Or just a pun that went over my head. Either way, thanks for the answer!

I’m guessing there’s some story with spa sex? “Elon Spa Sex” isn’t a search term I’m willing to enter.

My guess is we’re still too small and niche to be a tempting target.

I think the federated nature of lemmy will make it an easy target when it does come along though.

Disclaimer: I don’t really know what I’m talking about.

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I’ve heard of one of them and consumed content from none of them.

According to the plan linked in the article https://mailchi.mp/press.kamalaharris.com/vice-president-harris-lays-out-agenda-to-lower-costs-for-american-families this tax credit would be for low and middle class families. Which I agree with and like. Help those that need it.

Edit: copy/pasta of the relevant bit: “Vice President Harris is proposing a new plan to get tax relief to more than 100 million Americans. Her plan will expand the Child Tax Credit to provide a $6,000 tax cut to families with newborn children. Unlike Trump and Vance, Vice President Harris is committed to ensuring no one earning less than $400,000 a year will pay more in new taxes.”

True. Yet another linchpin.

Edit: spelling.

Signal is centrally hosted thus it’s proverbial rug can be pulled.

It depends on the implementation.

If there’s no voice chat, text based chat participation is considered optional, and the in-game community isn’t toxic, then I might get chatty.

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I use rsync for this purpose and the only notable bottleneck is my download speed, fwiw.

Can confirm.

I had the same problem with enshrouded, including desktop sluggishness. I “fixed” it by fiddling with detail settings until I found one thing that had a significant performance impact. I want to say it was something to do with shadows? I’ll try to remember to look when I’m at my desk. Hopefully someone has a better answer/suggestion, but something to try.

Also, did vulkan shaders run and complete? Mine don’t on Enshrouded, get stuck at 99%. I know that can have a performance impact.

Maybe you can do something with the tampermonkey extension to catch when that audio is triggered and have it do an api call that your script catches?

I don’t know if that’ll actually work, I know of the extension but have never it used nor am I skilled with Javascript but it seems feasible.

Note: I am not a financial expert. And my limited knowledge is for the US credit system.

You want your monthly credit use to be pretty low. I believe under 10% is generally considered good. If you have a low enough limit that maxing it is a concern, then you’ll want to limit the amount of your monthly expenses you put on a credit card.

That’s a fair point. Credit card companies are not our friends, and it’s absolutely in character for them to try and nail us in the fine print.

For my part, I know of my annual fee and the rewards I get more than offset it (though not considerably) but it’s certainly not always so clear cut.

All credit cards are 0% if you pay the balance in full every month. Then it’s just a matter of if the perks are worth the fees (if that’s not something you’re already taking advantage of).

Edit: reworded to not use the word balance twice in different contexts.

There’s certainly more dangers and risk and that’s important to be mindful of, but I don’t agree that it should be limited to having to have a local or a guide.

Some more unsolicited advice to that end.

• There are some places it’s not advisable to go. Perhaps due to conflict or civil unrest.
• There’s more risk if there’s a common cultural bias against you (nationality, ethnicity, religion, gender identity, sexual preferences, etc).
• Research if and what tourist targeted crimes are common ar your destination, as well as scams.
• Affluent areas tend to be safer. And still very affordable, comparatively.
• Don’t carry a lot of valuables. Enough cash for whatever your outing is. I also recommend keeping a travel specific debit card with no international fees and keeping a small balance on it and carry that around. A low limit credit card could also work.
• Let people back home know where you are and check in. If your country has a consulate there, keep that info handy.
• Risks for being a target are higher for women because the world is awful like that.

I know that’s seems like a lot, but it really boils down to being mindful, aware, and prepared.

Edit: split out conflicts and biases and removed a mansplainy bit.

Some unsolicited advice

• Don’t trust anyone trying to make a living off of selling you anything, even something less tangible like a lifestyle.
• If you have extra income after living expenses, set a little aside for personal enjoyment and save/invest the rest. The future is uncertain.
• If you want to travel to far flung destinations and have the means to do so, consider skipping the resort experience. You’ll spend much less especially in developing countries and have a more authentic (relatively speaking), and rewarding experience.

Edit: Formatting.

Maybe conky but probably not?

Conky can be used to display text on your desktop, including grabbing stdout from a program. I’m not familiar with calcurse but if it can dump text output of what you want, that could work.

The big caveat is that conky doesn’t work with wayland. It’s a work in progress (according to the arch wiki, anyway).

Some ideas:

Are you using proprietary nvidia drivers? Display issues after switching kernels could be driver related. If so, switch to nouveau and see what happens.

See if the issues persists with another display manager, such as sddm.