Sadly that kind of language apparently resonates with voters more than intelligent speech. It’s happening all across Europe as well. As someone from the Netherlands, I had a bit of a laugh when the right wing populists found out that governing is not at all as simple as they make it out to be. It’s the embodiment of ‘fuck around and find out’.
It’s hardly new. The United States have always been like that one popular kid in an elementary school. If you act the way he wants, he can be nice to you and your on his team. Take one step in a different direction and they’ll start badmouthing you, preferably behind your back.
They’ve been doing this to Russia and China for decades. As long as they have the stage, they can create any narrative they want and the audience will most likely adopt the opinion and start saying the same things.
The thing about propaganda is that, if it fits in your frame or reference, you’ll be more likely to accept it. If it doesn’t fit, like when it is about you, suddenly you’ll realize that this is something they have been doing about others all along and that it doesn’t break any patterns, apart from the recognition patterns of the receiver.
You can run nginx in a docker container and define reverse proxies there. That will only require your to open up 443 in your router if you use SSL (which I highly recommend and is simple with Let’s Encrypt)
Then I’d recommend connecting to your arrs and torrent client in Nzb360 paid edition to manage everything in there.
As far as safety, well nothing is bulletproof. If they want to get in, they will. Best thing I can recommend is to run your arrs / indexers through a different IP address than your torrent client. But if they want to find you, they’ll find you. Thing is they probably won’t come after you if your ISP doesn’t report you uploading terabytes a day. SSL helps and keeping your arrs behind complex passwords (use a password manager) will keep the server itself relatively safe.
Unless of course, ISPs in your country suddenly start to crack down on illegal downloading hard.
52,50 for 1 Gbps fiber. First half year was 35.
Not saying Copenhagen was all in all a bad experience, had loads of good ones too. It’s just that in my limited frame of reference, Copenhagen was my least favorite. But it was still pretty good. I’ve had bad experiences in restaurants everywhere around Europe. But outside of general businesses, I found that I didn’t like the vibe in Copenhagen. Sure, in restaurants people are nice. In venues if any kind things are good. It’s a prosperous country. But in a way I found that just walking around the city it felt rushed, unkind. Even compared to a larger city like Lisbon.
That said, I didn’t really felt at ease in for instance Catania or Rotterdam either.
I’m European and never left the continent. I found Copenhagen (Denmark) to be one of the least inviting places I’ve ever been. That’s not to say Denmark is like this or even that I didn’t have a good time in Copenhagen. It’s just that pretty much everywhere, people seem to be in a hurry.
But my baseline in Europe is that everything is just amazing. People are nice, accomodating, helpful. Especially in the slightly smaller cities. I especially enjoyed Krákow and Gent.
I wouldn’t say ‘meh’ because I enjoy the recorded music as well but I saw SYML live in a church last Friday and man, that guy can sing! It was absolutely enchanting.
It’s difficult to say, really. It’s a form of acceptance. Accepting that you are who you are, taking things at face value rather than second-guessing everything you hear. I’ve got a decent head on my shoulders and feel more confident in my own abilities.
It wasn’t until I decided to call in sick from work last September. It was not a great winter to get through and taking a long, hard look at myself, my environment and my past was a very painful process.
I’ve been pretty aware of the fact that I was in need of psychological help since somewhere around 2018. Since then I’ve taken one step, in 2018, but didn’t follow through. I muddled my way through my last year of college, graduated, worked at a small publisher for about 3 years before moving to my current employer, moved, had a lot of personal stuff going on…
The step I took last September, to basically hit the brakes, was a turning point for me. But it took until the end of February to actually feel like I was on my way back up.
So in short: it’s pretty much all about confidence. Once you’ve accepted yourself for who you are, you’ll no longer feel like a burden to others. You’ll most likely also realize that people don’t often judge you without telling you stuff. After you’ve had an interaction, there is no need to wonder ‘oh I wonder what they’ll think of me, what will they think of me saying this or that’. Your overthinking will slow down a bit.
