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It’s not really that hard.

They’re overworked, but look for campus mental health (and general healthcare) clinics. You may have depression, which can be a mitigating factor and you may be able to reduce course load.

If there’s one thing you can control, my suggestion is to be militant about your sleep regime. To a degree, there is value in having a routine and a tidy room, but sleep is just one thing you can change that could make a difference. Knowing you can’t keep working to 2 am may be the difference between playing video games and doing homework.

Also, pomodoro or something to keep you on task. It’s hard being a grown up and not having a teacher checking in every day. Go for a walk too, on longer breaks.

Not having a degree puts your résumé straight in the trash for most white collar work. It doesn’t matter what the degree is, much of the time, so much as you have one. I didn’t make the rules, I just live with them.

Trade school is a good idea, but good luck finding someone who’s taking apprentices. Like in the corporate world, they want entry level people with 10 years experience. It’s decades of long days doing hard work before you’ll settle in, and the days may not get much shorter. There’s also a bunch of private equity getting in there making life suck.

Perhaps I exaggerate, but this person was in a geographic region particularly hard-hit and turns out is really into some of the dangrous behaviour (adjusting filters as part of coming out is, evidently, difficult).

In 1990, AIDS caused 61% of all deaths of men aged 25-44 (born 1946-1965) in San Francisco, 35% in New York, 51% in Ft. Lauderdale, 32% in Boston, 33% in Washington, DC, 39% in Seattle, 34% in Dallas, 38% in Atlanta, 43% in Miami, and 25% in Portland, Oregon.

Also: https://academic.oup.com/gerontologist/article-abstract/52/2/255/613902

That level of automation in an HR form is a pipe dream

AIDS is a huge one.

I met someone a little while ago who was fresh out of the closet and complaining how long they’d spent there.

Statistically, they’d be dead if they were out pre AIDS.

For those wondering, it’s Ante Meridiem and Post Meridiem. It’s Latin.

Just look at him.

Then look at his list of girlfriends. Actresses and models (and a kardashian).

The man is consistently dating 10s and he’s a solid great personality.

I expose homeasssistant via nginx. I run snort and I can assure you I am constantly getting hits. I haven’t tuned it much, so I’m sure there’s false positives in there but I’m equally sure there’s false negatives.

If you can’t figure out how to set up docker, set up a reverse proxy, check and configure TLS, you definitely aren’t ready for self hosting. It’s a highly technical exercise and one bad move will make your Internet connection part of a botnet. (Arguably, you don’t even need to be self hosting for that, but there’s no point in making it easy).

I believe it’s never been easier to set up a home server. I set up Tailscale in between sips of coffee one day and my mind (as an almost-grizzled sysadmin) was blown. My non technical family members can set up a VPN in 10 minutes. It’s a terrible security practice, but there’s pipe-to-bash scripts everywhere now that get things set up and running in minutes. You want Homeassistant container on proxmox? Burn the proxmox image to a usb, boot and install, then run this command. Boom. Homeassistant in a container. Let’s do pihole - another script and we’re done.

It’s ludicrously easy to get going compared to even 10 years ago.

Yes, when you want to change a setting, or configure it for local use, it’s more complicated. But that’s the way it’s always been, and that’s how I learn - follow the cookbook, and then realize you need to change this piece, which requires understanding that piece, and there you go.

That’s not what I said

It’s also one of the last bastions of hard work paying off.

Except private equity is increasingly getting involved.

I just saw that tinder is testinf ai to match profiles.

Thanks. Will check it out.

Good way of putting it. How many people have three devices they can use for storing passkeys? I don’t and I’m a nerd.

Yeah this is my situation. My personal computer is really infrequently used and as such I’m already in a dangerous situation when it comes to sign-in risk detection kicking off and asking for further authn proofs. I’ve had my phone die (and come to life when its replacement arrived) and that was a harrowing situation because all the MFA is stored there. Passkeys seem to make it worse, unless I subscribe to a sync service, which I need to infallibly trust (and I’m iffy on that; 1Password has a good security model and all that but passkeys are a different level of trust).

You create unique accounts for every team member so that access can appropriately be logged.

Or you implement a PAM tool that logs access and vaults the password and rotates it after use.

They’re device-bound certificate based authentication with some shiny bits.

Or they’re portable-via-certain-services certificate based authentication with some shiny bits.

Either way they’re new and try explaining that the user needs a new one for every device (or needs a new app to carry them around in) and that if the device dies, or the app dies, they lose it all. I have quite a few people in my life who can’t wrap their heads around using a password manager.

Personally, I find them irritating. My chosen password manager on iPhone doesn’t support them, so I need to have the iOS password vault turned on (yes, this is a dark pattern Apple has created to try to increase adoption of their password vault) to use them. Adoption needs to be much higher, interoperability needs to be better, and they need to put back the hint for which vault to use (which was removed early on to keep Microsoft and google from forcing chrome/edge vaults, but has the actual effect that chrome/edge tend to win the race over other options and means that the passkey prompt might be for a different app than the one that you prefer, leading to further user confusion)

That’s an IAM no-no.

How many unemployed people do you know in the trade? You can’t learn it overnight. Existing projects are underway, and the equipment needs to be built.

Edit - reread the summary there and they broke ground in 2019; you’re right that’s silly.

You need a comprehensive detox. Both those substances are depressants. When you’re off the drugs, you’re not so much sober as hung over. It takes a while for the effects to wear off. The hangover is a bad time but it takes a lot longer than a day for your body to fully recover.

“Dissociative drugs make me happy.” Perhaps you have anxiety, depression, etc. Yeah, life sucks right now too. But always being high isn’t really a solution. Therapy, antidepressants, friends, and family can help but I can’t begin to guess what your situation is.