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I don't understand the reasoning, scanning a qt code provides a URL that the user may or may not visit. How is this an issue? I do agree that passkeys are problematic, though.

I started putting nohello as my status message, but soon after I found nometa and replaced it with this.

Or better yet, can we stop putting money into ai?

Same, never found any glitch.

A resident that works from home earns a salary that is calculated according to the economy where he resides, whereas a digital nomad, tipically chooses a destination with a lower cost of living, while earning a salary that was calculated for the economy of his original whereabouts. The digital nomad creates inflation and makes it impossible for locals to live on their own region, while someone who works from home does not have that ability to tip the economy.

Tourism provides money to these local economies, true. But what airbnb, and digital nomads, did was to subvert these local economies to depend on the to survive, turning whole cities (some of which are world heritage sites) into amusement rides for tourists. Have you ever stopped to think what is life like for the locals who work in the resorts (to take your example), and can't afford to live nowhere near their workplace, having to commute for over an hour (in the best case scenarios) only to smile at tourists that become upset because they can't speak their language? It's lovely to say that businesses should pay locals a decent wage, but that very rarely happens, the "decent" is a very debatable number. And anyway, no one in the world needs your suburban US money, please keep it to yourself and your suburban US economy.

You forget that the people who can afford to have a place to rent, usually are not the majority of the population of the place where the rental is located. I live in a city that was very welcoming to tourists before airbnb, and where locals are now starting to behave in a hostile way towards non-locals, due to the affordability crisis (myself included, I had a 70%+ rent increase this month). You can try to make yourself feel better by saying you're not the problem, but you are, and locals everywhere are starting to hate people like you. My advice, unsolicited as it might be, is to relocate yourself to near where you're working for, as it's the economy for which you are being paid, and continue building great software, but with the world (and not yourself) in mind.

Baby formula is not expensive because of labor costs. It's expensive because of the same reason we exploit these people for cheap labor: capitalism.

I'm paying and I will cancel if this is forced upon me.

Is it known how many of those new subscriptions were made only to take advantage of the free trial?

For the record, l will be cancelling my account as soon as I'm not allowed to share my password. I pay for it, I can share it with whoever I want. It's on Netflix to make people want to sign up, not force them.

I see it more of the pain brought by the advent of remote work. I used to be in favor of it, but this turn of events changed my mind.

I found a lot of new music in the early 2000s with last.fm, their suggestions algorithm was incredible, and I haven't found anything like it ever since, unfortunately.

Google offers support to paying customers https://one.google.com/about/support

Having lessons by a professional make a lot of difference. In Europe, not only France, we learn to drive with respect for the rules, and for our fellow drivers.

You might be biased, but you're spot on. This can't go on much longer.

It's fine if you guys come to visit, but staying here with your income is making Portugal unlivable for the natives. Unaffordable rents are a huge issue, for example. Just beware that Portuguese folk might not be friendly to foreign folks someday, given that we're being crushed because of you.

I think the UFOs never were out of discussion. What I feel implied here is the alien factor, which is makes zero sense. If a civilization had the resources to come visit us, we would have been destroyed/enslaved by now. And this not taking I to account the laws of physics, that state a maximum speed to which anyone can travel, and even at that speed, it would take years, or generations, to travel to close by stars.

Usa, the gift that keeps on giving.

You mean besides the pandemic that has been going strong for the last two years and the impending WWIII?

This reminds me of this Feynman quote: “The philosophy of science is as useful to scientists as ornithology is to birds.”

If the US can be an example for anything, it would be precisely why no welfare hurts its population. So, no, decline of the welfare state should never be seen as a good thing.

I have went back and forth from Ubuntu to fedora and literally never had an issue. Same for dist upgrades. Right now I only use fedora, and like you, I too am a power user that can't be bothered to deal with os shenanigans.

Thank you for posting this. It was really helpful, and it's very comforting to know I'm not crazy, or imagining things in my head.

Didn't know about this, very interesting read!

Thank you for the heads up!

It's interesting, but if you can't use left+right click to clear cells, it's really not very practical.

This is true, I've played and won many minesweeper games and always wondered how this was done.

I tried to use it with TBSync, endured some bugs that I managed to work around, until one day that it simply stopped syncing. I switched to Evolution and it works perfectly. I miss thunderbird everyday, though.

Indeed, it was so useful, they could simply tie Send uploads with Firefox accounts and block the abusers. It's so sad to see this amazing service die.

Parental leave is for taking care of your baby. You'll be lucky if you manage to do anything else during the first month.