled through large parts of Europe by train before ever visiting the UK, I can only say that UK train travel isn't beginner friendly.

In my opinion XPS is about size and to an extent performance, but not better (build) quality. In my experience both the Latitude and Precision series have had fewer hardware issues despite being more prevalent, where only part of the explanation is that XPS-es are used more often by people who also travel more.

I haven't kept up with what's new, so thanks for pointing this out!

I can't see the point in paying anyone this much, no matter what they do.

I thought so too, but then I started keeping a diary. I also stopped, as the past 20 months really have been extraordinarily busy.

Anyway, if you write stuff down, it turns out you mostly just forget most of what you did, and tend to misremember or mix up times and dates.

tl;dr - you're probably more awesome than you remember.

When I had to go through that about 7-8 years ago, actually on behalf of a boss of mine who couldn't be bothered sitting through the whole thing, it took a full 15 minutes.

I will continue to bring it up when I can, no matter if they change their ways.

Happy to see clinical research with human trials, can't wait for the findings!

I prefer Mint Cinnamon, which feels like a better looking and more polished Ubuntu with saner defaults.

Bitwarden has a hotkey to invoke autofill on a page. Not sure how much safer it actually is, but at least it feels like I'm in control.

The first issue was fixed and just closed, and seems like it was very difficult to track down.

In my opinion REBOL was a great idea, and I also wrote quite a few extremely terse but readable inhouse apps before REBOL v2 development completely halted, and a useable v3 never materialized. As proprietary payware, it didn't really stand a chance.

I hope Red turns out better, but they're a bit late to the party, and need a lot more hands to evolve. Since I'm not in a position to help, I'll stick with Go + fyne for whatever can't be a web app.

Cool idea, but I'd worry about all the malformed markup.

Great idea!

Just a heads up - the original power supply tends to give off higher voltages the older it gets, so make sure to check the 5V rail, or better, get an aftermarket PSU. They use less electricity, don't run blazing hot, and won't burn your precious antiquity :)

Still have my doubled C64 floppies, of which some were horribly scarred by the big blunt scissors I started out with.

You could also convert Amiga floppies from single to double density by adding a hole, giving you 1760kB. I didn't have money for quality disks, and found that "punching" the hole with a hot soldering iron lead to less problems than using what was probably the wrong bit in my dad's drill.

Keep it where you keep your other valuables, and store a reasonably safe copy with family or friends.

Que?

If you have flour, and haven't had the chance before, this is the perfect time to get a sourdough starter going. And don't throw away the discard/leftover, it can be used as a base for all kinds of stuff, from pancakes to cupcakes!

By switching to Amazon, I believe you can reduce the monthly $3.75 down to $0.45, which hopefully isn't enough to break your bank.

We have the same tradition in Norway, probably stole it from our neighbours.

I've replaced both Evernote and my markdown file hierarchy with Joplin (on linux and windows, trying android next), and love it!

Only thing I really miss is the ability to have completely separate instances. While it's theoretically possible to script different configs, they can't be used simultaneously.

Syncing works well both through Syncthing and Google Drivw. Haven't tried syncing through OneDrive, and IIRC the docs had some warning about it.

As kids we obviously wanted to be ninjas, which was mostly about fighting using exotic weapons and sneaking around. We learned the ropes from VHS rentals and pirated copies of the Last Ninja games on C64.

Secret messages mostly belonged to different universes, where we wanted to be secret agents or detectives. We sent encoded messages written in invisible ink, usually caesar cipher variants, written using filtered lemon juice. Milk might also have been involved, as I distinctly recall heating up and decoding really smelly paper notes.

Fond memories! Eventually did the same on my C64 floppies, but only after having destroyed quite a few disks using my mom's blunt, giant scissors.

Used a soldering iron on my 3.5" disks, with a scalpel to take care of the excess plastic. Can't remember why I didn't use a drill, but I suspect drilling ran a bigger risk of particles getting inside.