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I still have shirts from over 15 years ago. I buy new clothes maybe once or twice a year at most. When it becomes too swiss-cheesed to wear in public anymore, I just use it as a rag/drying towel. I just recently bought all new socks and retired all the old ones to rags. When the rags are so oil stained, torn up, and useless, then I'll finally retire them to the trash.

I keep old ruined pants for patch material, too, since my pants are pretty much all the same few colours. Sewing is easy, you don't have to be good at it, if you can manage to get the thread through the needle eye and tie a secure knot, you've already done the hardest part of sewing. The rest is just pushing the needle back and forth through the material. Doesn't matter how sloppy the stitching looks, if it holds, it's good. Nobody is going to lean over, inspect it, and say, "You, sir, sew like an idiot." It really requires zero skill, just buy a cheap sewing kit that comes with thread and needles, and give it a go. Nylon thread is the best, IMO, because you can use a lighter to melt the thread into the fabric and then not have to worry about having a secure start and end knot that won't come loose.

So why do I stick with a $70/mo service that I can barely utilize over "good enough" speeds that I wouldn't notice the difference of for $10-20 less per month? Reliability, and a good business model. I had my internet go out overnight when I wasn't using it and didn't even know I had an outage for 5 hours. My bill is how I found out I lost service. Google Fiber will automatically stop charging you and discount your bill if an outage is caused by their end. No other ISP does that that I know of. You're paying for "speeds up to XXmbps", including speeds less than, and no service at all. I have never once had to call or contact their support. I don't even know what number to call, or off the top of my head where to find that number, and I don't have to, I can actually drive to a Google Fiber physical store and talk to someone in person, not some level 1 tech support agent in India reading verbatim off a script in an internal wiki. Granted, I can also call or email them, but I've never once in over six years of service, had a need to do that. Another thing is, you can cancel and reactivate your service on the go. Going on vacation for a few weeks? Disable your service before you go, turn it on when you get back home, save money, and they don't care. You can shut it off every night before bed and turn it back on when you get home. They allow you to do this. You'll only pay for the service you are actively being provided.

They created a business model that is so polar opposite of what other ISPs are, to push other ISPs to fix their craptastic infrastructure or get left in the dust by competition.

I personally will always choose a fiber connection over cable because I don't know of a single Cable ISP that people don't regard as "a horrible company with equally horrible service and customer service".

I don't know why nobody else has suggested this.

If you want to learn, really learn something. Self educate, then teach it to someone else. You'll have to really educate yourself on the subject, but once you do.. Blog post, Twitter, Youtube, Linked-In, or whatever platform you want to use. You'll get corrections if you're wrong about something, and hopefully a load of questions that will make you dig further into the topic. The process of teaching it will reinforce it into your memory as you present it in the way you understand, and the feedback you get will also strengthen your understanding even further. You'll become much less likely to forget it over time.

But what if you're like me, and you don't have a social media presence or following to get any kind of feedback? Surely you have friends with similar interests, or know one of those people who likes soaking up knowledge like a sponge. You could use HN here to post something, or post to Reddit's "Today I Learned".

Inevitably, teaching something is the best way to learn more about that thing, and learning more about it is what will make it stick better.

I was originally thinking it would fall under the monkey taking a selfie as the technician (not photographer) is merely activating a machine that actually makes an image (and not photo, it's actually a radiograph), like a programmer executing code that has an AI generate an image. Particularly in the case of the auto-panning machines. But everything in this paragraph can be wildly misinterpreted by the eyes and lies of a lawyer, since the user of a camera isn't taking a photo, they're pressing a button and the camera generates an image.

So you're absolutely correct on the "in a courtroom" setting.

Parents have Netflix they share with me, and I have Amazon Prime that I share with them. I have HBO Max that I share with a friend who shares back his Disney+. My boyfriend has Spotify Family, and I share my Amazon Prime login with him. Everyone here benefits out of this.

So that gives me five services (Netflix, Amazon Prime, HBO Max, Disney+, and Spotify) for the cost of only two (Amazon Prime and HBO Max).

To keep things from going wild, we don't share the passwords, we log into the accounts for each other. This prevents anyone from sharing the account login and effectively locking the account owner out from being able to use the service.

I'm well aware that sharing the services is a violation of the TOS, but people do it regardless and everyone knows that's what people do.

I also cut my phone bill down to $24-30/mo by dumping unlimited data and just paying for what I use (typically 200-300MB). Wifi is everywhere, I'm not a social media addict, and when I'm not around wifi, it's usually because I'm shopping, with friends, or driving. Unlimited data is nice, but I found it so easy to cut away from.

What I can add is that it's to do with IP or DNS monitoring from the carrier or server. My SO who uses Verizon noticed it, and so I setup a home VPN for him, and when connected to it, all throttling disappears and everything is accessible at full 5G speeds. We have gigabit internet, so it's trivial for our network to handle the VPN traffic of streaming.

