Nice guide. For some reason I got used to screen and use that instead of tmux. I keep meaning to try to retrain my muscle memory because everyone says tmux is better, but old habits die hard.
Vidir was new to me.
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Vidir was new to me.
But I don't get the idea of an Apple Watch... I'm a small adult and even with the smallest straps standard Apple Watches are WAY too big for my wrists. How big are these kids?!?
Also... a full Apple Watch seems like an expensive option for kids who might be playing outside. My husband is an athlete and he's actually scratched his watch because it got dropped from waist height while he was getting changed. It's a small scratch, but still... he takes decent care of things, wouldn't a five year old wreck it?
I like the idea of kids having access to tech but an Apple Watch seems like overkill.
These days it's hard to mess up even by hand, you'd have to go out of your way to have your server turned into a zombie spam farm or whatever.
The only "problem" I've had recently was buying a server and finding the IP was already spam blacklisted. Getting removed from the blacklist was just a matter of submitting a request on the relevant maintainer's site.
The only major gotcha I had was the time I linked my domain registration account to an email address that was linked to a domain held on that account. I went on holiday and missed the renewal bill, then couldn't log in to pay because email was one of the 2FA steps. I felt like an absolute moron contacting support about that one!
My husband and I went to uni together. I dragged him through the mandatory maths units in the computer science degree by reframing the equations we were working on as "a bunch of steps, just like code" and he got through the unit, but our lecturer was a horrible, impatient person and managed to reinforce his fear of the subject.
A lot of people I know have similar stories. Maths and physics seem to attract teachers who think (out loud) that students who don't intuitively "get it" are beneath them.
Read books about things that interest you, and use Goodreads as a source of inspiration for future reading material.
Get off Facebook. Either learn to optimize Twitter as someone else suggested, or get off there too, because it's easy for it to become an echo chamber if you aren't smart about how you use it. I prefer Mastodon because if you choose a good instance there's less fluff and you're not funneled into your own echo chamber.
Where possible, I use special-interest-focused-forums (yes, old-fashioned forums still exist) instead of Reddit. Again, some parts of Reddit are good, but a lot have horribly biased moderation. It depends on the subject.
Start a blog and link it to your social media. I've found participating in blogging challenges has helped me build readership and find new blogs to read, and those blogs have helped me find meetups or conferences in subjects I'm interested in. Some of those have required travel, but the travel has been worth it.
It's refreshing in some ways - the content I get is definitely "outside of my promoted echo chamber". However, you really need to use use query syntax to get decent results, something I'd gotten out of the habit of doing with Google (actually, I'm convinced Google ignored it half the time even if you tried).
For a lot of people, Telegram does a good job of being "less evil than Facebook Messenger", and private in ways that matter to them. I'm more worried about some nutcase from a video game meetup group getting hold of my phone number than I am law enforcement finding out I was in that video game group in the first place.
I have a Matrix server and an XMPP server for 'truly private' communication anyway.