wolfpack_mick

My 14" M1 Pro out of nowhere just died on me in May after 3 years and 11 months. 'Bad luck' was the verdict of the Apple store. This never happened to me since my first G4 tower. I now have the M5 Pro since i'm stuck in the ecosystem, but i'm still a little spooked.

Due to lack of running water in those times (and still in many cottages) cooking is done above a fire, water is brought from the lake. A kitchen won't serve you well if you're just trying to get through a long winter of -30c.

Aren't those things organised the same way Apple face id is organised where the app itself can't get the biometric information, they just get a yes or no? That would be stupid as hell.

In Finland the government has allowed banks to offer (2fa) identification services to those that are using their services. If I sign into a government site using my banking ID, the bank gets paid for providing the service. To my understanding none of my actual ID information is transferred to a party wanting to identify me.

The Linkedin 'validate your identity' was the first time i was asked to actually take a picture of my passport/scan the chip. I'll refuse until they'll allow me to identify with my banking ID.

Didn't five climate activists in the UK just get 4-5 years for being on a zoom call for merely planning to block a junction?

I'm right there with you on all those things!

One thing to add: If you want to think even less in the morning. Just weigh the beans and water with a kitchen scale. 18 gr of beans, 160gr of (boiling) water (basically a 1:9 ratio regarding on the size of your basket).

Did you feel it was money well spent? I'm nearing 40 and I'm wondering wether i should get into the routine of a scan like that every few years..

I have the feeling this is only getting worse now that borrowing money is suddenly more expensive..

In terms of pricing model Adobe is generous compared to Figma. Someone with their own creative cloud subscription can open my .psd's. But if I want to collaborate with someone in Figma, I need to pay for their access even if they have their own paid Figma account.

What permanent bad effect do you think it has left? I do wonder about this too.

I binge drank between 14-16 years old, started smoking weed around the same time - and smoked daily from 20-25. After that I did a short bout of therapy and walked away from it. I'm now 40 and I do often wonder what damage might have been done.

If I'd have to guess how damage could materialise i'd point to the fact that my thinking was polarised for a long time and I had trouble controlling my emotions.

But those traits could easily be attributed to verbal aggression and a lack of trust and empathy in my childhood - which most likely contributed to the substance abuse in the first place (1) Or it could even just be attributed to the male brain taking a little more time to mature.

(1) https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/oct/02/shouting-at-...

Curious that there's so many more rescues in the UK than mainland Europe.

You might want to read 'The Lady's Handbook for Her Mysterious Illness: A Memoir' by Sarah Ramey (Known also from her band Wolf Larsen). She goes back and forth between providing an overview of this 'mysterious illness' from different angles, and her gutwrenching absolute trainwreck of a personal experience of it. It seems you already found your way the same way she eventually did, though.

As the title says, the book is womens body specific - but also a guy i still found it very insightful to read.

Second this. Happy to pay for 5km2 although i'd probably crop out 1km2. But I'd love to be able to understand what size i'd be able to print that 1km2 at using 300dpi. I guess art prints aren't exactly the core use case for this though.

I recently learned that there's a special washing detergent and heat activated coating that you're supposed to treat Goretex with quite often. And sure enough when I did the water drops form beads again instead of soaking it. I'm curious to find out wether this will increase the lifetime significantly.

This happened to me with employment insurance just a month ago. Invoice went to the old address. I paid the invoice 4 days after the due date, but not the €10 late fee that i didn't know about. So they put the €10 late fee to debt collection and i had to pay €40.

What enraged me most was that that the insurance company supposedly didn't know my new address, although they are my landlord at the new address...

The debt collection of course had no problem finding out my new address.

>but you get way better quality of life in a 100,000 to 400,000 city nearly anywhere else in Europe. Even Aahrus has a better quality of life.

I think you're going a bit far there. Access to a larger international community, international schooling, wider offering of grocery products (e.g. asian supermarkets) and restaurants, diverse music, arts and cultural offering - smaller distance to airport, those are all reasons I'm happier in Helsinki then some random 100,000 person city.

