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I actually never use the laptop’s display; it goes to a monitor via HDMI that I switch between sources. It could cut output to the HDMI port and I’d be equally happy

I have a mac m3 I’m forced to use for work. It is managed by my organization (I’m not sure exactly what that entails).

There is no screensaver that just turns my screen black. I don’t want animation, I don’t want color, I just want the screen to be blank.

Speaking of, I kept hearing my fan spin up and was wondering why. Flurry screensaver was just taking up like 2.5 CPUs and a couple gigs of ram. No clue why. It was actually supposed to be the photos screensaver, but I’m assuming it was angry that the photos screensaver was pointed at a folder with no photos (nor anything else). This was when the PC was running and in use so the screensaver should not even have been running.

Sometimes, when logging in, the password will just not work. If I click off my user and click on admin or another, it will then work fine. Multiple occurrences, not sure of cause.

Replicate the replicator. Next day, use both to replicate replicators. Repeat ad nauseam.

The only have a LinkedIn for anything mainstream and it’s been that way for years now. No one has broken down our door so far.

It’s worth noting that people rarely think the big events are going to happen in someone else’s lifetime. All kinds of “the end is nigh!” Stuff works on that psychology. Humans often think they’re special in that kind of way. How many “savior/rapture/great Satan is coming imminently!” Have there been, all to be wrong.

I actually planned on doing the same thing since the only alternative I could think of was mspaint for planning my garden rows in the fields.

I had a ton of sprouted garlic and potatoes. Got most of those into the ground (only stopped to save more room for other stuff). We’ve dipped back below zero the last couple of days, thwarting my plans to plant some other things (mostly brassicas) before our mini-vacation down to Tokyo (and half-day of work I need to do for my main job). When we get back, hopefully it will stay above freezing so I can continue with everything. I’ll mostly be growing peppers to sell (and eat, of course), this year.

I suppose q_a is an option (and why I purposefully skipped it above, heh)

Thanks!

Just do 3 letters for all: dev, uat, stg, prd, etc.

Both the US and Japan have extremely varied costs of living depending upon where you’re talking about. I live in the countryside and things are generally fairly cheap, though inflation has been hitting hard since corona and a poor rice harvest last year. I studied the language a bit before I moved, came over as a language student (probably second-oldest there in my 30s), and found a job a few months later. I’m conversational, but my reading is pretty crap. I generally do all my own medical stuff and the like, though definitely run documents by my wife to make sure of some things (particularly government and finance). We basically only speak Japanese at home.

Tokyo can be expensive or not totally depending upon the experience you want to have. No need to own a car so no inspection, tax, insurance, gas, and parking spot cost. I lived there for 8 years without driving at all but did end up getting a motorbike after moving to the suburbs. I had to get a car when we moved to the countryside. Houses are going to be much smaller and much closer than most of the US. I earn well above the median salary (which is something like 4-6 million JPY/year for someone in their 40s) and pay roughly 26% of that out to pension, taxes, etc. Healthcare is far cheaper than in the US but not free at point of service like other countries. There are out-of-pocket maximums over some periods and tax rebates on the year if you go over 100k yen.

Could be a loss leader to suppress competition and own the market, getting you into their other paid services. They probably also profit from your data either directly or through things like training AI.

I don’t think most people would care unless the community rules forbid it. Some might be curious, some might skip it, and you might get a nettouyo being a racist twat every now and again.

Everybody learns the Latin alphabet and English in school (used to be Jr high but pushed back to elementary recently). Proficiency levels are low, especially in speaking and listening, and shyness/fear of mistakes are factors. However, reading can be pretty decent. Of course, people very good at English also exist.

Could also be that many use machine translation, at least for the output side.

Mastadon seems to have a lot. I don’t see much outside of it personally.

I’ve been happy most of the time. It’s not for everyone, but I’m a decade in and don’t plan on leaving anytime soon.

1. consider keeping your US phone number until all banking stuff is done since many banks do 2fa and this can be a giant pain after moving. Try to switch to an app if possible. Many providers also disallow known VoIP numbers.
2. driving license was another one mentioned. Having it not expire before you can transfer it is preferable (assuming the target country allows transfer. Japan didn’t until after two years after I got here and my license expired so I had to start from zero despite driving for 15+ years in the US). You may need to get notarized driving records which is also easier before you leave.
3. go through and change/cancel anything with an address on file – can be much easier from within the US. I went through the past year’s bank records to find anything sneaky that doesn’t renew monthly. If you have things that only renew every N years, don’t forget to cancel or update those (domain names, for instance).
4. Make sure all city, municipal, county, state, and federal tax stuff will be OK to do after leaving (sometimes, some prep is needed)
5. If you have any retirement plans like 401ks, IRAs, etc. see about rolling them over or whatever
6. maybe do something with social security with regard to your target country if an agreement is in place, particularly if you didn’t work long enough to claim it. You can get US SS overseas in the vast majority of countries, but there are also certain provisions where you wouldn’t or it would be reduced based on what you have in the target country.
7. Freeze credit reports at the agencies as others mentioned

I tried to write a number of things, but think wikipedia or something might have a better answer. I mostly wilrite in golang which is not functional, but I do occasionally maintain some things in elixir which is and I think it’s pretty neat. I’m sure if you read about it and have specific questions, folks here will try to answer them.

This has been a thing for centuries at this point, though it seems to be falling out of fashion. You can find it in style guides already just after the turn of the 20th century and the practice certainly dates back further. Some publications online have stopped doing title case in favor of sentence case, but I’m not sure in physical media. Title Case sets the title apart, may be clearer or catchier at a distance (good for newstands and newsies, I guess?) and I find it easier to read in some cases. Some argue it stems from German which capitalizes all nouns, but I doubt that since this is done everywhere in German and not just in titles.

Any malady that could get through would, in theory, be able to destroy nearly everyone. If the response that would grant immunity to future generations were a mutation with a negative side effect attached, you’ve just ended humanity (assuming any survived). We’ve lost plant species to similar.

This one example ignores a whole host of other problems with the idea.