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Hey thanks for letting me know about that! I use adblock everywhere so I didn’t know that site was an ad nightmare. I’ve replaced the link with one from the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine that (as far as I can tell) only has a single pop-up.
Looks awesome, I think the color is great! It’s hard to get a perfect color match, so if you can make a note of what product was used you can talk to the stylist the next time about trying something else to get closer to what you pictured in your head.
Here’s an better archive link to the story for anyone who gets a subscription popup on the azcentral site.
I think this is great for the kids that can take advantage of it and a great use of the school voucher program. It would be good to see this in areas like the southeast US where governers are pushing for limiting LGBTQ+ rights instead of against.
EDITED to include a better archive site link from the Wayback Machine.
Go for it! It’s a bit cliche to talk about how “liberating” it can feel to change up your hair, but only because that feeling can be so real. Especially if it’s something you haven’t done before. Make sure you talk to the stylist about how to take care of it (shampoo, conditioner, etc.) to make sure the color doesn’t fade. Good luck!
I think this idea could be true for some businesses, primarily those that only use their endpoints (laptops) for simple documentation tasks and/or as gateways to web-based tools. However, in addition to “user demand” there needs to be an adequate business case ($$ savings) plus enough technical knowledge on the IT implementation side to made the move. I’ve worked in shops moving from a large Microsoft Windows footprint to Apple products and it is not always an easy transition, even with tools like Jamf.
Since companies will still have to rely on a Windows- or Linux-based backend (on prem or cloud) they’ll need admins that can handle integrating those macOS and iOS devices into their MDM systems alongside the Windows systems. There are also a lot of users out there who may have no experience with using a Mac, either for personal or business use, that will need re-training to use a Mac laptop. Both integration / transition of systems and users will introduce delays and downtime into a company’s business processes, increasing the cost to transition.
None of the above is a reason not to move from Microsoft to Apple, but it’s definitely not a simple process and that can lead to slow (or no) transitions for large businesses, no matter how many users ask for it.
I’ve been using it for the last day or so on a separate account and I like it so far. It’s a new app and there’s plenty of stuff planned for it, but the ability to open comments in a separate column instead of another tab is fantastic. There’s already a request for light mode in the repo, which is my biggest issue right now.
“Mallyhacked” - meaning something that is broken or destroyed. I heard this phrase a lot from older folks during my childhood, but never by anyone who wasn’t from my area. My SO didn’t believe it was a real word so I did some digging and I think that it is likely a very regionally accented version of “malahack”.
Urban Dictionary says that malahack comes from the Lumbee-English slang of southern North Carolina. I don’t think that’s quite accurate because I’m not from anywhere close to North Carolina. My preferred reference is from The Vocabulary of East-Anglia: An Attempt to Record the Vulgar Tongue of the Twin Sister Counties Norfolk and Suffolk, as it Existed in the Last Twenty Years of the Eighteenth Century, and Still Exists: with Proof of Its Antiquity from Etymology and Authority; in Two Volumes · Volume 2 by Robert Forby, 1830:
Malahack, v. A word ludicrously fabricated, which means to cut or carve in an awkward and slovenly manner.
Who wouldn’t trust that (obviously-not-a-robot-in-disguise) smiling face? 😅
That is completely accurate and logical representation of the article after it’s had the heart ripped out KALIMAAA-style and been lowered into a pit.
I’ve heard it described as “Eurovision in space”
Ok I’m sold, that’s going to the top of the list.
Thank you for the recommendation!
Aww that’s adorable! I had to usher this little one off of the hot sidewalk this afternoon. It was about two inches long and hard to see in the sun. It’s rare to actually see them away from the bushes in my area.
Thelma was great! I loved the atmosphere and trying to figure out the character’s emotions throughout the movie.
I just recently found her Substack and devoured most of the public posts. I haven’t gotten any of her books yet, but she’s on my list the next time I go into a bookstore. Are there any of her other works that you’d recommend?
I do this semi-regularly, partly because I have issues with eye strain after years of staring at computer/phone text 18 hours a day. I’ve also enjoyed sleeping in complete darkness since I was a child and don’t like sudden brightness, so I got used to getting around my personal spaces without needing to see much. I don’t believe that what I practice doing is anything like what a blind person actually has to deal with and I don’t have any desire to be blind myself, but it’s an interesting thing to do sometimes.
Several things are regularly in my “ponder and wonder” list, the most recent being:
I can get lost for a while in any of these topics.
I feel that way about planters. I keep finding good ones, and what’s a planter without a new plant to go in it (sad, that’s what).
Apologies for not being as clear as I could have been. My thinking behind that sentence was not about negative responses to other people’s negative behavior, but more about how adults in western societies are (most of the time) expected to be able to fully exercise their legal and social rights and have control over their response to actions in today’s society. Taking the US as an example, most rights for those under 18 are mediated through their parents, while other things that people might expect those over 18 to be able to do are not actually fully available until 21 or later - like trying to get a rental car before 25.
A (grossly simplified) way to look at this idea is that people who are legally and socially acknowledged to be “adults” can remove themselves from situations that they young cannot. Whatever the social or practical constraints, an adult can cut off or leave a relationship, move to another city or state, get or leave a job, engage medical or social services, etc. for themselves and without mediation through another controlling person. And to your point, legally drink/smoke/have sex/whatever with whoever will (consensually) engage with them.
All of the above is meant to clarify my thoughts behind the previous comment, and may be wrong (or very wrong) depending on any specific person or situation.
I can’t really give a good answer to your question, mostly because I’m a neurodivergent misanthrope and my typical solution to most conflict is to go away and not deal with it again (no I am not popular at parties, not that I get invited to them anymore). As someone who came to the knowledge of who I really am as an adult, I don’t know what it’s like to specifically need resources that I can’t get without asking a parent or guardian. I do know how much it sucks to be in a situation where the only realistic solution is “wait and suffer because the other options are worse”.
Sorry for not being able to end on a happy note there (see previous paragraph re: misanthropy).
P.S. There is also an argument that most of the above also practically applies for the very old, but that’s a whole different wrinkle that I don’t really want to get into.
Thank you for the info! I’m going to leave the space because I’m too lazy to edit it again, but I appreciate the response. 😄
Your ISP controls what ports you can access using one or more firewalls and traffic control devices somewhere past the point where you connect to their network.
They can block whatever ports they want. The only way around this is to use a VPN, which creates a tunnel directly from your device to a remote server to route traffic. This still goes through your ISP and whatever firewall they have but does so over a port that they (probably) don’t block. They can’t see what ports your web or network requests are using so they can’t block it directly.
Depending on your technical know how and what type of router you have, you could set up a VPN at the device level (PC, phone, etc.) to send just requests from that device or at the router level which could send all traffic from your network through the VPN.
It’s important to remember when using a VPN that the VPN servers can still see (and potentially log) all of your traffic, even if your ISP cannot. You still need to find a VPN service that you trust to not monitor your traffic.