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Another thing I am curious about is time of day too -- I was told vitamin D/Multivitamins were better taken in the morning with food.


Is not supporting TPM an issue in terms of some app compability though? I was investigating whether to upgrade an old computer from windows 10 to 11 and that was said somewhere online. I don't know if its true or fearmongering.


Office and some other “modern auth” apps can store MFA-equivalent tokens in the TPM to minimise the number of “tap the thing on the phone” prompts during single sign on.

I discovered this when I recovered a dead laptop’s disk image to a VM and the sudden absence of a TPM killed all of my cached Office credentials.


People seem to use VPNs to avoid IP based issues, like Netflix or ip bans/associations, not sure anyone would use it for actual privacy -- at best its obsfucation.


Isn't Netflix pretty good at detecting VPNs at this point?


what VPN companies?


And what types of data?


The urls are logged usually and also like the other commentator pointed out can be stored in browser history/bookmarked.

I've seen just a general recommendation to avoid urlencoding parameters -- I guess that's why?


All audiobooks are like this for me. I tried it for lectures but if I'm taking handwritten notes, I can't keep up my writing.

I wonder if there is negative side effects of this though, do you notice when interacting with people who speak slower require a greater deal of patience?


I once attended a live talk by Leslie Lamport and as he talked, I had the overwhelming feeling that something was wrong, and was thinking “did he have a stroke or something?” but then I realized I had just always watched his lectures online and had become accustomed to listening to him at 2x.


No but a little. I struggle with people who repeat every point of what they're saying to you several times or when you say "you told me exactly this the last time we spoke" they cannot be stopped from retelling the whole thing verbatim. Usually in those situations though there's some potential cognitive issues so you can only be understanding.


I wonder if there is negative side effects of this though, do you notice when interacting with people who speak slower require a greater deal of patience?

You are basically training your brain to work faster, and I suspect that causes some changes in the structure of your memory; if someone speaks too slowly, I'll be more likely to forget what they said earlier, compared to if they quickly gave me the entire sentence.


I guess because commercial media drives on advertising dollars that ultimately are meant to drive consumerism?

I think minimalism/no buy movements are big though.


Yes. I don't think a broadcaster would accept a billion dollars for a 30 second "ad" during the Super Bowl with a message that said "buying this junk will not make you happy".


It's the straw that breaks the camel's back I think for most people.

Constant nagging by the operating system for Windows products (I have enabled onedrive personally, but for some reason it installed two file explorer quick access links, and the workarounds online fail to persist reboots) -- hijacking file extensions, hijacking program aliases (I just had to remove a windows store alias in my env variables for "python" despite having it already installed months prior), the constant cat and mouse to have local account-only possible, inability to remove edge/stop being pestered about it, and now recall (which is not truely opt-in since it gets installed whether you want it or not).


And "modern" TVs have motion smoothing which make so many things look so synthetic and dizzying.


We’ve got the minority opinion; most don’t even notice. I make a point to ask whenever around others near one.


First thing I turn off when I get new TVs. It destroys old cartoons especially. Neutral color profile too. RTINGS tells you how to do it.


Creatine does tend to get added to pre-workouts chocked full with caffeine, but stimulant free pre-workouts exist and you can always buy it in bulk seperately either in pill or powdered form.


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