I buy stuff from Ebay and Etsy plenty often.

I try to keep everything I care about in one folder that is backed up regularly, so it’s not such a big deal to reinstall the OS.

TBF 0C and 0F are kinda arbitrary values.

This is a good ad for their “advanced protection” feature

When someone genuinely likes you they will listen to you talk for hours about anything just because they like hearing you be passionate about something.

Wire guard is pretty easy to set up. Also Docker is great.

WhatsApp is owned by Meta (FaceBook), which is notorious for stooping to the level of borderline malware to steal data.

Only downsides of Signal are 1. It’s centralized 2. You have to sign up with a phone number.

It’s secure, cross platform, and easy to set up and use.

Probably most importantly, it’s a similar experience to using other popular texting apps and the set-up experience is familiar to anyone singing into any big-brand-name app, making it a relatively easy sell to non-techies.

These scripts are usually longer than that and do some checking of which distro you are running before doing something distro-specific.

Related: this is why the audio quality of phone calls is so bad. It’s using what’s basically a predecessor of mp3 compression at a very low bitrate. Originally because that’s what the bandwidth limits were like, but now just for the sake of backwards compatibility. That’s why making a VOIP call sounds so much better: it’s using modern audio codecs and a higher bitrate.

A lot of these are true about IP addresses as well

Some programs monitor the system clock for purposes like this.

But in the case of Steam games, many of your games would work just fine.

Which distro has full HDR support?

In Spanish you say “estadounidense” which is pretty much “unitedstatesian”.

It was already practically instantaneous compared to video encoding, but neat anyway.

Toyotas are still good

LLMs will often assume any information you give it that isn’t part of its historical training set is fictional or hypothetical.

Splatoon is about to get real sweaty when M&K is an option

I did this once as a kid just to see if it works. Yes, it works.

I read a bit about the Iroquois history. It sounds like as soon as they found strength in their political structure, they started conquering neighbors, a pattern that seems pretty much unbroken throughout human history :/