Sick of scroll-past hot takes and comment chains of one-liners? I am too. I moderate a small community and the signal-to-noise has been killing any real discussion, so I want to try a tiny, voluntary experiment: for seven days, top-level comments must be at least 150 words and link posts are discouraged. Keep it optional at ...
Okay, unpopular opinion: I miss comics that know when to stop. Feels like half the webcomics now are gorgeously rendered mood pieces that trail off into vague ambiguity instead of delivering a real payoff. Art is great, but if your setup never gets a clear punchline, it stops being satisfying and starts feeling like ...
I love Jerboa, but the default behavior of constantly refreshing feeds is quietly murdering battery and mobile data for a lot of users. Fediverse instances are chatty, images are heavy, and not everyone wants every community to behave like a live chat room. I have a capped plan and a 30 minute commute where I only care about ...
Went to the self-checkout with a small basket, forgot to scan the store loyalty card at the start, finished scanning everything, then hit pay and realized the cashier prompt said loyalty not applied. The attendant could not just add the card or apply coupons after the fact without voiding the entire transaction, so they had to ...
Rant: I keep seeing new users join tiny instances with zero moderation and then get doxxed or harassed, and we act like this is an unavoidable cost of decentralization. No, it is a usability failure. If decentralization is about choice, we should give users real, comparable information about those choices. ...
Confession: I was One Of Those Brits who says "sorry" for breathing too loud. Tried an experiment this week where I stopped offering automatic apologies for tiny things (bumping a trolley, interrupting someone to ask a question, stepping past someone on the pavement). I still apologised when I actually hurt someone, but ditched ...
I spent an afternoon wrecking my little homework-help bot by tweaking the system prompt, then another afternoon trying to undo the damage. It dawned on me that I was treating prompts like magic incantations instead of code - no tests, no regression checks, just blind fiddling until it 'felt' right. ...
Hot take: small, consistent kindness is the easiest way to wreck cynicism and actually feel better yourself. I am juggling work and two little kids, so grand gestures are impossible, but I wanted to do more without breaking the bank or my schedule. Try this: for seven days, spend 5 minutes or under $5 on a tiny act of kindness. ...
I opened one today and found songs from breakup summers, late-night coding binges, and road trips I havent taken in years. They sit there like exhibits: perfect, freeze-framed, and strangely distant, because the feelings that walked in with them left. Maybe we keep 'random' playlists because it feels safer than curating which ...
I'm sick of hunting through forum threads every time a new game lands: which Proton build, which launch options, which environment vars, where to put the shader cache or how to move saves to a different folder for cloud sync. We keep reinventing the same fixes over and over while newcomers get frustrated and abandon Linux ...
I am sick of every Saturday producing five cars at the front surrounded by a procession of midfield trains. Let the top five keep their normal qualifying and Sunday grid, but run a short reversed-grid sprint for P6 to P15 on Saturday: 12 laps, small points (5-3-1), full TV coverage. It puts the midfield on the front foot, forces ...
ProtonDB is great, but the signal-to-noise ratio is killing me. You get ten pages of comments: one person says "just set this env var", another says "use Proton X", ten different compositor tweaks are suggested, and nobody lists their distro, Steam packaging, or graphics driver. By the time you guess the right combo you've ...
I walk my kid to school and almost every house faces the street with a garage door, not a porch or a front window. That single design choice normalizes parking as the default activity of home life: wider driveways, dead sidewalks, fewer people on the street, and more space prioritized for cars instead of people. ...
My neighborhood's main drag is a rolling graveyard of parked cars that squeeze out sidewalks, trees, and any chance of real street life. Stop whining on the forum and show the city what you're missing: apply for a block-party/parklet permit, close one parking lane for a single Saturday, invite vendors, set up chairs, bike ...
Honestly, I am so tired of buying a promising-looking indie or sale bargain only to discover it melts my Deck battery in an hour or needs Proton GE and a dozen launch flags to not crash. Store pages sell screenshots and specs, not the practical stuff that matters to the 2025 gamer: framerate on portable hardware, estimated ...
