Indeed, just as gender is a spectrum so is sex. I love when someone says “Its basic biology” because the best response is “and this is intermediate biology”.

none of these transphobic losers who use autism to attack trans people even gives a flip about people

Ftfy

True, but privacy conscious people tend to also be wary of concentrations of power in a platform, such as Reddit or Twitter. If you are aware of the issues with a closed system you tend to also be aware of privacy issues, security issues, state censorship, and so on, so the user base is more aware in the fediverse and if they are leaving for Reddit that really does say something. I won’t be using their service, I feel very lucky to have found out about this before shifting as I was in the process of finding a stable email host and blending with the VPN seemed financially reasonable, guess I will stay with Mullvad and get a separate email provider.

Yeah, getting closer with fibre allows better speeds. Copper is susceptible to so many issues like corrosion, interference, water inundation, and signal degradation. Lasers down a fibre are way more stable, have far less drop off, are way more resistant to water ingress, and have the benefit of future proofing. We currently use the best lasers we can but laser technology is really early in it’s development. Lasers from 50 years in the future should be able to use the same fibre without issue and pack many more bits per second with different frequencies of light, overlapping signals, better processing, more coherent light with less deviation, and so on.

I think it is like rail, you spend a fair bit putting in rail and you can run trains on it for 100s of years. Roads are fragile, rails are sturdy and solid, and while trains have changed a lot over the years moving from coal to diesel to electric, but the rail system itself is something you can use with all those trains to move more and more stuff more efficiently over time. Good infrastructure leads to good outcomes.

I left at the same time. As a science minded person the phrase “Feminism ruins everything” is just such a low effort and absolutist statement that even if it were somewhat accurate it would betray a lack of serious consideration. On top of that, it isn’t true. He makes all sorts of claims that are just not true and has no understanding of feminism beyond his echo chamber. He knows some stuff about chemistry, has done legit research such as on how the sodium water explosion happens, and yeah, in that area he knows his shit, but like many people he steps past his actual area of expertise without the humility required to learn about a new field without jumping to conclusions.

The world of feminism is deep and full of confronting ideas like how the low availability of emotional expression on boys leads to low emotional regulation in men, but Thunderf00t just goes with the lowest effort “Men are victims” line rather than seeing feminists agree with harms happening to men and want to fix those too.

Australia, but regional, so not exactly near a capital city. People out here still use g wireless, though most are n or later, and plenty are using ac or ax. That said, we are in one of the few places that got full fibre to the home rather than fibre to the node so our internet speeds can be fairly OK, though you pay through the nose to get anything much better than adsl2 speeds. Honestly our government has been embarrassing over the last 15 years and they have done a lot of work to make us poorer and with less access to the internet.

We were going to have fibre to the home for all houses but our conservative government got in and ruined it, doing all sorts of cheaping out that made it way more expensive and less effective. We could have ditched copper lines entirely and had something future proof for at least 20 years but no, something something money, something something unlimited power.

I would love to see a turn towards future focussed governance but it seems to be unlikely right now. I mean in Germany they just voted nearly 20% for AfD and in the US they have the orange fascist and musk, so no hope there.

Lol, yes, I have one down the street right now. Some people just don’t ever update things that work.

Yep, mostly my focus is not in state backed actors but script kiddies with limited understanding. If someone sees a WEP network down the road and my network with up to date encryption, no SSID broadcast, MAC white listing, and various other options to prevent external connections it makes the WEP network easier and a much better option.

If we are running from a bear I don’t need to be faster than a bear, just faster than other people with me, lol.

Mine runs Wireguard for the whole network along with being a basic media/file server. One USB port with a 2tb drive does a lot.

Also, for the password consider using a password manager so you can autofill, and also consider using a MAC address whitelist so you can be sure only intended devices can connect.

I would recommend looking for sources that scratch that learning itch independently of your doctors and other staff. Podcasts are a great option and can really deepen and broaden your knowledge without requiring lucky exposure to patients with a given issue.

One podcast family is the microbe.tv group, shows like This Week in Virology, Immune, and This Week in Paracitism.

I would also recommend This Podcast Will Kill You, this one is really fun and has very good deep dives into awesome medical topics.

Once you have your own educational material you can make your decision with no specific tie to your workplace for getting your education.

How did you go? Any luck?

This is heavily medicalised but yes, this is better than basically anyone from a conservative background could hope for. There is a lot of misinformation out there and it is easy to find an echo chamber that would support rejecting you, so keeping in line with his current sources is a good idea.

NTFS does not have the permissions structures Linux native filesystems have. All sorts of problems come from using NTFS for executable files. That said, exfat seems better in a bunch of ways, maybe try that?

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So yes, they are still possible to train and use, are in active use (for example in photography for rafting), and there are RFC standards relating to internet over carrier pigeon. Also, they are actually favourable compared with ADSL so yeah, a legitimate possible option for some cases.

Woah, that is wild, I hope you did some bug reporting about that, for something to go so insanely wrong it would have to be a fairly bad bug but also hard to find. Cool trick though, “Check this out, Copy ate my Y key, I am without purpose!”

To clarify, those are the default keybindings, but you can change them to match your needs or expectations. I like the alt tilde for windows within a program switching, it works fairly well though I have not set it up on my current machine yet.

Yoghurt with berries can be a good option if the berries are soft, so stewing strawberries and pears can work well.

Gnocchi can be slightly overcooked and can be dimply pressed against the roof of the mouth, no chewing needed.

Protein shakes are awesome, add a little heavy cream and they are filling and tasty.

Congee (essentially thick rice soup) is great, it has very soft meat with no chewing needed and lots of flavour and texture depending on what you add.

Lots of French desserts are good like Crème Brulé, along with things like custard, mousse, and even sticky date pudding. The chewing is optional, the tongue is more than strong enough for these, and adding something like cream can help them smooth out and soften a bit.

Egg in various forms including egg drop soup, boiled egg mashed in a cup with butter, and added raw to rice while the rice is very hot can make for some easy but delicious options.

Nah, as an autistic person who works with many autistic people (I am a support worker), no. Autistic people are able to miss things, mistake social cues, and so on, but blaming autism for a Nazi salute is absolutely bullshit. Not to mention that he has done tonnes of other stuff which is in line with a Nazi salute and this is just the last in a long line of behaviours, and his family history etc, yeah, not autism, just Nazi shit.

Do you have an interest in the time of her childhood? Perhaps learning about her experience of how the world has changed? Most people find thinking and talking about the world they remember to be enjoyable and she may have interesting and unique perspectives on things. This can lead to learning about bigotry though, so be cautious, but learning about how the world has changed from her perspective could be very interesting.

The 1960s were a time of massive cultural change and technological advancement, and the 70s were also really cool from a change perspective. Learning how she did things like washing clothes, buying food, learning about something she was interested in, and so on can be really fun.

Once you have spent a little time chatting and maybe having a tea or coffee it can be a regular little social thing you do, and doing the snow shoveling is much easier to accept from someone you know than from a stranger. It would also make it feel safer knowing who you are rather than just some random younger guy.

What do you do with a faulty RAID drive? Early in the morning!