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Said attacks were spontaneous reactions to racist treatments that pushed the people over the edge. The gov response was in turn over the top and further exacerbated the situation. People were fighting... _for their lives__.

1399? For a base ssd of 120? 4 gb of ram? The only people who will buy this already have the bodies and guts of other laptops scattered around their workshop cause they already fiddle. Don’t get me wrong, options and alternatives are always nice, but presented as a solid alternative to a Mac... nope.

All those saying they won’t buy another Mac will silently regret this once their new windows machine is infected with malware, slows down, or otherwise suffers from all of its ailments. Unless they are already proficient in Linux, one of those will drive them nuts with the relatively limited software offerings.

The author doesn’t actually say which of the possible upgrades he personally did, and how he benefited from it, and thus how he has suffered since the ability to custom upgrade components was taken away. I think he just likes the idea. He won’t like the reality of the hassle of a PC, and I hope he writes a follow-up article when he “returns” to Apple. And loads of people I know who have moved _from_ a PC to a Mac actually have benefited, without the need to then upgrade the already-powerful (Apple) computer they now own.

Anyway, the need to upgrade was driven by software that was ahead of the curve. This was good, people were making and improving Mac software! And they still are, without the correspending need to upgrade RAM to make it run. It just runs. I started with a PowerBook 170 (maybe it was 190?), and worked my way up through models, upgrading ram or HD as needed. I worked with people using windows... holy moly, their misery was non-stop. And it’s still that way!

I’m surprised by the number of Chinese phones on the supported list. Does this mean a simple OS reinstall overwrites any backdoors these phones may have, which suggests any backdoor is software related? What about hardware? Dos the new OS inhibit hardware backdoor communications?

They can turn off the Internet. They've done it before in Xinjiang. Just, poof, no more internet or mobile data connections! The only thing that worked were roaming sims from HK, but even those were targetted and blocked after some time.

I can't believe how abstract and myopic people can be! The end goal of Chia or Rus*ia is to implement their policies on the world. If you aren't able to, or can't, answer clearly who you want to live under: psuedo-communism, or Western liberal democracy, and if this indecision and miscomprehension of what is at stake, is representative of many other people then, we are all in trouble!

Communist ideology as embraced by nations typically involves spreading that ideology as far and wide as possible (including in the non-purified forms of communism). Your opening sounds like the USA had no reason to pressure the DPRK. I can't speak to specific incidents you may have in mind, but communism would have spread globally, bringing with it suffering, had it not been opposed and pressured.

You need to realize that none of them leave without state permission and all need to report regularly while they are away. They are told to not mingle and at least one of their number will send reports back to their home school who is following the rules and who is breaking away. Can't give citations because there are real consequences for them if names start getting out.

This is ridiculous. Of course they are American! Why let losers dictate identity??

The .cn strongly suggests it is on the right side!

I like the reference to The 5th Element there.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jWGbvemTag

It has been great for me. Set it up on a DO droplet, somehow worked my through the Amazon setup and voila, my own sendy instance! It's tracking is excellent. And the guy behind it responds quite promptly to any issues. I'd say go for it.

I've used https://elgg.org/ and enjoyed it. I've also fiddled with https://www.humhub.org/en. Self-hosted!

The discussions prompted about what terms to use when talking about the various nations who preceded what is now called the USA and Canada are good.

The most accurate and respectful approach is to ask what actual nation some one is. Terms like 'Native American', 'what tribe are you from', etc., are frankly way off course. The best way to explain what I am trying to get at is to refer to the word 'European'.

When I fly and land in Germany, I don't ask someone which European tribe are they frok, or, 'how do I say Hello in European?'. When I go to Italy or Sweden or the Netherlands and ask, "how do I speak European?", the response will be, " well, since you are in Italy, you speak Italian", or, "In the Netherlands we speak Dutch". No European I've ever met self-identified, nor liked being called, a tribe of Europe. Nor would most visitors think in such terms.

But for some reason the various Nationalities in what is called the Americas have all been lumped into one large ephemeral group 'called' Indian, or Native American, or First Nations. When those terms are used with the same kind of understanding that the word European is used it reflects actual learning, understanding, and respect, which appears to be the attitude those involved in these discussions aim to possess.

So forget the words Indian, first Nations, Native American. What is important is what nation, or, what nationality the person, or group, is. The more this is practiced the more I believe the overall situation is helped.

Tl;Dr. Ask someone which nation they are, NOT what tribe they are.

There have been some suggestions to add more about visas... the true nomad really should be getting that information as directly as possible and not relying on a website like this, however helpful and handy it is.

One additional plus for Chiang Mai is that you can reach the rest of SE Asia quite easily without having to live in a huge hub city like Bangkok. I have flown from CM into China, to Singapore, Hong Kong, BKK of course, and all over. Getting from the CM Airport to wherever you are staying is soooo easy compared to the long journey from Swampy (as some call BKK).

Just some spelling errors:

Once pricing has been confirem you will receive the 30 day free trial period as if you had signed up on the day we launched payed version.

Should be: Once pricing has been confirmed you will receive a 30 day free trial period as if you had signed up on the day we launched the paid version.

Using commit messages helps with this sort of thing. The commit messages are not just, "did this. did that." They include reminders about why I am doing this project, the goal, concurrent efforts, etc. Git commit messages tend to prompt entries which wouldn't make it into an app called Day One on my Mac which is set up to auto-remind, whose entries tend to be about ephemeral things, or family things, not really work.

If you bring an iPod or mp3 player, use the ear phones only in private. The hordes of people I see wandering exotic locales with their earphones in baffles me! They may see the sites, but they totally miss the total experience which includes the sounds of speech, nature, traffic, people, or even local cops trying to stop you.

Also, in SE Asia, for some reason many expats seem to slowly descend into some sort of hippy state of clothing and hair styles, complete with dreds and such. This appearance may signify to like-minded expats how cool or laid back you are, but to the nationals there it is more evidence of how different you are, resulting in less interaction with the real scene. There are always nationals ready to accommodate these types of expats, but overall this scene is a very small part of any country/city/culture.

As someone else here suggested about listening more, then talk; watch more, then do likewise. This goes for physical appearance.

If the music you want to listen to is already organized well you can always make playlists with Play, http://sbooth.org/Play/, drop the folders on a playlist window, set it to Repeat All, and rock on. This can help me concentrate: I don't need to star any music, nor check how many plays a song has and whether it will knock another out of my Top 25 list, and I don't get tempted to start mix and matching across genres, thereby distracting from work. I simply put all my Van (as in Morrison, not Halen), or Smashing Pumpkins, or Smiths, etc, into a play list and work.

I've found this to be very slow and buggy with a large library. Three or four times the last few years I have installed it, again, hoping it would have improved. Then I sit there and watch it hang. Frustrating. Maybe it isn't the size of the library, but the presence of media with non-English titles. Anyways, not worth trying, I think.

Ponder the dreams which visited me in the night. While still laying there decided which burdens to carry and which to ignore for that day. Hear my kids playing and tell myself that whatever seems pressing right now (email, last night's unfinished project, team conflict, etc.) will be meaningless in another month, year, life span, but dragging my ass out of bed to play with them (nothing gets someone ready to take on the world like hearing your two kids shout, "it's dad, let's wrestle him!" at 6 am) before all the other stuff crowds in must not be missed. Commence wrestling with said kids.

Sony MDR-7506, for everything.