I’ve tagged you as Chronic Tagger.

I like heliboard. The swipe feature does require a proprietary blob, and it’s not perfect, but it works decently well and they stent collecting my data.

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.

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.

Sure but that doesn’t change the lack of competition. For my address, I have two non wireless providers, and one of them is copper only and capped at 50 down. So not a lot of choice if an ISP is screwing you.

Ah yes, I will just go to another ISP. Wait, there’s only one.

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.

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

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.

US specific and not sure for how much longer, but the courts have generally held that you can’t be forced to give up a password to a phone. It’s covered under the 5th (and 4th) amendments. That being said, most stock phones are vulnerable to cellubrite cracks.

It’s balanced by light switches being outside of the bathroom, which I absolutely hate.

My cat will meow at me and wake me up so that he can crawl under the covers and basically be the little spoon.