Nah, he told me he’s me and to not worry about it. Why wouldn’t I trust myself?

From a religion maintenance POV it makes total sense. From a “god is omniscient and infallible” standpoint, it makes my head hurt.

Mathew 18:18 is the circuit breaker for those situations: whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven

AKA when in doubt, god defers to the Pope for some reason.

One of the best things on 80’s TV.

I don’t know if today’s stuff holds water, by comparison.

When I was a kid it was <10 minutes of ads per hour on TV and (I think) 12 minutes per hour on radio, roadside billboards were illegal in my county, and the local newspaper ads were mostly relegated to the back page and sunday inserts.

There were also no blatant ads pre-roll at movie theaters and productions got bad press for having product placement.

But “Contain best meat in the world”

Sometime between November 5th 2024 and Jan 20th 2025 I decided I had better replace my ailing laptop before something drove prices up. I was debating between the 32G of RAM I needed and the 64G I wanted. I am really glad I splurged back then. The way costs have gone between tariffs and AI’s demand for braaainz (plus the fact that vibe coders don’t make any account for efficiency or specs) it feels like I practically got it for free.

My experience with Netflix shows tends to go like this: I hear about a new show from people at work (or maybe here). I watch and enjoy season 1. I never hear about the show again until someone mentions that there sad it was cancelled after additional seasons I never heard about.

Personally, I find it hard to watch things when I don’t know they exist.

Most recently, the EESI, but The Guardian started reporting on it last year.

The majority are low volatility and stay in the plumping, and a certain amount of the water that goes through the evaporators (a little under a tenth generally, I think) is flushed through (usually into the local water treatment system) with as a more concentrated solution. Some PFAS are volatile enough to ride the water vapor up and eventually fallout again.

Edit: I forgot, some types still legal in the US are volatile enough to not fallout, and instead become strong greenhouse gases.

The water used in datacenter cooling has PFAS added to prevent corrosion.

And all of it will be laced with PFAS forever.

Your pizza party has 6.2 minutes remaining, continue merriment for the prescribed time.

I always wondered what the fall of the western roman empire was like, and now I get to live it.

Lagavulin, Balvenie, Fireball

Proprietary tech with no existing laws telling the companies they have to keep supporting it, all so I can make a rich person richer? Where do I sign up?

I’m a longtime vim user and I use nvim+lazyvim for all my personal stuff these days, but I have to use enterprise managed VS or VSCode for work.

A FOSS alternative would likely be missing or have meh performance from many of the streamers. All the big ones use proprietary codecs that are expensive annual licenses. And even then the streamer controls what various access methods are allowed to see and at what quality. I think netflix still limits web browsers to 720p, for example. And straight web access isn’t great, you want an interface that can ideally be controlled with about 6 - 8 buttons (4 directions, OK, and Back are the minimum) which might require API access to these services, which introduces more access control. Netflix (and maybe others) even have hardware installed at the ISP level that give them a lot of control over individual access as well.

Basically for a full featured FOSS service you’d need to start with getting grants to buy to codec licenses, and then you’d need to hire people just to maintain your relationship with the streaming services to stay in their good graces while they know you’re working against their bottom line.

I don’t use Arch, BTW. So the biggest NPM threat vector on my machine is still VSCode.

Not when your ISP is a jerky company.