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Whichever peertube instance you are viewing the video from. Makertube, urbanists.video are two that I use

The website works fine. I don’t understand the app obcession people have. Though newpipe is an option if you must

Sure after a fashion you can work out some basics. don’t confuse that with knowing the language.

if your pace is that slow you will never make enough progress to learning the language. It takes hours of study every day to learn a language. You can go at a slower pace and that is okay - so long as you are not thinking you will learn the language in your lifetime.

one nas device with a lot of power and a vpn for the other houses might be better.

It is also about how many people are interested. There are a lot of collectors items worth a lot of money because there are more people collecting than interested, there are also a lot that are not worth much because every collector that wants one has one already. Often there is a curve because when collectors get interested they pay money, which causes people who have one gathering dust in the attic to get it out and sell it and soon the market is saturated.

You have no idea what collectors will care about in 20-50 years. As such investing in something because collectors will care about it and make it worth money is not a good idea. However there are a lot of neat things out there so if you like it go ahead and collect it - if you are the only one interested in 50 years well you have yours, if everyone wants it maybe you can pay for a nice nursing home from the sale. Either way if you have something you need to either enjoy it or use it.

EVOO might or might not be better depending on which study you look at. EVOO generally tastes better and so it is what you should be using when eating raw. EVOO spoils very quickly so if it isn’t fresh it is bad for you.

Often the utility is required to do some PR. Power line safety ads for example is something the regulators require. Energy conservation - they make money the more energy you use (except at peak times!) so conservation is not in their interests - but the regulators require a lot of such programs.

As I always say about duolingo, if you have not completed the course in 3 months you won’t learn a language with it. Duolingo is a good introduction when you don’t know anything about a language, but you need a lot of advanced materials they they don’t really have to become fluent.

Though if your goal is just to play a game and feel like you are learning something - well at least you get some vocabulary. It won’t teach you a language but that need not be your goal.

Maybe. There are ways to assign a private key that is not easy to extract. a chip that creates a private key on first poweron and then saves to internal memory for example.

Depends on the hash - some are tracable to a crypotographic public key and thus cannot be faked. Most are not but there are options that can be. Normally we refer to such things as signed not a hash but same thing to the layman who doesn’t understand this.

Worse by rejecting an imperfect ally you often get an ally that is even worse for your goals.

YIMBY rejecting possible right wing allies in turn have to find common ground with left wing NIMBY and that often means more zoning that makes building impossible. There are many other examples where reaching across the “aisles” would better meet your goals.

I just make a bit extra for supper every night, and put it in a fridge, the leftovers are then my meal a couple days latter (never the next day - that gets boring!)

I’m very careful about what I buy. Only high quality stuff that I research first. Just because it is a good deal doesn’t mean I need to buy it - if I’m not 100% sure I need to use it I won’t buy it. I find it hard to get rid of stuff so I’m attacking the problem from the other end: quit buying more stuff. If I do buy it I get the best so it will last a long time (I’m not getting rid of it!)

Every once in a while I will look at something and decide I really don’t need it. However this is rare. When something breaks I either fix it or get rid of it, but again rare. (I have a to fix pile that I slowly am working on…)

But you might fix it - and if you break it more it was already broke so no loss

The bigger point about cloud that most miss is make sure you are paying them a reasonably price for the service. So long as you are the customer and not the product the cloud can be good.

First question: what will you do about data backup? Nextcloud and Immich both imply important data that you don’t want to lose. You say you have some harddrives, so look for some computer that can take more than one harddrive and then setup RAID with snapshots. I’d go for a RAID setup such that you need two drives to fail before you lose data, but there are plenty of debate. We often say RAID is not a backup - you should start thinking about the next step in your backup setup soon.

Used vs new is always the question. In general the newer the system the less power it will use to do the same work. However ARM will almost always use less power than x86 even if the x86 is much newer. I specified work here, your computer will nothing most of the time so idle power matters too.

I can think of few things teens do more embarrassing than making someone else change your dirty diapers.

I’m one of the lucky few who have a pension. I do not have enough savings to last until the pension kicks in, and in any case the pension is less than my current income, but I could live off my pension and social security alone.

Nearly everybody who speaks English is rich. We just have no clue who poor other parts of the world are and so think of ourselves as poor.