It's weird because in this survey all of those would fall into the 'Happiness, Culture & Leisure', even though it includes a lot more stuff than 'outdoor spaces' for example.

If you've got some money, get custom molded earplugs made for sleeping. Places selling hearing aids sell them. They spray some foam in your ear to take the print, and you get the custom plugs in the mail a few weeks later. €140 is a lot for earplugs but it's amazing that they just slot into place in your ear, they're easy to pull out, and they're so small you don't feel them wether you're lying on them or wear headphones over them.

With selling dreams they mean selling the scene in which your insecurity has been relieved.

People feel pinned down in their life, so a common dream sold is to be free. Think of Mac and their proposition of enabling your creativity (a creative person is unconstrained). A lot of car and motorbike companies also show their products as liberating in different ways.

Beer ads often show popularity and unselfconscious social interaction, which is a big deal for young guys.

For course there's dreams of beauty, success, feeling accepted.

The FiveStar party in Italy did this. They had an online platform for their members, and apparently the way it went was that they'd first massage everyones opinion in the forums, and then let them vote.

I read it in a great long read from Wired called 'What Happens When Techno-Utopians Actually Run a Country'.

Slightly off topic but does anyone know a webbased slide editor that has responsive layout built in? Something like Indesign’s liquid layout feature? There’s so much happening in this space and yet everyone sticks to fixed desktop format.

I think pyramid scheme is what he means

I could imagine the commenter you're responding to also means the companies you're competing with for sales. Not just employees in the same company.

It has to do with the way western medicine is organized. It’s optimized for treating diagnosable illnesses, and does that very well.

Complex multisystem diseases like Ehlers-Danlos syndrome express themselves differently in every patient. Different symptoms take you to different specialists, but there’s no one to look at your situation holistically, or who has the time to put it all together. There’s apparently a new approach called ‘Functional Medicine’ which tries to better this issue.

I’m reading Sarah Ramey’s ‘The Ladies Handbook for Her Mysterious Illness’. Part autobiography of her own experiences, part explanation about this whole cloud of mysterious illnesses from ME/CFS to Fibromyalgia to Ehlers-Danlos syndrome. It must sound like a terrible choice for anyone but those affected, but Ramey has great literary qualities and zero tendency to linger in self-pity and the injustice done to the patients. Really worth the read.

In Helsinki I'm wondering if building expensive buildings will make sure the 'bubble' won't break. Banks will just give people larger loans. Move to a situation like Sweden where you don't even intend to fully pay it back anymore. You're just renting from the bank instead of a landlord.

I'd say the system for coordination is pretty good in Europe.

There is a specialist EU agency for fisheries inspection (The EFCA located in Vigo, Spain) A lot is being done there to ensure the rules are abided. Placing inspectors on board, tracking the behaviour of the boats, and so on. But of course the budgets of this agency are nowhere near that of the agency for medicine or chemistry, and cheating is easy when you're alone at sea (using hidden compartiments for example).

The European Commission has a Directorate-General for fisheries, which does research on how much fish there is, and negotiates treaties on fisheries quotas with other nations. I believe they have great intentions, but not every one cares about sustainability, and if money talks countries like China can outbid the EU.

Source: My dad was known as the Eliot Ness of fisheries.

Check mibo, getmibo.com for the webcam on avatar. Desktop chrome only.

Which is interesting because Morihiro Harano (who conceptualised and created the xylophone video) directed the OK Go music video for I won't let you go, partnered with Honda. Chevy was first though, if i'm not mistaken.

I live in the nordics, and I can't show my kid Netflix kids' content in my native central european language because only nordic languages are licenced here.

If you don't want me to get smart on using VPN's, maybe it's time to evaluate your licensing system first..

I checked and at least in Germany Adobe offers the monthly subscription. It's a little more expensive as can be expected. I purchased it some years ago, and then cancelling after a few months they tried to charge the rest of the year, but when I pointed them to the subscription type I had, they complied.