The shoe horn is the bidet of getting dressed.

Not quite what you’re looking for, but playon tv essentially lets you DVR content from streaming services you pay for. The big caveat I’ve had with it is only the default language is allowed. There’s a manual way to select another language before it starts recording but that doesn’t scale, as you’d have to do it per episode.

If pirating is off the table for any reason, it’s a great alternative to load up on entire seasons at a time of content, which can be annoying with disks.

I ripped like 40 dvds for the office once. Not fun.

I color code all my info. (…) Green means go, so I know to go ahead and shut up about it. Orange, means orange you glad you didn’t bring it up. Most colors mean don’t say it.

- Michael Scott

The spirit of it is there

Active noise cancelling - noise cancelling that doesn’t just rely on making a seal between your ears and the earbuds/headphones.

Sounds like a you problem, I have it on good authority that it’s pretty common:

how many times does the average person use wireless charging? Seriously, I haven’t seen anyone do that yet, or know of someone who uses that.

and yet that’s still a major feature in lots of phones

You’ve shown everyone that you can, in fact, listen to wired headphones and charge at the same time with “major features found in lots of phones”, which solves your original complaint, which itself depends on some very specific scenarios.

It’s the cheese, man.

Incredible how much switching from kraft American ups your sandwich game.

I’m partial to havarti myself.

Funny you bring up wireless charging.

Does that not solve your proposed problem? You can use a usb-c to audio dongle, which often comes with better sound quality than a phones DAC, and wirelessly charge, even via many powerbanks. These are features found fairly commonly in today’s phones, so problem solved?

An upside down life is class or work at night, sleep during the day, which already has proven links to depression and increased heart disease.

What you’re proposing is physically harmful and not sustainable. You might feel like you can coast on 2-3 hours of sleep, but that’s because your body is still young. That’s something you should do if needed, but it shouldn’t be your regular schedule if you can help it.

I maintained 2-3 concurrent part time jobs during most of my time in college, and that was very difficult at times - that’s the minimum of what you’re thinking of signing up for.

With what you’re proposing, your work will suffer, your grades will suffer, and your mental health will suffer. Consider what you described as part of your ideal dream - staying up late talking about life - that simply will not happen. You’ll be at work. If you’re not at work, you’re going to be exhausted. What would going to college mean for you if you know you will not be able to live out that ideal?

Are there financial tools like student loans you’d be able to leverage?

If you absolutely insist on going down this path, I looked into polyphasic sleep. It was enticing but the problem with that is if you miss a nap, you are fucked. To me it represented living life on the edge of what is humanly sustainable, so there is absolutely 0 wiggle room to account for the ups and downs of life.

If I’ve asked a question twice and you’ve danced around it both times, that tells everyone what your answer is.

Sure, for simplicities sake let’s just say it’s impossible.

How many times has the average person needed to do so in a year?

If we revisit the “loud” vs “statistically significant” paradigm, while it is a shame you will not be able to charge the phone with a dac in without buying a specific cable, how often does the average person do so?

Here’s a relevant stack exchange question. Regarding what an ISP can learn. Of note, everybody is ceding that the ISP can tell you’re using signal, and they’ve moved on to whether or not they’d be able to fingerprint your usage patterns.

Any number of other people. Primarily the government.

Right, so if the header isn’t encrypted, it’d be trivial for them to see who you’re sending to, which is why that’s important.

You never answered my question - do you think the network connection itself is encrypted? Or just the content of the messages?

You’re talking about encryption and signal because you’re worried about folks whose network you’re connected to being able to invade your privacy, right?

I’d say it’s a pretty reasonable suggestion to say we start with those guys. If you don’t worry about those guys, who do have access to traffic info, then why bother with encryption?

If the header isn’t encrypted it’d be easy to inspect, and thus easy to determine where it goes, which is why it matters.

Based on your questions, it sounds like you’re expecting the network traffic itself to be encrypted, as if there were a VPN. Does signal offer such a feature? My understanding is that the messages themselves are encrypted, but the traffic isn’t, but I could be wrong.

Would you? Are the headers encrypted?

How are they analyzing network traffic with Signal? It’s encrypted

Not my specialty, but signals end to end encryption is akin to sealing a letter. Nobody but the sender and the recipient can open that letter.

But you still gotta send it through the mail. That’s the network traffic analysis that can be used.

Here’s an example of why that could be bad.

How exactly do you think encryption prevents the analysis of seeing when an encrypted message is sent? It feels like you’re trying to hand-waive away by saying “encryption means you’re good!”

Cyber security is not my thing, but my understanding is that you’d still see network traffic - you just wouldn’t know what it says.

Thanks for taking the time to walk through your thoughts - I appreciate the conversation.

I think the particularly egregious problem with interpreting the comment as referring to the association of man=top=dom is that the meme has a gal as the dom, as you’ve pointed out, which does go against heteronormativity.