Nisan Altima. Because I gave up driving for a decade, but then the pan happened and I was horribly isolated. I could only go to places I could reach on foot because I didn’t want to risk anything unnecessarily. After the vax arrived, I knew it was time to empower myself by having my own car again. I barely drive it, but I don’t have to fret about getting my cats to the vet or transporting large items anymore. And if another pan breaks loose, I’ll be ready.

Not even once.

Most people agree that puppies and kittens are cute.

Keep in mind that when you use an offshoot browser that doesn’t have a lot of users, this also makes you easier to identify. How many people use Waterfox? Sure, I have it installed and sometimes use it. You use it. But the small number of users makes us more unique, not less. The plugins that you use further enable fingerprinting, as do hardware specs such as screen size / resolution.

I am not an expert in this area. I think there’s a lot going on that hasn’t been considered.

Further:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eben_Byers

It’s not an uncommon question.

Throwing in RealPlayer really makes this work. The original bad-faith actor.

Yes. I moved from cigarettes to vape about five years ago. I was steadily reducing vaping to quit entirely before the pan happened and I allowed myself to continue vaping to aid anxiety. I have not attempted to quit since.

I switched to Proxmox over the summer. My homelab has been rather neglected since then, but I have other things on my mind at the moment. Anyway, it seems robust from a few weeks of kicking it around and I’m excited about it.

What a great idea! I love Bash scripting, so I’ll look into doing this myself for fun tomorrow.

I download when I have free time to fill / kill. I watch one genre of videos and periodically check on a number of channels that have that content. I watch each video working down the list deleting them as I consume them. In the rare case that I want to save something, I toss it in an unmanaged directory of internet content.

My Plex library is where managed content lives. Stuff from the internet doesn’t deserve that level of care (in my system of data management).

I run a Plex server for my movie and television library. I just watch YT videos once and delete them, mostly in the background while I do other things. But I’ll look into both tools regardless because automation is always interesting to me. Thanks for the tips!

Yes. The only positive thing the Dilbert creator ever did for the world was teach me (and others) that Marketing is bad. (He’s a fucking creep and a Trump weirdo.)

I’ve landed on that page a couple of times. I’m just waiting to be blocked.

I almost never watch videos on youtube because I download them and watch them locally. The two things that I use to download them are Downie (Mac) and yt-download (cross platform). This helps me avoid ads unless they are baked into the video. I also like to grab a bunch of content all at once and then watch at my leisure.

I got into a habit of falling asleep on the sofa because watching tv was the only way I could fall asleep with insomnia. That last years until moving and getting a new sofa. The new sofa wasn’t ready at the new place and I had no choice but to sleep in my bed (there’s no television in the bedroom). I still move to the sofa if I wake up in the middle of the night and feel restless.

Streaming only. I was pirating tv shows for years until I could pay for what I want.

I’ve got your back. Sometimes we just need to say what we’re thinking.

Tuition is also higher for international students.

Never would have come up with this on my own. I think you’re probably right.

During the Bush jr years, I told a coworker that I’d realized that I better start being more mindful about what I posted online. They replied that free speech was their primary marker of liberty and I felt kinda silly.

As we go into a new Trump admin, I am again reminded that I should be mindful what I post because now it’s really gonna go to shit. That asshole plans to weaponize everything. Hence, why I plan on emigrating to a better society.

I do note that OP spelled “offence” the British way. They have less risk of being targeted by lunatics. I’m somewhat hyperbolic is suggesting that I’m moving for safety, but there were also a bunch of people who left Germany and didn’t end up dead. And because I’m not unaware of what I’m saying: see also, Godwin’s law.