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DigitalDilemma

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  • Have you met a Christian that sold/gave up everything they owned?

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  • Good example.

    But don't many join these days because of some personal calamity where they've already lost much? The church takes them in, gives them purpose and a roof over their heads.

    (I say "these days" as historically, under primogeniture, the second son of a wealthy lord would often be given to the church to give them purpose/keep them out of the way of the firstborn. Daughters were similarly steered into a nunnery to avoid the parents having to pay a substantial dowry)

  • YSK to get a passport in the US, you need to have access to information about your parents and most recent ex-spouse

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  • ‘Their first instinct was to loot’: how Trump’s acolytes are plundering the Kennedy Center

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  • Blind devotion to a party is how y'all ended up in this mess.

  • Things I learned migrating from Win10 to Mint

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  • Guides helping you to navigate this jumbled mess are possibly outdated

    That's true, but have you ever tried to read Microsoft's documentation?

  • YSK that FOSDEM 2026, one of the world's largest computer science meeting will happen next month in Brussels 🇧🇪 . This edition features 949 speakers and 908 events.

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  • Geographical beard density will be high.

  • Small decent camera for travel and selfies

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  • A cheap second hand android camera? There's some with good lenses around now for not a lot of money, and if it does get damaged there's no big loss.

    Doesn't need a sim card to upload via wifi (and you can hotspot or bluetooth-tether from another phone to provide it with internet access if needed), and would be better registered to a second Google account so if it's stolen there's no chance of them getting access to the primary account. Or do put a PAYG sim card in and it's also available as a spare in case the primary phone gets lost of broken.

    I use an old phone as a GPS on my motorbike and keep my primary safely in my pocket.

  • Difference between promote and advertise?

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  • Perspective?

    • I'm promoting something.
    • You're advertising at me.

  • Why don't people ask scammers a few questions?

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  • They force a sense of urgency and have well rehearsed routines to skirt around these type of questions.

    Ultimately, if the mark is too sceptical, they'll realise they're wasting their time and move on. Plenty of others, it's not worth trying that hard.

  • YSK about Psyllium husk

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  • Thanks - genuinely useful YSK.

    I'm on a bunch of medication, and nearly all of it has "can cause constipation" as a listed side effect. Add that to a GLP1 injection and things have been tight for a while, so much that I got my first ever haemmarroid a few weeks ago and that wasn't fun. Stool softeners help also.

  • RAM and SSD prices are still climbing—here’s our best advice for PC builders

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  • Clearly the best advice is "Build your PC a year ago"

  • old laptop and raspberry pi is my past - what should be the upgrade?

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  • How much storage would your NAS need? What apps are you running? What's this all for?

    NVME/SSSD is better in every way than HDD (speed, noise, heat and power) but obviously more expensive, especially for larger capacities. Decide whether you can do it with that or need hdd's, and that then informs what hardware supports either 2x nvme (or 3x if you want separate for OS) or 2x sata.

    Don't get hung up on power costs btw. 500E is a lot of power and you'll likely never regain that. Rpi is what, 5watts? Laptop somewhere around 5-50? HDDs around 5w average, nvme's ~1w. Any equivalent hardware or faster is going to use similar power, it's not like you're replacing a DL360.

    But if you want to replace anyway and NAS/media is your main thing, then perhaps buy a NAS and run docker apps on that. uGreen make some nice ones.

  • What should we do? Is blocking this guy "mean"/undeserved?

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  • (I originally put this first para at the end, but it's pretty important, so putting up top) Be aware that just because we're autistic, it doesn't mean we're not bad guys. He might be grooming her, he may already have more personal information than he should, and he may be targetting autistic children specifically. If you think that is the case, go to your parents or the police. I know that's the last thing you'll want to do, but the consequences if he is can be life changing or fatal.

    (Original follows) Fellow autist here, if that matters, but probably not.

    No, it's not mean. People come and go out of each others lives all the time. Your time with this guy is clearly over - if it feels less than fun or has become uncomfortable or weird, move on. Why not? You don't owe him anything.

    As you know, autistic people are no strangers to being obsessive, and putting that alongside a lack of awareness when we're pushing personal barriers, we can be really annoying. I don't recommend you accept any money or gift cards from this guy, even to buy your GF a new tablet. That will give him a bigger feeling of entitlement and certainly gives him power over you.

