Streisand effect too: hadn’t heard of this until now. Git downloads immediately get flagged as Trojans tho

Just use I2P? Can you access public trackers via I2P or do you have to use the crap internal ones?

Thanks. I literally slept on it and woke up thinking this :)

Tor Browser would probably be the easiest if least performant way.

No, IP should absolutely have some protections. Invent a hot new thing and giant-corp immediately out markets and produces you into oblivion. With zero protections innovation would be completely stamped out. Totally gone, not just harmed. No more new things because it would be immediately stolen so why bother.

That said, current IP laws are absolute BS and need to be cut back tenfold. None of this century of protection BS. For the lifetime of the creator, non-transferable. You can sell rights to use it but you cannot relinquish your ownership and creator status. Those are my hills but I’m not willing to die on them either.

They didn’t disagree with it. They asked you why. Answer the reasonable query or accept that the obvious ‘because I crave attention’ will be what everyone is thinking.

Yup. At least with Space-X the message seems to be ‘a variable that changes things with the space industry’. ‘X’ is just… a meaningless letter. My favourite is the meme that tweets will now be called Xcretes.

!degoogle@lemmy.ml

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You need to make a vertical list (ideally in a spreadsheet but paper is fine) of all your expenses that you can recall. Keep adding to this as your life progresses and you spend money on something not previously on it.

Add a vertical column and put the amount of that expense there.

Next to each item on the list note the expense frequency (monthly, daily, bi-weekly, etc…). Now, ask yourself how often do you get paid? Daily, Weekly, Bi-weekly…?

The next column over you need to convert any expenses with a frequency that isn’t the same as your income frequency (Daily, Weekly, Bi-weekly). The way I do this is to multiply the expense amount by the number of times in a year you’d have to pay this to get the annual value for that expense. Then, divide by your income frequency/year to get it to match.

For example: Lets say you are paid weekly. You need to convert monthly rent of $1000 to weekly in order to match your income rate. To do this multiply rent x 12 (12 months/year) = $12000/year. Divide by 52 weeks in a year = 12000/52 means you pay ~$231/week (round up to the dollar) for rent.

Once you have done this calculation for all the expenses that don’t match your income rate you can now add all the matching values and compare this total to your TAKE HOME paycheck as it all matches. If your expenses are greater than your take home pay you need to cut back on things immediately. If you make more than you pay out then you can start adding ‘savings’ to your expenses list for things like emergencies, large 1 time purchases, and retirement.

There are many, many ways to get stupidly pedantic about how the math is done. This was written to keep things as simple as possible in the hopes of reaching the most amount of people that could use it.

Edit: for expenses that are unpredictable (groceries, entertainment) you need to ballpark an approximate value. Conveniently, these type of expenses are often the easiest to control or over-budget if you can.

Edit edit: February is the only month where you need to be careful as it has the least # of full weeks in it which means monthly expenses can surprise you. Keep this in mind realizing that if you start budgeting today by the time next February comes around you should have plenty of savings to cover the 1x shortfall.

What is the natural science reason to wear blue light eyeglasses instead of just turning one’s computer display’s blue lights off

Other situations where there is blue light are also out of scope just as the overall harm caused by blue light.

Your question becomes ‘why wear eyeglasses to filter blue light when there is no blue light?’ The answer is “Science doesn’t say that”.

The reason is that the assumption ‘no other light sources aside from the screen’ is almost impossible to control for. You’d have to be in a room with no daylight coming in and zero other blue light sources emitting from say a smartphone, clock readout, artificial lighting for the room and/or any of its appliances.

Even accepting this ridiculous decision to rule ‘all other sources of light out of scope’ then the obvious only possible answer is that THE SCREEN EMITS BLUE LIGHT OUTSIDE THE CONTROL OF SOFTWARE COLOUR SETTINGS. For example, LCD screens use a white light bulb to light up a screen of LCD pixels. This white light leaks. It’s why LCD screens have lower contrast (black looks dark grey).

I suppose my explanation is out of scope, but that’s the only real reason that I know of.

It really isn’t. This question is circular and relies on a presupposition that becomes ridiculous from the subsequent arbitrary rules imposed.

;tldr OP’s question is out of scope for ELI5

I’m thinking, if we’re sharing pedantic data and the SI unit of distance is the metre, isn’t the inch technically defined as exactly 0.0254m?

Caffeine isn’t addictive. Your body acclimates to long term usage, and you will experience some withdrawal symptoms but this is classified as a dependency and not an addiction as it does not trigger the reward mechanisms like weed and or methamphetamine does. It’s an important distinction and is why coffee and tea are often served at [Addiction] Anonymous meetings.

Yes, we’ve established that’s what you’re trying to do, for the 2nd pitiful time now.

No no, that’s what YOU sound like. Not me.

JFC this is pure entertainment start to finish. Anytime somebody says ‘fair use is BS’ they’ll get this sent to them.

Do you also think the husband isn’t being abusive because the battered wife let the food get cold? ‘It is not abusive because he gets a hot meal out of it’. That’s what you sound like.