Pimsleur courses were the best tool I’ve used for learning languages on my own. I haven’t tried the apps, but your local library might have books and CDs. I got mine from the high seas.

I do the opposite.

• “I’m thinking to go shop for new winter boots on Saturday”

• “I’ll allow it.”

Define cold.

I have an air-water heat pump as the only source of heat and hot water in my house. It takes heat from the air outside and dumps it into a 200 litre water tank. I’d guesstimate that 80% of the homes in my neighborhood have the same setup.

Temperatures are going to be around -10°C for the next few days. When the silver falls below -15°C a resistive element kicks in to help the pump. In my climate I won’t see more than a handful of those per year.

Nordic models scale down to -30°C before doing the same.

I took the dogs for a walk. Gas stations and 24/7 pubs were open.

You can. In practice

If you have two or more network adapters in your computer it can do network address translation to share your connection with your other devices that would use private IP addresses. If one of those network adapters is WiFi, your computer can act as a wireless access point.

I guess I’d sail my late brother’s yacht for a season before I sell it. Could be nice to explore a new area without having to spend weeks on getting my own (bigger) yacht there.

I’d also inherit a couple of airbnb rentals, so I guess those would be business as usual. There’d be a couple of family houses to sell as well, I guess I’d invest those back into rentable real estate.

I’ve discovered OneShortEye. He covers the speedrunning history of old point-and-click adventure games. I’m not particularly interested in speedrunning myself, but I’m just amazed at all the things I’ve missed in games that I’ve spent so many hours on. And the production quality is just insane for a one-man-show.

I’ve played Rebel Inc, so I know how to do it.

Don’t bribe too many people. Build infrastructure and social programmes. Train local forces to destroy all insurrections.

In my experience it takes more funding than you have to keep the population at ease.

Sounds like you have short attention span.

The experience is pretty similar.

The main selling point for me is that jellyfin is free open source software and completely self-hosted.

I don’t remember the tipping point even I left Plex, but I recall them injecting some live channels I had no interest in on the default screen. They do track everything you watch, so at the end of the day you and your data is the real product that they’re dealing with

Edit: I think the tipping point was even their password database leaked. Also, I was frustrated that I couldn’t watch content on my local network just because my internet was down.

I pirate metric shitloads of movies and series. I don’t pirate music or games (much).

I watch maybe 5-10% of what I download. That’s probably true for the games I buy as well.

The reason is part convenience. I probably listen to royalty free 95% music of the time, but for the other occasions Spotify has anything and everything I want to listen to. I can’t beat that library.

I game on Linux, the Switch and old retro computers. The old retro computers have all pirated games on them, but for Linux and Switch I buy my stuff on the Nintendo shop and Steam. They have everything and it just works.

The video streaming services of today have also taught me that they will pull licenses. When Netflix had a big library I stuck mostly to that, but today it feels like all the good content has been pulled and they mostly just have Netflix originals. So Hollywood has taught me that If I want to watch something, I shouldn’t rely on it being available on my streaming service of choice in the future. I’m not going to subscribe to a dozen streaming services just for the odd chance that I want to watch something particular. I’m going to have my own plex server with everything I might want to watch.

The one show that would make me consider getting a second streaming subscription just to support it is Futurama. But of course, Hulu is not available in my region… so, yarr.

Copying is not theft. Stealing a thing leaves one less left. Copying it makes one thing more; that’s what copying’s for. Copying is not theft. If I copy yours you have it too. One for me and one for you. That’s what copies can do. If I steal your bicycle you have to take the bus, but if I just copy it there’s one for each of us! Making more of a thing, that is what we call “copying”. Sharing ideas with everyone. That’s why copying is FUN!

c/demoscene

I wish my browser had UPS

Get some mason jars and do oldschool canning. Food will stay preserved well as there’s no bacteria at the temperature you put it in there, and no air will get in.

Toss in some macaroni and pasta sauce, goulash, tomato soup, premade cup-o-noodles with your favourite veg and protein. Your imagination is the limit.

Harry Potter and the Balance of Earth.