Google does not benefit from your user data in Vivaldi.

The Chromium project is also mostly community driven and yes, Google has had a big hand in it, but it is in no way fully Google’s thing.

On paper.

I’m currently going though the books and from what I can tell, Harry especially takes issues with some teachers. He hates history and doesn’t understand divination but he’s fine with charms, defense against the dark arts and even potions once Snape no longer teaches it.

It’s just that during the lessons she describes, they usually have stuff like Quidditch or Voldemort stuff going on so they don’t really pay attention. They also don’t like doing homework so they let Hermione do it for them. And they still did pretty well on the OWLs so all in all, I think they were fine with class but by and large, she just doesn’t really write about classes that went their regular course.

I’m not sure but I would guess that there are ‘standards’ involved. Usually guys who go incel see a physical relationship as some sort of conquest.

They are more interesed in the act than the person. And for that act, they want it to be some sort of achievement so rather than getting to know someone they only go by shallow characteristics.

But usually incels are either physically unattractive or socially (very) awkward or a combination of both, making them unable to complete their conquest. Get rejected enough times and they’ll tell themselves the problem lies with women in general.

I dunno about femcels, mostly because I’ve never seen one irl. I imagine they are also physically unattractive and/or socially awkward so they would never be ‘targeted’ by incel types.

The guys I knew that fit the profile would also not be too keen on personal hygiene, healthy habits like proper food and drink and exercise and they dismissed pretty much anything mainstream society deems positive. Most of what they say or do comes from a negative place. I can imagine girls don’t really go for a guy like that, regardless if they are femcels or not.

Typo in your network_mode of the qbit container?

I have the T6 as my main but I cannot do per-room heating because my Sonoff TRV’s cannot talk to it in HA. I got the T6 before working with HA though. In my country the T6 is WiFi and you need the Resideo app.

Which country are you in

It’s been a while since an actual shower thought was posted

The reason Windows works like this is because there are loads of people who try to run Windows 10 on super old weak Intel Celerons so they try all kinds of caching steps to make it manageable.

It would be better if Microsoft made some sort of lite edition, or immediately give you the option to turn this stuff off when configuring it. Problem is, Windows is used by a lot of people and most people have no clue how to configure an OS.

You have two options: either spend a lot on a computer that can run the OS it comes with without issue (Apple), or try your luck with a GNU/Linux distro, for which you might need to develop some knowledge about what you’re doing.

Or put up with Windows’s shit.

My Windows 10 installation is on a 120GB partition on a 256GB NVMe SSD with hibernate off and I don’t have these issues. I have applied these changes since the first laptop I bought, 2012 Windows 7.

powercfg.exe /hibernate off

First step I take when faced with a new Windows installation.

And the 310GB sysfiles… I take it Windows is on a very large partition? Create a small, 120GB or so, partition on this disk. You’ll never use that much space. Windows expands if it is installed on a large partition with all sorts of cache.

Hate on Windows all you want, the path its headed it deserves it. Yet any OS will behave badly if it’s configured badly.

In proper Dutch cities you have ‘zebra crossings’, a lot of them. This makes it unnecessary for pedestrians to casually cross cycling lines.

I think it’s a matter of culture. Dutch people by and large just keep to the rules and they aren’t stupid enough to just walk in front of bikes.

Quantum computing. It would have already been but it still has a very nerdy, no real-world application vibe.

I think it’s pretty much impossible to fully get out of filter bubbles, but the only way to really get every view on everything is to be part of everything mainstream AND everything more underground. Personally, I don’t feel the need to associate with any other social media. I think toxicity differs from being exposed to a different point of view.

Reddit has had the problem for years that if you tried to make a point that slightly differed from the hive mind’s opinion, however eloquently you would put it, everyone would just pile on with their ‘akshually’ mentality and not even be open to any other viewpoint than their own.

And that’s toxicity without even mentioning folks that would just say ‘no’ followed by hateful language.

I feel Lemmy is a far kinder, more balanced community where you can have a polite discussion about stuff. And OP is right, if a certain instance shows its users can’t behave or have such different views than your own, you can just make them go away and enjoy the rest of Lemmy.

I just hope those users don’t defederate from the rest of us so at some point they will have a more nuanced view of things.

The downside of that is the filter bubble or echo chamber effect. Question is whether Lemmy should be a fun experience for you or something to broaden your horizons a little

Soldering is very hot soldering, the materials used in welding are different and the application is different.

Drink a lot, pass out and spring load your bed to catapult you out of bed into an ice bath. Optionally hire someone to make you a fatty breakfast and a bloody mary.

I’m in data engineering and that market is dominated by Microsoft. Understanding an os is essential if you’re, say, a sysadmin.

I’d recommend looking into some certifications. Some businesses are very sensitive to those.

It’s not what I’m used to in the Netherlands. There are personal attacks sometimes, but mostly by guys who don’t have the best reputation in the first place.

What really bugs me is that both sides are just attacking the other rather than talking about why they are the right choice. US elections are always about smear campaigns

Someone said to me that even if the majority would now vote for a third party, they wouldn’t get anything done because the Senate Ave Congress are still all dems and reps.

I don’t know enough about how US elections work though