InEnduringGrowStrong

What they mean is they don’t have to do layoffs to please some publisher’s exec, they have the luxury of doing these things for their own greed.

“We don’t have to (but we do anyway)”

Yes and these comments also show up on mastodon.

No apologies needed. Although, ordering one before they reban it again may or may not be something to consider.

Pretty sure that ban was walked back?

You might not yet always know what you’re doing to your Linux install…
But you can never really what the fuck Microsoft is gonna do to your windows install.

That’s without even getting into whether or not Microsoft knows what they’re doing themselves.

Critical Dependency As A Service

For when you need to outsource the potential crippling of your business to potentially hostile third parties.

I’ve not had good luck finding something that gives me the confidence to go about it

Now’s a good time to make sure you have good backups.
Knowing you can fallback to your backups helps a lot with confidence.

One this that’s really hard to replace is DDoS protection.

Seems to work on Nightly, but not on the main build.
Still, that’s a lot more progress on this than the last years.

Might be a niche use case, but I sometimes need WebUSB, WebSerial or WebXR, none of which are supported in Firefox.
Just gotta protect them like with other permissions.

Also, Firefox mobile still doesn’t support mutual TLS, and so I need another browser just for that.

Firefox is my main browser but there’s a few specific things that only work in chromium.
People will use whatever works for them.

I leave my phone further away.
Close enough that I’ll hear it if there’s an actual emergency, but far enough that I won’t reach for it just because I’m bored.

That’s enough to take care of most of my mindless night scrolling.

If I just can’t fall asleep, sometimes I’ll go drift off in the hammock outside or something that’ll cool my body a bit.
Tbh, sometimes I just rub one out ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Also works as a decongestant.
I’m not a doctor, don’t use this as medical advice.

I use this one:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.orrs.deliveries

It can usually get the status of most courriers unless they’re actively hostile against API/scraping.
Worst case you can still track status manually, or open the webpage.
It doesn’t track payment, but I don’t usually have a tracking number before paying.
I think you could technically add your own custom status entry.
I keep them as active until shipped and verified after which I mark them as completed.

Works well enough for my needs.

If she’s discussing said exit plans with you, make sure y’all have some bare minimum OpSec.
By that I mean… encrypted chat, phone locks, deleting history, etc.
Otherwise just being there to listen can make a big difference even though I understand wishing to do more, sometimes you can’t and being there is good enough.

Yea, we’re going for the combo.
I should have said “one of” our generation’s asbestos

This is probably our generation’s asbestos.

Shoes off, unless it’s construction work then boots on and I’ll clean up after. Safety first.

Older cable management was fucking elegant.
You can’t convince me that cable lacing isn’t fucking fabulous.

I’ve dropped a smartphone once several years ago. I think it was the Galaxy S5.
First day, hadn’t put it in a case yet, dropped it, tried to catch it with my foot but ended up kicking it into the steel frame of a cubicle.
The side dented but it survived.

Before that, the last time I had dropped a phone was… a Motorola Razr that I dropped from a 28’ ladder and onto the sidewalk, no car or anything, worked fine and barely a scratch.

Otherwise basically never.