I’ve worked for the same company for about twenty years. I’m still rank and file because I’ve repeatedly turned down supervisory roles. Like in your situation, the pay for the more stressful job isn’t much better and comes with a lot more responsibility.

Instead, I negotiated to get myself off the rota system and onto fixed hours. I am the only member of staff outside of upper management who’s on fixed hours. Literally everyone else works shifts. Middle management don’t like that, but I consistently perform well on whatever plausible metrics they dream up, I’m generally well-liked, also they can’t get rid of me because I know where the bodies are buried*.

In summary: I believe you’ve made the right choice, because I made a similar one. But it’s not my choice. The choice is yours alone.

*this is a metaphor for institutional knowledge, as far as I know there are no bodies buried in the old trolley shed behind the Inpost locker

NFCs, bitcoins, silver, gold, whatever. If the only way people can cash out is to get someone to buy what they’re selling, there’s always going to be an element of grift to it. It’s just some are more grifty than others.

I didn’t mean from that creator specifically.

Whiting. With a few whelks from a long-abandoned trap I found.

Linux is a great option nowadays especially if you go for one of the more mainstream distros. Otherwise Windows 11 IoT LTSC is the best of a bad lot.

Each voting system should select a champion. The champions then fight to the first blood. Last champion standing wins.

Welcome to my world, 1am video releases are pretty much standard for me because apparently America is the only country in the world /s

“for technical and operational reasons” my elbow

Their most recent product is https://commerce.jolla.com/products/jolla-mind2-ai-assistant-2nd-batch

The description for which appears to have been written by AI

Nice, wish it wasn’t being made by fucking clankers though

2 is correct. Congratulations! You win a good night’s sleep.

Aw yeah! Aw hell yeah!

At least it’s telling the truth there.

It can’t express how sorry it is, because it’s a large lying machine, it doesn’t even have feelings.

Boo clankers

Never tried it, sorry

Not in this case

Nope

Not as far as I know, there’s no way to set custom DNS that I’ve found.

I’ve trained the algorithm that I don’t tolerate ads.

I rarely see ads on YouTube. I use FreeTube and yt-dlp pretty much exclusively for my YouTube viewing. I only see ads when I watch YouTube on my TV, and even then, only rarely. As soon as it shows me an ad, I close out of YouTube. Not skip ad, not go back, I close YouTube. I switch to audiobooks instead.

The algorithm wants to increase watch time, the only way it can do that is to not show me ads, so that’s what it does. It’s surprising how well it works.

Best I can do on my lunch take at work I’m afraid :)