They seem safe enough to pass the EU’s safety standards, which are much higher than the US. Also this blanket “quality issues” argument without specific evidence is terrible. If we’re going off of quality in recent history, American manufacturing is down the toilet in terms of quality - just look at Boeing.

Not me but a good friend of mine met a girl and lied about his job. He was already working a decent job as a floor salesman while applying to be a flight attendant which paid more money. He told her he already had the position he was applying for, which he never got and it kept snowballing until he could no longer come clean without major consequences. For 6 months, he had to make up a fake flight schedule, fake work-related anecdotes, etc., Needless to say when he eventually came clean she ended things, and I suppose he learned a very strange but valuable lesson. It was pretty funny to me at least.

The US also effectively banned the entire Arab world from buying US GPU’s, I’ve run a business here for years that specialized in GPU compute at the datacenter level, and now we’re pretty much transitioning into a new line of business because of this genius policy, while existing customers in this region are also considering Huawei GPU’s as a possible replacement.

Is it just me, or is that foot rest backwards?

2006 was the peak

What an absolute farce of a “report” and an article

Alcohol.

I knew someone once who had this, she didn’t know until she got an x-ray as an adult. The doctor called in their colleagues to take a look at the scan because he’d never seen a real-life case before. She had her heart on the right side of her chest, was pretty interesting.

Have you even looked at any of the examples in SA’s case?

Yes, thank you :) It’s just that after writing it down and reading it back to myself, I genuinely realized it wasn’t a big deal. Life is unfair, but paradoxically it’s also equally unfair to everyone, although it can seem that your life particularly sucks. Not to take away from the genuine tragedies some people are experiencing, but sometimes it seems just writing it down can help you resolve the magnitude of the issue to some degree, and make you grateful for the good things in your life. This whole thread has been great self-therapy. Much love to everyone here.

Not having a home or a decent passport - not a literal house, but a home. I grew up in a place that doesn't offer citizenship regardless of how long you've been there, my parents wanted my siblings and I to learn English as a first language for improved job opportunities (this still causes a lot of problems due to not being able to culturally relate to most people). Studied in Europe for a very specific field and couldn't get a job anywhere in the world due to citizenship requirements. Moved back to the place I grew up in and started a business, now my only chance of having a 'home' or citizenship is making enough money to buy permanent residence somewhere decent (this option is veeery expensive).

Although I'm very grateful for my current financial position, and I know I'll eventually get to where I want to be, I still can't help being resentful towards everyone I studied with, whom immediately got jobs in the field I chose simply by virtue of having the 'right color' passport.

"Uncle Tom's Cabin". So far very powerful writing. Just finished reading "Tuesday's with Morrie" which is fantastic.

I use Jellyfin but I have family who can’t side load the Jellyfin app on their TV’s, so… Plex for them

A few years ago I downloaded a browser extension to stop showing me recommended videos, both on the homepage and on the side of videos. I can only watch what I'm subscribed to and what I search for - you'd think its a big sacrifice because you can't discover as many videos, but in reality I've gained so much more of my time back and control over what I actually want to watch.

Also been using this for several years and can concur, simple, easy-to-use, never let me down.

MacOS with a tiling window manager for work, Win10 on PC for gaming and Linux on all servers. I would run Linux for work if Office, Adobe and esp. Outlook ran on it, MacOS with Yabai + SKHD is the closest I can get to a Linux experience while still being functional for work.

TLDR: Computers

I got super lucky being in the right place/right time. I started a company when COVID hit with the intention of just selling computers. The market sort of pushed me into selling computers for AI/ML which i knew nothing about but had a good background in Linux, so I could offer a lot of added services in terms of DevOps/MLOps, setting things up for customers as added value which my (much larger and more established) competition didn’t. This led to some enterprise connections, started selling servers, more things happened and 3 years later I have a full engineering team and we’re morphing into an OEM. There’s a lot I’m leaving out but if there’s one takeaway I can give, it’s that:

1. Never underestimate what you’re capable of learning by just putting in the time and work
2. Don’t de-value random things you’ve put time and effort into learning. Even something you were obsessed with as a teenager and seemed like a complete waste of time may eventually become critically important in your adult life.

Starting a business

Everywhere my man, I can tell you I’m nowhere near the US and have never been

Agree with this, sunk 3k hours into that game before i finally quit a couple years ago. It's gotten progressively worse over time, what a shame.