Skunkleton

I mean what I am about to ask honestly. Why do you think of vaccinations in this way? From my perspective they are bringing us closer to a normal society at minimal risk. Vaccine mandates have been part of American society (and I assume others) for many years. Why is this one so different for you?

This sort of story always reminds me from a bit in Seinfeld where Kramer's phone number is one digit off from the Movie Phone number. He would say something like "press 1 for Total Recall, Press 2 for...". Of course he would not be able to determine which button was pressed, and would say "why don't you just tell me the name of the movie you want to see?"

I feel like we are creating really unpredictable, and hard to implement UIs in the name of "magic". Would a button in the UI been better? I think it would have been, at least for me.

Yeah, I agree. Apple has slipped while competitors have improved. Android today (especially the Google-only flavor) is pretty impressively stable. Even worse is that iOS is supposedly more "simple" than Android.

Mostly, my comment was projecting my own experiences with complexity on the projects I have been involved with. You are right, in this case other factors probably dominate.

That's a good point. I've observed in my own work that complex organizations have a way of driving out expertise. I don't mean that experts quit, as that is an unavoidable fact of doing business. Rather the organization is structured in such a way it is difficult to build expertise in the first place, and many of the experts are the people that were around before the organizational complexity arose.

I think that the slip in quality we are seeing is a result of increased complexity more than anything else.

How would you envision using an external DAC with Bluetooth headphones?

I wonder what gap insurance is like these days. I can't imagine that it hasn't gone up in price significantly.

wireguard might be a good solution for you. https://www.wireguard.com/protocol/

Fastmail has been my choice for some time now.

I think the point is that public VPNs don't provide much additional security. Basically they just let you act from a different location on the internet. Is your traffic safer egressing on to the public network from your current location, or from the VPN's location? In some cases the VPN may be better. In others, your local network makes more sense.

I’m sorry, but it would be just as easy for a totalitarian government to shut down gas stations. Even still, if you were so worried, you could keep some off grid charging solution around. Can’t stop solar…

I intercept port 53 traffic at my router, tunnel it over to my VPS which runs an unbound instance. Overall I think this setup is better because:

1. It denies my ISP the chance to look at my DNS requests.

2. It doesn't involve yet another third party which may or may not try to monetize my dns requests.

3. It mixes my dns related traffic with that of a datacenter, which doesn't provide a compelling source of data for advertisers IMO.

DoH throws a wrench in the works. Still considering my options on how I want to address it.

> so getting to know how to do things by yourself is a waste of time?

Potentially. Are you looking to make a prototype, or are you trying to go to prod with mission critical data?

Most people here could trivially roll a prototype grade password manager in pretty limited time. Getting something hardened and reliable is a different story.

Bitwarden's model is consumer friendly. I really appreciate being able to self-host a fully functional vault, even if I don't exercise that option. I feel confident that they won't hold my data hostage. $10/year is a great deal. +1 for bitwarden.

I probably won’t buy another iPhone at this point. I’m in a tough position because I have said the same about Android for other reasons.

In the end, all I can say for sure is that I have lost my enthusiasm for consumer technology.

If you are interested in cutting sugar out of your coffee, I would suggest maximizing the quality of your coffee while you adjust. I would recommend trying single origin coffee from Central America. These have fruity and sweet flavors, and are a good place to start with black coffee. It also helps to have some to help explain what you should be tasting.

This is at least how I (accidentally) ended up switching to black coffee. Ymmv.

I'm (not op) 6'6" and ~240 lbs. I have a seriously hard time finding cars that are comfortable to drive. That said, there are plenty of smaller cars that are just fine, and plenty of large cars that are seriously cramped. I fit just fine in an Impreza (at least 10 years ago I did), but I cannot fit in a 4runner.

Tires go from 100% tread to 0 in about the same amount of time too, I assume?

> If you want smaller trucks, you seek deregulation

This is a false equivalency.

> realizing that no system is good for 40 to 60 hours of work a week with the varied tasks and times needed at each.

40-60 hours? Shouldn't we be going the other way here?

For me, naps are an exercise in lying still with my eyes open. Even more frustrating IMO. Am I winning the misery olympics?

Many laws apply to citizens of a country, no matter where they are. Is GDPR applicable to EU citizens regardless of where they happen to be?

That one left me scratching my head. A physical keyboard has a key specifically for a quote, and entering an umlaut isn’t straightforward on iOS. International keyboard maybe?

In my experience self hosting email is more pain than it is worth. I switched to fastmail and am very happy. Don’t let anyone dissuade you from giving it a try if you are interested though.

Double the linear resolution. 4x the pixels.

This is really positive news! Thank you.

Animal droppings are not our primary source of methane. Not sure if that was meant to be sarcastic.

Electrolysis is expensive and energy inefficient. It is unlikely to be a primary source of hydrogen unless there is some breakthrough.

If the limiting factor is clean electricity production, it makes sense to use it more efficiently with a BEV than it does to use it inefficiently with a HFCV.

Facebook used 5 TWhr in 2019 (citation: totally unverified top summary from google). Bitcoin alone is estimated to have used 110 TWhr in a year. To put that in perspective, that is sixfold the power output of the Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant. The Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Produces power on the order of magnitude of detonating two small atomic bombs per day.

No, but I am a little afraid of doing a bad job with my MITM server and exposing myself to vulnerabilities.

Google has been decoupling things like Play Services from the BSP for a long time now. They could certainly push a backdoored version to a specific set of phones if they so wished.

If you wanted to add the exploit to the kernel, there are plenty of hooks to do so that would not require the kernel to be recompiled (e.g. a loadable module, or BPF). Again, these could be targeted at specific individuals, or groups of individuals.

Still, Google is extremely unlikely to add any backdoor willingly, and unlikely to add one in general. And more to the point, controlling the signing keys for a specific App does not make it easier to backdoor someones phone.