Remember when the petroleum industry sold us disposable plastic bags as a way to “save the trees”?
Remember when the petroleum industry sold us disposable plastic bags as a way to “save the trees”?
They just let anyone on the internet nowadays. It’s GIF, not GIF. Get it right.
They’re gonna whitewash it, little by little.
Collectively, I’d say we’re on a gradient ranging from denial to resignation on the stages of grief model.
A lot of people means there’s a lot of social inertia before we see the change reflected as a species.
To give some perspective, that’s a little less than two Nazi holocausts per year for 100 years.
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.
AdGuard! They even have installable profiles for Apple devices, so I get ad blocking even on mobile!
mb, DDNS. nvm
And for fuck’s sake don’t raw dog your phone to convenient USB chargers in airplanes, airports, or other public spaces.
Yes the argument can be made that airplanes may enjoy slightly better chain-of-custody type security, but fr the number of people I see who dgaf plugging their junk into USB brothels is wild.