I get that you want to help, but be careful with that. You are not a new pair of shoes to be thrown away when used enough.

Keeping a relationship in any form going, just because you want to help is not always a healthy relationship, it can easily turn into one party using the other party. I’ve seen it swing both ways and it’s not pretty.

It actually sounds like that person needs professional help. If you are not a professional, don’t get involved.

Do you have enough normal relationships on your own? And what will happen with those if you have to spend a lot of time on this particular person?

Wanting to help is a natural instinct, but if this person does not seem to build long lasting relationships with anyone there is probably a good reason for that. Trying to keep contact going with somebody like that could easily drain your energy and more. So please be careful.

I don’t get too much of them. I recently installed Spamblocker from F-droid. It uses a list of reported spammers to warn you that a call might be spam. And it works.

It also helps that I don’t have much family or connections outside the country, so if I see a weird countrycode I already know it is BS.

And I just don’t get called very often. Luckily I am in Europe, which means that if I leave my number with a company so they can call me, they cannot sell that number to anyone else.

I think over the last 5 years I’ve had maybe 6 calls? Something like that. I immediately know what is up and don’t even pick up.

It actually makes sense. I’ve seen big and small companies. Small companies are focused, flexible and people usually have a connection with the company.

At bigger companies, everything goes slow. And nobody gives a shot about anything. They do what they need to do in order to get paid, but not a step more. Everything is slow because at least 2 layers of management need to sign off on decisions.

Mine already reboots every night. It’s a setting I can change on my OnePlus.

I enabled it long ago. A reboot will also kill anything that is running in your memory like a page mining crypto or a virus that has not yet gotten to your file system yet. Or at least I’d like to think so…

Anyways, the reboot also insured that if my phone is ever taken from me, after 24 hours max they will have to both enter my PIN and my phone security code. I wish them good luck. There’s not much interesting stuff on my phone, but that does not mean I want everyone to have free access too it.

Oh no, they will not go until a proper base is built. You don’t expect them to actually do any physical work now do you? First get the slaves in, built a nice cozy home for the rich, and then, when the world has all the comforts they need they will move over.

HBO also allows a code on profiles.

Good question, I think this one is called Bob, but it could be his brother Frank too.

Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.

The US have a shitstorm coming. That’s what you get when you let a toddler play with the control knobs of the country.

Another very interesting point is how China made themselves so powerful. Anything with electronics needs some sort of resource from China. China is a very big and powerful player.

We should wonder if we want t be this dependant on one country for all our tech needs. I think the answer is no…

Darker colors make it more cozy. Light colors make it feel more like a hospital. Green, brown, sand colors, dark blue, dark grey maybe. Just slam something on the wall and check how it feels. You can always paint it again.

That is the problem with US adults. Half of them probably is dumber than AI…

There is always something going on. The world is always falling apart. The locations just vary.

In other words, this too shall pass. Do what you can to make the world a better place, survive, and let go of what you cannot control. Can’t carry the world on you shoulders all the time. Sometimes it has to save isself or deal with the consequences.

It is very true, and how trauma is passed on from generation to generation. If you can skip a generation or escape the trauma you are essentially the stopping point of that trauma.

This is what IT feels like. Everything is working? What do we pay those guys for?

Everything is not working? What do we pay those guys for?

I think there is a quote somewhere from someone that says people talk about people, smarter people talk about facts and even smarter people talk about ideas. I am probably murdering the quote, but it was something like that.

It makes sense though, talking about other people doesn’t really provide much direction in life. Facts do provide more direction in life, but ideas really function as a pointer in a lot of situations when may not know what to do otherwise.

Just wait for something else that dominates the news and do it then, so nobody will notice. Very old trick.

If it would not affect the life of so many people, I would enjoy seeing the country fall apart. Now I just feel sorry for all the poor bastards that have to live there.

I do suspect immigration won’t be an issue in a couple of years, because nobody wants to live there anymore. So that’s something to look out for.

Just the other day, I read an article about how much cases they are able to solve because of the footage. That is a good thing in my opinion.

The police also will ask for the footage, but you don’t have to give it. It’s entirely up to you if you want to do so.

Even so, I prefer not to be filmed at random by people’s door bells, thank you very much.

I’d like to add some strength too. I don’t give a shit about the latest AI fuzzy on any phone, but if it would please last at least a year without cracking the screen or the back that would be amazing. And a record for me. Doesn’t have to be razor thin either. Just make it beefy.

Oh I agree. It’s just not always how it goes.

Should be, maybe. The reality is that you can spend extra time making the program work, but if it works and you want to spend extra hours on it for whatever reason, it’s usually considered a waste of time.

Until they get hacked and it costs incredible amounts of money, that is.

Smart programmers do all the things they need to do before they get everything working. As soon as it works they get pushed to work on something else.