Mama told me not to come.
She said, that ain't the way to have fun.
It's a pretty easy problem to solve, give them a bottle or sucking snack just before takeoff and landing, and keep them tired so they sleep most of the way. We've traveled with babies and it's really not an issue most of the time.
Then again, we had to deal with two blowouts (huge poops that escape the diaper) on the same flight, so there certainly are hiccups you can't plan for. But most of our trips with babies have been pretty okay.
I honestly intentionally park far away because I'm less likely to get someone parking way too close. It really annoys my wife, so I'll take an especially close spot if it's available, but I spend so little of my time in the parking lot vs whatever place I'm at that where it is doesn't matter too much.
Avoid the busy roads and do a mixture of aggressive and defensive cycling. Take the lane if it's not safe for others to pass, and take side streets instead of busy roads. Your goal is to be seen and avoid the angry drivers.
I bike commuted every day for years and had no problems. I just changed jobs and it's too far away now, but I really miss cycling to work.
Eh, I'm a suburbanite who is annoyed at our already relatively low density neighborhood (thinking of moving to the country), and I absolutely hate driving. I want to get to everything with a bicycle or a train.
You don't have to love cities to hate cars.
To be fair, the medical establishment did lie about it, but not because of some weird "big mask" or "big pharma" conspiracy, but because they have a tangible impact when used by large groups and overselling them would have better outcomes than underselling them.
It's a classic problem those in power have to deal with: tell the truth and get an underwhelming response, or oversell and get a better response.
Don't take horse dewormers though, that's just dumb.
Probably just celebrating Canada Day.
Btw, happy 4th of July to my fellow residents in Canada's Pants. :)
I'm celebrating both holidays this week with family (brother married a Canadian), and am not playing much. But I have been trying a few new (to me) games here and there:
- Euro Truck Simulator 2 - not a big fan, but maybe it'll grow on me; parking is hard...
- Hell Pie - pretty fun, just oddly uses a ton of resources on my Steam Deck
- Lair of the Clockwork God - haven't started yet, but interested in trying it out
- Yakuza 3 - will start once I get home from my trip
Anyway, I hope everyone has had or is having a wonderful holiday. That goes for you even if you're not American or Canadian.
probably half the range of an EV
Many EVs have ~250 miles range. I need a quarter of that in usable winter range for my commute. If I could get an EV with 125 miles of advertised range (about half that in winter) for a third the price, I'd do it.
It's not going to replace my road tripping car, but it could replace my commuter, which needs very little range.
We have them at the mouths of canyons, and canyons are beautiful and desirable to live near.
It's also great for grocery getter cars where total range isn't super important. Current EVs are ~250 miles range and top out around 300-400, which is insufficient as a gas replacement for road trips but overkill for a commute or around-town car.
There are a lot of use cases for something inexpensive but technically inferior.
A lot of households, like my own, have multiple cars. We have a commuter (50 miles round trip) and a family car. We use the commuter for most trips around town (only commutes 2x/week), and the family car for longer road trips.
I don't need a car that can do both, I just need to replace the commuter since that's where the vast majority of our driving is.
Don't try to solve the hard problem of putting charging stations in the middle of nowhere, solve the easy problem of replacing that second car. For that, sodium-ion is more than sufficient. Focus infrastructure improvements on apartment complexes, workplaces, and shopping centers so people who don't have a garage can charge.
Be careful, I have a or lot of those I haven't played yet. Add up enough of those and you could've gotten a game you actually will play.
How to turn your laptop into a desktop with this one, weird trick! PC makers are furious!!
I actually use a T-Mobile MVNO, so I don't have experience with their customer service.
They seem to have the biggest variety of options for resellers, so if you like the coverage but not the customer service, you have options.
Lol.
But T-Mobile is less bad the other telecoms. The enemy of my enemy and all that.
Seems like a video game version of playing H-O-R-S-E in basketball: you need to make it from behind the hoop, with your eyes closed, and while hopping on one foot...
Isn't this just user-created achievements?
The L.P. presidential candidate clarifies his views, amid criticisms that he is too "woke."SubscribeYouTube: http://youtube.com/reasontvApple: https://podcas...
This interview mostly goes over social policy, so I hope there's a follow-up with fiscal policy as well.
Here's an AI-generated transcript, which has some mistakes but hopefully is helpful. I tried copying it here, but it was too long.
Some interesting tidbits I liked:
- Liz challenged Chase on gender affirming care - his response was "no to surgery before 18, yes to medication if parents and doctors agree"
- open borders - wants an "Ellis Island"-style system where you register and then get to work, while still maintaining a strong police presence to keep out criminals
- courting those on the right of the LP - wants to work together on common causes, but will disagree on social issues
- vaccine mandates - no mandates from the government, but private businesses absolutely can; he thinks businesses requiring masks/vaccines is stupid because it limits customers
The whole discussion was pretty interesting, and I think it's interesting that Liz Wolfe came out as more conservative than Zach (apparently, Zach rarely discusses personal opinions).
