I can at times; particularly when stressed. It used to be a nearly constant thing, but that’s since improved with stress management, therapy, and diet changes. Seriously, people underestimate how strongly stress and anxiety can affect you physically.

As a US citizen, I sometimes realize how lucky I am to be living here, even with the political climate. I acknowledge that I have less agency than many that are wealthier than I am, but I’m still better off than many who live in other areas or don’t have the support system that I do. Particularly when considering people of similar status in other countries.

It does feel somewhat precarious, because it seems like the agency that I do have could largely disappear in short notice at the whim of the government or economy… but I’m trying to enjoy it while I can, and live life to the best of my ability without fretting too much.

Personally, I’d hate to have anywhere near the agency of the “top 100” people, because I don’t want the kind of responsibilities that come with that. I’m fine with my meager existence as a tradesperson, keeping to myself and my community.

Ahh, yeah that makes sense… when I first started HRT I thought some of the stuff I heard he was doing was interesting but I never got caught up in the cult of personality. Well, maybe a little, but I wasn’t a very emotionally healthy person and I’m well past that.

Ego is a hell or a drug and it does sound like he has a lot of it.

I’ve been out of the loop for a while; what problems are there with Dr. Powers?

All of the lock screen backgrounds and wallpapers on my devices are photos I’ve taken at various times with my (not-phone) camera.

I found out the hard way that they’re very aggressive when it comes to unlicensed use. If your machine has a wireless card they’ll even use that to triangulate your location.

To be honest, I don’t know how much I trust younger people either with all the plastic in our brains.

Fiat currency like the US dollar is just as intrinsically worthless. It has value only because people accept that it does, they trade with it, and it has legal status as tender “for all debts, public and private”.

People trade bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies for goods all the time, without converting it to USD or anything first. I mean, yeah, usually the thing they’re buying is drugs or something but it’s the same as handing your local dealer a $20 bill.

Torrenting can be faster than normal downloads. A file server with a fast connection that’s not overloaded can easily be faster than a P2P download that doesn’t have very many peers, or the peers all have slow connections. There’s no fixed percentage speed boost that you get, because sometimes you don’t.

That said, for things like Linux ISOs or archives of stuff that people just keep seeding forever but aren’t hosted on fast file servers (if at all), it’s great and typically the bottleneck is your own connection.

I recently went to Sonic, didn’t use the app, and ended up with norovirus for free.

They say welding fumes can cause neurological damage…

While I don’t have much experience with Plex, I can say that it’s really not hard to set up Jellyfin for streaming across the internet.

I’m running a docker container using the linuxserver.io image and all I had to do was forward the HTTP/S ports. I will grant that when a third party has to make an easy-to-use container for a service, there’s a problem to address… but if I remember correctly, Jellyfin is easier to set up on bare metal where it can use uPnP.

Jellyfin Is completely open source, fully self-hosted, and free. With Plex the software still has to phone home to a central server for authentication and some features are locked behind a paywall.

No streaming software is going to find movies for you (without paying for content they’ve licensed) because that would be a sure fire way to get the project taken down for copyright violation.