It depends on your perspective of what feigned happiness is.

There’s a fine line between faking a mood and trying your best to see something in a positive light.

In my neck of the woods, gas station owners have sharpies which of the 10 buttons is the mute button.

So as soon as the ad plays you just press mute.

It is God awful though.

Oh, maybe you missed it but it’s because there’s an asshole in office.

I find Bell Of The Ranch usually summarizes these sorts of political situations adequately.

Disclaimer: She’s not a news source. But, you know, neither are we here, so…

You could probably deobfuscate their ad IDs on googles network to obtain real time tracking data for free.

It’d be a non-trivial project, but 100% doable.

Real Time Bidding is wild.

Did your kid have a working phone before or no phone at all?

This is very unusual, be it pocket change for them or not. If you were a loaded with cash, would they be cool with you buying their kid a Ferrari? A cyber truck? It’s not a normal thing to do, and it doesn’t respect that a given home might carry a particular set of rules of values.

If your kid has no phone, I could see this as a possible charitable act. Still weird. If you kid has a working phone this is fucking bananas, and you’re right to question every detail of this.

Considering it as “too stupid” is kind of delightfully ironic.

To answer your question, no.

I posit that any person you’d imagine to be “too stupid to be depressed” is by another measure smarter than any depressed person on a degree of how to use their mental bandwidth.

D’oh.

Yep. My b. WordPress or bust, really. You can mess around with drupal or Joomla, but WordPress will be the lowest barrier to entry for self hosting.

I agree, I only include it as a “woah this WordPress stuff is confusing!” lower barrier to entry.

Try WordPress first. If they’re absolutely stuck, wix is a lot more beginner friendly. But yes, beware of the downsides to having your hand held.

Use WordPress. It’s by far the most used content management platform, so if you’re a beginner, you’ll find the most resources. It’s also free and open source.

Then you can, if you want to make it even easier, use a page builder like Elementor or Divi or something. Or not.

There’s also Wix for very simple page builds.

I have used android phones without a case. Only one ended up with a crack.

I got a work phone. It’s an iPhone. Cracked screen in less than a week.

WHAT BRO WHO U CALLING FRAGILE 😡

/s

If it is sufficiently long, and the pattern is in any way dynamic then yes.

If they’re doing something like lemmy-core-420 then no.

A drummer friend used to do a few bars of a different rudiment. Like djddjdjjdjddjdjjdjddjdjjdjddjdjj and then account for PW rules

Do you have a moment to talk about our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ?

The whole anti Google holier than thou is annoying at these levels.

Ok fine, don’t use Google. But telling your friends and loved ones to switch email providers over your crusade is worse than vegans telling you about their diet.

I’m all for kicking Google to the curb. I’m not for shoving my beliefs down other people’s throats.

Man, I don’t know. I wanna know too.

I got a refurb drive in 2019 that has been clicking and rumbling a little to moderately for 6 years now. Great value at this point, but it’s replacement is gathering dust…

When you have black market organ money, the doctors come to you.

I operate on the philosophy that it is better for me to relearn things than lean on old documentation that may no longer be accurate/relevant.

The best way to implement a safe connection to my home lab today might not be the safest way tomorrow.

Old dog, new tricks, etc.

Also! Your documentation is an attackers wet dream.

NB: this philosophy doesn’t scale.

When you’re 20, you care what everyone thinks about you

When you’re 40, you don’t give a shit what anyone thinks about you.

When you’re 60, you’ll realize no one was thinking about you the whole time. It will be more empowering than depressing.

Skip the worry. Do you. It’s public space and hurts no one.