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[–] dan@upvote.au 1 points 5 days ago

That would be an issue, but I'm a person of habit and it's part of my routine now, so I don't forget.

[–] dan@upvote.au 4 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (3 children)

All my medicines are in pill bottles, so the way I solved this is by flipping the bottle upside down after I take it, then flipping it back around when I get up in the morning. If I see it the right way up then I know I haven't taken it yet for the day.

[–] dan@upvote.au 14 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Week starts on Monday in ISO8601, and developers like ISO8601 so this is also the case in most programming languages by default. In some programming languages, it varies by locale.

edit: also, Sunday is part of the weekend, not the weekstart.

[–] dan@upvote.au 12 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

The start of the article says:

The lazy answer is always "weaker hardware at home." And sure, that's part of the story, but it's a small, almost surface-level part.

yet nearly the entire article is about consoles having weaker hardware, and the fact that console controllers are not specific to each game (which I'm also including in the "weaker hardware" bucket).

The only point that's not about weaker hardware is that arcade games generally have a higher difficulty since they want you to keep dying and inserting more coins, whereas console games are more balanced.

[–] dan@upvote.au 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I don't usually get involved in internet drama so I wasn't aware of this.

I started with Conduit. I hit some bugs though, and development was very slow. I looked at all the forks. Conduwuit was the most active, and all the issues I had were solved, so I used it. It got archived because of some other internet drama, and the readme said to use Tuwunel instead, which is what I'm using now.

Should I use something else?

I dunno. Use whatever I guess, as long as it's not Synapse.

[–] dan@upvote.au 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

In my area, they removed the data caps last year, when they also rolled out the higher upload speeds (eg the gigabit plan now has 350Mbps upload speed instead of 25Mbps). I don't think they've rolled that out everywhere though.

They also have a habit of keeping people on old plans that are either slower or more expensive. If you're still using Comcast/Xfinity, check their site and see what they offer to new customers at your address. (you may need to use an internet connection other than your Comcast one, otherwise they may detect that you're an existing customer)

[–] dan@upvote.au 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Their pricing can differ by region. Not every region got the data caps back when they rolled them out.

It also depends on competition - if there's a lot of competition in your area, Comcast will have better deals compared to if you live somewhere where Comcast is the only option.

I used to live in an apartment that had an exclusivity deal with Comcast (residents were only allowed to use Comcast for internet service). Now I live somewhere in the same county where there's three different fiber providers in addition to Comcast, and their prices here are noticeably cheaper vs the old apartment.

[–] dan@upvote.au 13 points 1 week ago (6 children)

They used to charge you more for unlimited data if you didn't use their modem. Renting their modem plus getting unlimited data was $30/month, but just getting unlimited data with your own modem was $50/month.

Not relevant any more though, as (at least in my area) they completely removed the data caps.

I'm so glad I have a local ISP that provides 10Gbps for cheaper than Comcast's 1Gbps.

[–] dan@upvote.au 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Do you disable SMS too? It's far, far less secure than RCS so I'm not sure why you'd avoid RCS but not SMS.

[–] dan@upvote.au 4 points 1 week ago

rcrypt can handle encryption transparently: https://rclone.org/crypt/. You can use rclone mount to mount storage from practically any provider.

[–] dan@upvote.au 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (4 children)

This is going to happen with every large centralized service, especially if they let you use it for free. These services end up being expensive to run.

The only real solution is to use something decentralized. You're already on Lemmy so I assume you already know this. Matrix is decent (not perfect, but it's pretty good) and it's easily self-hostable using Tuwunel.

[–] dan@upvote.au 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

There's places that still use Styrofoam for food? I haven't seen it in a long time.

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