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blackstrat

@ blackstrat @lemmy.fwgx.uk

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  • Clothes who's primary purpose seems to be to let others know what brand it is. As if I'm supposed to be impressed you bought a Jack Jones t shirt. Couldn't you just have bought a nice T-shirt without the branding? No because it's all about being a brand whore - trashy.

  • Have you ever been rejected just because of your height?

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  • She helpfully also saved your back a little

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    If all meat was banned except for insects, would you eat insects?

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  • You know you can get a lot of protein from non-meat sources, right?

  • What is the oldest thing you own that you still use daily?

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  • I have a teeny tiny screwgate carabina from about 1997 that I use as a key ring.

  • Why do, relatively, so few of you set an avatar for your profile?

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  • On my app I can't see it. It maybe you made someone else's day.

  • Thoughts on the recent Swiss law that might require ProtonVPN to start blocking certain domains?

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  • How many internet connected devices do you think there are in a typical 2 adult 2 kid household, excluding phones? Here are TVs, tablets, Chromebooks, laptops, game consoles etc etc. Kids don't jus have phones - mine don't and there's still a raw internet connection to almost all these devices.

    And out of all of that only one has good controls for parents and believe me when I say this, setting it up was torture.

    If you want to block YouTube to specific devices and not others its a really difficult thing to do. Especially when Big Tech is working against you - block the YouTube URLs on a Pihole and you'll find that the play store also doesn't work. There are plenty of dark patterns in all these things. Because these companies do not want to help by blocking access to the marketing bucks of kids.

    There is no simple solution to all of it unless you either live in the past or you parent so 1984ly that it'll exhaust you and alienate your kids from you.

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  • Your notion of the modern world is terribly quaint

  • What's your method of enjoying (or at least tolerating) physical exercise?

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  • I'm trying to do stuff that's quick that I can do every day. I do pushups before my morning shower and some squats whilst I brush my teeth. Do it every day, I feel better for it and it only takes like 3 minutes. You can do extra sets around the house if you have a spare 30-60 seconds too.

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  • As a very tech savvy parent I have to say that setting up an inhibited, monitored and controlled internet for specific devices and users is insanely difficult. The average person stands no chance. But sure, blame the parents instead of the technology as it is sold and delivered.

  • What's an important (in your opinion) skill too many people seem to lack?

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  • Keeping your OCD to yourself.

  • What’s a thing you miss that you’re 90% sure was objectively awful?

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  • Metz Black

    Was the king of alchopops

  • What webapps do you selfhost that aren't media/game servers?

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  • Wow, I would never considering allocating so much memory to a single service I run at home.

  • What webapps do you selfhost that aren't media/game servers?

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  • Gitlab

    This guy has a lot of memory in his server

  • What do you use for listening to podcasts?

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  • I have Podgrab setup, but I mostly just use PodcastAddict on my phone

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  • Test Cricket

  • C4illin/ConvertX: Self-hosted online file converter that supports 1000+ formats

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  • Install it once, use it on any of your devices. Run it once on a capable server so even potatoes get the advantage of it. Run it once so it only needs to support one OS and hardware architecture.

    Using an app of some description over many different device types is far more of a maintenance headache and that's before you start dealing with app stores.

  • Favorite internet legend?

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  • What profound statement has stuck with you over the years?

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  • It does not

  • What are the pros and cons of btrfs?

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  • The pros are that it's hip and trendy and almost complete (and has been for the past 15 years).

    The cons are it doesn't work & has insane failure modes that maximise downtime.