Locked up in a mental institution is also punishment. It’s not like this is a large chillout area with fun games.

No idea how it is in the US, but in Germany this is an even worse punishment, because they don’t get a normal sentence. If they get locked up in jail, there is a time attached depending on the severity of the crime. But mental institution is basically “until deemed fit for society”. So if the staff there wants to fuck you up (or if you are actually a lost cause), they will simply never deem you fit for release and you stay there until eternity, pumped with drugs. And all of this without another judge looking into the case ever again (unless you happen to have very very good support from outside, but even then the judge will typically ask experts — so the doctors — who will just explain why you have to stay locked up).

Someone linked an interesting article recently which I unfortunately didn’t save. The gist was that Anthropic and the others set out to sell cheaper workforce (I.e. replace programmers), so they can sell the service to all the big software giants out there.

Problem is, that these tools also enabled people to just create own solutions instead of buying existing solutions anymore. Or to rebuild an equivalent for something otherwise proprietary.

So instead of making workers of big tech obsolete, they made big tech obsolete (well, not fully yet, but you know what I mean).

They likely try to counter this a little bit now. Won’t work though, since open weight models have been and still are catching up.

No one said it should be an excuse. And a possible solution in her case might have been a forced therapy; so she would also be locked away, just not in prison but a mental institution. If that’s better or worse depends on the institution. But at least the goal would be to right her mind and not punish her if there is no meaningful corrective result.

I once called my landlord a leech. But I have no idea if it ever showed up or if he even wanted it. /j

Short on money then

Wait till you stumble on their hats-off trilogy.

I think anyone who could cause him trouble would want to avoid any potential uproar from Trump fanatics and gamble on the problem solving itself due to his age. They just need to veeeery slowly investigate and hint at some prosecution to keep face.

I heavily use Immich for images and am very happy. Since you can specify custom storage locations it might be worth a shot adding your external storage, let it index everything and then test how it behaves when the external storage is offline. Maybe it keeps thumbnails separate too then you could even browse the library visually and you would only run into errors once you try to open an image.

Not just the US. I believe capitalism achieved that almost everywhere. People thrive on the idea of suddenly being rich and//or believe themselves to be rich because they have more than someone else they can look down on.

In Germany the leading politicians often fuel this too. When they talk about equality they talk about making those that earn much give more to support those that earn far less or nothing. In the grand scheme of things, even the high earners are poor. The rich people don’t have to earn anything it all. But that is never mentioned (by said politicians).

They (“up there”) basically managed to instigate a class struggle between workers.

What kind of media files? For a typical media collection something like Emby or Jellyfin is quite nice. Then you have your collection and it would just refuse to play media if the file in question isn’t mounted.

Sure, could be that they do the right thing for the wrong reasons. But it’s still the right thing.

To be fair, also bikes need to park somewhere, they just take up significantly less space.

The words aren’t the issue. Not thinking further than their own small world is the issue. These people absoluty don’t comprehend that other people might live differently than they do or they might even think their way of living is the only one to strive for and the top of the ladder.

Rather: they are free to do protocol negotiation with the DNS server I supply. If it speaks DoH, go for it.

My reason would be: I don’t want to carry multiple devices around. Sure, there are also upsides; if I drop my camera while hiking I still have a phone. But so far I am happier with everything on this single point of failure. Often I don’t need anything besides my phone at all. I can communicate, navigate, film, photograph, listen to music, pay, and soon even identify myself (once my ID and drivers license are in a digital wallet).

You want small? There you go: https://gadgetbond.com/bluefox-nx1-4-inch-compact-android-15-smartphone/

But yeah, it’s a shame there isn’t really a market with competition. Basically all serious phones are already too big for my taste. I have an iPhone 13 Mini and that is already slightly too big and I couldn’t even replace that with a similar sized one if I wanted to.

The Unihertz Titan 2 Elite is surprisingly small. The Minimal Phone 2 might be as well. And they have physical keyboards — yay.

Last year our CISO personally reached out to me and asked me to do the course that’s overdue. I was a little nervous for a second and decided to obey.

I have over 8000 unread mails in my inbox. Whoever contacts me used Slack. I don’t give a fuck about emails unless DMs me “hey can you maybe answer that customer mail I forwarded you?”

So I would have a fabulous time with such a stupid policy.

If they speak German, they can’t be a bad person.

To some degree they might be duplicates. Same people, same shit, different timestamp.