No, it was more like “I can benefit while helping someone in a time of need, so why not.” I wouldn’t have purchased had we not been in an unprecedented situation. That’s part of why it felt so shitty when I thought I saw signs of a potential scam.

They sent a set of pics and vids.

At the start of the pan, someone advertised nude media to make extra cash during the initial lockdown. I sent the $20 or whatever it was. Turned out they wanted to draw more cash and that was only the opener. Felt like a scam and I blocked them. Felt I had been conned. Never knew if that’s true for sure.

Otherwise, only shitty products and services that came from corporations.

Moving to California Bay Area. Decision literally happened in about three hours.

I was planning on leaving if the orange got reelected. I only didn’t because in the years between when I made that decision (2021) and now, I found myself in a relationship cohabitating with my partner. She’s here as a refugee and can’t leave or that gets rescinded. It took some serious soul searching to decide to retract my longstanding plan to escape this hellish fascist-speedrun. I was even doing phone interviews. If you think you could be happy, do it.

Welcome in from the cold. We have hot cocoa and blankets.

Woodworking?

Because you’ll be wasting your time and energy.

My tip for anyone struggling with getting started with linux, set up a log function so you can easily log any relevant changes you make, and have it accessible from somewhere else (like a shared partition or external drive for example). This way you know what you have done and can use that to fix whatever you fuck up. Also, make a knowledge base with the sources you find useful. I have a small kb in UpNote now so I can look up how some things were done instead of having to search and find the right guides over and over.

This is the best advice for anyone who wants to learn how to utilize the command line. I used to write tremendous documentation for myself, as though I was writing a blog post. Now, I just throw a one line description of the change and hope I remember enough about it for it to make sense. But writing the longer info was really important for me internalizing things in the very beginning.

Glad you’re having fun!

Edit: Oh, and I suggest you look for guides on setting up rsync to work like Time Machine.

In a blogpost called, “AI crawlers need to be more respectful”, they claim that blocking all AI crawlers immediately decreased their traffic by 75%, going from 800GB/day to 200GB/day. This made the project save up around $1500 a month.

“AI” companies are a plague on humanity. From now on, I’m mentally designating them as terrorists.

Made by a rockstar dev who also created bat.

This is my favorite issue of Superman in years.

That’s why people are lighting them on fire at Tesla dealerships.

Violent attacks on Tesla dealerships spike as Musk takes prominent role in Trump White House

Spring

18 yo, senior year. Went to the house where the mom stocked lots of junk food for the teens who hung out there (it was a party house, the sort where she looked the other way to keep us from getting arrested by being out and about).

Got super high. Microwaved some chicken wings. Took a couple bites before realizing that though they were breaded, they were not cooked. Went in the backyard and stuck my fingers down my throat. Was in fear of food poisoning but got lucky. Never breathed a word about it to my friends.

The Rust war is a travesty for OSS.

I had a bottle of hot saki at a restaurant that we walked to last month.

Things like having a well-regulated sleep schedule isn’t a failsafe. I woke up at 4am both nights that my partner took a roadtrip with visiting family. And sometimes you just have a rough couple of nights.

Sam Altman is a lying hype-man. He deserves to see his company fail.

Try to work on learning how to communicate effectively. I used to say the wrong thing a lot. I thought I was being open and honest, but really, I just put my foot in my mouth.

There’s no guidebook to do this well. You just learn by wanting to do it better and time allowing you to learn from your mistakes.

I wish you the best!