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People do a speedtest and see low (sub-100) numbers and think that's why their video call is failing. Never mind the fact that Zoom only needs 3 Mbps for 1080p video.
I have a document that contains all of our subscriptions, our key information, contacts, last will, etc, that I update monthly, put on a thumb drive, and hide in a place my wife knows. I can't encrypt it because she isn't tech savvy enough, but physical obscurity is enough for me. I encrypt the copy on my PC. I also print out a copy and have it in our lockbox.
In addition, we have a shared password manager with a Yubikey that she has access to for MFA, and she knows the password.
If we both die at the same time, one of my close friends knows where all of this is and can provide to the lawyer handling our kids provenance.
I don't have much crypto because I think it's by and large a scam market, but it's on a drive that is described in the document on the USB.
At the end of the day, the things that are important to me are written down as physical copies. We print off photos and put them in photo books. My favorite music is on CDs.
All that said, I see the real benefit in a service like this for the older generation like my in-laws. I've had multiple conversations with him about the passwords to all their online accounts and all their critical information, and all their passwords are just stored in his Google Chrome password manager. My MIL doesn't know the password to his Chrome account. If he dies first, she's going to have a helluva time getting access to everything. So if he could sign up to a service like this that we could trust, it would be immensely helpful.
I have a small UPS for my network stack and NAS. Hadn't considered one for my fridge, too.
To be clear, this wasn't intended as a comment against or argument against the UK's accomplishment. I am EXTREMELY glad to hear they're moving away from coal.
This sort of thing really makes me think about the large scale deployment of rooftop solar and batteries. If we had a battery system in our house, we could have used it to intermittently cool the fridge/freezer and potentially save the food and avoid the waste. It seems to make more sense to have everyone have their own power generation capabilities than for all of us to rely solely on a broad network stretched thin.
I know very little about this subject, but the primary reason we haven't done it is that there aren't many subsidies around where we are. In addition, I often wonder about the future proofing on these systems. Our old house had coax run to every room because they just assumed you would be using cable tv instead of wireless streaming.
He said that he is never going to try to advance beyond his role, and that he made that decision a long time ago. He decided what level he wanted to be at, fought to get there, and plans to be there for the rest of his career.
I also know a software engineer who has made the same decision. He wanted to hit the highest he could go in his role that didn't pivot to management (lead, director, etc) and he achieved it and has been happy there.
They're both very chill people, and they do well for themselves. Both also advised me (as I share your sentiments) to figure out where you want to end up, work hard to get there, make connections, and then do the best in that role for as long as you have it.
The VP said that even if you are dead set on being the president of the company, the truth is that the further you go up the pyramid, the fewer opportunities there are, and the more people competing for those opportunities. Unless you are willing to sacrifice everything else in your life for the chance to land that seat, it's not worth it.
I'm still relatively early on my career, so I'm fighting to get further up, but I know whereabouts I want to end up, and it's way below where my peers want to be. And I'm fine with that.
https://www.science.org/content/article/us-supreme-court-str...
EFF v. Personal Audio LLC | Electronic Frontier Foundation https://www.eff.org/cases/eff-v-personal-audio-llc
I imagine they're a little breathless because if these go through, they won't be able to advocate on behalf of cancelling bad patents as easily.
I tend to agree with the EFF on this, but appreciate you providing some context.
They better be careful, though, or else we'll have another Pluto situation where we try to classify something and end up classifying it out of its own category.
Quite the effort! Always fun to see people come together for stuff like this.
They mention difficulty in trying to figure out names, dates, trail names, etc. I realized I'm so used to the ubiquitousness of social media and cell phones because my immediate thought was, "Why did these people not put down their numbers?"
I ran into a situation where this might be useful last weekend when my daughter broke the wheels off of a battery powered bubble maker. Stripped out all the electronics and mechanical parts (but threw away the control chip and the wildly annoying music player) and wired up a replacement battery pack.
My plan is to continue to expand this, and eventually it might meet your criteria for a crash course. :)
https://marydoriarussell.net/novels/the-sparrow/
Almost didn't finish it. Whatever your feelings on religion are, it's a fascinating and heartbreaking exploration of how far a man can be pushed before he loses faith in his god.
I wonder if this would be effective for families. Could source a custom domain for everyone in the household.
I spent weeks working with System76 support and they tried their best, but the laptop is just a piece of junk, especially for the two grand price point. My next purchase will probably be an ASUS laptop that I'll load either Popos or Linux Mint on.
There's an Obsidian plug-in.
Some good ideas in this thread, though. I'll curate a list of recommendations and provide it to him and hopefully he can undo some of the negative patterns their systems keep forcing on them.
What do you mean my launch.json file is missing? It was there yesterday?
Wait, I can set up custom launch settings in my launch.json? What else?
Ok, so I've got seven different launch settings in there, and now to see if I can have one used for markdown for my markdown word editor.
Oh, neat, lots of extensions for markdown.
Wait, you can install vim?
An hour later, and I've completely re-broken my VSC and am reinstalling from scratch.
For lunch, if I'm not busy, I read my RSS feeds or catch up on my YouTube subscriptions. I can't read a book over lunch because if it starts to get good I'm frustrated when I have to stop to go back to work.
Most days I have a working lunch where I scarf down food between meetings while desperately trying to catch up on email.
For anyone else looking for the link.
Pure economics does not incentivize stability.