At least in some cases, it might just be wholesome advice. The fact that you have “a job” and a whole different persona from that and they’re two separate things that sometimes intertwine probably brings you closer to us in administrative tasks (in the end, IT is by definition always something administrative rather than actually productive) than me as in an IT guy with an influencer. Because ultimately, your actual identity is your job, and by conclusion, your whole life is performative, which sounds REALLY exhausting

I mean if you’re going for the piracy route, you never used streaming services or bought physical media anyways and the whole discussion is moot.

Depending on the definition of war, it could be either yes, no or we already are.

Well with your DVDs the “HD resolution” question is easily answered: you don’t get HD resolution. Weird comparison there. Especially since you complain about Disney+ not going beyond 480p in your specific case - so why buy DVDs with the same shitty resolution?

While I generally agree here, resolution isn’t everything, bitrate also plays a role, and some content in streaming services has been compressed rather badly so that you get artifacts that you don’t have on DVDs. A DVD will certainly look better than 480p streaming content despite a much older codec which light only exists as a reason for an upsell.

I think the way to go is a Homeserver (could even be a raspberry pi) where you can somewhat secure your storage with appropriate redundancy.

And how would you get stuff onto your homeserver legally?

Thay said, they still sell a shit load of cars.

It’s only a meaningful metric if there are margins in these sales, which I’m not totally doubting, but the number alone doesn’t tell everything

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Maybe just stop complaining and focus? /s

Drinking culture from my understanding is similar or worse in the UK, and they can start drinking earlier. So this can’t be the only factor leading to that behavior.

Also most people here, from my impression, that so have a problem start drinking early.

I actually think nowadays that this is one of the things the US does right. Prohibition was too ambitious, but they at least had good intentions (e.g. lower violence against women, which it achieved)

Edit: getting some nice downvotes. Here is a quote from a study that looked at the issue:

Comparing our findings to the US literature, we find that the jump in binge drinking at the low MLDA (minimum legal drinking age) of 16 in Austria is about 25 percent larger than the jump at the MLDA of 21 in the US. At the same time the binge drinking incidence for teenagers slightly below the MLDA cutoffs is clearly higher in Austria than in the US (in Austria, the incidence below the age-16 cutoff is 50 percent, in the US it is 33 percent below the age-21 cutoff). This pattern speaks against the argument that a low MLDA helps teenagers to ease into drinking and consume alcohol responsibly (Wechsler and Nelson, 2006).

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0167629621001569

He’s telling you that he’s not gonna judge you when you take speed, except he will

The “don’t break userspace” is a kernel rule. It’s ok to break userspace within (like on library upgrades). The equivalent for Linux would be breaking kernel space, which they do… very often. It’s the reason DKMS exists and why Nvidia can be such a hassle

Wow way to make assumptions huh

It’s a fountain pen

Imagine installing Arch without having to bindmount dev, proc and sys smh my head

PREDICTABO

Stronger compartmentalization

Ok, I don’t really know why I wrote all that because it was pretty clear from context you know the difference. Hopefully it helps others.

For me, Mullvad isn’t an option because they don’t have port forwarding anymore.

Not only because of you, but also because of Obama and Biden

Tailscale is a VPN in the classic sense, I e. to build a secure network over an insecure one. Mullvad is a service to hide your public IP address and switch from having to trust your ISP to having to trust Mullvad.

I too have a subscription to one of the latter services, but I always find them sketchy

Dann müsste er ja eigentlich Dobhurensohnt heißen

Gitlab is a product for enterprises which usually selfhost private repositories, I don’t think they give a damn about community stuff.

Yeah there are paying customers that want this, but I don’t think they see a business case, but rather a maintenance burden.

Meine “Drogen” sind mir, Koffein ausgenommen, für die Arbeit viel zu schade.