I loathe going to a house when I can see they've got a Ring or another door camera. And the shitty part is, I can't ask the owner to turn it off while I pick up my <insert local equivalent of Craig's List or whatever here> item because they'll jump to assuming that I'm dodgyor going to do something bad to them rather than the door camera service they're using being dodgy as hell and I just don't want to be data mined by Jeff Bezos. (Or that maybe I just don't consent to some random stranger recording me)
Thorned_Rose
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I've been raw feeding for over decade. The health of my cats massively improved. The ones that have been raw fed right from the get go are the healthiest I've ever been owned by. One of my cats, the vet said was the "most beautiful specimen he's ever seen" (yes he used that terminology lol and all my cats are just mutty rescues) and said he was incredibly healthy.
I've gotten more food poisoning from supermarket food than I ever have off raw cat food, which is to say never in that time. We use a high quality local business that specialises solely in raw feeding.
With regards to research, just bear in mind that the pet food industry is a multi-billion dollar industry with vested interests in maintaining the status quo. There's also plenty of evidence to show that, as an industry, there's a lot of dodgy stuff going on and that its causing huge health issues for pets, including deaths. I believe there's been several documentaries on it but I haven't looked this info up in many years.
I'll edit this with some studies once I'm on my PC and not my phone because it's annoying to do with a phone keyboard.
Its not just about us using Linux though - it's also users on the other end that were interacting with. If I handle sensitive information, use encryption and disappearing messages and what have you, that doesn't mean squat if I have to send some sensitive information to someone using insecure email and Recall. Microsoft, Google and whatever other gods awful privacy invading service and companies the person on the other end now have that data.
And a lot of people just don't even think about this stuff. They could be the type of person who will promise yo keep your secrets or sensitive stuff and actually do that, but keeping that away from privacy invading companies isn't even on their radar.
They serve two different purposes - Gimp for image editing, Inkscape for vector graphics.
What others have said. With regards to diet and drinking - look into raw feeding.
I have a Google Pixel with Graphene OS and I only install bare minimum of apps on it. I've never used Temu and don't have an account. So not asking for myself π But I know many family members who have the most frustratingly ad ridden, notification nagging and invasive apps known to humankind - was asking to help them debloat, improve their privacy and free up some of their time and sanity.
It's a shame there's no list of those thousands of apps that take screenshots. While its not all apps, it would have still been a handy reference.
What is with all the depressing shit posted on Mildly Interesting lately?! This isn't mildly interesting, its c/OrphanCrushingMachine
Fun fact, humans can get a mild high off catnip too. It was what I used as a young teen with an overbearing abusive parent.
Or just ditch the Windows partition/drive and use a VM instead.
Do you know where in Exodus you can see if an app takes screenshots? Looking through the permissions of two of the most invasive apps I could think of off the top of my head (Facebook, Google, Temu, Instagram, some popular mobile games) I couldn't find any permissions specifically related to screenshot. If most apps tested are taking screenshots, I would have thought it would be easy to see :/
Hazel still also only gets minimal timeshare of the brain cell but she's a survivor, having recently recovered from hepatitis! π
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Was super excited to see the 5.0 changes. Until I discovered my long time base is completely ruined and our 'home' system planets have changed.
(sh.itjust.works)
My spouse and I have played NMS since release. After switching to the Steam version a number of years ago, we were lucky enough to start our current save in a system that had a paradise planet. While we weren't the first to discover the system, we were the first for the planets, flora, fauna and minerals.
Anyway, we both started bases on the paradise planet and have had those bases ever since. This planet was one of my favourites with gorgeous fields of glowing flowers (at night), purple grass, no storms, pretty water.... you get the picture.
When settlements came along, we moved our main bases to settlements, one of us on the paradise and the other on a toxic planet in the same system.
I spent many, many, many hours adding to my settlement, doing clever things to make it look nice and RPing the hell out of everything.
On the paradise planet I also turned my first base into a 'tourist attraction'. Then discovered this absolutely gorgeous flat field surrounded by hills. Inside one of the hills was a natural cave entrance. Low and behold the cave also looked spectacular with glowing fungi. So I also RP'd this as a tourist attraction - land in the field at night for a rolling field light show, enter the cave and go spelunking lit by cave roof covered in glowing fungi.....
Then the first planetary generation update came. All seemed well until I reached my 'Cave of Wonders'. The glowing fungi was gone. It was just a barren boring cave now. That hurt, but fine. It wasn't as bad as some people got as we still had a beautiful purple glowing paradise.
Then an update to settlements wrecked all my decoration. So I meticulously fixed it all and made it even better. I have cared for my settlement, made good choices for the inhabitants....
So, I was super looking forward to how beautiful our slice of paradise was going to look after the 5.0 update. I could only imagine how much more gorgeous the water and sky would look.
Imagine my horror when my spouse said that our main planet was showing as "Worm infested" when scanning. My anxiety rising I head to our paradise and my heart sinks as my ship clears the clouds. It is indeed now infested.
Worse is that my settlement is completely gone. The pin for it is still there but the settlement interface is non-existent.
All that remains is all the base parts I added - now either floating in the air or completely buried as the landscape has radically changed.
I then visited every single one of my other bases. Some are still functional as the landscape hasn't changed but the planetary type has in about 90% of them (weirdly some planets are still completely the same but most are different). My runaway mould farm has been replaced by metal fingers.
Worst off is our paradise planet where both the type and landscape are different.
There's other weirdness like the Discoveries being simultaneously reset but not - it will say a planet is undiscovered but when I land, it's suddenly gets the proper info back for it.
But on other systems, the discoveries are completely reset - in my AI Valve farm system, the system comes up as discovered by me but none of the planets were until I landed on them. The one that I have a base on has the name I gave it but all the other planets in the system are completely reset to their original names (and this system had some sentimental names as it was my final Atlas story system).
I'm going away for a week soon and was looking forward to playing some NMS beforehand. Now just have a sour taste in my mouth. So many hours lost and funnily enough I've lost any motivation to play at the moment. :(
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Today I'm grateful I'm using Linux - Global IT issues caused by Crowdstrike update causes BSOD on Windows
(www.timesnownews.com)
Brand new Pelikan Twist came with multiple scratches at the top of the barrel. One on each side. All about the same length as the one in the photo except for one that goes under the sticker (not counting the mould line on that side).
Kinda feels a bit 1st world problems but I'm poor and this is the only Pelikan I will ever (short of winning lotto and getting incredibly lucky) get to own and feels disappointing to get a brand new pen that's already scratched.
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