I feel like the concept is pure hype with a trivial amount of userbase interest (at best). They're late to the party. I don't see it as anything except a failure in waiting. Secondlife is still holding up to this day, since its creation in 2003. Try and figure out why SecondLife is still around and you may see why I see no future for this "metaverse". The only way to bring users is to have users and content, and the only way to bring content is to have users, and they don't have the users. I don't know a single person who is looking forward to it. Of all the social chat groups I am in, it's come up in only one, and the overwhelming response was just pure negativity about it sounding dumb, being a waste of money, and a failure in the making.

This is my relationship with Spotify.

If an individual wants to learn, they only need to pop the hood, look inside the machine, and check out tutorials and videos on youtube. Plenty of people grew up with computers and never learned a thing about how they worked, they'd just have someone else who knew about them fix their problems.

We weren't forced to learn about them or had to, we chose to. That choice applies today as much as it did 25 years ago when I had to have my dad fix my computer for me. I just happened to want to learn how he did it and how to do it myself.

And it's not like there isn't already a black market of stolen IDs already. Get a photo of your client, run it against a database of stolen info, get a match. I understand I'm simplifying this immensely, but if the system can be broken, then it will be exploited. And really it's not if, but when.

I can see this being a useful technology in the case of law enforcement, pharmacies, doctors offices, or anywhere you would need to check in with your driver's license.

I've seen what sellers do, they'll sell a decent product, something that's like just hairties where nobody is really going to give negative reviews, then they'll add a "colour" to it, except instead of black hair ties, it's a smart watch. Then they'll remove the hairties, and ride on the smart watch now having 2k positive reviews. Here's the actual one I spotted: https://www.amazon.com/Fitness-Tracker-Activity-Waterproof-S... Look at the questions, look at the reviews. They were selling a totally different product, then added a 'variation' (of a totally different product).

This kinda trash plagues Amazon. I've actually been relying on Reddit for reviews on brands I'm not familiar with. It's sad, in a way, that I have to research products before buying from Amazon.

The quickest way I've been able to really validate reviews is to check out all the two and three star reviews. Those avoid the 1 star operator error "I'm too stupid to operate this product, so the product sucks" and the mostly useless or fake 5 star reviews. The 2 and 3 stars actually provide the most useful info about any problems with a product. Those are usually issues that don't even bother me or apply to me.

Now I work as an electrical engineer and do a lot of logic programming with microcontrollers (arduino-like stuff) and PLCs. My background with IT made this a really easy transition, especially since messing with electronics has been a hobby all my life. I never wanted to get into programming, I found scripting to be the limit of how deep I wanted to get into the world of coding, just basic automation of tasks and things. And what I do now is pretty much exactly that, along with a lot of other fun things to me.

Hun$@ngF0rM3g-K@rp3_W19m This was a base password I used for about two or three years, altering the W19m ending to be a familiar measurement value for me, like walking 19 meters. It's actually lyrics from a song "Hun sang for meg", from Norwegian band Karpe Diem (song name is "Byduer i dur"). It falls into the problem of replacing letters with alike symbols, but that provides the complexity requirement, while also having enough length to be secure even without doing letter replacements.

My worst passwords are often for the things I should really keep most secure because they have the dumbest restrictions that cripple complexity.

8-16 characters long .. okay, there goes ALL the normal password bases I use, most my passwords are 24-58 characters long.

Only - _ ! . for special characters .. what the actual f**? Why? WHY? This is for my online medical account, WHY!?!?

I'd love to use FireFox again, but it's just too much garbage and hassle to deal with. Every other version change felt like it broke some quality or function for worse.

I used Pale Moon, a fork of Firefox, but it was too much to tinker with to keep it working with modern websites. Now I just use chrome based browser Vivaldi, and for the past five years of using it, they haven't done anything horrendously stupid like overhauling the entire UI. It's not a perfect browser, but it's a huge improvement from dealing with FireFoxes bullshit.

As a female electrical engineer, I make more than most all of my peers do. The key thing here, and my case is usually what applies to men and not women, is that I work significantly more hours. My average week is 50-65 hours, as where they all work 40-45 hours a week. I'm single, have no kids, and enjoy my job, so it's easy for me to clock in many extra hours. We're all paid the exact same hourly rate, there's no difference. We get the same yearly raises and the same pay rate so that there's no friction between workers about who gets paid more, however I make more because of the amount of overtime I put in.

The hype of the pay gap is largely due to the statistical fact that most women work less hours than men do. It's nothing to do with being paid less, it's that they (actively) earn less, by choice.

I never even thought about or realized that adblock may be why I have had issues with many different online retailers. I just assume "something is fukt with the site, or my browser, Vivaldi, is at fault" and then just buy the product elsewhere or buy a different/similar product instead.