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The prohibition is not for your health, it's because everyone else also has to breathe your smoke.

Smoke in private, not in public places, and especially not in public places where children play.

Lucida already didn't rip from spotify, nor does doubledouble. Try to get your songs from another service if they're available (Qobuz and Tidal usually have good availability and high quality)

Linux apps follow simplicity principles. If you don't have permission to delete a file, why assume you may know the password of the user who has permission?

You can preface sudo to any command to execute it with root privileges, which would be similar to running as admin in windows.

Graphical apps do tend to ask for authentication if it makes sense. No userland apps should need more permissions than the current user's in order to run.

Spain used to have a budget of around 1% of their GDP for the military. It was so much that they actually could not spend it. Now that the budget has tripled almost overnight, they are having an internal crisis because there is no way they can use up all that money, even if they overbought 200% of supplies and overpaid for them.

Increasing military budget is useless, because the service will not improve with it, just the useless spending and inefficiency. And because of the rushed spending, I'm sure the move will increase corruption.

It really isn't that slow, last time I tried to homebrew a working DNS tunnel it maxed my 100mbps card. I never needed the extra speed so I didn't try to see how fast it could be on a 1gbps card

Probably the port forwarding was automatically set up by UPnP, which is also something that can't be done on a vpn without port forwarding. If you have a tracker, the torrent might also work, but then the tracker itself would have to be port forwarded.

Sound cannons are actually pretty weird, in that they don't work like you'd imagine them to work. They produce sound when multiple beams of ultrasound collide with an object, so if they're pointed at you, you're the one producing the sound that hurts you. That's why they're so effective.

Some people online have done some tests, and thin cardboard appears to be the best way to stop them. Put the thin cardboard before you, and it stops most of the sound. It can be the cardboard from a poster, if you have one.

Ear protection headphones (for workshops) also help, and their effectiveness is enhanced further by wearing small earplugs inside. Active noise cancelling headphones don't help and can even be counter productive, so don't use those.

I've started to go 15-20 minutes late. I've never missed a minute of movie, but I've skipped so many ads.

If I get one of those, I'm definitely killing it and stealing its copper. Amazon can pay for the repairs.

I think it is, yeah. It has a metro station relatively close by, which food delivery people often use to get around the city center. The streets around it are also very walkable, and you can go by bike. I don't think it is a problem for food delivery at all.

No. Hardlinks and CoW filesystems are different things.

I don't know much about hardlinks on windows, but hardlinks usually are two different inodes pointing to the same file. This means, for the user, a single file appears duplicated, but without using any extra space. However, both files are really the same one, so if you modify one, the other one also gets modified.

CoW filesystems, on the other hand, are a bit more complex. When you store a file, its contents get first stored, and then a file references them. When you copy the file, a copy of the reference is made, and there is no need to copy the content, because it's already there. If you modify one of the copies, the difference between them gets stored (the modified content), but other parts of the file (or files in a folder) that don't get modified are not duplicated.

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