Why would house prices going down make people homeless?

How is that relevant when this patents are new, just backdated, and clearly filed primarily for this lawsuit?

IRS Direct File was just a free government-run alternative to the tax filing programs like TurboTax.

You can still do your taxes by hand without the help of any software for free, but they’ve killed the website that fills out the forms automatically and the manual process is significantly more complicated.

I feel like the stress of being perceived is exactly what drives me to need to be masking all the time, but when I am able to start my hyperfocus I stop noticing the perception as much. I think it’s moreso the actual masking that drains me. But now that I think about it, I remember living with my family and how I would get stressed when other people were awake because they might come to my room and try to talk to me so I ended up doing most of my work at night so I wasn’t keeping my mask on standby to use your words. I ended up being pretty much nocturnal. I don’t think my awareness of the sounds in the house were quite as acute as yours but it was definitely a Thing for me to be bothered by noises in the house when trying to focus, especially when near burnout. And honestly I feel drained just by being in public, even without interacting with anyone. It’s probably a mix of both.

I can relate to a lot of what you’ve written here though. I mask all the time, I don’t really know how to stop, but it just leaves me completely wrecked after just a few hours of doing it.

I’m working on finding ways to maybe not unmask, but find more sustainable lower energy masks with safe people. Part of that I guess is finding more safe people. I can pretty much unmask with my partner, but that’s taken a long time to get there. I’d like to be able to spend time with more than exactly one person without burning all my energy on my dumb mask.

The cursed LLM thing uses buttplug.io on the backend, I just wanted to share it because the premise is very funny to me.

You’re in luck

I read their Steam post. They spend a lot of time defending incest/rape kinks and saying “fiction doesn’t affect reality”. Sure. I don’t think people are gonna play this and immediately go rape their family, and I think people criticizing this sort of game easily get caught up in the “video games cause violence” claim. Australia loves that one.

But the thing they didn’t address, and I think is a bigger deal, is how this game is clearly leaning on and encouraging a culture of misogyny. The Steam description even talks about learning “what women are really like”, a common refrain from actual misogynists. This game doesn’t exist in a vacuum, and it’s part of a massive normalized rape culture. They’re just hiding behind the “it’s just fiction” defense.

What I do agree with the post on though (I can’t believe I’m saying that) is that this feels like a Streisand effect situation. This game doesn’t deserve the level of coverage and attention it’s getting. It’s basically free advertising for the misogynistic weirdos who this appeals to, and this ploy of “oh we’re gonna remove it from Steam ourselves” reeks of a desperate grab at more coverage and thus sales. If they were serious about delisting, they wouldn’t have conveniently left it up after making their post—even if only temporarily. It’s a classic “going out of business” sale.

Edit: They did unlist it on Steam, but it’s still for sale on Itch lol. I’d put good money on this whole affair making them monumentally more sales than they would have otherwise, and they have a larger platform than ever.

A lot of people have suggested Tailscale and it’s basically the perfect solution to all your requirements.

You keep saying you need ProtonVPN which means you can’t use Tailscale, but Tailscale actually supports setting up an exit node which is what you need. Put Protonvpn on the Raspberry Pi, then set it up as an exit node for your tailnet. There’s a lot of people talking about how they did this online. It looks like they even have native support for bypassing the manual setup if you use Mullvad.

As long as every client has the ability to use Tailscale (I.e. no weird TVs or anything) this seems like it checks all your boxes. And since everything is E2EE from Tailscale, TLS is redundant and you can just use HTTP.

So this is just a thing now? Removing media from the world?

They found out it works so now it’s gonna become a trend.

What do you mean by double strike rules bending?

I love Steel Wind Strike if only because it gives Bladesingers a group damage option that actually feels Bladesinger-y rather than being forced to throw out Fireballs and the like

I’ve done this before, it’s definitely a bit of a hack but it went without a hitch for me. Depending on your bootloader you’ll probably have to edit/regenerate your bootloader config as well.

Good call on rsync, just make sure to use the right flags. I’m on Arch so I used the command from the Arch page on full system backup using rsync, but it should work for any distro.

A lot of people like having a NAS VM like OpenMediaVault or TrueNAS that handles their drives via passthrough.

It sounds like you would prefer a lighter weight option—the way my storage is set up is ZFS pools handled by Proxmox itself, then bind mounted from the host into containers that handle the actual file sharing portion. I have separate, self-configured containers for Samba and NFS, but there are turnkey options in the proxmox template menu if you’d prefer.

Ideally, you’d spin up a dedicated container for every service. Combining services somewhat undercuts the advantages of having them in containers to begin with.

i3 will have lower requirements, since it’s just a bare window manager. XFCE is about as lightweight as a fully featured desktop environment can get, whereas with i3 you have to bring your own tools.

Incidentally, you can use i3 as the window manager portion of XFCE if you want.

Distributions often ship their own compiled versions of the kernel, with some options changed, but it’s still Linux. Same with GNU tools. But the main difference between distros isn’t their flavor of GNU tools or what kernel they ship, the difference between distros is actually all the stuff that gets layered on top like the package manager.

Nah that ExpressVPN article is about regular port forwarding, not through the VPN. If you use that type of port forwarding you’ll be leaking your IP.

The WoK comments at least are from the WoK thread in Daystrom. They probably wouldn’t have been removed if they were on Risa, because Risa is a much more casual environment

Daystrom is a community for largely serious discussion, and they’ve always removed content that’s entirely jokey or lacks substance. This stuff would be removed on the subreddit too. Honestly, the lemmy community is a lot more lenient

I would really advise against Replika, they’ve shown some scummy business practices. It seems like kind of a nightmare in terms of taking advantage of vulnerable people. At the very least do some research on it before getting into it.