So far I'm pretty happy with Chase as the candidate because:
- he's pretty well-spoken - reminds me a bit of Gary Johnson with less "aloof"-ness
- he appears confident and seems to do a good job justifying his positions on core libertarian principles
- very different from both Trump and Biden, so he should contrast well
- going after young voters - he's young, and he's highlighting issues that young people seem to care about, so I'm hopeful that'll resonate with young voters
I certainly disagree with him on some issues, but I think he'll be a good voice for the party. I would like to see more discussion on economic policy though.
Anyway, what are your thoughts? Are you excited for a Chase Oliver campaign, or do you think the Libertarian Party should have made a different choice?
IRS opening free online tax filing program to all states
This is exciting for me because:
- I model ny taxes in my spreadsheet anyway, so I'm likely to notice a mistake
- I usually use FreeTaxUSA to file for free, and this means there's one less party to share my personal information with
- my state's taxes are pretty simple, so I don't need state-specific tax software
I hope this helps simplify things for some people and save a bit of money as well. I'm going to try it out next year.
Do any of you estimate your taxes? Are you interested in trying out this service?
Contributors developing the Aeon Desktop are happy to announce a major milestone with the launch of Release Candidate 2 (RC2) images. Within the last 24 hour...
Looks like most of the improvements have nothing to do with GNOME, so they should also probably impact Kalpa (the KDE MicroOS distro).
I'm particularly interested in these developments because I'm going to upgrade the CPU on my NAS (old Phenom II -> Ryzen 1700), and I'm considering reinstalling w/ MicroOS. It's currently running on an old SATA SSD, but NVMe drives are getting so cheap that it's probably worth an upgrade.
Chase Oliver of Georgia won the Libertarian Party's presidential nomination in dramatic fashion on Sunday night.
> Oliver's victory on Sunday night was a blow to the Mises Caucus, the right-leaning faction that took control of the Libertarian Party at the 2022 convention and that had orchestrated Trump's appearance at the convention. That faction's preferred candidate was Rectenwald.
I'm not a fan of the Mises Caucus, so I think this is hilarious.
> There was widespread media attention in recent weeks fixated on whether the Libertarian Party would nominate a prominent non-Libertarian like Kennedy or even Trump. > > Neither got anywhere close to winning. Kennedy was eliminated after the first round of balloting, while Trump did not even qualify for the first round and received just six write-in votes.
Good on you LP.
Now, I know next to nothing about Chase Oliver, but being gay and young will certainly set him apart from the old men he's competing against. I hope he'll get a good amount of media attention to spread the libertarian message.
Anyway, what are your thoughts? Did the convention make the right call? Would one of the other candidates have been better? Would you prefer no candidate?
While focused on the openSUSE Innovator initiative as an openSUSE member and Intel Innovator, it was frustrating for me to see that openVINO did not have sup...
> OpenVINO is an open-source toolkit for optimizing and deploying deep learning models from cloud to edge. It accelerates deep learning inference across various use cases, such as generative AI, video, audio, and language with models from popular frameworks like PyTorch, TensorFlow, ONNX, and more. Convert and optimize models, and deploy across a mix of Intel® hardware and environments, on-premises and on-device, in the browser or in the cloud.
Average Retirement Savings Balance by Age
Here are just the number for all of you degenerates who just want some milestones for your spreadsheets.
Average total retirement savings by age:
- <35 - $49,130
- 35-44 - $141,520
- 45-54 - $313,220
- 55-64 - $537,560
- 65-74 - $609,230
- >=75 - $462,410
Average 401k balance by age:
- <25 - $5,236
- 25-34 - $30,017
- 35-44 - $76,354
- 45-54 - $142,069
- 55-64 - $207,874
- 65 and older - $232,710
And retirement savings targets from various advisors:
Fidelity:
- 1x by 30
- 3x by 40
- 6x by 50
- 8x by 60
- 10x by 67
Rowley:
- 1x by 35
- 5x by 50
- 7x by 70
Anyway, do you like metrics like these?
openSUSE.Asia Summit will come back to Tokyo, Japan The openSUSE Project is exciting to announce that openSUSE.Asia Summit 2024 is going to be held in Tokyo,...
Important dates:
- expected summit date is Nov. 2 and 3 soon after Open Source Summit Japan
- call for speakers is going to end around the end of July
There will be another announcement in a couple weeks.
The openSUSE will undergo a critical update with the migration of Weblate to a hosted solution. Shifting to a hosted solution for the web-based localization ...
May 10, 2024 (text in body)
> For crying out loud, Jonah! Three days late, covered with slime, and smelling like fish! … And what story have I got to swallow this time?
May 10 2024 (text in body)
> You know what I’m sayin’? … Me, for example. I couldn’t work in some stuffy little office. … The outdoors just calls to me.
May 10 2024 (text in body)
> Look! Look, gentlemen! Purple mountains! Spacious skies! Fruited plains! … Is someone writing this down?
May 10 2024 (text in body)
> Sure, I’m a creature—and I can accept that … but lately it seems I’ve been turning into a miserable creature.
openSUSE Leap 15.6 exited Beta and entered its Release Candidate phase with build 669.1 last week. You can get Leap 15.6 RC install images from get.opensuse....
