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nickiam2

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  • In heat

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  • I think the trick here is to not use Google. The Wikipedia page for the movie heat is the first result on DuckDuckGo

  • Self-hosted PDF manager?

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  • Tailscale is how I access my server. I've got a domain name that points to the internal tailscale IP address, but that's not really necessary

  • Fixing an expired SSL certificate remotely

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  • I run uptime-kuma on a cheap VPS and have it ping my external ports on the home server. If the house loses internet I still get alerts.

  • What do you have a low tolerance for?

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  • People who micromanage, either directed at me or someone else

  • Can anyone help identify this spider? Found on a celing in Austria.

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  • That's a huntsman. Not dangerous to you

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  • No, unless the game you're playing is trying to download ads then you might have some minor issues but it shouldn't effect online multiplayer.

  • So what ARE the current "good" VPN services?

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  • I've used AirVPN for this exact setup and it works great. The port forwarding is static and doesn't change once setup. I switched to proton because it was convenient, I was already paying for ProtonMail et all, so I dropped the extra VPN subscription when it renewed.

  • Underrated pizza toppings?

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  • Cream cheese and black olives 👌oh so good

  • If anyone could answer, where did Nicole the Fediverse Chick come from?

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  • I got a message from Nicole too, would like to know where it came from

  • What games have the most toxic communities?

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  • League of Legends by far has the most toxic community I've ever encountered. I left in the middle of a match due to toxic players and got a temp ban. Never went back.

  • The best Cloud backup in 2025?

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  • I use restic with a wrapper script to automate it on all of my machines. The backend storage can be anything that speaks S3, so B2, or iDrive would both work. I currently use Storj for my backend. It's globally distributed storage, so no single point of failure geographically and it's cheap. Backblaze is also a great company, but I've grown a little skeptical since they went public.

  • VPS provider to host a cheap WireGuard relay for torrenting

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  • As others have pointed out, just get a VPN and run your torrents through that. I've used AirVPN and ProtonVPN. Both are P2P friendly and even offer inbound port forwarding. It would be easier to setup and likely cheaper too. Proton is incorporated in Switzerland and has servers all over the world.

  • What informational or opinion-based "YouTubers" do you disagree with or object to the most?

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  • All religion is a cult IMHO

  • Have you used so-called "AI" for actually productive work ?

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  • I've used llama3 to help me rewrite my ancient CV and gotten good results so far. I took what it suggested and changed things myself to make a bit more sense. I also use it to summarize things occasionally but that's about it.

  • How bad is it for a mobile device to be "slow charging"?

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  • Technically any charging of a Lithium battery is "bad" for its health. Batteries are usually rated for a certain number if charge cycles from the manufacturer and after that number of cycles will start to lose capacity. The best advise I've seen regarding battery health is to keep it from charging to %100 everytime. As others have stated, the charging speed can also have an impact as it creates heat and heat will also wear out the battery.

    As for your specific device it seems like it's consuming more power than the charger is giving it, so even when plugged in and turned on it may be discharging the battery still as it's not getting enough power. Either you buy a new charger that can put out more power or you turn it off while charging it. Either case shouldn't be bad for the battery health.

  • What's your unique story about a job loss?

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  • I worked in a scuba dive shop for a few months. My first day I was told to come in for orientation. I showed up and the manager was very suprised to see me there. He didn't know I was coming because nobody told him. I thought "okay mistakes happen" then he handed me an employee handbook and told me to sit in the back and start reading.

    An hour later he comes back in and asks if I had any questions about it. I said no, then we setup an app for timekeeping and I went back home.

    I had my first shift a few weeks later. I had 0 retail experience and they just said go help that customer. I had no training at this point. After making a fool of myself i was mocked and asked to put some stock away instead.

    After a week of that nonsense, I was moved into their smaller shop that I was to work by myself. I got 1/2 a day of "training", zero direction on what to do in my down time and was told that the owner liked to watch the camera and if I was caught doing nothing, I would be fired.

    This smaller shop had a "manager" that was never around, about 5 customers a day asking where the toilet was, and not much else to do. I wanted to quit simply because of the boredom but it got worse after I started working on their dive charter boat 2 days a week.

    I a piece of equipment was found to be broken or not put away properly it was automatically my fault. We had to refill all of the dive air tanks after each trip, about 50 of them. It took a long time and I would get talked to if it took too long, or if the tanks weren't filled correctly. You can only do one of those things safely.

    Then one day my timekeeping app sends me an SMS that one of my shifts was deleted, so I went and had the day off. I came in the next day to them asking where I was. They actually changed the shift without asking me, the app said it was deleted and again that was my fault.

    In summary they never trusted their staff to do anything right, and blamed us when something went wrong, even when it was out of our control like a faulty pressure gauge, or customers breaking rental equipment. I quit shortly after someone almost lost their foot on the boat from a falling tank. It's likely only a matter of time before they have a bigger accident and I don't want to be anywhere near that place when it happens.

  • What is the first graphics card you got?

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  • I had an ATI all in wonder 9600. That card was very unique because it also had a built in TV tuner and AV capture card that could turn your PC into a DVR of sorts. It went into an agp slot before PCIe was a thing.

  • Good way to send small messages between devices ?

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  • Signal. I use it anyway so it's not an extra "bloated" app and I know all the secrets I send over the app are encrypted.

    If you use a password manager, most have a notes feature that works well too.

  • Non-Americans who have been to the US.. What is the weirdest thing about America that Americans don't realize is weird?

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  • Yes I have tried whole grains and they still taste sweet to me