I have a job, and the office is 35km away. I get a locker in my office.

I have two backup drives, and every month or so, I will rotate them by taking one into the office and bringing the other home. I do this immediately after running a backup.

The drives are LUKS encrypted btrfs. Btrfs allows snapshots and compression. LUKS enables me to securely password protect the drive. My backup job is just a btrfs snapshot followed by an rsync command.

I don’t trust cloud backups. There was an event at work where Google Cloud accidentally deleted an entire company just as I was about to start a project there.

I have ONE password written down on paper, laminated, and hidden in a spot where only the wife and I know. Can you guess what it’s for?

My neighbours were like that. I saw them walk their dogs once in 10 years.

Their dogs are long gone and mine turns 18 in July.

Almost all of selfhosting is editing config files, setting permissions and starting/stopping services.

Setting it up so you can administer a server by desktop is probably as hard as learning how to edit config files from a terminal. Maybe harder.

I stopped reading when it started suggesting VPNs. Your’re far more likely to be profiled by a VPN provider than your ISP.

Privacy is not a product you can purchase.

Why would you go to Japan to live like a Muslim? I would imagine most Japanese would rather see their population shrink.

I like it, but it’s a desktop layout and they’ll get no adoption until it’s available as a native mobile app

My work PC is so locked down these days that social media happens on my phone even when I’m at my desk.

I can be absolutely certain no apps can access my mic in the background. Even when in the foreground, there is a hot-mic indicator.

It’s “com.android.calculator2” which suggests it’s the AOSP calculator or a close fork of it.

I have no issues with it. It calculates. That’s all I need it to do.

It’s such an easy fix too. Create a separate wall that only contains your friends’ OC (not reshared garbage).

It’s about 3 posts per day for someone with 200 friends, but I’d take it.

You’d think they would make it increment every half mile instead of doing something stupid like this.

It took me a while to find a toothpaste that didn’t foam up, but had decent fluoride content. The foaming agent is usually SLES, and the brands that remove it are often hippies who also remove the fluoride too. I’m currently using Clinica imported from Japan because everything my country makes is basically a mouthful of suds.

Not because of advancements in technology, but because of erosion of regulations.

Ray tracing at 24fps is not a big ask for a modern gaming PC.

That, and “public safety”.

It’s a reasonable assumption that someone in China is Chinese.

Google has found exactly what you’re searching for. It’s just they can make more money by suggesting something else.

The punishment is 12,000x the crime.

There really should be a cap on this sort of thing.

But hey, I once got suspended in school for stealing 5 cents. I even admitted to quite openly.

The first robot across the finish line, Tiangong Ultra – created by the Beijing Humanoid Robot Innovation Center – finished the route in two hours and 40 minutes.

The winner of the men’s race on Saturday finished in 1 hour and 2 minutes.

What a misleading headline. This was a 13 mile race. The robots lost by about 8 miles.

I tested my car and the speedometer, trip meter and OBD give 3 completely different values. It’s kind of expected because all manufacturers make overreading speedometers.

I think comparing trip meter/odometer, OBD and GPS is the way to go. It would be amusing if Teslas are programmed to behave when something is monitoring it over OBD.