OPNsense on any small scale dual LAN box, either a used mini PC or a purpose made one.

He created a small supernova contained by an energy field that requires similar power than what is used by CERN…

…smokers…

Agalmatophilia

It’s the paraphilia of being sexually attracted to statues. Like stone marble statues.

Medically the nose is far better equipped to deal with pathogens, so breathing through the nose would be better, both in (to “filter”) and “out”(to get right of stuff). More important, nevertheless is proper hygiene - wash your hands, fellas. And do not touch your face,but especially not your nose and eyes after you have been exposed to germs.

Besides that there is literally zero evidence for anything else - the very limited research in some breathing techniques has all been debunked sooner or later.

If you want to be sure,wear a proper N95/FFP2 mask. Proper means: Tight fitting, the right size for your face (not the cheap ones from the truck stop).

Any company allowing the unregulated use of these on their devices has a information protection and most likely also an IT security problem. Even more valid for any government security or law enforcement organisation.

BTW: GDPR prohibits this in the EU.

Actually because Elon. Really.

The act requires a certain market position from a company. Which Twitter once definitely had - but does no longer have. A lot of companies have turned their back on Twitter due to Musk (not only advertising wise but especially communication wise). And that does reduce the impact it possibly can have on the market. (Remember: The DSA is a market equalisation act)

It depends. If Wikimedia does introduce a paywall they are SOL. I would absolutely fork them privately (I do copy the content for my language once in a while and the most important media)and never pay another penny.

If a news outlet changes, it’s different,at least for me.

I am a CEO/founder of a small healthcare consulting company.

I am self employed and actually do that whenever possible (which is a rare occurrence these days,but I managed to do it for six month once). It sounds counterintuitive to do so, but it’s actually a fairly nice concept. You work for two days, which is not that long and offers you enough chance to really work “all in”. Then you sleep in in Wednesday and do most of the weekly chores - all that shit you would normally do half of your Saturday. And then you do another two days, already approaching a full weekend - which is far less likely to be interrupted by these lousy chores you normally need to do. And if some things remain,you are not having four but two work days in your bones - which makes them easier and usually faster to put behind you.

But you would need to check VERY closely who you are having children with.

That 21 year old you are putting a bun in the oven might be your granddaughter.

That would be immoral,even on a highlander scale.

LG is currently even worse than Android - it autoinstalls (gambling!) Apps(yes,we made sure there was no hack/malware), tries really hard to get into the network, etc. But I might be biased as I am very unhappy with their support as well - their display showed a faulty line exactly 10d after the guarantee/warranty ran out, they quoted more than the current retail value for the repair and 80% of the original retail value. For a problem that is very likely not even the display itself but a faulty cable. Fuck them.

Personally, if a Pi is out of the scope (which I totally understand) I would go with a Android box and any TV you like displaywise- while Android is as bad privacy wise as any other TV OS nowadays, it is usually far easier to lock it down at least partially so at least the worst problems can be avoided/most of them can be rooted or get linage OS installed. Just make sure the box you use can do that.

Because in the end it’s also an usability problem - your parents will call you if Netflix, Disney+ or something like that refuses to play because they now require widevine in a newer version than LibreELEC offers,etc. If you want to support that, go for a Pi. If you don’t, find a middle ground.

They get destroyed by stomach acids and saliva enzymes. Unlikely to even make it towards First pass.

Maybe we can pool together and get the fellow Lemmy user a prescription for some lithium? Or someone with free healthcare sends him/her a few packages?

If you like the former Soviet romantic a bit and can live with the fact that you are on Russia’s doorstep it’s indeed a very nice country. I had friends there,it’s really nice.

I guess NZ. But it’s just a guess.

1. As long as you have no individual contract with the bank that states otherwise,you are sadly out of luck. While banks must keep their service accessible, they can absolutely regulate how to access them as long it falls within reasoning.

2. There is a high likelihood that you can also use pure Chromium so you can at least stay off Google.

3. There has been a case in Germany when a bank changed it’s TAN process and customers didn’t want to change over to photoTAN/SMSTAN. It went through the court system and the highest federal court referred the case to the EU courts who afaik didn’t even accept it and did not see any problems. So it’s unlikely that there are any EU rules against it.

4. I think that there was a similar discussion around edge/IE and the result was the same.

Personally I would try a user agent switcher,if that doesn’t work chromium,if that does not work Chrome portable. The bank already knows everything and portable with a good firewall keeps google at bay.

Not a construction worker but I work with disaster relief and humanitarian aid organisations.

It is not possible if you care for either the inhabitants or your own folks

If you don’t it is, plainly said, fairly easy. It happens in basically every conflict.

So you ranted without knowing shit.

Steam has it’s downsides,but none of your points are valid once you take a closer look.

• Steam does not force it’s DRM on developers (and there are various publishers that use a different or no DRM)

• I have no idea what your problem is with your runtime,but at least for me/my household there is literally no loading times for steam anymore. Have you considered that this might be a problem your device is creating,e.g. due to a slow drive?

• Updating is indeed a pain in the arse (but can be circumvented)

• I don’t know what you do to your client that you get the popups - I disabled them once and never got them again.

• You never own a game unless you buy the holder of the IP. Read your TOS. You buy a licence to use a software and to obtain the necessary data to use it. Nothing more. Even when you buy a hardcopy in a shop you don’t own the software.

• GOG has no requirement of games to be DRM free and there absolutely are games that are DRM protected on GOG - and publishers can choose which DRM to use when so it’s their decision anyway.

• You can downgrade games in the setting as long as the publisher (!) allows/support it. It is done by a lot of games.

Don’t get me wrong,there are a lot of things wrong with Steam. The monopoly it created, it’s child protection issues, it’s pricing towards developers(especially small ones), the fact that while at least in the EU you can now legally sell the account as such it still prohibits selling singlular usage licences, the fact that it is does harbour extremists and on the other hand willing censors itself to reach some markets are all major issues.

But the ones you mentioned aren’t and it waters down the actual problems.

Just talked to a friend about it - he is head of a nursing home group in Central Europe.

He had multiple cases when they had relatives trying to do that. Funnily enough the main reason cited by the relatives was to stop other relatives from “doing something funny about the will” .

They actually have a policy when they place a hidden camera in cases of alleged property theft - but this is done in conjunction with the client, their relatives (if not the target), sometimes the court and done by a professional company in a way that the actual patient is not part of the picture/not compromised. (And it’s paid for by the facility - they don’t want a rotten apple as well)