Surprised this hasn’t been mentioned yet, but awnings. Glass is a superb thermal conductor. Not even the best curtain in the world would prevent air getting hot through the window if the sun is hitting it directly. An awning is meant to shade the window glass, preventing heating way more than a curtain alone.

Also, if the home has several levels, open the upper floor windows more than the lower ones. Hot air expands and raises. If it has somewhere to escape it will keep the house cool and the windows will draw in wind. Wind moves faster at higher altitudes. That’s why attic fans are so effective.

I call it non-progressive pop, or also corporate treadmill music. Because the harmony never gets anywhere or do anything interesting, but always feel like it’s moving

Hey, what’s up. Are you (or anyone in thes thread) feeling suicidal?

Talking openly helps to deal and cope with the feelings. But some people feel shame of mentioning these topics. You can find out if there’s a help line local to you and call. You’re reaching out, which is good. Find someone who is open to talk and unload that burden. Trust is hard to earn but it goes a long way to talk about feelings, even if they’re uncomfortable.

Yeah, like, there’s even a little leaflet that is the first thing you see when you open the box that just says “Don’t remove the screen protector. If it gets damaged, don’t replace it yourself, send it in for a free replacement.” Or some wording of that kind.

The flip and the fold come with a screen protector from the factory. It’s integral to the phone as the screen is flexible and soft, without it the screen would get opaque and dull. People forget that the point of cases and screen protectors is to be like rubber tires. They’re there to take weather (not damage) instead of the phone, and to be easily replaced on the regular. Samsung offers a replacement service for the flip that changes protectors regularly with the phone protection program.

Annoyed as all hell, but not fucked at all. The phone locks itself if snatched away. A phone call, and a brief access to android lock later and now the thief has a worthless paperweight. This can happen in a matter of seconds if theft protection works, or a couple of minutes while I find someone who would lend me their phone, faster if I have my smartwatch with me. Carriers on my country also disable IMEIs across all carriers and on the whole territory when phones are reported stolen. Everything on my phone is backed up elsewhere, so I won’t actually lose much, and my data would be fairly protected. They could disassemble it and try to decrypt the storage, but good luck with that if they are not law enforcement or doesn’t have the fancy forensic toys.

It is very carbrain rot but I call them highway rules. On countries that drive on the right, the right side if for on-off ramps and cruising. Left side is for passing. No one expects to be passed on the right side, because that is the biggest blind spot on cars. Switch for countries that drive on the left side.

These assholes always fantasize that their wealth and accumulation of luxury items will grant them the leg up to become rulers during the social collapse. They don’t realize that in case of a social collapse the world won’t immediately look like Mad Max, and they certainly aren’t Immortan Joe. It will look more like Children of Man. Very slow and very gradual and with a lot mass governmental violence, not small arms violence.

Generative AI. Source is an instagram page that posts these kinds of memes daily. The image didn’t exist before October 2024.

Just to put this out there, because it was discussed in a recent first aid course I attended. This is coming from experienced emergency care specialists and paramedics, not me. Don’t use regular tampons to treat nasal bleeding. Use purpose made nasal tampons. Unless you can apply direct pressure to the nasal tissue inside you head, regular tampons will only pool blood, cause clots to accumulate and risk asphyxiation or lodged clots to get infected way too close to the brain—or worse, lung infections from aspirated blood.

For what they are, menstrual tampons aren’t actually that useful or absorbent. But absorbent is not something you want when treating wounds anyways. You want to stop the bleeding, not just to absorb the blood leaving the body, so what you actually need is to apply pressure on wounds. They also rip away the clotted tissue when removed, restarting the bleeding all over again.

Tampons are a quirky anecdote from those unprepared. But if you are taking the time to prepare then gauze, and cotton or muslin triangular bandages are far more versatile and useful for actual first aid.

Formatting error? Ereaders have shown footnotes in floating tooltips for a very long while. I recently read annotated Frankenstein and I read all the footnotes along with the main text with no issue.

E-ink readers are superior to both paper and LED tablets.

Anacrhonistic?

They have instantaneous duplex comms, over millions of light year distances, without line of sight! That’s FTL communications.

It is modeled after the style of early radio comms for the cinematic drama, but technologically speaking they would be so far advanced from us that it might as well be magic.

That’s Bob Anderson’s masterpiece. Greatest film sword stuntman and choreographer ever, Darth Vader himself. Although I would say that the best film depictions of sword fighting have to be Alatriste for rapier fencing and Rob Roy (1995) for the broadsword. The Last Duel was also both entertaining and realistic.

The Rehearsal is the greatest analysis of the relationship of movie, TV and reality ever put to film. It’s like an adaptation of Baudrillard Simulacres et simulation. The simulacra turns into the reality that reality is forced to conform to. Pure philosophical musings on the wildest most ridiculous scene premises. It strips LA film culture naked and ridicules it without any sort of shame.

I don’t know about OP, but I remember reading and watching a lot of videos about blue hat hacker, whose sole job is to break things then report to secops so they fix it. They test everything including social hacks and physical ingress testing (getting in and out of a place they aren’t supposed to be in). One described their job as professional trespasser. The crazy shit they did was simple and could get them walking right into data centers without anyone noticing.

People are using NAS for things they aren’t meant to do. They are a storage service and aren’t supposed to be anything else. In a typical data center model, NAS servers are intermediate storage. Meant for fast data transfers, massive storage capabilities and redundant disk fault tolerance. We are talking hundreds of hard drives and hundred gigabit connection speeds inside the data center. This is expensive to run, so they are also very energy efficient, meant to keep the least amount of required disks spinning at any given moment.

They are not for video rendering, data wrangling, calculations or hosting dozens of docker containers. That’s what servers are for.

Servers have the processing power and host the actual services. They then request data from a NAS as needed. For example, a web service with tons of images and video will only have the site logic and UI images on the server itself. The content, video and images, will be on the NAS. The server will have a temporary cache where it will copy the most frequently accessed content and new content on demand. Any format conversion, video encoding, etc. Will be done by the server, not the NAS.

Now, on self-hosting of course, anything goes and they are just computers at the end of the day. But if a machine was purpose made for being a NAS server, it won’t have the most powerful processor, and that’s by design. They will have, however, an insane amount of sata, PCI-e channels and drive bays. And a ton of sophisticated hardware for data redundancy, hotswap capacity and high speed networks that is less frequent in servers.

Just to be very clear. This is happening because you didn’t have MFA active. I know it hurts to hear, but this is why you always migrate first, wipe the device second. MFA would’ve allowed you several methods for proof of ID. If your phone gets stolen, then thieves can’t even use the phone for anything. You can remote wipe and block the device, and it turns into paperweight. The device nukes your data then locks the bootloader.

Oh yes, the very expensive Dev time cost of zero, because it is a fucking website.