Oh I see, thank you

I had the same experience (also European), but didn’t know the Americans changed it specifically for bytes

Getting out of the oceans was a mistake

Exactly, it’s very small for a “NAS”, that’s the main advantage. Sub 1liter if my math is right.

Me too, I tend to avoid it when it’s larger than a few centimeters or when it’s written out; a little drawing/symbol I don’t mind

And an array of microphones. But it’s not like they have a clear view of their surroundings. Wait

Schlarmlicious

Hi thanks for the suggestion, do you mean they have a free trial or is there also a free tier that doesn’t expire?

A software’s website and docs are very telling, aren’t they? It’s like a cultural thing from the creators, some open source software will always be more business oriented, others are more helpful towards homelab /self-hosting users.

Nice, good strategy

With all the low wattage usb chargers that all of us probably have at home my strategy is to only buy laptop chargers (so I can travel with just one) so usually minimum of 45W, for me ideally 65W (so 20V 3.25A) just because I have a few old thinkpads with the larger battery. A GAN 65W charger is as compact as an old 20W phone charger, look for example at the Anker Nano II which is the last one I bought.

Good point about the lack of visibility… my usual fear is that every new requirement becomes an excuse to only make expensive and heavy, tall monstrosities, but a camera and screen are very cheap today so those are more than okay I guess, just like seatbelts and airbags.

Woah hold on so a backup camera is also a legal requirement? That sounds a bit too much hand-holding for me jeez. (But I’m used to old cars and motorcycles)

Ok looked it up, yup since May 2018! Interesting

There’s also “Open in Whatsapp” which has been around for 5 years, I’ve used it for all this time actually, I stopped giving Whatsapp access to my contacts around the time I was degoogling, plus I keep it installed in the work profile (Shelter), where I purposefully don’t sync my personal addressbook. So this type of apps is very handy for a couple different scenarios:

• you need to contact someone you have no interest in saving the contact of forever (plumber, guy on craigslist, etc)
• you want to contact a person you haven’t talked to in a long while (otherwise you could just search their name within whatsapp) of which you have the number somewhere else

All in all you save time mostly, and potentially give a little less to Meta.

Depending on the laptop (or with any laptop + smart plug) you can set charging thresholds, both for starting and stopping the charge (lower and upper limits), this way it will do a few cycles instead of staying fixed to a certain level of charge.

In order the worst things we can do to batteries are: leave them at 0% for years, leave them at 100% for years, leave them halfway for years (what happens when left plugged in with only an upper charge limit like 80%) - batteries need to do a few partial cycles at least, once in a while.

They are usually separate things. Cookies are produced/saved locally, to be read in the next visit (by the same website or maany websites basically forever unless you use firefox containers or at least clear them once in a while). There’s also local storage which is different but can also be used to identify you across the web. Ads, trackers, all of these categories are often made of many small components: you read a single article on a “modern” newspaper website, hundreds of connection are being made, different tiny scripts or icons or images are being downloaded (usually from different subdomains for different purposes but there’s no hard rule). It’s possible to block one thing and not another. For example I can block Google Analytics (googletagmanager) which is a tracker, but accept all of Google’s cookies.

Most people give their real full name, phone number and email for any loyalty card wothout batting an eye, plus even with anonymized data it’s useful to the owners to track correlation of purchases, time, location. Definitively what you said too, we all make mistakes (some more than others), every needless complication of a system is a disadvantage to the customer.

Btw Plasma 6 is glorious. First time Wayland “just works” without me noticing too.

Recently wanted to try KDE 6 on my second laptop and after being pissed off at the lack of encryption with Void installer (gotta do it manually, have done it in the past but I’m lazy), another fail with NixOs (known bug with encryption in the latest stable installer) the easiest way was installing Arch lol.

I used archinstall as suggested, just answer questions, no manual voodoo incantation required. You can do it.