Great advice. ProtonPlus is so helpful. DW Proton has actually been working better for me than GE lately, though.

It is common for an abuser to take away a victim’s phone, shoes, car keys, medication, etc in order to control them and make it difficult for them to leave.

I haven’t had problems using pavucontrol with pipewire.

I use Calibre. I’ve tried others but many of them are not very customizable.

I use Nemo in XFCE and the file path is always there.

I can’t think of anything I miss. Windows is so primitive compared to Linux.

🐀🐀🐀

Smashwords. And I prefer epub.

Very interesting!

It was slow when I first tried it, decades ago, but I actually can’t tell any difference in speed these days. I use it for everything now.

Looks peaceful.

Bitpay allows companies to accept crypto payments and receive it as real currency automatically.

People wonder about the long range effects of things because we can’t know them until a long time has passed. Like when the internet first became available in homes, we all had no idea that it would change society and even human psychology in the ways that it has. Do you never read about something that’s fairly new and think, “I wonder how that’s going to play out”? There’s not currently any answer as to what new information will be revealed or what new understanding will be gained over decades to come. Only time will show us that.

My neighbor makes chainsaw bears out in his driveway. They’re visible from the road, so I can see them when I drive by. They’re nice bears. I enjoy seeing what he’s working on. But if he came out one day and told me I owed him money for looking at his bears, I’d think he was crazy.

They aren’t my bears, and the decision to craft them in an area open to public view was his own.

That’s what other people’s websites are like, to me.

You obviously see things differently. I’m sure the people whose websites you visit appreciate that. I mean that sincerely.

No, it isn’t. It was a casual statement of curiosity about the future.

There are always things we don’t know when newish discoveries go into common use that we learn over the first few decades of really widespread use.

It seems like you’re projecting a whole lot of meaning onto a casual comment when there was really not much there.

I wouldn’t argue.

That’s good to hear. I know it’s very popular, but I’ve been avoiding it for a long time because the fees were so high the last time I used it.

I’ve seen many businesses that do this, also.

Where I used to live, the electric bill doubled after the city council voted to allow the electric company to charge customers for the cost of storm repairs. Nearly $400 a month for us. I knew people who lived there part time and were getting $200 bills for months when they weren’t living there and had no electrical usage. And people had been saying for years that the electric company wasn’t doing enough to prepare for storms.

Ahhhh, that’s so nice! I just got my second NVME. It’s a new world.