CallMeAl (Not AI)

yes but usually at the family and friends distribution level

Send them a nice card with a personal note of thanks

First off, only a subset of cursive systems connect all letters. These are called Continuous Cursive. Second, many cursive writing systems do include numbers.

I think it’s a cute way to express that what I do is pretty neat and also that I’m a real human being, not some corporate robot

Might want to be careful with that. Lately a lot of people see emoji in writing where you wouldn’t typically expect it to be a sign of ChatGPT writing.

Frtiz Super Zero

I don’t think you can owe somebody for something you didn’t ask for

Its a culture issue. Sadly, a lot of places have a very body shaming culture and raise people to be ashamed of their own bodies being seen. In my experience, cultures that include nude sauna do not have this kind of body shaming.

Imagine if you moved to a new country. When you got there you found that everyone in town shaves off their right eyebrow. They shame anyone who doesn’t. If you were raised from birth to feel that having a right eyebrow is shameful, then you would also feel shame at not shaving yours.

The good news is that you can get over body shame. Spend enough time around people who don’t practice such shame and eventually you get used to it and feel fine. Look at the complete chill at which that family does nude sauna. You are not different than them other than some of the ideas you were raised. You can change your mind if you want to.

The model of record player you choose will have a direct impact on your experience.

At the bottom you have the cheap suitcase players with built-in speakers. These will play your records but the speakers aren’t great. People often find that many records won’t play well (or at all) on these cheap players. A record players is a machine and the cheap ones aren’t very tunable and have very low tolerances for scratched or imperfect records.

A nice player with a full size platter, anti-skate, and a counter weight will happily play the same records that won’t play on the cheap suitcase players. These more expensive players will not have built-in speakers so you also need amplified speakers or an amp+speakers. The sound quality will depend on what speakers you buy but will certainly be better than a suitcase player.

Then you have the high end luxury models. These can cost more than some cars! Are they worth it, well that’s up to you and your budget!

What does “optimized for desktop use over Tor” mean? Please explain the optimizations.

People want to believe because they wish badly for the money. Back in the late 90s my friends and I keep seeing papers advertising a guarenteed money making system for only $2.

Finallt one of my friends could not resist and ordered it.

He got instructions to put signs all over offering the money making system for $2.

“As you paid for it you can see that it works.”

Tipping when they visit places where it isn’t normal or expexted.

If you ask me, you are better off focusing on monitoring, fast detection, and auto-healing in a homelab rather than High Availability. I use an ancient tool called monit and newer tools like uptime kuma for this. Detection and restart is easier than having 2 of everything.

I’ve been using Quad9 DoH for a few months now. Very happy with it so far.