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I'm not the person you're replying to, but I'm also a 5.

I can do none of the things you describe. I know how an apple looks, smells, tastes and sounds when you cut into it, but I can't visualise or hear those sounds at will. I cannot call to mind any visual image of an apple.

I also can't visualise my wife or children's faces, although again, I know what they look like (so it's not face blindness).

I do think I also have SDAM as well, which I think quite often goes hand in hand with total aphantasia.

Hasn't really affected how I go about in the world. I don't feel deficient in any way. It was only a few years ago I found out my experience isn't what the majority experiences.

You cannot see replies to the linked tweet without an account.

The Twitter OP cannot put links into his main tweet because the algorithm will downrank him.

Isn't it just great?

I've used a local server and just DLNA for over a decade and that's been fine on almost every device I've used it on.

There's also Jellyfin if you're really into the whole Plex thing.

Funnily enough I set up a self-hosted RSS reader last night and TTRSS was one of the options I considered, having used it years ago. Feel like I dodged a bullet picking an alternative!

(Settled on Miniflux)

I have Aphantasia, thankfully I'm invulnerable to this.

Yeah okay, but c'mon.

Couch to 5K should help.

http://www.nhs.uk/LiveWell/c25k/Pages/couch-to-5k.aspx

Got RAID and UPS, bruh. Norton on the box. Basically invulnerable.

I found this line particularly shocking.

When my mum suffered a stroke, she was hospitalised for 7 months and had a team of occupational/speech/physiotherapists around here helping her recover as much as possible (which wasn't much, to be fair).

But socialised medicine is evil, and the NHS death panels could've taken her.

Or you could go the GNOME route and do the reverse.

I thought everyone was the same, and "picture a beach" was metaphorical.

The fact people can actually do this in their minds has blown my mind - metaphorically. I'm genuinely still reeling from this.

Weird. I searched for the definition of Aphantasia and came across this[1] link which describes it in detail. I think I'm the same - I can't visualise things in that way.

[1] - https://www.facebook.com/notes/blake-ross/aphantasia-how-it-...

The answer is Basic Income.

Good luck getting anyone to take it seriously though.

But if it's making you money, do you really care?

> All technical discussion took place on mailing lists those days, and archiving those were, at best, spotty and with horrible web interfaces.

Not to take away from the contribution Gmane has made to many of my searches over the years, its web interface was one I always held as the epitome of awful design.

Happy with my Android phone.

Have an iPhone for work and it's terrible. I honestly don't know why they're so popular. The UI/UX is atrocious.

It's the same here in the UK.

Contactless cards are on the rise here and are incredibly convenient - moreso than Apple/Android pay, IMO. You don't have to wake a card up to use it and the batteries never run out!

http://www.theukcardsassociation.org.uk/contactless_contactl...

Except the EU isn't undemocratic and immigration is good the economy.

See also: Cadbury's.

Fuck you, Kraft.

> Meh, its fearmongering.

With all that's been happening in the UK for the last few weeks, my sarcasm detector is seriously broken. Can you please clarify if this was intended as sarcasm or not?

I ended up using a hosts-file based solution on my home server to block ads in my household at the network level. Then I connect to my VPN and push all traffic from my mobile through it so ads get blocked when I'm out and about.

On the upside, this works in Chrome and in apps, so my mobile experience is ad-free without having to root my device.

Bit extreme, I'll admit...

> Apple’s operating system offers numerous advantages over other platforms when it comes to image processing, and it is also favored by many designers for the same reasons. imgix has written tools which allow us to leverage these strengths with our service, using OS X for image operations where it provides superior quality and performance.

What advantages? If you're running these as headless servers, then what advantages does OSX possibly provide over cheaper, more powerful Linux boxes using e.g. ImageMagick (ok, ok, not having massive remote code execution vulnerabilities is one of them).

"Cloud SSH Keys".

Absolutely not.

As pointed out elsewhere, this functionality already exists in Unix userland tools, like `rm -P` or (for GNU) `shred`.

You have to write Javascript.

God, I wish I could downvote you.

As it is, this is the first time I've logged in for about 12 months, just to berate you.