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Linux live USB, plug the drive into a sacrificial hub that can eat a bus kill if needed

Yup, you can find him on Mastodon now: https://wandering.shop/@cstross/112274383742505743

So don’t buy one? You don’t need a new phone every 1-2y unless you’re a spectacularly well trained consumer.

I usually replace my phone every 3-4y when power efficiency and performance have significantly improved, or there’s a new radio standard that I need (5G, AX WiFi) or the camera makes me want an upgrade. If none of those things are true then use your phone until it dies 🤷‍♂️

Do you actually need a new phone? If you don’t need any new features just have your battery replaced and keep using it.

If: you’re a starred contact and call twice within 10 minutes and I happen to have the phone at hand and I’m pretty sure you have something important to say I’ll probably pick it up.

That happens about once or twice a year. We invented voicemail so we can speak when it works well for both parties.

Read the fine print too, a lot of these “mental health counseling services” have carve outs that stipulate that they can pass along data about your sessions to third parties (like your employer.) Most of them aren’t health care professionals so health care law doesn’t apply.

I wrote snapshot hooks for Arch that fire before installing or upgrading packages and I have a simple shell alias that I can use to fire off a manual snapshot any time I need one. If a package breaks in an inconvenient way and can’t just be dowgraded back to function or I have some other time pressure I can just point my root partition at a clone of my most recent snapshot and reboot to roll back. I don’t usually bother rebooting into a cloned snapshot to test changes as I can just perform the same steps to roll back and the automated rolling snapshots mean I don’t need to baby anything to have the same protection.

Friendships are formed via proximity and common interests. Go places with other people who enjoy the same hobbies and make an effort to get to know some of them.

“Now fetching the weather, but first a word from our sponsors!”

Download a car

Big open world RPG protagonist vibes

Fuck DeJoy with something hard and sandpapery. This dude is scum, any plan he has for the USPS is aimed squarely at damaging it and privatizing essential public services.

Have they figured out that they can treat him like a piñata yet?

I can tell the difference between a good basic pair of headphones and garbage pretty easily. There’s a noticeable difference between basic cans and higher end cans too but it’s a 15-20% improvement for a 500-10000% price increase.

If someone’s happy with older airpods then more power to them, I don’t need much more than a pair of Sennheiser HD598s myself. Would I take HD800/820s if offered for free? Absolutely. Will I pay $1600+ for them, not today.

My RAID5 of 28 disks is ultra safe I tell you

Here’s an even easier hack than all of that :effort:

Just hold the power button down for about 10 seconds, ez-pz

Supercommute sounds like a fancy way to say he can just rent or buy a luxurious place in Seattle to stay during the week.

Gimp 4.0 is on schedule for a 2040 release at this point

You can access Gmail over IMAP and pull down messages locally. If you do this; Back. Up. Your. Mbox.

Also, fun fact, you can move messages from a local mbox to Gmail while preserving read status and original dates if you want to add old email to Gmail for some reason.