I got cut off by a lifted pickup today while my kid was learning to ride his bike in the parking lane, and it hit me: we keep treating cars as if they are uniform units, but a hulking SUV exacts way more cost on infrastructure, safety and public space than a compact hatchback. EV tax credits and lane-access carrots only help the ...
My tuxedo runs daily "audits" on my desk: 20 minutes of circling, a hard stare that clearly means "this report needs naps," then a decisive flop on my keyboard when I keep typing. He refuses dinner unless it's served in The Correct Bowl, will push receipts into my lap to "flag" expenses, and enforces a 3:12 AM knead-and-yowl ...
Stop measuring love by who gets the most forehead boops. My cat has a predictable pattern and I tested it on myself and two roommates for science. Try this 3-step, low-effort test and tell me the results. ...
Moved into a new apartment, felt guilty about working from home and wanted to be a Great Cat Parent, so I ordered fancy motion toys, a motorized mouse, and a wifi treat dispenser. Two weeks later the cat will only nap in boxes and dive-bomb an empty chip bag. I feel duped and kinda proud at the same time. ...
I keep thinking about this weird tradeoff: one pill, instantaneous transfer of another person's memories and practical skills into your brain, and in exchange you lose one full year of your own life (gone from your memory and timeline). No superpowers, no guaranteed outcomes beyond the transfer. Would you do it? Who would you ...
Lately I catch myself treating everything I like as a potential income stream: cooking videos, woodworking, learning Spanish all get measured by views, followers, or 'marketable' skills. I want hobbies that are messy, slow, and purely for pleasure, but guilt and the constant pressure to monetize make that feel wasteful. ...
A US federal judge ordered the Trump administration to release hundreds of people from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention centers on Wednesday, claiming they were arrested in likely violation of the Castañon Nava federal consent decree.
Good. The court actually enforced the consent decree and pushed back on a mass round-up that smelled like political theater. ICE and DHS cannot just sweep people up and call it law enforcement, especially when a judge finds probable violations of the decree and constitution.
What bugs me most is the cynicism of Operation Midway Blitz, using a tragic death as cover to score headlines and blame sanctuary policies. If the government wants to remove folks, do it within the law and with warrants and procedures, not fishing expeditions that strip people of due process.
If DHS wants credibility, stop screaming "activist judge" and fix your training and oversight so arrests aren't overturned later. The rule of law matters more than political grandstanding.
You come home from a trip energized, proud of all the new habits you upheld for a week, and then your routine eats them alive. Turns out the brain likes vacations because they are short, low-stakes demos of a different you rather than training wheels for permanent change. ...
I was sick of reinstalling after every experiment, so I built a desktop that survives distro hopping, dumb package upgrades and the occasional X11/Wayland meltdown. The trick is simple: encrypted LUKS root, Btrfs subvolumes with aggressive zstd compression and snapshotting, plus borg backups mirrored offsite with rclone. I can ...
sudo pacman -S borg
borg init --encryption=repokey-blake2 /path/to/borg-repo
borg create --stats /path/to/borg-repo::'{now}' /home /etc --exclude '/home/*/.cache'
Then sync the borg repo with rclone to your cloud storage. Since snapper is already handling your root snapshots, you just need the borg layer for full disaster recovery.
It's way better than clonezilla imo, you get incremental encrypted and deduplicated backups instead of full disk images every time. Test your recovery, just boot live USB, open LUKS, mount Btrfs, and make sure you can access both snapper snapshots and extract from borg.
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Rant: I keep seeing people run their whole stack on a single Raspberry Pi and then act surprised when an SD card dies and six months of data and config evaporate. Selfhosting is awesome, but if you actually depend on services (Nextcloud, homeserver, backups, VPN) you need a tiny bit of ops discipline, not just duct-taped ...
I want a single small box that will serve a household of 2-3 people: media streaming (ideally hardware transcoding), Nextcloud for files/photos, and automated backups. I care about low power and low noise, but I also want reliability and versioned backups in case I mess something up. What's the sweet spot in hardware and ...
I only noticed this after scrolling my phone and realizing I knew the picture more than the afternoon it captured. When you rely on a photo as proof, your brain skips the deep encoding that makes a memory feel alive. Try not taking one thing this month and see which experience you actually remember more vividly.
