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My peer texted me his personal blog that is an xyz domain three separate times. Finally, he got frustrated and asked why I was ignoring his article he wrote that he was really proud of and was only responding to his other texts. It turns out T-Mobile blocks xyz domains outright over sms, which led to our awkward moment. We had a good laugh about it, but it made me realize that xyz domains are not reliable for even a personal blog (and also reaffirmed sms is a very poor medium for text communication).

Like you, I have completely switched over to Arch Linux on my desktop and laptop apart from Windows for my VR sim racing rig. Hopefully one day I’ll be able to play iRacing from Linux, but that day is not today. Everything else has been extremely smooth.

I stopped browsing Reddit 2 months ago and switched that time to reading Discworld too! It’s fantastic. I just started Mort. It feels like an incredibly more rewarding use of my time. Terry Pratchet really is wonderful.

I am surprised to see this case had standing given the claim that financial harm was had due to only receiving $10,000 in relief instead of the full $20,000 by a borrower. Does anyone have better legal insight that can explain to me why the case was ruled on at all?

I just want a sedan with primarily analogue controls that’s reliable, comfortable/quiet, and is enjoyable to drive on a nice day. Perhaps I need to look at older Lexuses and Toyotas.

> being in a situation that reminds you of your lack sometimes creates that desire, which creates that delta.

> we can sometimes control the amount of desire we have by avoiding triggers that remind us.

This makes me think of Instagram/Snapchat and notably the stories feature. If you are having a fine time on your own at home on a Friday night and then open someone’s story that shows them with a few other people having fun, it can create a sense of missing out and trigger loneliness, when in fact, you weren’t feeling particularly lonely right before that event.

So from here, which SFF intel box should I look into? I want something relatively energy efficient and quiet.

I have been looking into using OpenWrt recently since my current router Ethernet is capped at 500mbps on my gigabit internet, but I am overwhelmed by router choices.

Does anyone have a recommendation for a router that can handle 1Gbps internet and also has fairly fast output with clients connecting to it via WireGuard?

The best thing I did to improve my car driving around motorcycles was getting my motorcycle license, which I don’t actually use. It was a fun 3 days learning how to ride a motorcycle, and it was highly beneficial to learn what motorcyclists are taught to watch out for. I believe a lot of what I learned should have been taught in driver’s ed. I think it would help avoid many accidents if everyone was aware of other vehicles on the road.

It looks like the Apple TV app is indeed Swiftfin. However, I wasn’t using Swiftfin on my iPad, so thanks for the heads up!

For the life of me, I cannot get infuse to connect to my jellyfin server, which is why I use the official jellyfin app. It might be how I set it up on my NAS.

I’ve tried Plex in the past and wasn’t a fan of the bloat and constant changes. I’ll stick with jellyfin since it’s free and doesn’t have the negative incentives associated with pursuing profit. I find that annoying when o just want a clean way to watch my library.

I've been happily using jellyfin for awhile now. Overall it works great. It has a few issues that I would like to see implemented/fixed:

- No offline downloading on iPad

- The official Apple TV app logs me out of my server every day

- Using the native player on the Apple TV app is still experimental and can have issues

- No intro skip

With users deleting their comments, Reddit reducing API access, and other trends such as moving discussions behind Discord, this certainly feels like a Library of Alexandria moment: a gradual decline of loss of knowledge. Hopefully we can find a way to better store the wealth of knowledge that has been shared over the internet.

I definitely agree with you. I would also add that I believe there’s an element of the period of time in which they had the money to purchase their goods. Many goods had been iterated upon and become the best versions while having been around long enough to make an informed decision on high quality products.

Today, we have been in a period of rapid change as technology advances. My grandparents bought the best of the analog world. Their CRT TVs were the peak of consumer sets. The world switched to LCDs when I was looking to buy a TV, which took a long time to catch up to the height of CRTs (not until OLED in my opinion). Their film cameras took exceptional pictures. Only recently have most consumer DSLRs begun to achieve the same level of quality. Their cars had battle-tested V6 engines while the cars I looked at had newer, unproven inline 4 engines that came with carbon build up issues.

