Not enough plaid skirt IMO

When you’re young masking is a lot easier. Pair that with the ability to drink pots of coffee nonstop throughout the day to self medicate and the time to exercise for at least an hour every day and you can get by pretty effectively. At some point though you get old and busy enough that A: it’s not possible to physically drink enough coffee to self medicate anymore and B: you don’t always have 1-2h a day to devote to exercise. At that point it becomes apparent that you should probably be on medication if you want to remain high functioning.

Old thin clients and mini PCs are great for this. Many either have a half sized PCIe slot or can take a second network interface using the WiFi m.2 slot and a 3d printed bracket to mount the nic port.

You’re best off splitting the routing and WiFi tasks into separate hardware. Buy yourself a used ruckus unleashed r550/650 or r510/610 depending on how much you want to spend for wifi then run routing on whatever hardware is fit for purpose. I usually slap OPNsense on something like a dell/wyse 5070 j5005 mini PC, any mini PC with a PCIe slot will allow you to build a 1/2.5/10GbE router with open software. Chinese N100 router boxes are cheap now too, or you could reuse an old mini PC of some kind.

I don’t like rolling my own router using arm boards anymore, router distro support for them is unreliable and j5005 pulls <10W anyway.

Here’s another: the human ear is phenomenal at determining where in 3d space a sound is coming from. Most animals can only determine direction and can’t really place a sound vertically. Watch what your cat or dog does when they’re looking for the source of a noise, it takes them a lot longer.

Just remember, this is the worst things have been so far. The Trump admin still has shovels in hand, it can get much, much, worse.

+1, I absolutely loathe the twitter model of discussion because it’s a huge mess of out of order replies and random spam. Individual discussion posts with tree threaded comments are way, way, way more effective at keeping discussion relevant and directed. Also +1 re: moderation, social media functions best with effective, vigorous, moderation and the twitter model just sucks there.

When you’re coming from a position of extreme privilege and you’re either a bit stupid or lack empathy or general social awareness being treated equally with “lesser people” (like women, brown people or people from particular religious backgrounds) can seem an awful lot like you’re being discriminated against.

I’ve known a couple of people who had really bad reactions to Wellbutrin after brand switches. Both of them found it necessary to get a medical necessity exemption so they could get branded prescriptions. There’s more variability in a lot of these drugs across mfgr’s than people are aware of and you should talk to your Dr about switching to another brand or manufacturer if you’re having an adverse reaction.

Not as badly as you’d expect, modern compression is pretty quick using the lz*'s and you’re only expending cycles when you’re hitting swap

We joke but zram swap works wonders on low resource systems sometimes

Ah, gotcha. It’s just difficult to figure out what this does if you’re not already neck deep in configuring status bar JSON

Murderbot is a really fun read, I picked the series up a year or two ago and thoroughly enjoyed it

Screenshots showing what this does in action would help a lot

It’s a grey, I’ve never met one that wasn’t a ridiculous ham

Yup, this is the way. My e-reader weighs less than my phone and is about 1/4th the size of a hardback or trade paperback with the cover or a protective sleeve. It’s a game changer for travel, commuting, waiting time before appointments, etc.

I’ve read 200+ books in the span of time I might have read 20 if I had to throw an actual book in my bag on the way out the door.

I rarely turn the sound on for video content on social media, the audio track is very rarely worthwhile

Maybe those CEOs should buy bulletproof backpacks and hold active shooter drills

When you use them heavily some of the incremental improvements are nice to have. I swapped my mid 2010s Nook for an ~8in Boox 3y ago or so and it was a huge upgrade.