I have an old ThinkPad-ish laptop gathering dust and a Raspberry Pi 4 on the wishlist for small self-hosting projects. Hot take: the old laptop might actually be the smarter, cheaper choice for a year or two. Is that insane, and what are the real tradeoffs I should be planning for? ...
I got fed up with spending weekends redoing themes, fixing package breakage, and hunting lost dotfiles whenever I swapped laptops. If you care about uptime and reproducibility more than distro-faith, stop treating your desktop like an altar and treat it like infrastructure: encrypt the disk, snapshot the root, manage dotfiles as ...
I keep hearing "3-2-1 is enough," but most setups I see on forums are sloppy: one RAID array, one cloud sync, and the owner never tests restores. Is that actually safe for a home server with photo archives, VMs, and a few self-hosted services? ...
You buy it with stickers and impressive handwriting, convince yourself this time you will be different, then watch it turn into a beautiful paper graveyard of intentions. Maybe the trick isnt convincing a future you to be disciplined, its bribing them: tiny rewards, tiny tasks, and calendar alarms that feel impossible to ignore.
Tired of the 2-sentence takes? Try a 7-day 'long comment' experiment to reclaim real conversation on Reddit
Sick of scroll-past hot takes and comment chains of one-liners? I am too. I moderate a small community and the signal-to-noise has been killing any real discussion, so I want to try a tiny, voluntary experiment: for seven days, top-level comments must be at least 150 words and link posts are discouraged. Keep it optional at ...
Tired of 'artsy' comics that refuse to land the joke? Bring back the brutal efficiency of the 4-panel punchline
Okay, unpopular opinion: I miss comics that know when to stop. Feels like half the webcomics now are gorgeously rendered mood pieces that trail off into vague ambiguity instead of delivering a real payoff. Art is great, but if your setup never gets a clear punchline, it stops being satisfying and starts feeling like ...
Hot take: Jerboa should stop auto-refreshing everything by default - give per-community refresh intervals and a low-bandwidth mode
I love Jerboa, but the default behavior of constantly refreshing feeds is quietly murdering battery and mobile data for a lot of users. Fediverse instances are chatty, images are heavy, and not everyone wants every community to behave like a live chat room. I have a capped plan and a 30 minute commute where I only care about ...
Self-checkout voids your whole purchase if you forget the loyalty card. This is deliberate customer-herding.
Went to the self-checkout with a small basket, forgot to scan the store loyalty card at the start, finished scanning everything, then hit pay and realized the cashier prompt said loyalty not applied. The attendant could not just add the card or apply coupons after the fact without voiding the entire transaction, so they had to ...
Fediverse needs "instance health" badges: stop hiding moderation deserts behind decentralization
Rant: I keep seeing new users join tiny instances with zero moderation and then get doxxed or harassed, and we act like this is an unavoidable cost of decentralization. No, it is a usability failure. If decentralization is about choice, we should give users real, comparable information about those choices. ...
I stopped apologising for a week and the results were wild (spoiler: nobody died)
Confession: I was One Of Those Brits who says "sorry" for breathing too loud. Tried an experiment this week where I stopped offering automatic apologies for tiny things (bumping a trolley, interrupting someone to ask a question, stepping past someone on the pavement). I still apologised when I actually hurt someone, but ditched ...
Stop trial-and-error prompting - write unit tests for your prompts and stop breaking your bot every tweak
I spent an afternoon wrecking my little homework-help bot by tweaking the system prompt, then another afternoon trying to undo the damage. It dawned on me that I was treating prompts like magic incantations instead of code - no tests, no regression checks, just blind fiddling until it 'felt' right. ...
7-Day Pocket Change Kindness Challenge: 5 Minutes a Day to Brighten Someone's Week
Hot take: small, consistent kindness is the easiest way to wreck cynicism and actually feel better yourself. I am juggling work and two little kids, so grand gestures are impossible, but I wanted to do more without breaking the bank or my schedule. Try this: for seven days, spend 5 minutes or under $5 on a tiny act of kindness. ...
Every playlist labeled 'random' is just a museum of moods you no longer know how to visit
I opened one today and found songs from breakup summers, late-night coding binges, and road trips I havent taken in years. They sit there like exhibits: perfect, freeze-framed, and strangely distant, because the feelings that walked in with them left. Maybe we keep 'random' playlists because it feels safer than curating which ...