Couple of caveats:
I have a colleague who actually behaves in a way that I recognized right away. It is something I used to do a lot; talking like I was a burden on others, like the time people spent with me was time lost for them.
It takes finding out a root cause to stop this. Me, I’m a perfectionist. This manifests through me being a people pleaser: I hold myself to really high social standards and expect others to also set the bar high for me. I really don’t like it when people are disappointed by my actions, so that causes me to apologize more than necessary.
I’ve taken stock of my life the last six months and made a lot of progress on this front.
The best thing she can do to change her behavior is acknowledging she has an issue to begin with. As long is she is happy with her current behavior and you are not, the only thing you can do is explore why she feels the need to be like this and see if she can alter her behavior without distancing herself from who she is.
Thanks. I’m already back to 20 hours a week so it’s going in the right direction
I dropped out in September due to burn-out issues. My health care insurance pays for 9 psychology sessions and supplies me a list of possible therapists.
However my company has a contract with a company health service which is an external party which is not allowed to share anything with my employer and it just signed for 12 intensive therapy sessions in my region combined with group acceptance therapy sessions.
The whole process was a breeze, too. Everything made super easy. I can only commend them for doing this. It has made me seriously consider not switching jobs.
I would go to the Azores and see what it would take to stay there. I’ve always found the vibe in coastal regions more agreeable and I’ve heard good things about the Azores. No need to worry about currency as it is part of Portugal so Euro zone. The weather is fine, not too hot, not too cold. Areas are beautiful.
Only thing is that it might cease to be above water if the seas keep rising.
Just an anecdote of something that happened mere minutes ago: I was at the supermarket and we have this plastic bottle recycling system where you pay for the package and you get it back once you hand in the bottle at the supermarket. You’ll receive a kind of coupon with a bar code.
Some older dude before me handed in some bottles and got out of the way quickly because I was in line behind him. I noticed that he forgot his coupon but he walked off rather quickly. He stopped pretty close to the machine so I handed in my three bottles and took his coupon and my own. I then sought him out and gave him his coupon.
It was just a very simple thing for me, it was his ticket, I knew it was his and I could find him easily so giving him his coupon was a no-brainer. It was only for 75 cents but that doesn’t really matter.
He was very surprised and happy with my action.
It got me thinking. What would the situation have called for in order for me to behave differently. Would I not have returned his wallet packed with cash if he’d dropped it? No. So the amount of money is not the issue. Would I not have sought him out if he had moved further away from the collection machine? Maybe. I would’ve taken the ticket and moved around a bit to see if I could find him. Would I not have gone through the trouble if it was anyone other than an older gentleman? Not really.
So in short: you can always do the right thing in these situations, no matter if the parameters are slightly different.
I was told that being cheeky wouldn’t get you far, cutting in line was wrong, being nice to people would make life easier. Turns out being selfish is pretty much the best way to survive.
Went from a custom 1070Ti with an ASUS closed loop AIO and NZXT G12 to the 4070 Dual.
I’ve noticed a bit higher frame rates in demanding games which I can now all play on ultra. Worth it? Not really, no.
I think it’s falls under reckless driving
Generally, you can assume that a newer CPU with a the same thread count as an older CPU will outperform it.
However, you’d have to keep in mind a CPU is a very complex entity comprised of its cores, its cache, its bridges, its controllers and whatever I’m missing. Intel, for instance, would not make any huge changes to architecture every other generational skip. It’s what they called tick-tock. The tick would be a new concept, the tock would be a refined version.
But redesigning the entire chip, ie its lithography, the layout of what is positioned where, all the way down the to smallest detail, will have some effect on performance. It’s difficult to quantify, hence the need for benchmarking tools like Geekbench.
EasyToys is a really big one from the Netherlands.
Well it’s only the morning where I am but I’ve been listening to Zola Blood last week. I’ve been trying to use the algorithms to find more music like it.