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Eartha Kitt… Damn, she knew how to sing that song!

The Jersey drone story is a great example.

The FAA posted a a security update for the Picatinny area a few weeks ago. Now where did that come from? Some governmental org that wanted to do testing.

But the rest of government was unaware, so could honestly say they didn’t know anything about the drone activity.

I dunno, laptops have gotten tremendously better - can run most of a day without power anymore. I certainly have charged my phone 3x as much as my laptop. And I already carry an external 10k Wh battery for my phone.

OP actually raises a good point about power consumption that I hadn’t considered in a while.

NeoBackup only works if rooted, unfortunately. Well, unfortunately users don’t have full control over iOS and Android without having to sidestep stuff.

Laptops are arguably potentially far more secure. Most mobile apps collect every bit of data they can (and have internet access for no reason) , and mobile devices have standardized ways of enabling it - how often other apps are launched, what other apps are installed, etc, etc. PC OS’s don’t have that stuff built in, and apps rarely have that kind of code. Plus they’re just easier to firewall (as much of a nuisance as it is to do. Hell, GCM was built to do most of this stuff.

Paid $150 for a Pixel 5. Pixel 7 is $200.

I don’t waste money on new phones, or new cars.

Plus I suspect the cpu cost of transferring the files is far lower than transcoding.

I keep 100’s of gigs in sync across multiple phones and devices, and ST never causes the phones to warm or show significant battery use.

This is what I do. Works great

It’s pretty amazing what people are able to do today with relatively mundane tech.

Granted, Mark has specific knowledge and skills, but I’m sure many people have similar education (not to detract from Mark, this is a very cool solution, just that there are lots of “Mark types” out there these days).

Even what can be done with an older RPi, or a cheap controller, etc. So much capability for just a little effort and a few dollars.

TIL too, so thanks for the links!

Check the self-hosted communities, this is a regular discussion there. I use OneNote and would like to get away from it, but every solution is a mixed bag.

A couple options off the top of my head:

Silver Bullet A note-taking app that supports linking. You’d need to host it on a VPS (that’s the simplest approach for your use case, I’d think, with any shared app).

OneNote As students, you probably get Office 365 for a major discount, and honestly OneNote is hard to beat. It syncs to each machine, so everyone has a full copy of a given notebook at any time. Sync is robust, and very slick, with things like showing Author, updates, etc. I do recommend the full OneNote desktop app and not the Windows App nonsense, because the desktop app doesn’t require OneDrive to sync between computers, (though it can use a OneDrive location). To share a notebook on a LAN, you just share the folder it’s in and other machines will sync through the share (I’d create a user just for the notebook/share).

One benefit of a notebook being on OneDrive is the ability to sync to mobile devices (Android and iOS have OneNote apps), and sync doesn’t depend on other devices being online.

To make things easier, you could setup two accounts on OneDrive: a primary account that you manage with the initial notebook(s), and a “user” account that you share your notebook with and then give everyone the credentials for. This will make it easier for others to use, since they won’t have to setup a OneDrive account. You’ll only need to provide a 2FA key for them on initial login - the app will retain the credentials.

I have a love/hate relationship with OneNote. I’ve used it for 15 years now, I’d find it hard to supplant, but I really dislike being tied to a proprietary format, and especially requiring OneDrive for mobile device sync.

“distrohoped”?

As in you hoped this next distro would be the one that worked well?

Sounds like S.O.P

“Excuse me”?

“Pardon”?

Blank look. Shrug, turn around, go back to reading.

Which “white people” are you talking about?

Irish? Scottish? Italians? How about Sicilian? Are Roma white to you? Greek?

See, that’s the problem with pre-judging someone just on immutable characteristics that you believe mean a certain thing.

Throughout time groups of people have been biased against other groups, for all sorts of reasons, largely just “out group”.

Assuming that only goes one way, and assuming based on skin color alone (again, exactly which color, is there a Pantone code for “white people”?) that everyone in that assumed group have the same experience is just nonsense. Or bias, prejudice, bigotry. Pick whichever you like.

The difference?

Its right there in the names

Schedule such walks in your calendar.

If you know it’s going to be nice tomorrow, schedule a meeting in your calendar for the time you should walk. Then, since it’s your work calendar, it’s just part of managing your day, you’ll feel more committed to it when you get the notification.

My personal accidental variation on pomodoro - all those meetings I have to attend generate work, and interfere with my schedule. I always schedule time in my calendar for dealing with stuff from meetings.

So if I have a 1 hr meeting at 10a, I’ll add 30 minutes to it in my calendar (generally I only need 10 or 15 min). I’ll also schedule time in my calendar for work that needs doing, mostly to block time so meetings won’t eat up my day.

Sometimes those blocks are for specific tasks (e.g. Something that came out of a meeting) or just a general block so I can do some work between meetings.

No one needs to know why a specific time isn’t available in my calendar (no one has ever asked, and if they did, I’d say “I don’t know, I’d have to look” or tell the truth that it’s to work on something specific). Who could argue with that?

Interesting organic approach

It doesn’t seem to say it doesn’t affect ADHD meds, just gave a list of known interactions.

My takeaway: since it’s known to interact with some meds, it could have an effect on others.

You’re increasing available O2, which usually means an improvement in metabolism (reduction, at least, and perhaps increased cellular function), so it’s hard to say how it would impact a given med without understanding how it’s metabolized.

I would think any condition would improve if you increase O2 availability for someone who has anemia. Hell, increasing O2 seems to help anyone generally, part of why exercise is recommended for almost any condition.

Shit, I have a killer vocabulary, can spell words I’ve never seen… On a good day. .

Sometimes the brain just decides “ooh, that third letter reminds me of a story from when I was five” and now I don’t even remember the word I was trying to spell.

Ya just gotta be able to laugh when the mind goes walkabout on you like that.