So a mix of survivorship bias and cost preference but also the current state of the market. Fortunately for me, I have been able to purchase a nice PVM to play my old video game consoles on, have made use of my grandfather’s film camera and can develop the film at a local studio, and am able to buy a used car with a proven V6 engine since they are still available in the market. When buying products that will hopefully last, I first look to what my grandparents own as a starting point. Often, purchasing older goods let me take advantage of those points you mentioned.

For a current product on the market that is pretty great, I have been pleased with a Moccamaster coffee maker.

An observation I have made of my grandparents, who certainly had a bit of money, is everything they own is high quality and has lasted them years.

My grandfather still has his Hickey Freeman suits and sports coats tailored and repaired by a local menswear shop. Their Dualit toaster still works while I have personally gone through many Cuisinart toasters. Their technics AV components still work with their high quality speakers. Their Sony Trinitron TVs still work. Their pots and pans from their wedding are still in active use. Their Pyrex continues to store leftovers decades on. I am currently using the Minolta film camera and lens that my grandfather bought in the 80s for traveling around the world with.

When I go to their home, I am always in awe of the high quality objects that still function perfectly fine and can all be passed down. When I look at many of the things my parents own and most of the things I own, I see less and less of that. Our clothes are cheaper. Our pans less resilient. Our technology is less repairable.

Buying well certainly leads to a longer lifespan for objects. However, I find that’s becoming tougher and tougher to find these days.

Perhaps we need a sort of jury duty for content moderation where you are somehow held accountable for your actions and decisions.

I would be fine occasionally contributing some moderation to a community I am an active member of. I find I already have to do some of that on my workplace Slack when people get aggressive with the @here tag reaching the entire company when they really want one of 5 people.

For Christianity, that would be the Screwtape letters by C.S. Lewis. It pokes and prods at the hypocrisy many cary out while revealing the actual theology.

If Nintendo had a ROM store where I could buy game ROMs and play them on whatever system I wanted to, I would spend a lot of money.

In fact, Nintendo more or less did this with the Wii U, which was a commercial failure. I bought an incredible amount of games from the virtual console and oftentimes on sale for a few dollars. Then with a modded Wii U, you can extract the ROMs. Now I am playing GBA games on an actual GBA (with an upgraded screen extracted from a DSi) and SNES games on a MiSTer FPGA connected to a PVM with an original SNES controller. Ever since they shut down the Wii U online shop, there’s been no new legal way to acquire these ROMs. What a bummer and too bad the market didn’t appreciate the Wii U for what it was: the ultimate collection of past Nintendo games.

This is exciting! This is the inverse of my rule of thumb:

An app is past its peak once a stories feature has been added. After that point, it has become overly bloated and will shift towards no longer be worth using.

Over time, I have watched stories be added to multiple apps that make no sense such as Uber Eats. Whenever an app has added a stories feature unnecessarily, I have uninstalled the app because it has lost focus and no longer delivers a quality experience for me. I wonder if this means that YouTube will now increase in quality. We shall have to wait and see!

That’s not what I meant to imply. I was simply asking if removing humans from the driver’s seat and replacing them with autonomous vehicles that are hypothetically more convenient to take would actually increase the effective road capacity.

I’m not so sure it would actually solve the problem. I think a more effective and easier solution would be to design cities to be more accessible without cars. That way, traffic would likely be reduced due to fewer humans in the driver’s seats even if they continued commuting. To summarize, in order to achieve a greater road capacity, I think we should focus on replacing the method of commuting that requires taking the road altogether. Subbing it for another method that still uses the road will invoke induced demand.

> Malls are in decline but the period of time they were an active social location was the 80s and 90s, which is a blip in the grand scheme of things.

The ancient Greeks went to the marketplace (το αγορά) as a social location. That’s where agoraphobia, the fear of public spaces, stems from.

Would this not lead to induced demand where more people decide to start traveling more frequently once they perceive the roads as having cleared up? An additional consideration would be people incapable of driving would now have greater access to freely take rides.

