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neo, in Does anyone else struggle with silence, particularly when trying to sleep?
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Absolutely. A consistent noise like a fan is best, but music is good too.

Klawn, in what was your first video game/system you played or remember playing?

It was fruity Franck on armstrad CPC. You had to insert a floppy disk and type EXACTLY the program’s name, which i couldn’t because me as a child always called it tutty fruity. My uncle needed to be here if i wanted to play.

Pssk, in What's the point of buying new phones every years?
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I have been using my poco f1 for more than 4 years now, the only problem i have had is the battery. It has an sdcard slot, headphone jack, 6gb of ram which has been more than enough and latest lineageos is supported. see fsfe.org/activities/…/index.en.html

saddlebag, in Does anyone else struggle with silence, particularly when trying to sleep?

Buy yourself a white noise machine. I’ve been using one for almost 10 years, it’s helped my sleep routine immensely. I prefer it to something with talking because the fluctuations of something like comedy would disrupt me. Also, I think that concentrating on something like comedy makes me want to watch it and I would woke up.

The next thing is an eye mask. Even if your room is mostly dark, I’ve found it helps me to stay asleep.

Dirk, in What password manager do you recommend?
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Since you don’t want to selfhost anyway just use the one built-in to your browser. Nowadays you can set up synch with a password

Coreidan,

Terrible idea. Never use your browser to save passwords. Way too easy to hack.

Dirk,
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I am pretty sure you can provide reliable sources that are not one blog article by one individual telling their opinion.

If it’s really “way too easy to hack” there should be plenty of souces.

stappern, in Why is youtube recommending conservative "talking points" to me?

youtube is a right wing propaganda machine. im convinced of it at this point.

i cannot look at shorts without getting a fucking piers morgan or andrew tate or joe rogan with the antivaxx guest . FUCK ME.

no matter how many times i click “dont reccomend this channel to me” or click dislike they always come back. it cant be a coincidence. i even tried with a clean account, 30 min in you get some shit from that sphere.

DubiousInterests,

Mine only shows me tech, science, and games related things. I’m glad I am one of the lucky ones.

dizzy,
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I’m getting the exact same shit on shorts constantly. Joe Rogan, Andrew Tate, Piers Morgan, some kid explaining why women should stay in the kitchen, another guy screaming that trans people don’t exist, some imam thinking he’s making people look stupid for not believing in god, etc

I’m not sure if I’m impressed in my ad/content blocking and general internet hygiene that google/youtube knows me so badly or worried that so many people, particularly young/impressionable people, who may not have such strongly opposed views to that hateful crap, are getting brainwashed and radicalized into having extreme conservative views.

ToastyBanana, in Does anyone else struggle with silence, particularly when trying to sleep?

Others have made great points; I’d like to add my favourite: you can play rain sounds from Spotify (and iOS devices can do this without any subscriptions from the Hearing CC toggle)!

It helps me during nights I have a lot on my mind :)

kreateer, in I'm being harassed by mosquitoes, how do i kill them all?
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I’ve found that Eucaliptus plants deter mosquitoes pretty well

WaDef7, in e-reader or tablet for reading academic paper

Many people here are talking about buying an iPad and the pencil, but if all you're doing is reading papers I think this is a massive overspend. There are many inexpensive android tablets that come with pencils plenty good enough for handwriting or non-artistic drawing.

Of course, you say you have a job so you're likely not to need to buy the cheapest thing possible (even if you don't, you're not forced to buy an iPad, Samsung's tablet software is quite good), but I don't want someone with the same use case, who might just be a student, to get the impression they need to spend a grand to read pdfs.

TheDubz87, in Does anyone else struggle with silence, particularly when trying to sleep?

Try a fan. And this one’s weird, but I have an analog clock in my room and the rhythmic ticking helps me sleep.

chrisphero,

I know were you are coming from and I know a few people who have a clock in the room and sleep… but I just can’t… the rhythmic ticking drives me crazy haha

podcast or audio books are my go to - sometimes I’m stuck on the same chapter for weeks

NotAPenguin,

I can't handle the constant having to rewind and going wait did I already listen to this last night? that happens if I listen to podcasts or audiobooks to sleep.

Maybe I should just find a podcast I don't care about actually hearing everything in that I could use for sleep.

Celivalg,

I usually put on some PBS Space Time, not quite podcast, but I often don’t look at the visuals when trying to sleep. The videos are short (about 15min) , but provided it’s between 23:30 and 00:30, it usually takes only about 5 minutes before I fall asleep.

