HumanPerson @ HumanPerson @sh.itjust.works

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The effect is cumulative, you'll do better if you quit than if you don't, but some damage has been done. It's a "the best time to plant a tree was 30 years ago, the second best time is today" situation.

Personally I'd recommend just going for it on your daily for most of the stuff you mentioned. Just learn enough before you start to understand the various ways to fuck up, and manage risk accordingly. Helping with friends' cars can also be a good way to learn if you have friends that do that. For specific recommendations, old Hondas and Toyotas are great, like other people are saying. However old (and new although less so) Honda automatics kinda suck so I'd either avoid their autos or look into trying a manual swap. If you get one with lower miles on the transmission it will make it a while.

There aren't many cheap Miatas anymore though. Maybe it's different elsewhere but where I am the old ones are expensive because they're old and the newer ones are expensive because they're new. There's a bit of a middle ground but those still aren't that cheap.

Plus TiB are based on powers of two instead of ten which makes more sense for computers. It's not really a practical difference (2 vs 10, not the size difference which is significant) a lot of the time but I personally find powers of two more pleasing.

My friend and I got an old optiplex and upgraded it with a burner so we can make CDs. It's actually quite nice to have a physical medium for music in the car, and make mixes for different moods that you can switch between. We also know some people with older cars that only have CD and radio or the Bluetooth sucks so we'll make CDs for them too. Tons of fun and you can buy a usb CD / DVD burner for like $10 or $15 and CD-Rs are fairly cheap.

Anything helps, totally acceptable. My network is shared with others, I limit my speed up and down to make sure I don't slow it down for everyone.

Are they no longer lithium ion? Seriously asking.

Please tag this as nsfw

It could have the benefit of being usable for longer as batteries degrade, especially if you can cap the charging to 80% or something to slow down wear.

Nah, that wouldn't. But if you connected just the hot line (right eye of the outlet smiley face) that would do it. Wouldn't recommend it because you could kill them by electrocution or kill even more people with a fire.

Link?

I only enable duress password when I may need it. With my luck I'll wipe my phone putting it in my pocket.

I used to but then I switched out the server I was doing backups to and have been thinking "I'll get to it later" for many months. If anything goes wrong I'm screwed. I'll get to it later ¯(ツ)_/¯

I prefer grapheneos's numeric pin+fingerprint or alphanumeric password. Plus I get to brag that I have MFA on my phone login (even if you can use only the password).

Electric car tires often have more round sidewalls for better aero which would harm snow traction quite a bit.

I can't find other sources for that image BTW, it may not be that bad but I doubt it will be good.

If you're on debian 12 there's a particular part of the drivers that you need to download from the Linux kernel website or transcoding won't work at all. I don't remember much else off the top of my head but I use an a380 in my server and a b580 in my desktop so I have some experience with intel stuff. If you get additional errors they may wake up some dusty neurons for me.

I run everything but vp8 on. Can't guarantee you won't have issues depending on drivers and specific media files but this is what I use with the same GPU. Also I'm familiar with some other intel weirdness on jellyfin + Linux if you use Linux and run into additional problems.

It doesn't override a forced language. If an episode has English and Russian and Russian is forced for some reason the web client can override it if the option is selected. I don't know of any missing features right now but it didn't have skip intro for a while after Jellyfin got it.