Captain Picard very much became a Captain to all of us, I think.

Of course he’s got some flaws for sure (his stubbornness, for one!) but he really set the bar for what a civilised person and a good leader should be.

He’s principled, fact-based, fair in his judgement, respects the differences of others (both individually and culturally), solves problems with understanding and empathy rather than force, and he’s forgiving of mistakes.

And he does all that while still being a “strong” man. In fact, it’s these very traits which earn him the respect of his crew.

I’m glad I had Captain Picard as an influence in my childhood, rather than whatever youtube channel trying to make me angry for all the wrong reasons.

Tension, mostly

Wireguard doesn’t necessarily need to have those limitations, but it will depend in part how your VPN profile is set up.

If you configured your wireguard profile to always route all traffic over the VPN then yeah, you won’t be able to access local networks. And maybe that’s what you want, in which case fine :)

But you can also set the profile to only route traffic that is destined for an address on the target network (I.e your home network) and the rest will route as normal.

This second type of routing only works properly however when there are no address conflicts between the network you are on (i.e. someone else’s WiFi) and your home network.

For this reason if you want to do this it’s best to avoid on your own home network the common ranges almost everyone uses as default, i.e. 192.168.0.* and 10.0.0.*

I reconfigured my home network to 192.168.22.* for that reason. Now I never hit conflicts and VPN can stay on all the time but only traversed when needed :)

Don’t wait. Do it now before your hand is forced.

And you can say no if you want to!

Tough one. I’d probably end up being the person who just kept politely listening while trying to shut down the conversation amicably like “well anyway” and “I must get cooking dinner now” and “my plants need moisturising” or something.

Neighbours are extremely high on the list of people I want to avoid pissing off, because a neighbour with a grudge against you could be an absolute nightmare (especially when you live in a townhouse and share walls)

The same people who complain on Amazon reviews that the cable broke for “no reason”

Its not, but you can’t just keep a passenger on your plane who is flipping out and might try something else crazy apart from that.

“The squeaky wheel gets the grease” is an adage that is unfortunately true, and I find it absolutely infuriating.

I would much prefer that we can all be polite and courteous to each other, so when being polite fails but having a screaming tantrum gets results it really makes me annoyed at the unfairness.

I wouldn’t be surprised if they use it for creation in some cases, depending on locale, or if you seem “suspicious” to their metrics in some way, e.g. registering while on a VPN

Even Andor is true to that formula.

In one part, two characters are speaking over “radio” comms using code talk - presumably in case there are any Empire operatives listening in. And prior to that they kept missing each other because they weren’t at their radios at the same time. Derp!

So you’ve got hyperspace travel and laser guns, but no data encryption, or text messaging. Alright then.

Except of course, they do have those things when the plot calls for it, and that’s another reason to consider it fantasy. In most sci-fi the rules stay pretty consistent, but in fantasy it’s flexible.

*in the past! :)

(“A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away”)

The way 2. is written is basically a death sentence.

What they presumably meant is “never exceed your ideal weight no matter how much you eat”

I guess some of us just like to think the search bar and the address bar are conceptually different interface elements with different reasons to exist.

Just for clarity, Graphene doesn’t provide a “neutered” version of play services - the version of play services which runs is the same code as provided by Google, with the only difference being that it runs in a sandbox which only grants it the same level of permission as normal apps (which you can choose to grant or not) rather than running as effectively root on your device like it does on most android phones.

Docs: https://grapheneos.org/usage#sandboxed-google-play

I love how the top two points, “Choose how you search, right from the address bar” and “Keep your original search visible” are things that we always had by default in the old days with the separate search bar, until Firefox blindly copied Chrome and went to the unified bar.

And now it’s back as if it’s some kind of revolutionary feature, rather than they made it worse and now they’re making it better again.

Not that I ever stopped using the separate search field, I always turn that on.

This - get the no-brand replacement heads. No way would I spend the prices Oral-B are asking.

Sometimes the big brands can end up as better device purchases, since despite being more expensive upfront, there are plenty of cheap third-party consumables available.

Something nonconductive seems the safest choice, so you can’t accidentally short anything.

In the mechanical keyboard community this even-larger-than-ISO-enter size is generally referred to, quite affectionately, as the “bigass” enter.

I guess this means Microsoft’s similar recent move with Office worked out for them financially, even though it caused a lot of backlash.