EngineerGaming

New cars of today are older cars of tomorrow, so learning how to neuter modern cars is very much necessary as well.

My biggest problem with those is that they mostly have literature in Russian, so the chance of finding an English, up-to-date textbook is not that high. So Libgen it is. Plus, I am not comfortable with reading every book with essentially KYC. I do still appreciate it for Russian-language fiction, though.

Not me, but my mother has beef with air conditioners. When I was little, I got sick (to the point of losing consciousness) due to a dirty AC in a hotel, so now she (maybe rightfully) assumes that a random given AC in a public place is filthy. We don't have one at home either - mostly because in this climate we'd only need it for a short time each year, but also because mom thinks it'd be easy to not take care of it properly and let enough filth accumulate.

I've never seen people who would refuse to listen when I ask to keep me out of the picture. Even in the gym, where people around me are doing it the most, the silent consensus seems to be to not get other people in frame if possible.

There are open-source selfhostable location trackers like Owntracks.

Old Reddit is consistently blocking my VPS at least. Before Youtube started the recent IP-flagging BS, it was the only site that outright denied me access from this datacenter.

And even if you do manage to get far enough - until your parents veto your choice of a partner.

Yeah. This is ignoring the fact that not only did they live in the same house, but also the adults used to have the absolute authority over their children. Living standards changed and it's okay. Even now, my parents dread me living with them as an adult because that would mean me never becoming fully independent.

Filming yourself can make sense, though. I do gymnastics, and my coach outright encourages it, since you can see your mistakes better and remember what you were doing during your last visit.

I do make sure no one else is in the frame, though. And ask people whether I'm visible on their recording, to which the answer is always "no".

I've heard of them in the context of screwing over people who want an easy income: they're promised some pennies for their connection being used, then find themselves banned from Netflix and Spotify for "being on a VPN".

Also, isn't this where scrapers come from? Edit: just a short while after writing this, saw the news about FOSS projects being DDOSed by AI scrapers from Amazon and such. Yes, they are indeed using such residential IPs.

Not even just PGP, there are so many options! XMPP with OMEMO that now comes with all the mainstream clients, Matrix, Simplex... Veracrypt for files... Although indeed, PGP has the benefit of you being able to just copypaste the output into whatever chat box you're currently using.

To be fair, it's during this decade when Linux became A LOT more friendly to non-technical people.