Calluses build up fast if you keep at it.

The pain is just weakness leaving the body.

Just be mindful that some manufacturers do the extremely shitty thing of placing the socket on the headphones in a very specifically shaped recess that only their cables will fit.

That sounds like a good idea, actually. A lot of those adapters/cables are bastardisations of the USB-C standard, and just re-use a couple of pins to pass on analog audio. I’ve seen at least three variations of it. If it’s not standard, it should not be possible to plug it in to any standard socket.

The right way to do it is with a proper digital-to-analog converter in the adapter. I hope that’s the most common way today, but I haven’t shopped around in recent years.

I’ve tried libreelec on a raspberry pi 4, but it just doesn’t pass the wife test.

We have a thomson streaming stick 140G (EU branding for ONN). We just use jellyfin, smarttube and our national public service streaming apps. It’s in apps-only mode, but Google still injects one ad on the home screen. I didn’t bother with a custom launcher just yet.

Bring your own domain.

You don’t want to be locked in to one mail provider for life. Just bring your domain when you leave.

I’ve had mine since 2010. First on Gmail, then proton and now purelymail. Gmail is evil. Proton is pricy, and more so if you have several domains. Purelymail is very affordable in comparison.

Probably. Pretty much anyone who wants to go career can.

It’s 5-6 months for the shortest service. In my case I volunteered to drive big rigs, so 12 months and I got a driver’s license that would’ve required two years of lorry driving as a civilian. It’s been my backup plan in case my career in rocket science hadn’t worked out.

Finn here. The willingness to defend the country is high in Finland. For a small country like Finland it’s the most cost-effective way to keep up a credible defense. I guess a professional army might be an option now with NATO membership.

And, yes. It feels like the normal thing to do.

My grandfathers did it (and fought in two wars), my father did it, my older brother did it, plenty of friends did it at the same time as me.

It’s an experience you can bond over very quickly.

It’s a protocol for hosting music libraries.

Think of it like your personal Spotify backend.

I’m running navidrome to serve music to tempo on my devices.

I live in a shithole 100km from a NATO capital. I’m not expecting a direct or near hit, so the fallout is my main concern. I should have at least 20-30 minutes to get comfy.

I’ve got potable water in jugs in the basement already. I’ll just grab a couple of mattresses, sleeping bags, camping stove, food, solar/crank radio and head down there. Also some duct tape to seal up the ventilation.

Yeah, in the past I would have. I wish it still were viable.

With securitynet and banking apps refusing to do their thing on rooted devices it’s just too much hassle to pass the wife test.

My wife has the 4a. She’s happy with it. I love how it fits in my hand.

But, I’ve been pushing her to upgrade because it’s been out of security updates for over a year.

I like The Yule Fiddler.

And Rush Coil’s mega man-inspired album.

I used to donate, but I haven’t for at least 10 years.

Their financing is public. They would have enough cash to keep the lights on for decades.

They’ve been investing to be reliant on donations in the future. I see a conflict of interest there and I’d rather have them be relying on donations… especially since they have received enough cash to do so.

TL;DR, I’m happy to donate for running Wikipedia, not happy to donate for them to become a fund.

Whatever you get, get at least two and do RAID1/5/6. They will break.

Speed shouldn’t be an issue for streaming media.

Inspired by xkcd’s thing explainer I generated a list of how often words appeared in subtitles on opensubtitles for my target language.

I whipped those into a database, added manual translation for the top-1000 and started quizzing myself with a tiny php script.

It was more fun to code than to actually quiz myself. I think I played the top-100 before I got bored.

My wife is definitely team ‘make it from scratch’.

She is also a very slow cook. We also have an infant that is currently taking up 110% of our time.

It’s hard for me to justify spending two hours a night preparing a lunch for the next day. She likes to sleep in, so I never get to eat it fresh… it’s always leftovers.

I don’t mind cooking something fresh for lunch or dinner, but I’ll do something that takes 20 minutes of prep and then take care of itself on the stove or in the oven. Chilli, pot roast, or a casserole.

I think frozen dinners probably have a better balance of protein/carbs/veg than either of us makes, and at half the price.

I’d go somewhere in-between to keep things dry.

Condensation around windows and outer walls make great growing grounds for mold. 15°C is the recommendation here.

Shit can happen. Boilers break. Leave your faucets dripping and run your circulation pump off of a battery and inverter to save your pipes.

And the car?

That car went on to become KITT.

Currently on a CMF phone 1.

Best phone is a tie between Nokia E70 or the HTC Dream. Suitable form factors and physical keyboards <3

Can’t live without water. Our guidelines are to be prepared to be self-sufficient for up to three days in an an emergency.

I used to have a 20l jug of water on standby, and I’ve had to resort to it twice in eight years because of one planned and one unplanned outage. For the unplanned one my municipality eventually showed up with a water truck on our street so we could refill.

Now I keep 50 litres and I have a well with my neighbours which I use mostly for watering the garden, but it’s potable. In a prolonged power outage situation I might have to scurry over to the neighbour with a battery and an inverter to keep the pump going.

I was walking on the sidewalk at a traffic-lighted intersection when I heard a loud bang.

I turn around to see a Honda had rear-ended a Volvo 240 that had stopped at a red light. The front of the Honda looked like a piece of crumpled up paper wrapped up nicely on the 240’s tow bar. The 240 was unscathed.