[-] Bldck@beehaw.org 1 points 1 hour ago

The Passenger is mild… but only half the story. You want to read the companion novel Stella Maris too

Some of his books are fucked up. The Road and Blood Meridian are stomach turning, gut-wrenching explorations of the awful side of humans.

All the Pretty Horses is: young man likes horses. Moves to Mexico to work on a ranch. Young man falls in love with woman. Hijinks. horses. Done

[-] Bldck@beehaw.org 1 points 6 days ago

I liked Mealie. Easy to self host and handles imports from paprika quite well

[-] Bldck@beehaw.org 27 points 2 months ago

In the 2000s and early 2010s, less of your life was lived on a cell phone or smartphone.

For kids now, it’s 100% of their lives. Post-COVID, the majority of social interaction between peers is through a social media app.

That means that close to 100% of kids are on their phones during the school day. If you aren’t, you run the risk of social isolation and FOMO.

Administrators can’t send a kid to detention for using their phone because ALL kids would be in detention every day.

Here’s one article that examines the problem

[-] Bldck@beehaw.org 16 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)
  1. Overnight oats
  2. Yogurt with frozen fruit and granola (parfait)
  3. Granola/protein bar of choice
  4. Hard boiled eggs
  5. Peanut butter toast
[-] Bldck@beehaw.org 11 points 10 months ago

“Make it look like google.”

Sure. Do you have a billion dollars for this project? No? Okay. You get one half resource junior UI designer.

[-] Bldck@beehaw.org 59 points 11 months ago

Or AOL-Time-Warner-Pepsico-Viacom-Halliburton-Skynet-Toyota-Trader-Joe's from Bojack Horseman

[-] Bldck@beehaw.org 23 points 1 year ago

The problem with China’s real estate market is that it’s entirely built on false promises and leveraged debt.

The government provides cheap loans to citizens to buy homes they will never live. All in an effort to drive the country’s GDP… but eventually you will either:

  1. Run out of capital to fuel this construction
  2. Rebase the value of these paper homes and the economy collapses on a scale 10x that of the 2008 housing crisis

This article has nothing to do with unhoused people, nor an overvalued housing market pushing out middle class buyers. The economics of the Chinese market are completely dissimilar from the western (US particularly) markets.

It’s entirely about how the Chinese government has an unsustainable market segment dedicated to building things that people don’t want or need… other than to have wealth on paper.

[-] Bldck@beehaw.org 10 points 1 year ago

The amount and types of data a mobile app can access is infinitely higher than a web app.

[-] Bldck@beehaw.org 11 points 1 year ago

Much more thorough article from WaPo (gift link)

I think the important takeaway here is that he’s not the person to fight the MAGA-wing, but he wants to fight it.

Good to hear he’s discouraging Manchin’s “No Labels” run, but we’ll see if anyone can change Manchin’s mind

[-] Bldck@beehaw.org 9 points 1 year ago

ProtonVPN, AirVPN and PIA all support port forwarding iirc

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