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  • Crap. I was thinking I might skip the Switch 2. But this might be my reason to get one.

    I really want to see a homebrew exploit before I get one, though.

  • Wow. Huge topic. And it depends on a ton of things. And I definitely don't feel like I've got it all figured out myself.

    If you're young and just for the first time having to manage your own affairs rather than depend on parents to help with that, then self-help kind of stuff might well be a fine place to start. (Just avoid Jordan Peterson.) If you're older and feel like you've had the time needed to develop those skills and still don't have them, it's likely there's something deeper going on that might benefit from therapy.

    I personally cared for my ailing grandmother for a long time. And that shit's hard work, and takes a lot of time. In the process, I let a lot of things go by the wayside like yardwork, home repair, and organization. Now that she has passed, I find myself with a lot of remedial work to catch up on. I feel like I'm making progress. It's frustrating and slow, but it is progressing and that's the important part.

  • It seems like the opportunity to use this image comes up nearly daily lately:

  • Send help.

  • Every time you see a Grimreaper thread, I want you all to remember...

    You just lost the game.

  • I can definitely see a lot of good applications for this way of doing things.

    It does seem like I often run across "error handling" code that literally just catches a bunch of different exception types and throws a new exception with the same content from the caught error just reworded, adding literally zero helpful information in the process.

    It's definitely the case that sometimes the exact sort of crash you'd get if you didn't handle errors is exactly the best sort of exception output the program could do given its particular use case and target audience. Or at least it might be best to let the error be handled much further away in the call stack.

  • What's wrong with the Fediverse exactly?

  • So build your own. ;)

  • I break this image out a lot but:

  • I can't imagine you're the only one in this situation. If I were in your shoes, I'd search for similar stories online and see if I could get a sense of how friendly the company is to swapping OSs. For some companies, changing the OS is a complete deal breaker. Other companies are pretty willing to assume the issue was indeed strictly hardware and had nothing to do with changing the OS, and thus will go ahead and do the repair.

    If you find that company is more like the former, install Windows. If not, just start the warranty repair process.

  • "The country". U.S.A.? The respondent's country (whichever that might happen to be)?

    Also, presidents mostly don't have complete dictatorial power... the current president of the U.S. notwithstanding, but do you mean for respondents to give answers that a president could realistically make happen, or is the spirit of your question more about what respondents would like to see changed by someone with dictatorial power?

  • What do Bitcoin and dark web add to the conversation, exactly? That can be done with fiat currencies on the regular-old internet. (It could be done with brick-and-mortor stores, and vinyl, for that matter.)

    Whether it could "work" (as in, become popular) is another question, but darknet-only and cryptocurrency-only would make it harder for it to take off than just putting it on the internet and letting people pay with Visa, Mastercard, Discover, PayPal, etc.

  • Depends how he responds now that that article came out, I'd say.

  • Don't forget Bro-senpai.

  • Doubtful, unfortunately. FUTO seems like the sort of narcissistic assholes who won't be swayed in any way, shape, or form

  • There's no third option between FOSS and proprietary (unless there are licenses that match the Free Software definition but not the Open Source definition or vice versa, I suppose, but I'm not aware of any). All software that is not FOSS is proprietary by definition, whether the source is available or not. It's not "disingenuous" to call FUTO software proprietary. It's simply factual.

  • They're openly disdainful of all things Open Source and OSI, and their software is not Open Source.

    They're a fully for-profit company using consumer rights kind of rhetoric to manipulate people in service to FUTO's own pocketbook. Don't fall for their use of the .org tld or promises to "never abuse customers".

    I've written many times about what assholes FUTO is. I'm fully convinced they're way more part of the problem than part of the solution and they're not to be trusted.

    They've soured me on Rossman. Back when he was doing coverage of things like the court cases around right to repair and tractors and stuff, I watched a few videos of his and thought he was awesome. And then he got involved with FUTO and started billing Grayjay as "Open Source" and I've gotten sufficiently disillusioned with FUTO that I haven't followed Rossman at all. I've got coworkers changing their avatars to Clippy and shit, and I believe their hearts are in the right place, but I can't in good conscience really get behind anything or anyone associated with FUTO.

    Edit: Oh. I honesty didn't even see this OP was a link to an article. Lol. Now I'm very interested to go read that article.

    Edit 2: Shite. I've now read the article. I knew FUTO was assholes in a lot of different ways, but now I know how deeply, completely irredeemable they really are.

  • You're talking about vaporizing the crystal and inhaling it or injecting it, yes? Not a chaga or ayahuasca sort of preparation? I'll assume you'll be doing just DMT with no MAOI for the rest of this post.

    Also, disclaimer: I've never done any psychedelics. Just studied quite a bit.

    This is basically cliche at this point, but, set and setting.

    Mindset. Meditate. Learn to let go. Learn not to try to control. That will come in handy during your trip. The less you fight it, the more positive it will be.

    Setting. Make sure your plans are well set up ahead of time so you don't end up worrying about things down here on the material plane while you're tripping. Have a trip sitter. Trip somewhere beautiful and comfortable. Have a trip sitter.

    Aside from that, learn how to actually get the drug into you properly. You don't want to burn it, just vaporize it, and that requires doing it right with the right kind of device. Your trip sitter can help, especially if they're experienced.

    Godspeed. No pressure, but if you're ok with it, I'd love to see you report back after.