If there is a donation button and its a project, media item, service, etc that I use enough that I would buy it, I often donate. The amount depends on how badly they need the help. If I they try to steer me to recurring donations I don’t donate at all (having the option as an opt-in is okay).

If we’re gonna let them on the road, I say that software should get points just like a driver, but when it gets suspended all the cars running that software get shut down.

I’m a Buddhist/Atheist. There is far less to fight about here than between Christians/Atheist. I’m sure I’m a “bad” Buddhist too because I take the philosophical bits that make sense to me and leave all the deities and supernatural stuff alone, but Buddhists don’t seem to mind and most atheists don’t either.

As a former evangelical Christian, who also dabbled in atheism, antitheism, etc, I settled into something that’s probably closest to Zen Buddhism mixed with atheism. I’ve been on dates with people, many of them I probably never knew their religion, but the gung-ho Christians and the Mormons showed their incompatibility very quickly. Funnily enough, ex-catholics dig me and I like them. :-)

I don’t see myself dating someone who is theocratic, doesn’t believe abortion should be allowed, or wants me to go to their church with them. I sometimes tell the story of the time I was figuring myself out and ended up going on a date with a girl who didn’t believe in dinosaurs. I call her dinosaur girl. I wish her well, but man did I dodge a bullet!

I don’t have an answer for you, but I, and probably a lot of the other silent up-voters, will be watching closely for an answer. Tablets haven’t gotten as much attention as phones. My own is still on a stock OS, even as I’ve removed more and more google stuff elsewhere. I’m not sure when/if the leap will come.

Nowadays I run a dual 4k monitor setup with the left centered in my FoV and the right one alternating between portrait and landscape. My laptop usually sits under the primary or to the bottom left. I connect over thunderbolt so I can easily swap out my work and personal laptop on the dock. Effectively I get 3 screens: my main focus, my distraction, and my comms on the built in display. If I’m gaming on the desktop I toggle the left monitor to another input. I used to have more screens but things are a lot more ergonomic now.

I do feel like I could switch to right monitor dominant, bit I think it would not be ideal considering sloppily moving the mouse to the top left on the primary would cause the mouse to jump to the secondary screen whereas on a left monitor dominant layout it would hit the border. You could offset the displays slightly to catch the mouse, but it’s not worth it.

I hate how VPN access is the scaffolding holding the building up making things look normal. You can visit all your normal web sites, you can bypass georestrictions, you can be a little less tracked than you might otherwise be. But what happens when they decide to do away with that scaffolding and we all find out they tore down the house behind it while we were enjoying “normalcy”. Too much of making the web functional depends on vpns and adblocking. We shouldn’t have to do this stuff and Chromes adblocking scandle should impact millions of users all around the world unilaterally removing adblocking from the web. I fear for the day we have a US only internet and a global internet, not just on paper, but in actual practice.

People are surprised that I can jodel a bit. My geeky high-schools self worked hard to build this skill.

Not sure about the UK, but here in the US, you could buy an ebike for every day of the week for the price of a mediocre car that will still require a few thousand dollars of work over the time that you own it. Guess who doesn’t have money? Young people!

Ebike $2000 x 7 = $14000 An average used car is way more than $14k

If you rarely go further than 15 miles from home and it’s safe and reasonably temperate where you live, you are throwing money out the window by not using a bike or ebike. And cars keep getting bigger, heavier, and more expensive.

My ebike has probably kept 5-10 thousand miles off my car and city miles cause worse wear than highway miles.

Unfair prohibitions on theft are hampering my diamond jewelry empire too, bit you don’t see me crying about it.

On the bright side…

…snacks?

I agree. Not having access on my terms is absolutely a deal breaker for me and could cause me to stop doing business with a company.

They’re loud as hell too. Makes me want to put a shishkabob skewer through either my eardrum or the speaker. That my be an exaggeration, but I’m not exaggerating when I say that I actively the avoid gas stations in my city that have this “feature”.

Right. This shouldn’t be about restricting children; but rather, this should be about restricting corporation’s bad behaviors. It’s also not just children that are impacted. Mining online dopamine-junkies for data by placing money extractors right on their weak spots is unethical, like selling someone crack, or phone scamming the elderly.

Can we do this in the same bill as the popup spikes that take out your tires if you stop across the crosswalk? The guided RPGs replacing red light cams can wait a little longer.

We need a cash only movement more than ever. It might be time to start leaving my cards at home from now on.

These scummy assholes at the big payment processors have already made rules where merchants break ToS if they surcharge for card transactions. It’s time people SEE and have the option to OPT OUT of financial industry overreach.

Yeah, its scary with AI and some simple editorializing how easily a small media empire could put blinders on millions of people and weave a narrative more believable than reality.

So there’s a number of tools to do this on desktop, but how can I easily block these domains on Android across multiple browsers and reroute to a page reminding me why they’re blocked?

Desired behavior: I type in a conde nast URL and it takes me to a page that says blocked, sketchy ownership with a link to the Wikipedia page or this thread.

You sound like a good parent. Props.

Almost anything can be taken too far. What’s clear to me here is that this issue is stemming from image and desired outcomes. Eating protein isn’t necessarily bad for you, drinking lots of water isn’t going to hurt you, getting exercise and building muscle is good for you. It’s when you take these things too far that they become a problem. Social media has convinced a lot of people that they’re not enough. Most people don’t realize that they are a solid 3-5 points higher on the hotness scale than they think and even us guys aren’t immune to image issues. If it feels good to exercise, if it improves your sleep, if it gives you energy, if it helps your digestion, do it! But don’t do it just because insta tells you no one will ever love you if you’re not ripped. That one is mostly your personality and there’s no supplements for that, you just have to work hard to continuously become a better person. Also, if someone doesn’t like you or even puts you down, there’s a good chance it’s just incompatability, which is okay, or maybe they’re a piece of shit human, which also isn’t your problem.

You are fine just the way you are, and I hope that you continue to get better in a safe and sane way.