You’ve probably already replaced your mop already, but I’ve been using a basic string mop made by HDX (Home Depot) for the last year or so. Handle is a lightweight aluminum tube and the head isn’t replaceable so it won’t last forever, but it will probably give a few years of service. Paired it with a cheap bucket with an attachable wring top.

https://www.homedepot.com/p/HDX-3-75-in-Cotton-Wet-String-Mop-650HDX/30486543

https://www.homedepot.com/p/HDX-12-qt-Oval-Plastic-Bucket-with-Wringer-9112/323273367

The research team behind the latest paper, based both at UCL and the University of Cambridge, discovered medium-density amorphous ice in 2023. This ice was found to have the same density as liquid water (and would therefore neither sink nor float in water).

If something doesn’t sink or float what does it do? The rest of this article I could somewhat follow, but this part makes no sense to me.

so all third-party syncing apps will have to deal with this somehow?

My understanding is that the process killing applies to everything that is not directly tied to the Apple ecosystem, so probably. So far I haven’t found a way around it.

There probably isn’t a way to selfhost an iCloud server somehow, is there?

That would be nice, but this IS Apple we are talking about here. As far as I know that isn’t even an option for the US Government.

And yet this shit is better than americas rails? How?

Where I live there are 3 mass transit options. The airports, inter-city busses, and Amtrack. We generally get around by car.

Amtrack costs as much as taking a plane but takes as long (or longer) than the busses and is really only a viable option in the North East US. The US does have an extensive rail network that covers a most of the US, but it’s mostly used for heavy freight. Most towns and cities don’t have a passenger rail terminal anymore. We only have this option only because we are between Atlanta and New Orleans. Most places in the US don’t have this option. Here’s a map of the US rail network. If you go to layers you can hide everything except Amtrak routes to see what I mean. Link doesn’t work in Firefox as a heads up.

The inter-city busses are usually only once a day (sometimes only once a week) and take forever to get anywhere and often have long layovers on the way. But they do go almost everywhere in the country. Company is called Greyhound if you want to look them up.

And finally, we have the local regional airport. Imagine what Berlin might have been like during the middle of the Cold War. It’s probably not too far off the situation at our airports. Show ID at the entrance, Strip, Walk through the scanner while your stuff is riffled through, dress, Show ID again at the gate, and pray you don’t get picked for a more thorough search or harassed by TSA which might cause you to miss your flight. Granted, I haven’t flown in over a decade, but my last plane trip made me decide to never fly again if I could at all help it.

Server-side, depends on how you choose to set it up. There’s a dozen different ways to setup the Nextcloud server. I used Nextcloud-AIO. In the last 2 years, I’ve had 3 issues take down the server, two of which were hardware related. Automatic backups, Automatic updates. App gives notifications when both happen.

Once the server and apps are setup though, it’s largely set and forget on server-side, desktop (Linux, Mac and Windows) and on Android. iOS is a little more hands on.

iOS has a thing where it will kill apps running in the background if you haven’t opened them in a while in a bid to save battery. Used to be a major headache with VPNs. As long as you open the app every few days it will generally just do it’s thing in the background. It doesn’t seem to be as aggressive as it use to be, but I also use the Nextcloud app to scan documents (The app has a document to PDF scanner) into Paperless via a SMB share so I’m opening the app two or three times a week anyways. You can create an automation in Shortcuts to open the app automatically, though that does require the device to be unlocked for the automation to run.

So I’m old. HEIC caused me a few headaches when I first ran across it. I get that it’s “better” but of all the nerdages I can claim, photo or camera nerd isn’t one of them. JPEGs have generally been good enough for my needs.

I use NextCloud for photo syncing. There is an iOS app. One thing to watch for is that by default iOS uses an odd file format for photos and video. The format is readable in Linux but not usually by default. There’s a setting to change the format somewhere but I forgotten where it is. Not sure if it was in iOS settings or the Nextcloud app’s in-app settings.

As a white guy in the US South, it’s just… No. Don’t go there. Don’t even think it. You don’t want any part of that can of worms.

