When life gives you lemons, don’t make lemonade - make life take the lemons back! Get mad! I don’t want your damn lemons, what am I supposed to do with these? Demand to see life’s manager. Make life rue the day it thought it could give Cave Johnson lemons. Do you know who I am? I’m the man who’s gonna burn your house down! With the lemons. I’m going to to get my engineers to invent a combustible lemon that burns your house down!

A standalone plastic bottle is 20-40g of PET.

The lining of a soda can is about 1g of BPA.

If nobody told you it was Linux, you wouldn’t know. If boots straight into Steam. It’s as easy as using a Nintendo Switch.

But you can enter desktop mode to get a Plasma desktop, and you have root access, so if you know what you’re doing it’s a great Linux machine.

We literally have a global rise in violent fascism and multiple ongoing genocides, and TikTok is the worst thing you can think of?

No shit the VPN requires an open port, I never said otherwise, but if your router is the one running the server, you aren’t forwarding the port. The router itself is listening on its WAN interface.

The VPN prevents you from having to forward any ports, because the router allows you to tunnel in. The only open port will be whatever port the VPN server listens on, and it isn’t a forwarded port.

Source: I literally work at a VPN company.

Because people use Twitch on Linux with a VPN? This seems kinda obvious…

going from a public device to a device in a protected network

You mean the literal function of a VPN?

A VPN eliminates the need for port forwarding.

Edit: Not talking about a “privacy VPN”, but an actual VPN that lives up to the name “Virtual Private Network”, where you are connecting to the private network you wish to access.

Ship it

Look at this guy who doesn’t have ibs.

The Luddites lost, but you should read the rest of this wiki article to learn how that happened, and consider again which side you’re on.

Yeah, I mean nobody uses SIP as an open protocol with email-like addresses. You could call me with an unregistered softphone. It would have been way cooler if I had any use for it outside of like two other nerd friends of mine who run personal Asterisk servers.

Boards of Canada is a very popular IDM artist, and they’re the third result down from the top.

The Human experience is pretty weird. Being reductive about just about anything we do ends up sounding like a horror show.

I used to have an open public SIP address that would ring a home phone, complete with a retro answering machine, but nobody uses SIP…

instead

I’d rather they do both.

This is how it should be, but it isn’t the present day reality. Productivity goes up, wages go down, and the rich get richer. We’re headed straight for technofeudalism buddy…

I hate Siri, but you can do a “Hey Siri, whose phone is this?” and it will force PIN unlock. Great if you aren’t able to physically touch the phone.

The original Luddite movement was literally a worker’s rights movement, and the “irrationally afraid of technology” characterization was manufactured by the ruling class, so yes. The Luddites were right then and they’re right now too.