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jqubed , 1 hour ago to greentext in Anon is your financial advisor

Anon is NEET but has a flatmate? Isn’t part of being NEET living with parents?

jqubed , 4 days ago to technology in The return of pneumatic tubes

They do make slides shaped like toilet bowls

jqubed , 5 days ago to technology in The return of pneumatic tubes

The headline is a bit wrong: the tubes don’t seem to be returning, it’s mostly talking about an industry they never left: hospitals. They are fancier now, though.

jqubed , 7 days ago to til in TIL norway has a homocide map with exact locations of murders.

Oh I remember that, that was awful. He specifically wanted to kill children.

jqubed , 7 days ago to technology in Proton is transitioning towards a non-profit structure

The privacy-focused Swiss email provider

jqubed , 12 days ago to music in “Of course I made MP3 copies, they’re like hidden in safes all around the world”: Wu-Tang Clan album owner is sued for illegal distribution

If I’m understanding the article correctly, not making copies seems to have been a condition of the sale.

jqubed , 12 days ago to music in “Of course I made MP3 copies, they’re like hidden in safes all around the world”: Wu-Tang Clan album owner is sued for illegal distribution

“doesn’t seem like the soundest legal strategy” seems to be this guy’s whole way of life

jqubed , 18 days ago to technology in How Online Privacy Is Like Fishing

I think a perfect example of this is email. We used to pay for email; it came with our Internet service. Then they started offering free email services that would show banner ads in a webpage. Kind of annoying but good for people who didn’t have regular access to email in the dialup days, or eventually we realized it was convenient so we didn’t have to change our email everywhere each time we changed our ISP. Then Google started actually scanning our emails to give more relevant ads. They were less obtrusive, but we were giving up more, but we also got a lot more email storage in return and it seemed okay. Now most people use a free email for their primary. Our ISP (probably) still offers an email address with a small storage option, but who still uses that? People gradually gave it up without realizing what they gave up. Now it seems like you have to pay even more on top of your Internet access to actually get email privacy.

jqubed , 19 days ago to nostupidquestions in Is a peanut butter sandwich a balanced meal?

It’s not nearly as much sugar added as I expected. Jif, which seems to be the most popular brand, has 2 grams of added sugar in a 33 gram serving, for a total of 3 grams of sugar (peanuts seem to naturally produce some sugar). Comparing that to Costco’s Kirkland Select natural peanut butter, which only has peanuts and salt for ingredients, a 32 gram serving has 1 gram of total sugar. So the total sugar Jif adds is twice as much as would naturally be present, but still makes up only 6% of the serving. It’s sweeter, but not dramatically sweeter. It’s not like it’s been turned into Nutella, which has 19 grams of added sugar in a 37 gram serving, or 51% of the serving.

jqubed , 19 days ago to science in Major cause of inflammatory bowel disease found

From the article:

The disease is distinct from irritable bowel syndrome (or IBS) although some of the symptoms overlap.

I also have IBS, although as a diagnosis it feels more like a catch-all for when there’s clearly a problem but they’ve ruled out more serious diseases like ulcerative colitis. I have other friends with the same diagnosis as me but very clearly different triggers, symptoms, and things that help, so it seems like we really have some different diseases. That said, I’ve seen some significant improvement in the past few years thanks to a combination of medicines. Not a cure, but less bad days and flare-ups often don’t last as long. I actually saw an as the other day for a completely different medication than any I currently take, so if you haven’t talked to your gastroenterologist about treatment options since before the pandemic it might be worth checking in.

jqubed , 20 days ago to technology in Privacy tool

I literally just found out about O&O ShutUp10++ and in the same post other commenters recommended Optimizer and privacy.sexy.

jqubed , 21 days ago to selfhosted in SMB, FTP, or NFS for NAS + server?

I can’t comment on Linux, but IIRC SMB was best for situations needing both Mac and Windows, so I’d guess that’s the choice. Totally off memory, though.

jqubed , 21 days ago to gaming in Sony Picks Worst Way To Make PSVR 2 Compatible With PC

Can the Stream Deck be used with other VR systems? I’d just assume not so I’d never looked at it for that.

jqubed , 22 days ago to greentext in Anon can't find a good match

Dare I ask what “cluster b” means?

jqubed , 25 days ago to technology in RIP ICQ: Remembering a classic messaging app that was way ahead of its time

Is that a project to bring back AIM?