The best part is when they purposely use only one notification channel, so you either have to disable all of them or none of them. And it's not because they don't know you can make multiple channels, nope, it's because some product manager figured out there's a higher rate of delivery for marketing notifications if they don't let users have fine-grained control. Metrics above all else 👑

Daylight bulbs are everywhere in Japan and it's so strange. I tried looking for warm light bulbs at a local store and they don't even stock them as an option. I do see them used in some people's houses so I'm sure it's not universal, but the prevalence of daylight/cool bulbs is weird to me, I'm very much warm bulb gang.

Shapez2 went into EA a couple weeks ago too, I've been waiting for Factorio DLC anxiously but this Satisfactory release took me by surprise. It's such a good year for factory sims 🕺

I had put down Satisfactory earlier this year when starting T8 but I think the full release has rejuvenated my interest, I'm hype to finish the game now 🙌

No one that serious about network security wouldn't already have a network dedicated to untrusted devices relatives could use. Definite joke, still entertaining 😂

No, because it will be great initially and then gradually erode into a system worse than we have now 🙃

This was an interesting read for me the other day, pretty much exactly what you're describing: https://www.wired.com/story/i-went-undercover-secret-onlyfans-chatter-wasnt-pretty/

This is 100% it for me

I freaked out when I looked at the scale after the holiday season, probably 10kg over what I consider my ideal. Cut beer entirely, 2 months later and I've dropped it all already 👀 I'm not really a big eater but alcohol packs so many calories

Coffee is unhealthy at the volume I drink it 🫩

probably not, but on the fediverse you can be your own admin

The nonsense Windows pulls, of continuously reminding me to "finish setting up" my PC is the worst. It's listed in the Hall of Shame on that site and I wholeheartedly agree with its position on there 😕 I think I'm going to stop opting for Windows upgrades entirely considering they're putting 100% of their development efforts into monetizing, and absolutely nothing into improving the user experience at this point.

I used to be the same but I'm going to be pretty devoted to looking for alternative sources of information. They're definitely out there, just not as reliable/easy to find 👀

I'm a new selfhoster and reached the limit on what my DS923+ can handle after setting up an Immich instance (on top of qbitorrent, radarr/sonarr, plex). So I picked up a mini PC this week and migrated the Immich stack over (pointing to an NFS mount for the NAS!) and now it's running super smooth 🙌 Now I'm hype to move over more services and eventually start separating out media services from mission-critical stuff like photos when I have another machine handy.

I wanted to set up local domain resolution for my devices in order to stop having to visit sites with the local 192.168.1.x IP, so I started following some guides to run dnsmasq on the mini PC (Ubuntu Server) and add entries to /etc/hosts. It was pretty easy to get working OK, but for whatever reason the DNS doesn't seem to be working on a fresh boot. My local workstation can't ping the custom DNS entries for my devices until I sudo systemctl restart dnsmasq on the mini PC, after which everything works fine, which leads me to believe it's some weird boot order problem? I'm trying not to screw with it too much before bed, but hopefully I can figure out what's going on this week.

I kinda wish I knew what it was like working on Y2K stuff. It sounds like the most mundane bug to fix, but the problem is that it was everywhere. Which I imagine made it pretty expensive 👀

is that Paul from big brother? the guy who iirc got 2nd place twice? could definitely be a doppelganger but looks very much like him 🤔

In any case if you're on a flight longer than a couple hours you're not allowed to open them anyway, they make you keep em shut so people can nap 🙈 But it's fun to look out for the takeoff and landing. But the planes that tint the windows are the best.

Flashpoint is interesting, seems like a more streamlined version of Control. The maps are massive and will probably take some getting used to. I think it's not as innovative as Push but I'll have to see how it plays out over the course of the season, people are definitely still getting the hang of it.

Head First Design Patterns really helped me untangle the spaget

I got a little weird about House once the main cast got half swapped out, but by the end I came to terms with it and I think the show actually ended pretty solid

The game has a few subtle mechanics that are not so obvious but more or less essential for progressing deep.

I haven't played in a few years, >!but IIRC it's extremely helpful to funnel aggro'd enemies through doors. Not only does it make it easier to fight only one at a time, but you get a surprise attack/crit on the turn the enemy enters the door frame and "discovers" the player.!<

Love seeing a post about Anki, it's a great tool. I've been studying Japanese for about a year with it, and my reading and writing skills have increased dramatically. It helps that I studied with formal classes in college (up to 400 level) but I think mastering a language requires a lot more than what classes can provide. I still severely lack in speaking skill but I'll have other study plans for that later 🙈 Being able to write the joyou kanji and read/write the 10000 most common Japanese words is my current goal and Anki is excellent for that.