However, I remember hearing KRS One discussing the words usage a long time ago.

This video isn’t the discussion I remember, but it’s similar in content:

https://youtu.be/ZEYUd6VYriU

I have 6 domain renewal notices sitting in my Spam folder now.

Another recent one has been notices supposedly from my email provider saying it’s time to renew. That one almost got me.

I really wish GPG signing of emails had actually taken off. Would have solved this type of problem completely.

With the very big caveat that I’m 15 years out of date, you might see if OKCupid or Plenty O Fish are still around.

I would check for you but I’d rather not cause my wife to worry. I met her on OKCupid. If I remember correctly, searching was free but messages always were a paid service regardless of platform.

For your laptop, might give Thunderbird a go. It’s old school but it still works well.

Probably a red Blackberry Pearl Flip. One of the last phones I had that wasn’t a featureless black slate covered in rubber.

Looks nice. Shame I can’t get it in the US.

I had one of them almost a decade ago, before Google bought them. The one that I had really just counted steps and tracked heart rates and that was about it. It could also tell time. It was one of the fancy ones at the time.

Assuming you’re not allergic to the watch band like I was, it did fine. Battery lasted about a week. Accuracy was close enough that I didn’t notice a major issue.

I remember that the Fitbit app was annoying as all get out, though that has almost certainly changed.

Overall I remember liking it, I think I wore it for about 3 months before my wrist started to get torn up by it.

As to what they are like currently, post Google buyout, no clue.

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MusicBrainz is an open source database of music. ListenBrainz is an open source service that captures your listening habits, if you’ve configured your music player (or Spotify) to use the service. It’s similar in nature to last.fm’s scrobbling.

ListenBrainz has a feature where once a week it will build a pair of playlists for you. One is stuff it is pretty sure you will like (based off of what tracks you have favorited) and the other is more… experimental. Stuff it’s not so sure you’ll like but is similar to things you have listened to and liked in the past.

That would be a local or state law. Not a nationwide law. It would depend on where you are. Some areas don’t care, while other areas are militant about it.

Where I am is somewhere in between. Don’t stand out and your generally fine.

Because it’s hard for me to imagine that anyone would say something when someone simply enjoys a nice cold beer during the hot summer in a park or something.

Yea, that’s not really a thing where I’m at. Your own yard, sure, Campground, maybe. But almost nobody is staying outside let alone drinking any type of alcohol in the park when it’s over 90 F (+32.2 C) outside with over 90% humidity. More likely in the spring or late fall though. Just don’t stand out.

For comparison: https://weatherspark.com/countries/US/AL and https://weatherspark.com/countries/DE

Something like that. Online exchanges generally take bank transfers. The peer to peer system is usually face to face (at least at first) and can be whatever currency exchange you agree to.

Professionals use Adobe software because it is what they know and because it is the standard. But there is no reason you need to use Photoshop unless you are working with a company that requires Photoshop.

Photoshop is just an advanced image editor made by Adobe. On Windows, Mac and Linux, GIMP is probably the most well known alternative to Photoshop. It can do roughly 99% of the things that Photoshop can do, and, more than likely, far more than you are ever likely to need. Even as a professional image editor or artist.

I’m sure that there are several options for iOS, but I don’t know them by name.

If I remember correctly, this one of the use cases why bitcoin was created in the first place. It’s not anonymous but it does solve the control problem.

The only other way I know if is cash via sneakernet. Also not completely anonymous, and it could get you labeled a drug dealer or distributor. Especially in the US.

As for how to get into bitcoin, you can mine it, but more feasibly, just start doing commerce in it. If you have a podcast or you stream, accept lightning boosts. Or you could sell off your old things for bitcoin. If you have some other business start accepting bitcoin as a form of payment.

If you need to convert a national currency to bitcoin there is a peer to peer network that accepts cash, as well as several online exchanges (ID usually required, at least in the US.

As a warning, once you step off the garden path you lose it’s protections, so buyer beware. The “Big Money” have a vested interest in minimizing how badly you can get screwed in their system. Such protections don’t exist it the alternative currency sphere regardless of which crypto currency you choose.