Looks like Leap 15.6 will ship with Cockpit, which looks pretty cool.
I just set up a new VPS w/ Leap 15.5, so I'm thinking about giving this a try. I'm not a fan of YaST on the CLI, and I'm not going to install a GUI on my VPS, so being able to just SSH tunnel to the admin panel sounds really nice.
Has anyone tried Cockpit (project link for the lazy)? It seems like it can manage most popular distros, so that's a pretty big value prop over YaST, which is pretty much only for SUSE. It looks like it's a RedHat project, but it's cool that openSUSE is pulling it in for 15.6.
In March, the configuration for building openSUSE Factory was changed to be bit-by-bit reproducible (except for the embedded signature). Following this, the ...
Monthly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing?
It has been a while since the last one. So...
Tell us what game you are currently, or recently played, greater than 6+ months old.
If the game happens to be on sale, a link would be a plus.
I'm working on a P2P Reddit/Lemmy alternative using Iroh. Any interest? Thoughts?
This is still very much early-days, but I’m thinking about building a distributed link aggregator. Some notes: - no servers (all P2P) except to connect peers - no “instances” so everything is in one namespace (so like reddit /r/community, not lemmy instance/c/community) - everyone is a moderator - m...
The link goes to a related post on another community so I don't have to duplicate it here.
Basically, I'd like to discuss tech options for a Reddit/Lemmy alternative. Here's what I've found:
- Iroh - early days alternative to IPFS promising improved performance and application control
- Appleseed - old-ish proposal for a distributed trust system - I'm thinking of using it for moderation (i.e. if you block/report similarly to someone else, that will get automated; you could also explicitly trust someone else [e.g. a CP-detector bot])
- TrustNet - builds on Appleseed - still reading through the paper to know what it adds over Appleseed, if anything
Goals:
- distributed storage - worried the fediverse will scale poorly (become too expensive)
- distributed moderation - power-hungry mods suck
- local-first - cache/host stuff you care about, reserve some space for preservation
Non-goals:
- make money - it's a hobby for now, everything would be FOSS
- image/video hosting - legal issues if you get random CP or something
- preserve all data - I'd rather sacrifice older/less popular content than lose users - community can run caching servers
- fediverse compat - P2P makes that difficult, but a bridge should be feasible
Thoughts? What am I missing?
Also, would anyone like me to post updates? It'll mostly be stuff from my research, if I post code, it won't be for a while (I have limited time).
Anyone interested in discussing a Lemmy/Reddit alternative?
This is still very much early-days, but I'm thinking about building a distributed link aggregator. Some notes:
- no servers (all P2P) except to connect peers
- no "instances" so everything is in one namespace (so like reddit /r/community, not lemmy instance/c/community)
- everyone is a moderator - moderation based on a web of trust type system
- desktop first, mobile/web later - web would require servers, mobile may have platform-specific issues
- no plans to integrate with fediverse, but could be possible
- initial intent is to be text-only - file storage could be supported later in an opt-in basis (for now, just link to an external img host), but I'm worried about disk storage since there's no central data lake and everyone needs to chip in some storage space
Some technical details:
- written in Rust and ReactJS - Tauri-based
- uses Iroh for data synchronization
- looking into Appleseed and maybe TrustNet for moderation
Current status:
- rewrote Appleseed and part of TrustNet to Rust for perf testing last weekend (Rust is waaay faster) - will probably rewrite again once I finish reading the paper (current code is a direct port)
- have basic Tauri+Iroh app, but it's a glorified chat app w/ no syncing between peers (a peer can join a chat, but will lose access if the host goes down)
- reading source code for SimpleX (re-learning Haskell too) - could be interesting for DMs or something
I'm not sure how long I'll work on this, but I'll probably release some libraries under a relatively liberal license, so something like LGPL at the most stringent, but probably Apache/MIT (depends on if I need to clean-room the appleseed implementation).
So, if there's interest here, I'm happy to post updates for discussion periodically.
Should there be a right to digital privacy?
I'm thinking something along the lines of the GDPR where companies must get consent to track you, and must delete your data upon request.
I see a few arguments here:
- yes, websites are like stores and have the obligations of a store to protect user data (IP address, HTTP headers, etc)
- no because the internet is "the commons," so no expectation of privacy (no expectation that the website follows your local laws)
- no because you're voluntarily providing the data, but you're well within your rights to block tracking attempts
So, some questions to spark discussion:
- does data collection violate the NAP?
- does sale of personal data (without a TOS in place) violate the NAP?
- if no to each of the above, is it worth violating the NAP to enforce a right to digital privacy?
Are hardware security keys worth it? If so, which to pick?
This isn't strictly a privacy question as a security one, so I'm asking this in the context of individuals, not organizations.
I currently use OTP 2FA everywhere I can, though some services I use support hardware security keys like the Yubikey. Getting a hardware key may be slightly more convenient since I wouldn't need to type anything in but could just press a button, but there's added risk with losing the key (I can easily backup OTP configs).
Do any of you use hardware security keys? If so, do you have a good argument in favor or against specific keys? (e.g. Yubikey, Nitrokey, etc)