Χόρτα[0] is a common dish in Greece. I recommend giving it a try with dandelion. My great-grandmother used to stop alongside the country road with a little sickle and cut various greens for cooking down later.

[0] https://greekcitytimes.com/2021/11/05/greek-leafy-greens-goo...

There could be numerous factors not normally considere for increases in ADHD diagnosis rates such as the decline of tobacco usage in society that ADHD users were self-medicating with[0].

I also believe that ADHD still carries a stigma in the workplace. I wouldn’t personally discuss it in an interview.

[0] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2758663/

> A modern corporation is a gigantic financial spreadsheet with its real assets a mere footnote.

This is the opposite of the reality. Financial statements following GAAP (USA) or IFRS (EU + many other major countries) explicitly list assets on the balance sheet with associated footnotes that explain more complex areas in greater depth. Often, footnotes will include more detailed information for those assets such as depreciation schedules (particularly for PP&E: Plants, Property, and Equipment).

A company can raise capital either via debt or equity financing[0]. Relevant footnotes usually include the terms of how capital was raised, which is normally to fund the core business operations for most companies I have come across.

> The virtual reality of Wall Street and the obese financial system only serves to inflate the volatility. That is by design because volatility is precisely what it is milking.

I agree there are indeed Wall Street firms that conduct unhealthy business, but I believe this is more common within Wall Street banks and investment firms rather than most American businesses as your comment seems to be implying.

I encourage you to read a set of financial statements to better understand how a business truly operates from an accounting perspective. Apple’s financial statements[1] are a good place to start since they have many PP&E assets, conduct financial services, and regularly deal with more complex accounting topics such as foreign currency conversion and derivatives for hedging. It’s truly valuable insight into how a company that’s incredibly expansive operates in (my opinion) a rather healthy manner all things considered.

[0] https://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/032515/what-are-dif...

[1] https://s2.q4cdn.com/470004039/files/doc_financials/2022/q4/...

I’ve found Language Reactor supports Greek for the limited choices Netflix provided. Also if you haven’t used it, Language Transfer is a phenomenal tool for learning Greek. I’m open to any suggestions you may have!

I found you could use a steam deck + dock to output to a TV then use a cheap wireless keyboard such as a Rii to control the setup from your couch. Then you can use the language reactor plugin in chrome to watch Netflix on your tv! You can substitute the steam deck and dock for any pc + hdmi out.

I set all of this up about 3 weeks ago. Wish I had come across this guide then! It's a great solution that has made my dev work and media consumption so much easier on the go.

One thing that tripped me up on arch linux with KDE Plasma was that importing the downloaded WireGuard configuration didn't work in NetworkManager using the gui. After a bit of tinkering, I finally discovered that you can download the conf file to your computer and then run the following command:

  nmcli connection import type wireguard file [CONF_FILE]

That adds it to NetworkManager, making it easy to connect to from the gui.

What is the simplest way to host a website closer to barebones HTML, CSS, and a bit of JS with reusable components like nav bars? My experiences handling those manually leads to too much overhead as I add more pages. SvelteKit makes things fairly easy to organize, but I dislike how the user isn’t served simple HTML, CSS, and JS files. Ideally, I don’t want to use any framework.

The MiSTer project[0] is a wonderful open-source introduction to a practical use case for FPGAs. It uses verilog to describe how the DE10-Nano chip should be set up to resemble various classic computers, arcade machines, and video game consoles. With a single device you can have an Apple II+, Super Street Fighter II Turbo, and a SNES. Currently it supports up to the PlayStation for console cores, which is probably the upper bounds for the DE10-Nano. If you want more info, My Life in Gaming has a great overview video[1] of the MiSTer that covers it in depth.

The entire project feels perfectly in line with hacker mentality and is exciting to watch grow. There's nothing like playing Super Metroid with an original SNES controller on a CRT at the end of the day.

[0] https://github.com/MiSTer-devel/Wiki_MiSTer/wiki

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhT6YYRH1EI