cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/72951845

I keep hearing bad stuff about proton, but I don’t really get most of it. Could someone please explain all of the controversy to me. Lastly, what are the best alternatives to all of their services?

I didn't subscribe to this place. Why must I unsubscribe?

I think (Qu)easyBakeOven is such a crazy (good) thing, its kinda weird how kids need training wheels for using a microave lol but ok

Do you know of any online resources that would assist in self-learning mandarin?

Prank calls is a big one. No one can do them anymore thanks to smartphones exposing the caller ID

I have a GrapheneOS phone and Linux Mint on my personal computer.

A comic I saw online a few years

First panel Mom reading a bedtime store to kid Second panel kid gets out of bed and goes to the shelf to grab another book Third panel Mom says "You have to finish one book before you start another" Final panel "Why, you don't?" with a stack of books with book marks partway through each of them.

I loved it and I frequently think about it, but I didn't save it and I haven't been able to find it again for the life of me.

Let's say you wanted to use the mind as a calculator, and pen and paper as memory/registers/storage. Is there a programming language that works with pen and paper?

Including the positive impact after removing unwanted habits or hobbies too

Preferably not requiring internet or web services or "apps" (shudder)

If its moddable thats cool but even better if it doesnt even need that

Just saw a commercial, for ChatGPT Codex, with a young lady wearing a concealed cross.

I'm seeing crosses everywhere, even from people who have no idea what the Christian story actually is.

What gives?

So obviously it's good to read Communist works. Lenin, Engels, Marx, Stalin, Mao, etc. But I'm curious how many people have ventured out into other things? I think personally that it can be useful when you are doing a materialist analysis of the real world to have different frameworks to pull from as well. Even if they aren't communist, and at times the methods within are used as tools of oppression by the capitalist class. Some still have useful knowledge and insights, or at the very least aid you in analyzing the way an enemy might think.

Have you/would you see value in reading these sorts of texts?

Some examples: The Art of War, The Arthashastra, The Analects, Meditations, The Prince, Discourses on Livy, The Book of the Five Rings, Common Sense, Candide, etc

Most restaurants in the US -- including mom and pop -- use national food chain networks to get the produce they use to cook with. Are there any chains that source their food locally?

I swear to fulfill, to the best of my ability and judgment, this covenant:

I will respect the hard-won scientific gains of those physicians in whose steps I walk, and gladly share such knowledge as is mine with those who are to follow.

I will apply, for the benefit of the sick, all measures [that] are required, avoiding those twin traps of overtreatment and therapeutic nihilism.

I will remember that there is art to medicine as well as science, and that warmth, sympathy, and understanding may outweigh the surgeon's knife or the chemist's drug.

I will not be ashamed to say "I know not", nor will I fail to call in my colleagues when the skills of another are needed for a patient's recovery.

I will respect the privacy of my patients, for their problems are not disclosed to me that the world may know. Most especially must I tread with care in matters of life and death. If it is given me to save a life, all thanks. But it may also be within my power to take a life; this awesome responsibility must be faced with great humbleness and awareness of my own frailty. Above all, I must not play at God.

I will remember that I do not treat a fever chart, a cancerous growth, but a sick human being, whose illness may affect the person's family and economic stability. My responsibility includes these related problems, if I am to care adequately for the sick.

I will prevent disease whenever I can, for prevention is preferable to cure.

I will remember that I remain a member of society, with special obligations to all my fellow human beings, those sound of mind and body as well as the infirm.

If I do not violate this oath, may I enjoy life and art, respected while I live and remembered with affection thereafter. May I always act so as to preserve the finest traditions of my calling and may I long experience the joy of healing those who seek my help.

A friend of mine referred to his nose as his "beak" and I was like, I can use that. What other funny names can I use for my aging body parts?

I used to think social media was good because thanks to them, governments couldn't fabricate false narratives. But it turns out that they are still doing it.

https://www.justice.gov/opa/media/1366261/dl

The 4th stage of reading or the most sophisticated

I want to create a persistent live USB of Debian and I wanted to use Veracrypt to protect the drive. From my understanding, when you boot up the drive, it doesn't ask for a password. so if someone were to get a hold of the drive, they can just get immediate access. Also, I know it's also recommend to encrypt your drives to protect your data. I want to know if it's possible to do that.

If not, are there other ways to protect the drive?

Other than going on Lemmy lol.

What I have done throughout the years (as an office worker) is the following:

• reddit/lemmy
• chess
• selfhosting/homelab
• chores/planning
• writing

Getting tired of all these, looking for something to do when I have nothing to do but still looks like I am active on Teams/online.

What FOSS app do you use guys to measure health?

• app for tracking steps?
• meaby one for sleep tracking

Any recomendatitions?

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