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Cake day: June 13th, 2023

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  • On the other hand, a lot of screenies do poorly at formal English, like grammar, spelling and word choice, because much of their learning is casual.

    Gotta read actual books, not just listen to movie/game dialogue. (Short-form news articles and textual social media probably don’t cut it either, just because news is written to be understood even by people with poor reading skills and social media discussions are too casual.)


  • Instead of having your online accounts registered directly to your @tuta.io address (or your gmail address, or any webmail address), buy a domain name and have the accounts registered to that and then set the DNS to forward all mail from that domain to your webmail account of choice. That way, if the webmail service fucks up, the worst-case scenario is that you change the forwarding again and you’ve only lost the contents of the previous emails sent, not access to receive future ones.

    (Caveat: when you send an email it’ll by default be coming from your webmail provider address, not your custom domain address, and I’m not sure how to fix that – I’ve only recently started switching to the scheme myself – but if your main issue is receiving 2FA emails and such that’s not a big deal.)







  • I was using Gentoo over two decades ago, compiling on an Athlon XP (not sure which model). Single core, well less than 2GHz.

    If it was manageable back then, surely it’s no big deal by now with a modern multi-core CPU – even a low-end one, let alone something like a $300 16-core Ryzen 5950X.








  • They’ve still managed to chip away at it a little. It used to be that you could pick a regular hot dog or a polish sausage for the same price, but the latter is gone now. They also used the pandemic as an excuse to get rid of the sauerkraut, and now I think even the onions are gone.

    Also during the pandemic, the local Costco Business Center just demolished their cafe entirely.