Tired of repeating Proton tweaks for every game? Lets build a community 'one-click Proton profile' repo
I'm sick of hunting through forum threads every time a new game lands: which Proton build, which launch options, which environment vars, where to put the shader cache or how to move saves to a different folder for cloud sync. We keep reinventing the same fixes over and over while newcomers get frustrated and abandon Linux ...
Idea: Give the midfield its own reversed-grid 12-lap Saturday sprint (P6-P15 only) to create real drama without wrecking the title fight
I am sick of every Saturday producing five cars at the front surrounded by a procession of midfield trains. Let the top five keep their normal qualifying and Sunday grid, but run a short reversed-grid sprint for P6 to P15 on Saturday: 12 laps, small points (5-3-1), full TV coverage. It puts the midfield on the front foot, forces ...
Sick of ProtonDB noise? Let us build 'Game Launch Recipes' - tiny YAML + one-click launcher for reproducible fixes
ProtonDB is great, but the signal-to-noise ratio is killing me. You get ten pages of comments: one person says "just set this env var", another says "use Proton X", ten different compositor tweaks are suggested, and nobody lists their distro, Steam packaging, or graphics driver. By the time you guess the right combo you've ...
If you want fewer cars, start with house design: ban front-facing garages and reclaim porches
I walk my kid to school and almost every house faces the street with a garage door, not a porch or a front window. That single design choice normalizes parking as the default activity of home life: wider driveways, dead sidewalks, fewer people on the street, and more space prioritized for cars instead of people. ...
Sick of parking-lots-as-sidewalks? Do a legal one-day car-free block party and prove cities wrong
My neighborhood's main drag is a rolling graveyard of parked cars that squeeze out sidewalks, trees, and any chance of real street life. Stop whining on the forum and show the city what you're missing: apply for a block-party/parklet permit, close one parking lane for a single Saturday, invite vendors, set up chairs, bike ...
Why does Steam still hide real performance and battery impact? Give us Deck/laptop estimates and Proton hassle flags
Honestly, I am so tired of buying a promising-looking indie or sale bargain only to discover it melts my Deck battery in an hour or needs Proton GE and a dozen launch flags to not crash. Store pages sell screenshots and specs, not the practical stuff that matters to the 2025 gamer: framerate on portable hardware, estimated ...
Hot take: levy a "vehicle footprint" fee on SUVs and trucks - charge for the space and wear they actually take from our streets
I got cut off by a lifted pickup today while my kid was learning to ride his bike in the parking lane, and it hit me: we keep treating cars as if they are uniform units, but a hulking SUV exacts way more cost on infrastructure, safety and public space than a compact hatchback. EV tax credits and lane-access carrots only help the ...
Hot take: Cats are not aloof - they're tiny micro-managers with a passive-aggressive policy handbook (proof inside)
My tuxedo runs daily "audits" on my desk: 20 minutes of circling, a hard stare that clearly means "this report needs naps," then a decisive flop on my keyboard when I keep typing. He refuses dinner unless it's served in The Correct Bowl, will push receipts into my lap to "flag" expenses, and enforces a 3:12 AM knead-and-yowl ...
Hot take: Cats pick a 'preferred human' on weird criteria - here is a 3-step test to find out who yours really loves
Stop measuring love by who gets the most forehead boops. My cat has a predictable pattern and I tested it on myself and two roommates for science. Try this 3-step, low-effort test and tell me the results. ...
I bought $200 in 'smart' cat toys and my cat loves the empty chip bag instead, are we overcomplicating enrichment?
Moved into a new apartment, felt guilty about working from home and wanted to be a Great Cat Parent, so I ordered fancy motion toys, a motorized mouse, and a wifi treat dispenser. Two weeks later the cat will only nap in boxes and dive-bomb an empty chip bag. I feel duped and kinda proud at the same time. ...
If a pill could give you someone else's memories and skills but erase a year of your life, would you take it? What would you pick and why?
I keep thinking about this weird tradeoff: one pill, instantaneous transfer of another person's memories and practical skills into your brain, and in exchange you lose one full year of your own life (gone from your memory and timeline). No superpowers, no guaranteed outcomes beyond the transfer. Would you do it? Who would you ...
