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One of the first things I learned during my electronics apprenticeship was that changes in a value are much more intuitive to read with an analog pointer (or a digital replication of one).

The colors in my pics are a bit more intense than they were to the eyes, but not by that much. They were all clearly visible, including all the structures, glowing. It is pretty dark where I come from, the next city is dozens of kilometers away.

Mid-west, in an area called Hunsrück.

Here are some phone pics from my home village in Germany: https://www.nowhereinparticular.xyz/polarlichter.html

This was a once-in-a-lifetime experience. My brother, who is a hobby astronomer, called me and sent me outside. Initially, I saw only a faint red glow in the northeast of the sky, but after a few minutes, my eyes adapted and I could see how it slowly moved and changed its form over time. I stayed outside for maybe 15 minutes and then went back inside. An hour later, I went outside again and almost the whole sky was shining in all different colors and forms, from patches to clouds to pillars that seemed to support the heavens, ever chaning. Incredible.

See https://faq.whatsapp.com/643144237275579/?helpref=platform_s...

A lot of people around me in Germany from all ages and bubbles use this feature in WhatsApp as if it were some kind of Instagram. I see multiple status updates every day.

I just found out that if you block all cookies for google.com in your browser, they will never ask you for your consent. Very helpful if you clear your cookies regularly. You can also do the same for youtube.com.

I recently started my journey with "Crash Course Philosophy" [0] by PBS. They give you a very accessible, high level overview on many topics with practical examples and thought experiments.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNYJQaZUDrI&list=PL8dPuuaLjX...

Those formats exists. For example, I am subscribed to Krautreporter [1] from Germany. They started with a Kickstarter campaign in 2014 and are now organized as a "Genossenschaft" and are entirely supported by memberships and subscriptions.

[1] https://krautreporter.de

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Sync works fine, at least for bookmarks and history, but I cannot choose what to sync, the check boxes are greyed out: https://i.imgur.com/atDU75z.png

I've been using https://tt-rss.org/ for many years now. I'm hosting the backend on a small VPS just for myself. The web client and the Android app are great and the whole stack is rock solid. Highly recommended if you want to read your feeds on multiple devices and keep them in sync.

Oh, good to know! I'll keep that in mind and keep a bookmark of your book and your implementation. Actually, I wanted to start writing an OS by following the BrokenThorn tutorial and was quite naive. After reading some pages it came to me that I don't know much assembly and so I started learning from Jeff Duntemanns Assembly book [1]. As far as I can see, your book also teaches the basics of assembly, it seems more friendly to beginners. Maybe it will be a better start for me. Thanks for putting in the hard work!

[1] http://www.duntemann.com/assembly.html

This is what I'm planning to read as soon as I've learned assembly: http://www.brokenthorn.com/Resources/OSDevIndex.html

How reliable is Signal these days? I basically moved all my friends to Text Secure shortly after WhatsApp had been acquired by FB , but after some time we got constant problems of messages not being delivered, so we switched to Threema.

No, it's not from actual measurement. I tried to think through my days in the past few weeks. But even if I'm off an hour here or there, I'd never come down to just 10 hours of free time a week.

I think the meals I have are quite healthy, I just cook once a day. Also, if you enjoy cooking, wouldn't you add it to the free time because it's a hobby?

Yes, it could be more. I'm actually thinking about reducing my working hours. Could you elaborate on which assumptions seem unrealistic to you? I tried to list them as honest as possible, but for sure I might have overlooked something. The estimated free time aligns quite well with my daily perception (also, I could see 'staying healthy' as free time, because I go rock climbing and thats just something I love to do as a hobby).

The numbers seemed very high to me so I created a list on my own and thought I'd share it (single, no kids, full time job).

1. Work: 40 hours

2. Cooking: 3 h (who the hell cooks three times a day?)

3. Laundry: 0.5 h (once a week)

4. Cleaning: 1 h (and I am very clean, I just avoid producing dirt)

5. Buying stuff: .5 h (I try to avoid buying too much stuff I don't really need)

6. Bills: 0 h (they a are paid automatically from my account)

7. Small errands: 1 h

8. Transport: 4 h (I ride my bicycle to work, so one could count that as exercise)

9. Staying healthy: 4 h (in addition to the bicycling to and from work)

10. Finances: 0 h (I have no idea how anyone can spend so much time on this. I just live by the simple rule: don't get into debt and move some of your income automatically on a saving account)

11. Taxes: 0 h (automated in Germany)

12. Responsibility for Yourself: 0 h (weird point)

13. Responsibility for your dependents: 0 h (I'm not responsible for anyone and visiting my family is fun)

14. Being sick: 0 h

15. One time errands: 2 h (I have to do some irregular stuff)

16. Long term planning: 1h (because I'm actively thinking about it at the moment)

1. Attire and Grooming: 3.5 h (half an hour every morning, 3 minutes in the evening)

2. Sleep: 49 h

3. Eating: 1.5 h (breakfast and lunch is included in work time)

Overall: 109 h

Free time: 49 h

I think it all comes down to priorities and you current life situation. But one can influence most of these things and you have to decide what is really important in your life. For me, it's free time.

This effect is observable not only in the programming community, but in many others. Best example would be photography, where people spend much more time discussing their equipment and the newest lenses instead of going out and actually take pictures.

I had to experience this for myself when searching for new hobbies. With most of them, I spent most time with the meta, e.g., which fountain pen to use for my writing or what the best ball bearings for my skateboard are.

I think in comes down to "I want to be a writer, but I don't want to write. I want to be a photographer, but I don't want to take pictures. I want to be a skateboarder, but I don't actually want to skate." Why I want to be something but not actually practice the trade is another question (prestige, self-identification?). I wonder if others have experienced the same.

Do you just omit the reboots after kernel updates? Because on my notebook with 14.04, I have to reboot quite often.

Weren't there a lot of reports in the last few years about how vulnerable SCADA systems are?

Well, even systems only connected to local networks or no network at all can still be the target of attacks, like infected flash drives, etc.

That's right. But updating everything except the kernel also seems strange.

An evaluation of the advantages of these kind of certifications compared to not having updates would be interesting (do they really add value, except moving around responsibility?).

I always wondered how people got to these uptimes. I have to reboot my linux box at least once ever other week to install updates.

It's also my first Pi, more of an impulse buy. Have to find out what to do with it.

The article mentions three vendors in UK. I just ordered mine from http://pimoroni.com/zero (they accept Bitcoin).

http://swag.raspberrypi.org/collections/pi-kits/products/off...

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