    Just stop communicating. No explanations, no apologies, both of you just stop and block. If he tries to contact you after that, or by other means, that's creepy af and definitely report.

  • Introducing Taskpony!

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  • It's a self hosted web app, and that's not something that's easy to change once it's written. The benefits to self hosting are pretty well established, and this type of thing can be accessed from anywhere in the world by multiple devices and always be in sync. For myself, I use this both from a laptop, my desktop and a phone when I'm out - I'm always jotting down thoughts before they fall out of my head. Also, there's probably a lot of desktop task apps out there already that do tasks, like many Email clients. I don't mind reinventing a wheel, but not too keen on reinventing all the wheels.

    Demo is a fair point, I'll include that on the wishlist for the future. I think the pictures probably do a fair job of indicating how a task app works - which is basically a way of entering, displaying and ticking off tasks which many people will be familiar with, but perhaps I'm just over familiar with the concept. A self resettable demo might be nice, yes.

  • Do you think Chinese companies will pick up the slack when it comes to consumer RAM and SSDs?

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  • Not just America - all Western countries did.

    We made it expensive to manufacture goods due to labour costs and well-meaning but crippling environmental protections and couldn't compete on price.

  • Larian CEO Responds to Divinity Gen AI Backlash: 'We Are Neither Releasing a Game With Any AI Components, Nor Are We Looking at Trimming Down Teams to Replace Them With AI'

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  • At a certain level, it is going to be a chore to determine who is or is not slopping up with AI media. Not every asset comes out with six fingers and a half-melted face.

    That's a good point. I think a lot of people are dismissing AI content because there's this fallacy and desire to believe it's all "slop". It's willfully ignorant to wave it all away like that. Sure, we've all seen the stupid stuff, and it's really annoying, but we absorb the good stuff without even knowing it. Anyone claiming they can reliably spot AI generated images is fooling themselves even at this early stage.

    I'd like to know when something is real, especially real art and even pictures of nature, but I don't think I can.

  • How does your language or region say wow?

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  • bleddy 'ell

  • Has a rude/bad person ever helped you?

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  • People change, and with bigotry, they've often been changed by others.

    He may not always have been like that, so it's okay to like someone once and not at other times. Best advice I can give is listen to your inner moral compass. If something sounds wrong, it probably is.

  • Has a rude/bad person ever helped you?

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  • (very) Late diagnosed autistic guy here.

    Thank you for writing that.

    One of the revealing things about realising this is what I am is looking back at a long life and realising a lot of people thought of me as rude, or that I was being deliberately awkward. I've certainly lost one job because of it, lived a life that's largely friendless (IRL anyway) and doubtless missed a thousand opportunities through not being aware of them. There's also an element of cause and effect - sometimes you know pretty quickly that someone's not going to warm to you, so you just shut them out mentally. It's expensive for me to make the effort to be normal and as I've got older I'm less willing to waste this time and energy.

    I see it as very positive that so many people are aware of neurodiversity now, especially younger generations, and their first thought when someone behaves differently isn't always that they're deliberately being an assehole. Sometimes they are, of course, especially those with particularly bigoted views, but not always.

  • Introducing Taskpony!

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  • Thank you for the kind words.

    Syncing is a tricky one. The universal method seems to be using caldav, so Taskpony would need to support that as an endpoint. But I haven't investigate this as the android side of things is complicated - or at least, I found it so when trying exactly that. You need to install third party software (DavX5 is the most common) - which is listed as both free via fdroid and paid via GPlay. That provides the syncing which is then available to other things on the device. Not an unsolveable problem, but I found it fiddly, and kept being nagged to register software to get it working.

    But I made an early decision not to replicate things that are done well elsewhere. Caldav has lots of options, the best I found is Radicale which provides unlimited tasklists and calendars, but has no interface. That does tie in well with Thunderbird on desktop and other things, but again, the syncing problem exists on Android. Vikunja and TaskTrove are good projects that do support caldav and multi-users if you do want to go that route.

    I wanted Taskpony to be simple to set up. Run a docker compose command and visit a URL - that's it for LAN use. No reliance on other software apart from a web browser. I can't achieve that and provide syncing or multi users, sorry. Of course, you and your wife can just use the same instance of Taskpony and have different Lists for personal or shared tasks, then everything is always in sync.