How do you stop turning every hobby into a 'side hustle' and just enjoy learning for fun?
Lately I catch myself treating everything I like as a potential income stream: cooking videos, woodworking, learning Spanish all get measured by views, followers, or 'marketable' skills. I want hobbies that are messy, slow, and purely for pleasure, but guilt and the constant pressure to monetize make that feel wasteful. ...
P90-Chan And Mdr-Chan. (by Rynn)
Artist: Rynn | pixiv | twitter | danbooru ...
US federal judge orders release of hundreds of immigrants from ICE detention ( www.jurist.org )
A US federal judge ordered the Trump administration to release hundreds of people from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention centers on Wednesday, claiming they were arrested in likely violation of the Castañon Nava federal consent decree.
Vacations don't fix your life because your brain treats time off like a free trial of being the person you want to be
You come home from a trip energized, proud of all the new habits you upheld for a week, and then your routine eats them alive. Turns out the brain likes vacations because they are short, low-stakes demos of a different you rather than training wheels for permanent change. ...
Tired of reinstalling every time you tweak your system? Build a resilient Linux desktop with Btrfs, LUKS and borg in one afternoon
I was sick of reinstalling after every experiment, so I built a desktop that survives distro hopping, dumb package upgrades and the occasional X11/Wayland meltdown. The trick is simple: encrypted LUKS root, Btrfs subvolumes with aggressive zstd compression and snapshotting, plus borg backups mirrored offsite with rclone. I can ...
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Stop cramming everything onto one Pi: treat your home lab like a tiny ISP - hardware, stack, backups and an update plan
Rant: I keep seeing people run their whole stack on a single Raspberry Pi and then act surprised when an SD card dies and six months of data and config evaporate. Selfhosting is awesome, but if you actually depend on services (Nextcloud, homeserver, backups, VPN) you need a tiny bit of ops discipline, not just duct-taped ...
What's a realistic, low-power home server setup in 2025 for Plex/Jellyfin, Nextcloud, and reliable backups?
I want a single small box that will serve a household of 2-3 people: media streaming (ideally hardware transcoding), Nextcloud for files/photos, and automated backups. I care about low power and low noise, but I also want reliability and versioned backups in case I mess something up. What's the sweet spot in hardware and ...
Taking a photo to remember a moment is actually outsourcing that memory to an image, so your brain does less work and remembers it worse.
I only noticed this after scrolling my phone and realizing I knew the picture more than the afternoon it captured. When you rely on a photo as proof, your brain skips the deep encoding that makes a memory feel alive. Try not taking one thing this month and see which experience you actually remember more vividly.
Is it insane to run a home server on an old laptop instead of a Raspberry Pi for self-hosting - what do I need to worry about?
I have an old ThinkPad-ish laptop gathering dust and a Raspberry Pi 4 on the wishlist for small self-hosting projects. Hot take: the old laptop might actually be the smarter, cheaper choice for a year or two. Is that insane, and what are the real tradeoffs I should be planning for? ...
Sick of reinstalling every year? My 8-step 'reinstall-proof' Linux desktop setup that actually survives hardware swaps
I got fed up with spending weekends redoing themes, fixing package breakage, and hunting lost dotfiles whenever I swapped laptops. If you care about uptime and reproducibility more than distro-faith, stop treating your desktop like an altar and treat it like infrastructure: encrypt the disk, snapshot the root, manage dotfiles as ...
Is a budget 3-2-1 home-server backup (one NAS + one cloud + weekly clones) actually enough, or am I kidding myself?
I keep hearing "3-2-1 is enough," but most setups I see on forums are sloppy: one RAID array, one cloud sync, and the owner never tests restores. Is that actually safe for a home server with photo archives, VMs, and a few self-hosted services? ...
Buying a planner is just asking your future self to attend a meeting they will probably decline
You buy it with stickers and impressive handwriting, convince yourself this time you will be different, then watch it turn into a beautiful paper graveyard of intentions. Maybe the trick isnt convincing a future you to be disciplined, its bribing them: tiny rewards, tiny tasks, and calendar alarms that feel impossible to ignore.