There’s a nice little app on F-Droid called Speedr.

It checks your speed against what open street map has set as the speed limit for the road. It will record how often, how long, how much you drove over the speed limit during your drive.

It will then use that data to estimate the amount of time you actually saved.

I regularly drive ~15 mph over the speed limit to keep up with traffic. Do a long drive of more than eight hours at a time around every other month. In a year I saved under 20 minutes.

Maybe a more aggressive driver could get more savings, but as far as I’m concerned I’ll just leave a little earlier.

Fun fact: that lady has multiple nobel science prize winners in her family and lives on a national heritage site. Look her up on Wikipedia and it’s pretty obvious why she doesn’t want class war, lol.

The point is that they do see all this, but it hasn’t died yet, which means it’s stronger than initially believed.

Tell me again how you’ve never become the subject matter expert on something simply because you were around when it was built.

Or had to overhaul a project due to a “post-live” requirements change a year later.

I write “good enough” code for me, so I don’t want to take a can opener to my head when I inevitably get asked to change things later.

It also lets me be lazier, as 9 times out of 10 I can get most of my code from a previous project and I already know it front to back. I get to fuck about and still get complex stuff out fast enough to argue for a raise.

I feel like this is an incomplete setup to a joke where the eyes get bigger every panel until it’s just the black void.

The scale is a significant part of the problem though, which can’t just be hand waved away.

Yeah, didn’t want to jump to conclusions, but that detail was quite absent from the blog post.

Also his claim that email chains end up creating an extra copy of an attachment every time? That’s not how most email clients handle attachments. They usually only carry forward in forwards.

And even if his idea is true for his setup somehow, data deduplication at the storage level isn’t particularly difficult to set up, and I would argue is table stakes for any business doing self hosting.

Similar when it comes to data retention policies, quotas, auto deletion of spam after a shorter time window. It’s not fun and for some setups may not be easy, but it’s part of the bare minimum for email. So yeah, you absolutely do it yourself or pay someone to do it for you.

Edit: and if you pay someone to do it for you, you have to abide by whatever dumb hoops they make you jump through, or find someone else to pay.

Thank you, I didn’t want to jump to conclusions, but his setup seemed like a convoluted way to have Google handle the storage at no cost to himself. Glad I’m not the only one with that takeaway.

This is awful, but while I see the huge impact for personal users, I’m not sure I see the business case for his current setup. I’m sure this will inpact business setups, but his specific use case just seems off.

He really buries the lede about why the weird setup of why address@businessdomain.com (to my mind the professional business email) had to be accessible from businessname_address@gmail.com (to my mind a misused personal email) in the first place. It’s down in the comments:

You can’t be serious. Especially for a company he runs, this is silly. Just tell them they have to use the business domain for business email. The whole @gmail.com thing also opens up potential regulatory issues depending on the details of the business.

With his current setup Google is already accessing all his company mail data. I don’t really get his objection to having the MX record directly route to them at this point.

I’m probably missing some big detail, but I don’t get why he has his current setup to begin with.

Edit: Didn’t want to jump to conclusions, but I’m not the only one with the takeaway that this seems to be jwz trying to use google/gmail for email storage without paying for google workspaces for his employees. Maybe that isn’t the case, but it sure looks like it.

Windows bad, Linux good! Haha, such meme!

Go ahead back to .ml’s China comm. Your blatant attempts to keep people fighting amongst each other instead of doing anything better with their time won’t be missed.

Mmmmm yes daddy billionaire business mogul, feed me more headlines, tell me what to think! Seed and manipulate my entire worldview harder! I love it when you twist my point of view! Twist it harder! Oh, you’ve brought vague state-sponsored talking points to double team me? Yes. Yes! Make me your sloppy anxiety ridden mess daddy! Let me slurp up your scum! Make me forget about how innacurate articles about my field of expertise are while I swallow every other article you give me! Fill me with your news daddy! ❤️

Dropping the shitposting though? (Not that you really deserve it with the blatant patronizing)

There are so many better targets for your effort than people choosing to not be led around by corporate interests through intentionally emotionally charged news.

There are fucking 20 year old studies that show that over exposure to news media causes people to overestimate crime rates to a ridiculous degree, and even more so with violent crime rates. The news has only become significantly more polarizing and emotionally charged in the many years since.

Save your efforts for careful organization and planning locally. Understand that 90% of the news will have no impact on you and those around you and is only meant for shifting public opinions. Not for actually informing. Shut the fuck up online and stop painting a target on your back. Practice fucking OPSEC if you have absolutely any seriousness about this, otherwise admit to yourself that you’re just larping or not going to take any action yourself.

I sure as hell aren’t taking any action that could put the people I care about at risk before shtf. It’s not a judgement or impugnment of your character, it’s just that you should stop being so damn openly judgemental if that’s the case for you.

Most importantly, as I called out in my first fucking sentence of my last comment responding to you, it’s a massive fucking false dichotomy. It is entirely possible to stay informed and up to date on events without fucking wallowing in the nonstop deluge of “sky is falling” headlines.

And even if this black and white dichotomy was in any way valid, your insistence that only “duh libruls” do it is even more absurd. Get outside and meet people. I’m fairly introverted and I still regularly meet and see people from all across the political spectrum multidimensionalhypercompass showing the full variation of news awareness from “What do you mean ICE has built a Guantanamo on US soil for illegal immigrants?” to “I read every headline from 6 different news sources and cross reference each article”. Yes, that means I see fucking MAGATs that are absurdly tapped into the vein of fresh news but somehow still deluding themselves into MAGA. One is a relative of mine unfortunately.

That’s not desiring an apocalypse, that’s sparkling suicidal ideation.

Have you tried stalking people for long enough that you know the exact perfect gift for them first, and then bring it to the break in as a distraction?

Oh hey, it’s those “better things to do instead”!

Wow, my favorite false dichotomy! Oh how I missed it so. The sheer beauty of the strawmanning, the amount of effort to willfully misinterpret statements! It’s the perfect blend of self righteousness and reading comprehension failure!

https://youtu.be/vjWA4e7U7_Y

Way to ruin it! I can only get off if my Shrek x Sonic is outside of wedlock.

Now on the other hand, if this is Shrek trying to move forward with Sonic after their bastard-affront-to-god hybrid shreknic baby died due to m-preg birth complications, and they have a poor marriage trapped in the shadow of that loss until Shrek starts an affair with Shadow?

Well then I’m back in.

I’ve been using a mix of nature sounds to help fall asleep for years. If I’m having a particularly rough night, I’ll play some repetitive calm music I’m super familiar with as well, EQ’d to just be barely audible through the nature sounds. ADHD brain uses all the extra energy that would be keeping me up spinning ideas around to tune one or the other of the “two” audios out and I’m out pretty quick.

I use a version 1.3.3 of an app from F-Droid, Noice, for the nature sounds. Later versions added premium features and load the audio from a remote server. That’s the last version with everything local.

PowerAmp for the music. Took the “Soft” EQ preset to keep any “sharp” sounds from coming through and lowered the overall volume of it, then applied it to a specific “chill/sleep” playlist I made.

Both apps have sleep timers so they can shut off automatically after a set time.

The woman looks passably human too. No extra fingers and her features stay consistent between panels.