I’m dying to resume Mandarin lessons in person. I already tried a local college course but it was remote only; I then used a tutoring website with real people in China which was excellent.

The problem for me is I’m already on the computer constantly so trying to pick up such a difficult language all while stuck on the computer was too maddening. I actually live in an area heavily populated with Mandarin speakers but everything I find turns into online classes.

I’d just add both Gmail and another email account to a desktop email client, then simply drag the emails from one provider to the other.

God damn it I’m getting old. I had to seriously reconsider and reparse 2022 like nine times.

The CGI face really creeps me out, what is that from??

Do people really talk to LLMs that often?

I really tried to use a “usb” install for a long time but could never get kernel upgrades (and some other packages) to work correctly.

These days I do a “sys” install but mount /var/log and some other directories to RAM.

Not at all. I graduated a semester early and moved to a nearby city where I immediately lost all my friends from high school. A few years later I moved across the country and never looked back.

I’ve read that drinking is often used to communicate depression or stress to viewers. I always found it odd that everyone has a bar in their house so I started thinking about it more and did some reading.

I mean you’d be boosting the productivity within the remaining workload

God damn is this what’s happening on corporate social media these days?

The Art of UNIX Programming by Eric S Raymond. I’m only half-joking; I used to read it when I had insomnia because it was equal parts fascinating but verbose enough to get me to sleep.

Otherwise Waking Up by Sam Harris. I’d only heard of him after a group meditation session which I’d never done before and immediately became hooked: that you could be spiritual without religion was an entirely new concept for me.

I do this more or less, while the VPS itself doesn’t route over a VPN I have traffic forwarded between Tailscale and a commercial VPN.

It’s actually much more complicated and involved than that involving four double hop VPN tunnels, two that stay 100% in my country then two that bounce around other countries routed over the first two. This way my traffic exits the country without it appearing that way.

Bonus points if the 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz channels use the same SSID and security. I can’t stand when people separate them — who wants to sit there and switch networks all day trying to find the best one? Just let the clients do it on their own.

Is this common to do? Do you just have no control over the content you’re consuming? I feel like I’m missing something here.

I mean they were always packed when I went. But one (Sage Bistro in Pasadena, CA) was hard to get into without a reservation. The owner just decided she suddenly believed in “regenerative farming” for whatever fucking reason.

How would animal products be more profitable if they cost more? Veggies are cheap so the potential profit margin is much higher no?

I’ve been vegan since 2019 and it’s hitting me lately that in those days things were looking bright for veganism. Now a lot of vegan restaurants are turning their backs on animals by serving meat then closing up shop a few months later after alienating their customers. It’s getting more difficult to find vegan options and it just breaks my heart.

(There’s also like 10,000 other problems I’m going through too.)

I generally wear one of many identical black tees during the workweek, I don’t have any cartoon shirts though.

That’s not how I thought that was going to end

I probably should be using ISO too but I typically just have the BDMV and friends there. It defaults to ISO for (some?) DVDs though which I find interesting; I can’t remember the logic there.