Reddit will pay a million content farms to repost memes before they pay a single moderator for [squints at paper] running their website

Well, are MLMs dead? Audible book spamming? The nigerian prince scam? Hell, mail scams are still running to this day.

As long as there’s a hook, I doubt cryptomoney scams are going to be leaving any time soon. It is rare we’ll see scams of the same magnitude as before, but they’ll always be around in those sorts of communities. Just a matter of principle, whenever money’s involved.

You could probably go back to buying pokemon cards, though. The fact that crypto’s greatest investors have a vested interest in not having their cash vanish into thin air, it’s best used for it’s purpose-- as currency-- unless another FTX fumbles the bag.

I had once heard described that fahrenheit’s best feature is that you can go “oh, 1-100, ‘sheesh, that’s really cold!’ to ‘hoof, that’s pretty hot!’” and yeah, while I was in the US where most temperatures (RIP Florida) change all the time, that sure was convenient.

However, living in a country that always stays in the 80-100 range, the ‘oh fuck, the water’s freezing’ to 'oh fuck, the heat death of the sun is upon us’ range is a MUCH more useful scale to knowing if we’ve been struck by some sort of apocalyptic event today

Yeah, the in-built blocking is amazing for a fire and forget kind of deal. I’d still rather block my network traffic myself, but when I’m on the go and don’t have control over what network I’m in (or really, what’s on my device) this is the way to go.

Nord works as well as any other popular VPN, and if they’re the option you want you will most likely find all the features you need. They’ve cleaned up their act well since their leak accident in 2019. Their services have been audited for no-logs like most vpns, and they’ve stayed pretty clean. Got a bunch of pretty wacky but interesting additions that, while not my cup of tea, will be of good value to others.

I cannot give my mind in good conscience to any VPN with that much marketing behind it-- being pro-advertising, logical reason or not, is not gonna be the kind of user that goes to these federated instances anyway. I personally avoid them, but I would not give any hard ‘no’ to anyone using them.

Absolutely wild and extremely accurate advice. Hats off to you-- and extremely sorry for your loss. Baring the pain is hard, and harder to lie about.

HR knows everyone lies, but really it’s a thing about how to market yourself… and we all know marketing’s mostly wading through vaguely legal BS anyway. Any proper white collar job these days wants a golden goose employee that eats crap and craps gold-- them’s the works.

Adding onto the YSK, any personal project can be properly spun into a good employee gap as long as you can at least back it up. Podcast, github project, spin up an LLC, started selling porcelain dolls locally or something. If you’re no good at spinning up a story, just being able to make the person on the other end of the line believe that you have 1. a fast capacity to learn, 2. are flexible with learning, and 3. are willing to take extreme duress and go-gettering, it gives you a bit more rope to work with than otherwise.

Again, sorry for your loss. One can only wish we lived in a world where even the slightest employment gap wasn’t looked at with a microscope. Hopefully with the years we might live in a world where this lessens. The HR at my current company I consider pretty solid, hopefully the ‘european model’ spreads.

I’m glad you’ve got a good thing going with your Diana and your U12T! IEMS were never my favorite space but it’s nice to see a lot of new options for them, both hi-end and chi-fi.

It’s such a special little feeling when the upwards climb of technohoarding stops and you settle into a nice walk of ‘eh, who cares if there’s better? I’m happy with what I’ve got’.

With VPNS i usually vouch for two services: Mullvad and Proton.

Mullvad is a no-bullshit VPN as described before, it just works and it’s cheap as hell. It’ll let you do your netflix hopping, but for any skullduggery I believe they’re killing their port forwarding, so I wouldn’t really recommend it for that front. You’d be better off subscribing to a usenet index for that and then using mullvad on the side instead of ARRing.

Proton is amazing but only truly worth it if you’re using the suite-- Emails, drive, VPN, the whole 9 yards. It’s a bit costly but no one does it like them. They also have a solid free tier for the VPN if you’d like to try them. And they do port forwarding (as of this comment).

Haven’t tried expressVPN but I’ve heard lots of good things about their audits. I’d feel comfortable with them but I can’t give any pointers.

TL:DR: Mullvad for simplicity and price, Proton for features & using their Suite, something like Express for something that just does VPN and nothing else.

I steer clear of Nord & Surfshark for personal reasons. VPNS that do too much sponsor marketing outside of network/privacy communities strike me as suspicious IMO.

I know I’m not shaking up any hives with this one, but I’ve gotten Aryas and I haven’t really looked back since.

Had a couple of models before-- the titular starpower Sennys and Beyers, and some Sony commercial models, but ever since I started using Aryas, I…

Stopped. Looking for headphones…

The cable they come with may be pure dogwater and Hifiman QC forever sketch, but nothing else really can buy the feeling of just listening to music without getting all knocked on listening to the headphone.

What IS gonna ruffle some feathers is that my Campfire Cascades are a close second. They’re bassy and wide-sounding and built like a tank, and just their sheer portability + fun sound for EDM make me eat up their more annoying features like their cabling or their silly goddamn headband. Not a lot of headphones gave me the security that I could drop them and they’d live quite like BASScades.