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I don’t know much bout any of those places, but I’d think you’d want to lean towards living in a location that matches your skillset, so you can find work more easily. If you’re an accountant, you’d probably want to live near a financial district. If you’re a farmer, you’d probably want to live near a farm. If you have a fully remote job, still find a place in/near a hub for that type of work.

In my experience, Windows would update the boot order and set itself as the default every time you booted into it

I took a computer programming course in high school and really liked coding. I was going to do a comp sci degree, but my dad forced me to do software engineering. In my 2nd last year of uni, I did an internship at a web dev company. They liked me so they asked me to work part time during the year; then after I graduated, I just went from part time to full time. Have been in web dev ever since.

My advice: pick a career that pays well that you’ll enjoy; then look into what you need to get there. Don’t go to post-secondary simply because you like the subject.

I know someone who really liked history, but didn’t think about life after school. Unfortunately, they’re now stuck at home with their parents, working a minimum wage job, paying off insane amounts of student debt. I really wish it worked out better for them, but there’s not many decent paying jobs in that field.

Assuming the ICEBlock devs win the case, I wonder if the judge would order Apple to reinstate it. Apple was clearly fine with the app, up until they were threatened by trump. But given how trump doesn’t give a shit about what the courts say, Apple may refrain from reinstating the app as the threats still loom; unless they’re told to do so otherwise…

I was the same way for a few years. I don’t know exactly was the “fix”, but this is what I’ve stated doing to help me go to bed:

• Podcast: I found listening to a podcast made a huge difference for me. It has to be one that’s interesting enough to pay attention to, but not one that is too interesting you have to listen to every second of it. That way I can lay in bed and not be bored, but also not care if I miss anything. My go-to is the LTT podcast; Dungeons & Daddies is also good, but I want to pay attention more so it doesn’t work as well. Also use an app with a configurable sleep timer. Eventually you’ll figure out approx how long it takes for you to fall asleep based on if you miss anything vs getting up to restart the timer.
• Bedtime Routine: A routine helps tell your body it’s time for bed. Bedtime tea, washroom, brush teeth, shower, then climb into bed.
• No Games before Bed: When it’s close to bedtime, I stop playing games and switch to watching videos. Less brain effort.
• Dim Lights at Night: Might be a bit too much effort, but I’ve setup all my lights to dim starting at 11pm. Bedroom dims all the way down to min brightness.
• Caffeine: No coffee after 5, ideally not after 3
• Cool Temps at Night: If you can, lower your house temps by a few degrees before bed and overnight too
• Happy Lamp: It’s basically a bright light you point at your face during the day. Where I live, the sun rises pretty late, sets pretty early, and I have a work-from-home job so I don’t get a lot of actual sunlight. My SO said that my mood has definitely improved since starting to use it, and it helps with your circadian rhythm.

I hope this helps!

$23K spent for police security at a pro-gun rally.

I’m pretty sure having police present at any rally is normal; but they said there were officers from specialized teams:

That deployment consisted of a staff sergeant and inspector, as well as members of Cape Breton’s emergency response team (ERT) tactical unit, the public safety unit, internet crimes, community safety enforcement and street crime units, as well as regular patrol officers and mental health liaisons. … also hired guards from a local security company for 12-hour patrols.

Now, I think the key takeaway from this though is that they said “… as well as members of …”. Not that the teams were deployed; which tells me that maybe their police force isn’t big enough to have Internet Crimes watching, but that an officer on that team was present at the rally and doing normal security for that day

I think it’s the context. IIRC, they were at/near the White House hinting that it was a political attack. And right now, due to the US politics, everyone’s fantasizing about a civil war; so anything that hints at it will get clicks. Clicks = more traffic to their websites = more ad revenue

I’ve been telling people this for years: Post-secondary educational institutions are no longer about education; they’re a business. They do everything they can to maximize profits, and don’t really care about the quality of education.

Beautiful! Great job

Whatever you get, don’t get Synology. They’ve been working on penalizing you from using any drives and only allowing you to buy Synology-branded drives by removing features (source)

I run my personal email off of my domain registrar, Namcheap. Its management is shared so they partially maintain it, but give me a bunch of tools I can use.

One tool in particular I really like is BoxTrapper. If the email isn’t white listed, it “traps” it and sends a reply that asks the sender to click a link to verify they’re not a bot. If they click it, email goes through. This has cut my spam by 95%, but it does mean I do miss the odd important email.

Another thing I do is I’ve setup a subdomain + a global forwarder. So everything from @email.my_domain.com goes to my email. BoxTrapper is set to allow those emails to go through, and any time I sign up for anything, it gets its own email address to send to. So if I go and sign up for Facebook, they get facebook@email.my_domain.com. If they start sending me spam, I add that domain to the BoxTrapper blacklist.

This system does require your own domain and registrar with these tools. However, managing your own email server is a gigantic pain in the ass. And this is even with partial management. Full management would be even worse. So if you’re not doing it already, I really don’t recommend it.

IMO, Lenovo. Have had Lenovos in the past, no issues. I know someone who had an ASUS and the hinge broke. Also, don’t go through Staples - their warranty is garbage.

A lot of things from a particular family member

This month: His buddy who’s a “mechanic” touched our car and did a bunch of “extra work” on it for a “great price”. Got it back and it sounded like they emptied the transmission fluid in the CVT. I got “it must be the drive shaft” and “don’t go down rabbit holes on the internet”

It was missing transmission fluid

Did anyone else get stuck on #639 with 4 words remaining?

Really? You used the NWC for kids wanting gender reassignment medical help, kids asking to be called different pronouns, and kids figuring out which sports team they want to play on?

The stakes could not be higher

Oh fuck off. How about homeless people dying because of hunger, or people getting shot up during armed robberies. Literally life and death shit. How is perverting what the fuck is going on in Lisa’s pants more important than dealing with crime and income inequality?

Danielle - you’ve got more important shit to deal with than focusing all your attention on kids’ genitalia

Fellow homebox user here. As an aside: I’ve got a storage room with a bunch of shelves and bins. For each bin, I’ve suck labels on them (using a label maker or sharpie + painters tape), and an NFC tag. Each box in Homebox has its own location, and each NFC tag is a direct link to its instance in Homebox.

It’s much easier to categorize larger quantities of things that aren’t as valuable as vintage media. Ie. hygiene products, off-season clothing, etc…

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I don’t think this is homebrews fault? It looks like apps need to be signed to run on apple silicone.