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by beardbound 5y ago
The four noble truths kind of touch on this (which if memory serves are all life is suffering, suffering comes from desire, and the cessation of desire causes the end of suffering, and the fourth one... Cessation of desire leads to nirvanna
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by beardbound 5y ago
My capital one card has virtual cards, and I’ve seen it other places. The only issue is that it’s done by a browser add on that has incredibly high permissions. I handle it by using a separate Firefox profile for the rare occasions I need t
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by beardbound 5y ago
I was looking at booking a month or two at the Roam location in Tokyo RIGHT when they went under. I was bummed. It sounded perfect. Although as I age I find that dealing with a 10+ hour time difference a pain. These days I tend to stay in t
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by beardbound 5y ago
I buy directly a lot. Shopify has made this easier. For electronics I buy most of my stuff either directly, or through someplace like Best Buy. They aren't always the cheapest, but they at least they don't send me counterfeit prod
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by beardbound 5y ago
I don't buy very much on Amazon anymore. Mostly name brand stuff that isn't often counterfeited. Guitar strings, books, moisturizer and such. It is still very good for grabbing random widgets (I just bought a knob puller for my gu
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by beardbound 5y ago
I love Authy and used it for a ton of stuff, but some places started not supporting it. I'm looking at you coinbase. For some reason I have three 2FA apps on my phone now. I purposely didn't have 2FA setup on some accounts while I
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by beardbound 5y ago
I am annoyed. I haven't updated my Facebook in years so most of the data is out of date and I use a separate phone line for personal correspondence, but I do still have a Facebook account for the occasional friend/family that uses
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by beardbound 6y ago
I think it was an allusion to the tower of Babel.
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by beardbound 6y ago
I also am a very happy customer. I moved as much off of Google as possible last year and even moved my mother to a fastmail domain that I manage as well. She quite likes it. The calendar works great with everything and I like that they use
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by beardbound 6y ago
A lot of people I knew that used WhatsApp used it because international text used to be prohibitively expensive and it was notoriously unreliable. So most of my friends used it in Europe. Also you can still use it if you aren't on cell
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by beardbound 6y ago
I read that and it said that it applies to data not processed in the EU. I always interpreted that as applying to data centers and such in something like an was availability zone in the US. It said “ the monitoring of their behaviour as far
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by beardbound 6y ago
You might look into drama coaches that give elocution lessons. I imagine that the skills are fairly similar. I used to do a bit of drama and choir and I found the warmup exercises to be helpful for enunciation and such. A brief warmup befor
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by beardbound 6y ago
"Harrison Bergeron" by Kurt Vonnegut will always have a place in my heart. I also quite liked a Ray Bradbury short story that I believe was called "The Homecoming". However I had to look it up. I think that was it. I use
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by beardbound 6y ago
When I was in music school (before the financial crash and I eventually got into software) my friends and I would quite often hang out at Guitar Center and play the guitars and other instruments that we couldn't afford. I have many fon
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by beardbound 6y ago
I do the same. I migrated all of my emails over to fastmail a while ago and have been very pleased. There's a web interface, but I mostly use it with the native calendar app on my machine (in my case iCal). A couple of colleagues even
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by beardbound 6y ago
I completely agree. I'm single and have worked from home for years, minus a brief contracting gig in an office a few years ago. I made sure to make time for seeing people though. I have friends in my neighborhood and we would meet up f
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by beardbound 6y ago
That looks awesome. I’m going to check it out. I’ve never really liked the slack app on Mac. I also like that it’s not a subscription. That’s a breath of fresh air. I wish more developers would just charge me for good software.
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by beardbound 6y ago
I've seen that around. Doesn't yummly require you to install their app to see the actual steps? That was a deal breaker for me. I hate websites that have a page then arbitrarily block content unless you get their app.
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by beardbound 6y ago
I made my own ring tone the other day because I recorded something I wanted to use. It's possible. Monstrous pain, but possible. You have to convert it to AAC, then import it to iTunes then sync it over. It was about the same effort of
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by beardbound 6y ago
The governor just said that number was inaccurate. Here's a link to the coverage of the press conference. https://www.oregonlive.com/politics/2020/09/with-oregonians-... . Basically the 500,000 people wa
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by beardbound 6y ago
I live in Portland, and Estacada and Molalla were evacuated. Oregon City is currently on level 2 warning. Level 3 is immediate evacuation. Mostly it's places in Clackamas Couny. Here's the most up to date info you're probably
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by beardbound 6y ago
I wonder if it’s almost like memory compression. Repetitive data gets compressed much more easily than unique data. Looking back on boring tasks and jobs it seems like much shorter amounts of time than long trips even when the jobs were for
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by beardbound 6y ago
Fear of that is why I migrated all of my primary stuff off of Google during lockdown while I had more time.I used everything google had too at the time, even google Fi. My services are a bit more spread out now, but they are also more robus
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by beardbound 6y ago
I completely agree. For all of my big ticket items (e.g. bluetooth headphones, computer parts, phones, recording equipment) I go through places I trust. I end up doing a lot of shopping at Best Buy of all places again. For computer parts I
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by beardbound 6y ago
I have used hover for years and quite like them. The customer support was awesome when I had an issue with getting a .com.au domain setup for a business. Australia has some extra requirements for domains that I wasn't familiar with. I
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by beardbound 6y ago
I have been in the process of moving all of my stuff off of Google services (while I have an excessive amount of free time during Shelter In Place. So I recently moved from Google Analytics to https://usefathom.com . I quite lik
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by beardbound 7y ago
I have that book on kindle and just checked the contents. You’re correct. The book is split into three sections called books.
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by beardbound 7y ago
I’m a QA engineer and I go back pretty frequently so that I can see when a issue popped up and what might have caused it. It’s super useful for root cause analysis on bugs. also I use it to troubleshoot legacy versions for customers. Althou
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by beardbound 7y ago
I worked tech support for years and completely agree with that statement. I work in test automation these days and try to meet regularly with support to figure out what usage patterns are like and what pain points people are actually having
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by beardbound 7y ago
That's an interesting point. I worked in QA for years and was out of the country for a few years. When I returned my old role (QA and process development/project management) didn't exist. The industry had moved on and those r

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