Yep. Meetups are the best. You def have to go regularly though… Don’t expect magic from day 1.

Warrio all day

Watercolor.

Children play with $5 palettes. Apparently I pay $20 for a single color tube.

I was a kid when I last had it. Really uneventful. “Count backwards from 10” and you’re out by 6.

My wife had it a few months ago to fix a deviated septum. Her native language is Turkish. When she came to she was only speaking English. The doctors couldn’t understand her “but she seems fine.” I told her she was speaking Chinese just to fuck with her a bit. “Oh no! We need to get a dictionary!” It was really strange… She understood Turkish perfectly fine but was completely unable to speak it.

Other than some funny after effects, it was mostly a non-issue for her as well. She was fine after a couple hours.

Never used syncthing so I’m not sure. Resilio is running a modified bittorrent protocol. It’s always been fast and easy for me so I’ve never had the motivation to look into anything else.

Resilio Sync instead of something like Dropbox or Google Drive.

Fastmail is pretty solid too.

They would need to build an office within a ten minute walk from my home.

Check the neighborhood maps on nomadlist. Check out where there are supposed to be cool stuff/people. Usually I just search Google maps for things/streets in those neighborhoods for things that might be interesting… Cafés, restaurants, bars, shops, etc…

You MUST get used to meeting locals when you’re traveling a lot. Meetup.com, couchsurfing, internations, dating apps, or even the hostel where you are staying.

For context, I traveled full time, nonstop for 4ish years before covid. This is how I did the majority of my travel. Things like attractions or museums or historical places get really old really fast. If I never set foot in an art museum for the rest of my life, I will not be upset in the slightest. People, food, shopping, culture… This is the only thing I feel is worth seeing anymore.

When I die, just stick a ham bone up me ass and let the dogs carry me away.

I still get nagged constantly to add a birthday to my Google account to make sure I am older than 13 or something… To satisfy some dumb law I think. The email account is like 15 years old though. How could I be under 13 if it’s that old?

Yeah I came in from the TechTV days too.

Sara Lane had a download of the day about the Synergy network kvm thing. “It works for both windows and linux.”

That’s how I ended up installing Linux for the first time… I didn’t know anything about it other that I hated windows and that was something different. 20+ years later I basically haven’t been without a Linux box ever since.

I honestly have never had a problem sleeping on planes. If I’m tired before I get to the airport, I can often sleep through takeoff. On short flights I’ve only woken up after the plane lands.

For long haul flights I typically look to see what the local time of my destination will be when I arrive. If it’s at night, I stay awake for the whole flight so I can crash as soon as I get where I’m going. If morning, I’ll sleep the whole way so I can start the day fresh-ish. It really cuts down on jetlag.

For context, I got a remote job in 2016 and went full digital nomad basically until covid hit. I was living out of a single suitcase and flying once a month on average. I genuinely love flying. Pretty over the whole fascination with travel though… In some ways it kinda ruins you. Now I’ll only go somewhere if there are things I know I can only buy in the destination or if I’m going to visit friends or family. I have zero interest left for any tourist destinations, historical sites, museums, etc…

Kerning Cultures should be on the list of everyone who likes 99PI and This American Life. It’s like those two shows had a baby and it grew up in the Arab world.

The Big Lebowski… The dude just wanted his rug back.

I was thinking like a heart healthy, ad council type thing that was put on cereal boxes.

I think this is what I was thinking of.

Over the last couple years, kubernetes. It completely changed the game and the ecosystem growing up around it is both exciting and refreshing compared with the old way of managing servers.

I know you said the US but have you considered moving abroad? If you want a similar timezone to the States, Mexico and Chile have pretty easy immigration programs you should be able to qualify for without much effort… The crime rate in Chile is about the same as Canada IIRC. I left the US in 2017 and I honestly could not imagine coming back at this point.

Same. 5 minutes after installing Copilot I literally said out loud, “Well… I’m never turning this off.”

It’s one of the nicest software releases in years. And it’s instantly useful too… No real adjustment period at all.