Used to do audiobooks, but that would fail if I was too invested in the book…

chrisphero,

I know what you mean, so here are my solutions. My podcast are either about F1 or gaming - so very generic and I have different ones. The topics are very similar, but with different persons and opinions, it’s never the same - so ideal for drifting off.

For audiobooks, I mostly listen to books, I’ve already read or listend to previously. So you know the rough story, but some small details are always missed. My prime example are the harry potter books by stephen fry… I fall asleep within minutes haha

NightOwl,

I have an air purifier in my room that is always running so filling the room with humming and providing clean air.

LachlanUnchained,

I feel like the thoughts in my head would drown it out.

Double_A, in What password manager do you recommend?
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For important things Keepass (which I sync in Onedrive). For casual things whatever the browser offers… or some random long password and password reset ._.

DreamySweet, in Does anyone else struggle with silence, particularly when trying to sleep?
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I need constant noise from something like a fan to sleep.

Ghostc1212, in Does anyone actually enjoy working out?

When you pump large amounts of iron in rapid succession at the gym, it makes you feel unstoppable, like you could take on the world. It’s an absolutely wonderful feeling to have, and I think it can be chalked up to the testosterone boost. The way to cultivate this mindset is

  1. Simply work out. The body releases the “unstoppable” chemical when you do Chad shit.
  2. Have more faith in your own capabilities. This will naturally happen if you surround yourself with positive reinforcement and if you do step 1.
flashgnash,

Hell yes we love the unstoppable chemical.

Try out the songs Rum and Bass and the ultimate Dirk theme from pesterquest next time you’ve got it, matches the vibe perfectly

ram, in What password manager do you recommend?
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Bitwarden checks all the boxes. I’ve had great experience with it. bitwarden.com

I will say, auto-fill on load is a bad idea. On desktop I keep my auto-fill bound to a key so it doesn’t actually end up in fields it shouldn’t be.

2FA is locked behind the $10/year premium if that’s something you wanted, but beyond that the free plan has everything 99% of people will use. They do third party security audits, have public white papers, and is completely open source.

hinterlufer,

Email and TOTP 2FA options are available in the free version, YubiKey, FIDO2 and Duo options are only available in the 10$/year premium option.

Moonwalk,
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I’m sure they meant TOTP 2FA for the accounts saved in Bitwarden, not for the Bitwarden login itself.

Saintcloud,

I’ve been curious about a Yubikey like option for a bit now. Would you recommend one and if so which type?

dan,
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Get a Yubikey that supports Webauthn and FIDO2. It’s the future of two-factor authentication on the web. At work we use the YubiKey 5C Nano, but I think the entire Yubikey 5 series supports Webauthn.

DuskLoaf,
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Is there much benefit to having access to the 2FA option if I already use RAIVO for 2FA codes.

Interstellar_1,
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No, it’s good to have a seperate service for that

Makeshift,

Bitwarden only autofills if the page’s URL is the same as the account in your vault. So it actually helps you make sure that you aren’t putting your info into a phishing site or something

although, I’m pretty sure autofill is disabled by default anyway?

ram,
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Bitwarden only autofills if the page’s URL is the same as the account in your vault. So it actually helps you make sure that you aren’t putting your info into a phishing site or something

This is true, though wasn’t my concern. My concern is that it (and other PW managers ofc) can sometimes fill in fields its not supposed to, and you end up accidentally including a username or password in a GET header.

although, I’m pretty sure autofill is disabled by default anyway?

Auto-fill on page-load is, yes.

ChrV, in What password manager do you recommend?
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Last year I tried (and paid) 1Password.
For the past 6 months I'm using Bitwarden and it's really good. I find 1Password's UI better but if we consider the cost it's better to stay with Bitwarden.

Swuden,

1Password isn’t open source, is it? I use it and I’m super happy with it though. I don’t mind paying a bit for good security. I do wish it was OSS though.

ChrV,
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No I don't think it is. I was super happy too but I decided to give Bitwarden a fair try and it's really good too. I only miss the 2FA codes that 1Password filled automatically but I'm using Aegis now since I had some worries about having one app with both the passwords and 2fa codes.

Onionizer,

Bitwarden can auto copy the 2FA code so you just hit ctrl+v

ChrV,
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Not in the free version unless I'm mistaken

skatrek47,

I have also really enjoyed 1password, I also subscribe to Fastmail and the easy to make “masked emails” gives me additional peace of mind and makes that practice of unique or throwaway emails much easier to implement.

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