I use reusable produce bags. Some have their tare weight on it but I don’t think its really enough to make a huge difference. Also I figure I’m going to wash my produce anyways.

I didn’t use OwnCloud, but I haven’t had much issue with Nextcloud. I run it bare metal on a pi 4 and haven’t had issues with resource hogging. Getting php to work when the update to php 8 was a bit of a pain but eventually figured it out.

I recently set up owntracks. I do like it, but to be honest, it was kinda a pain. I have not yet attempted real-time sharing which I think is more difficult in own tracks.

As I understand, stealing implies denying someone use to their property, whereas piracy is a copy and is copyright infringement.

As I said, kinda dumb. There’s likely some homophobia that went into the decision.

From a purely economic view, though, there might be some justification? If the blood is batch tested, e.g. 10 samples are mixed and tested, excluding a group more likely to have a disease would mean you’d throw out less blood (or have less testing to do if you then test individual samples). I don’t know enough about blood donation testing to say if that’s a valid argument or not, though.

https://www.cdc.gov/hiv/data-research/facts-stats/gay-bisexual-men.html

https://www.healthline.com/health/hiv-aids/hiv-risk-in-gay-men#transmission

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/HIV_and_men_who_have_sex_with_men

https://www.unaids.org/sites/default/files/media_asset/2019-UNAIDS-data_en.pdf

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10159196/#pone.0281578.ref001

Consensus is that MSM are somewhere between 20-26 times more likely to contract HIV then other adult men. How much of that is biological and how much is cultural (e.g. in countries where homosexual sex is criminalized, access to healthcare and prophylactic medicines are likely less available) is definitely up for debate, and it of course does not mean that a straight man cannot contract HIV.

Gay men are statistically more likely to contract HIV. Of course, it would be horribly irresponsible and negligent not to test donated blood/plasma for HIV in the first place, so yeah, kinda dumb.

Summit

Generally, anything from 3 times a day to once every 3 days is considered the range of normal.

They don’t have a repo as far as I know. Hence the manual .deb install.

What’s challenging about paywalls and not wanting to spend money is not necessarily not wanting to spend, but convenience and cost. If it costs me 10 cents for each blog or tutorial or github page I look at while working on a project, or 1 cent for every funny video, that adds up. And do I have to put my credit card in for every site? Hope that every site has good enough security to prevent payment information leaks?

And I don’t think anyone is interested in a Netflix-style internet that fractures into 6 different subscriptions to get every site you need on the web.

Yeah, but I really don’t want my computer to look like my phone. And I hate that they keep moving toward that and “app-ifying” computers (specifically windows).

But then how can I maintain a lurking status?

Remove and reinstall VLC should install all the dependencies, yeah?

One good use for AI was a great breakdown of what exactly that command does. I like it.

It doesn’t help that plenty of places still follow old IT guidelines that are bad, so they all get lumped together. E.g. change password every 45 days, can’t BT the last 10, must have 4 characters different, and we don’t have a password manager.

I’ve just started using Summit and they show accounts less than 30 days old. Really slick ui too.

I’ve used Kobo and Ebooks.com, and import into my Calibre library. I know some authors have a way to purchase directly on their site.

It absolutely does. https://plugins.calibre-ebook.com/ there is a KFX input plugin. Also, if using an older version of kindle for PC you can batch download your whole library and import to Calibre.

Yeah, but when signal complies they give date you made your account and when you last accessed. And that’s it. Probably much less than the others give.