When children are kidnapped, the kidnapper is most often a family member. It happened to a good friend of mine. I don’t see what good cell phone location tracking really does against that, though. A kidnapper can simply take a child’s phone away and toss it.

MixedBread is nice.

That’s insightful. Never thought about that.

Alaska is an interesting place, politically. Last I knew, the major parties there were Libertarian Republicans and the Green Party. I’m not surprised they have a different voting system.

I use Librewolf +uBlock Origin + uMatrix + tor proxy. Javascript, XHR & 3rd party anything turned off. If some sites don’t work, it’s doing its job.

No reason to assume that. Outside of big cities, many businesses don’t even have an online existence.

Wow!

3B is smaller than I would use, but this is interesting.

Also llama.cpp, kobold.cpp, TabbyAPI, Aphrodite engine. There’s dozens of programs, at least, that run LLMs locally.

I always use distro packaging, if it’s available.

I love Storygraph. It’s so polished, with interesting features. It just needs the ability to merge duplicate books.

So annoying. I have to restart Freetube so many times to play a video.

I’ve heard good things about Infomaniak. Whatever works for you!

Nextcloud offers a free account for home users through one of their partner companies, if you go to their signup page. That includes storage space, calendar access, and the ability to sync your calendar & contacts. If you want to pick your own provider, there are reviews on many in the Nextcloud forum. I’ve used Woelkli’s Nextcloud instance for years and never had any problem with them, but I think they may not currently be open to new accounts.

From your description, it sounds like it might’ve been revised in the last few years. The version I bought, which was published in 2015, was rough. Maybe I will re-read it and see how it hits me now.

I read this book years ago and was disappointed by it. It’s basically a list of anecdotes shared with the author by clients mixed with descriptions of studies she’d read. She didn’t sound like she has any personal experience with the subject, or any real insight. The way she portrayed her clients, and children of immature parents in general, also bothered me. There’s the “good ones” who blame themselves for their parents’ behavior and are always the innocent victims, and the “bad ones” who blame someone else for everything and also sexually abuse their siblings. No depth or nuance in the way she sees the people she writes about, and no sympathy for children who react badly to their parents’ fuckery. The final thing I found lacking was that the book doesn’t really go into how to deal with immature parents: different ways of interacting with them that can be helpful, if and how to cut contact, etc. It’s all about helping people to realize that your parents treating you badly is a bad thing. Like, okay, but then what?I respect that the content is helpful to some people, but personally I regret spending $35 on it. Might be better to look for it at the library.

My parents always discouraged me from trying things and gave me self-serving advice.

I use Nextcloud’s calendar, which works with any client that’s compatible with CalDAV, and my ISP’s email service with AnonAddy and SimpleLogin redirects.

I’ve played WoW on OpenSUSE Tumbleweed. No problems there.

I feel like casual rudeness and insults have become more common as more people have come over from Reddit.