You probably still won’t go with the iPad. All I’m saying is, think about it for a little bit instead of writing it off so immediately. Talk about it with your mom who is actually going to be using it.
All Microsoft office apps are available on iPad. If you can get all their files stored in the Microsoft cloud (OneDrive? Office 365?) and get the Adobe files up on Creative Cloud, you may be surprised at how seamless the iPad switch might be. It may be a hassle, but it could be a one-shot hassle. You have to balance that against the potential hassle of the security risk of a Windows PC.
Even if I wanted to recommend a Windows laptop, the choices aren’t great right now. The Microsoft Surfaces are very nice, but unreliable. I’ve seen a lot of people have them break and need to get them fixed/replaced. All the other choices are kind of the same. What difference is there between a Dell, a Lenovo, and an Acer? Not much. Get whatever is on sale.
For a european I have a rather weird “skill” where I can name all fifty U.S. states. The reason for this is because I sometimes use them as a sleep aid similar to counting sheep. At one point I was just able to name them all. Usually I start with Alaska and Hawaii and then name the lower 48 starting from the west coast and going eastward.
I am currently doing something similar, trying to memorize Japan’s 47 prefectures, starting with Hokkaido, going Honshu from the northeast to the southwest, Shikoku and Kyushu and end with Okinawa.
Anyone have a preferred alternative to The Verge? Their being very pro-NFT has made me decide to drop them and I’m curious if another site covers as many topics in-depth as they do.
Are they pro NFT? I only see one NFT story on the front page and it’s simply reporting that there is an NFT company that is starting/exists.
As for alternatives, it really depends exactly what you are looking for. There are lots of choices for journalism of all kinds of topics, but few of them are well funded professional organizations. And when you get into niche topics or special interests, choices are even fewer.
My solution has been, and continues to be, to aggregate several feeds and also aggressively filter them.
Yeah, I think I’m going to need to aggregate and filter like that.
And, they seem to be pro-NFT but have heavier days of covering it than others. The recent interview of Keanu Reeves laughing while being asked about NFTs was The Verge but they’ve also made articles for how to create NFTs and have more posts discussing NFTs cutely while few criticizing them, even considering their science team covers climate change extensively.
Admittedly, outside how to create them, their coverage may just be neutral on NFTs. That being said, they’re supposed caring greatly for the environment and ethics in their journalism while discussing NFTs as is equal to other media forms invalidates their credibility to me. They have just a handful of articles about the consequences of NFTs and significantly more showing people offering them. Ironically, the person who seems to have posted the most critical take on them is the same who described how to create them.
I mean, if I ran an actual journalistic organization, it’s not like I could just tell everyone to not write about NFTs at all. it’s a thing that’s happening. People should be informed about it. There are facts that need to be stated. Hey, this new company is doing NFT bullshit, that’s a news probably worth printing, especially if that company is big.
Now, if we had an opinion section, there might even be some pro-NFT people in there. There might be some anti-NFT people in there. I’m not going to silence either one unless their opinion piece also includes something we know to be misinformation. And if we only discover the information was wrong after printing, we’ll publish a correction later. Of course, writing a pro-coin op-ed isn’t going to be easy without including misinformation.
So I guess for me to consider a news outfit to be pro-NFT pro-coin, I would have to see opinion pieces on the site that are spreading pro-coin lies. Or I would have to see some sort of conflict of interest like writers putting in stories about coins they own to get the price to go up and enrich themselves. Or someone crossing the line between the ad department and the writing department to push a pro-coin narrative. I can’t say I’ve seen evidence of any of that.
But! writing that just did make me realize something. The only use of coins that can’t be done better with a normal database is crime. It’s hard to hide your normal stock market conflicts of interest if you’re a writer. It’s very easy to hide your coin holdings. Any writer at any organization making any pro-coin story is suspect of secretly owning the coin they are promoting, and there’s no way to know. Even if you searched their entire house and all their belongings and digital files it’s still possible they have a wallet key on a USB stick hidden somewhere and all other evidence was deleted.
Is there a name for this kind of bridge? I’ve got a couple crossing the stream in my backyard that need repairs and was trying to find plans or schematics.
Has Glenn Greenwald always been a shitty person with the worst possible hot takes? I seem to remember him being a respected trusted journalist at some point. But it’s possible that I was also just full of shitty ideas at that time. Did someone hurt him?
Yes. Literally since his Salon days. He also wasn’t much of a lawyer, and his porn and sex tourism businesses were pretty shitty and exploitative too.
He was never really much of a journalist. He was a columnist(Ie, writing opinion and giving perspective on current events, not reporting news), and most of his respect came from people attributing stories to him that he didn’t do the hard work on. Like the Snowden story, which he blew off because he couldn’t be arsed with the security measures Snowden wanted, and was only saved when Snowden copied in Laura Poitras, and she went “Holy shit, this is huge, what the fuck Glenn”. She then both brought in Ewen MacAskill(Guardian’s defence and intelligence correspondent), and started really pushing the story forward, dragging Glenn along like a balloon on a string because he was basically just the bait to keep snowden on the hook, since Snowden reached out to him first.
Fun facts - he also never got a Pulitzer, despite his claims. The Guardian won that Pulitzer, and he keeps claiming it as his own, despite it not being an individual prize, and despite being the smallest part of that team.
I don’t think that’s necessarily the case. A lot of his image for a while was based on basically three things: 1)Goodwill from the Snowden disclosures, 2)People naively assuming that the reason he hated liberals was because he was left-wing(He’s always been a pretty right-wing Ron Paul Libertarian), and 3)basically people being willing to look the other way on all the shitty stuff while singing his praises, because for quite a while there, even milquetoast Bernie support could cover a truly astounding amount of sins.
That explains a lot. Thank you. I definitely got duped by his being involved with the Snowden revelations and such. Tried for a long time to believe that he was just holding the Left’s feet to the fire in a positive way. That belief faded long ago.
No worries mate, happy to help. And again, there’s no need to be hard on yourself - you can’t be blamed for being fooled by someone actively playing silly games for personal gain, while surrounded by folks that have also been fooled and keep reinforcing it.
Does anyone have suggestions for how a non profit animal shelter can let volunteers sign up for shifts? My friend runs a cat shelter and asked for advice. She stopped accepting volunteers in 2020 due to COVID and wants to try slowly letting a small number of volunteers sign up for some shifts.
This weekend, I’m going to test using the Google appointment schedules, but does anyone have a better idea? My friend has a small monthly budget she can spend if buying a service is needed.
The goal is to let volunteers sign up for shifts so we can make sure not too many people are in the building at one time.
What you want to look for is free scheduling software. Calendly is really popular, and is pretty close, but is designed primarily for meetings, not shifts. Not sure if it will work. There are plenty of competitors, though.
