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Remember when the petroleum industry sold us disposable plastic bags as a way to “save the trees”?

SYAC: In the article, Altman doesn’t explain anything regarding what led to the board doing what they did, and asserts that he will wait for the new board to conduct an investigation.

If you’re in the Apple ecosystem, you can toss your vault into iCloud Drive. If you’re technically proficient (and brave) you can write a cron to sync into whichever service you want via a local machine.

In addition to iCloud, I have a one-way sync (rsync) which functions as a poor man’s backup to get all my files into Dropbox; lots of stern warnings from Obsidian not to use Dropbox.

May I offer that it really depends on your note-taking style? I’ve been using it since July having come from linear note-taking on Cornell NTS. It’s way faster and much more interlocked once you get past the slight learning curve.

They just let anyone on the internet nowadays. It’s GIF, not GIF. Get it right.

Aye, I did thank you for the correction.

According to Space.com in July 2023, there were 4,487 active Starlink satellites. 26 represents just over 0.5% of the total constellation. Considering it seems like a swarm-type system, 0.5% strikes me as simply the cost of doing business.

Edit: decimals.

“Bigot” is the word you’re looking for.

Strong concur. Religion is fine, but there is no place for extremism.

This is exactly that episode of Black Mirror. The use case is different, but the concept is identical.

Close, XKCD:456.

Have you at least tried to install Gentoo? Everyone has to think they can, and fail, at least once in their lives.

To this end, for some it might be helpful to start with tracking spending (speaking from personal experience). I couldn’t determine what was a reasonable amount for a given category for a budget because I didn’t see my current circumstance.

I spent several years categorizing my expenses into two broad categories: fixed vs variable.

Fixed costs are utilities, mortgages, grocery, and insurance etc, variable costs were anything else (more or less).

By doing it this way I could see the minimum I needed to live—and also how much I was spending on frivolous shit.

Use Google Docs, and make a simple spreadsheet to track numbers. It doesn’t have to be a beautiful sheet, just functional. It will grow with you over time as you add and remove functionally to track different aspects of your finances that are important to you. If you don’t know how to use spreadsheets, online MOOCs have courses for a tiny amount of dollars relative to what you learn.

I have run my own PiHole previously. Then I wanted Ad blocking on my phone, so I also setup OpenVPN that ran alongside my PiHole so I could get ad blocking anywhere. I travel often, and then we moved, so I never got it set up again, at the same time I discovered AdGuard could be configured on both home networks for network-level blocking, but they also have device profiles for iOS.

I haven’t had to fuss with PiHole now in years.

If you are happy to do the administration of a PiHole, and the scope it provides, it’s good. I didn’t want to have to fuss with it anymore.

These are called hypnic jerks.

TL;DR: It was a lump of ambergris.

From the article:

Experts have discovered the cause of death for a sperm whale that washed up unexpectedly on the shores of Spain’s La Palma island - €500,000 of “floating gold”.

The impressive discovery was made after experts from the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria carried out a post-mortem, with authorities initially unsure how the 15-ton, 13-metre-long whale washed up on Nogales beach last month.

“When I dissected and removed the stone I turned around and everyone on the beach looked at me in surprise, but for me at that moment I understood where the origin of the infection was coming from,” Antonio Fernández Rodríguez, the head of the Institute of Animal Health and Food Security at the university, said.
The stone, he explained, was a large lump of precious ambergris, a rare substance sometimes known as “floating gold”.

Highly prized by perfumers, the 9.5 kg lump found in the whale can sell for up to €500,000 (£430,000).

If you know, you know.

I’m 0 for 1.

AdGuard! They even have installable profiles for Apple devices, so I get ad blocking even on mobile!

mb, DDNS. nvm

I didn’t really even have a choice because I was primarily a mobile user. 98% of the time I used reddit in between personal and social transitions away from my desktop. The only time I was really ever on the desktop version was when I had to do mod crap.

Just tested this, yes remove the exclam and it works.