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I buy stuff from Ebay and Etsy plenty often.

I try to keep everything I care about in one folder that is backed up regularly, so it’s not such a big deal to reinstall the OS.

TBF 0C and 0F are kinda arbitrary values.

This is a good ad for their “advanced protection” feature

I feel like the human numbers should include things like car accidents

Shadespesre*

When someone genuinely likes you they will listen to you talk for hours about anything just because they like hearing you be passionate about something.

Wire guard is pretty easy to set up. Also Docker is great.

WhatsApp is owned by Meta (FaceBook), which is notorious for stooping to the level of borderline malware to steal data.

The author’s total misunderstanding of how visual/color spectrums work makes their analogies fall apart.

• the “visual spectrum” as they mention it is a gradient, it’s just a gradient of frequency/wavelength which usually isn’t particularly relevant unless you are doing science
• there are ways people organize, define, and describe colors for aesthetic purposes, often in 2D or 3D “spectrums” or “gradients”. In this context statements like “this color is more red than that color” are very well defined and make sense.

I think I get their core point that there are many facets to autism and annoyance at people who aren’t really “autistic” trying to claim to be to play that “card” in an argument. But IMO trying to pretend words don’t have meaning for the sake of a half-baked analogy is a really weak way to make that argument.

RIP Comixology. I can access lower-quality versions of stuff I bought on kindle but the high quality stuff I paid for is gone.

Only downsides of Signal are 1. It’s centralized 2. You have to sign up with a phone number.

It’s secure, cross platform, and easy to set up and use.

Probably most importantly, it’s a similar experience to using other popular texting apps and the set-up experience is familiar to anyone singing into any big-brand-name app, making it a relatively easy sell to non-techies.