it’s funny to see how early habits are formed. A note from my fourth grade report card “…can do the work, but he needs to turn in his work.” Yup, I’ve had trouble with turning in homework all through grad courses. I do it, but then the paper lays forgotten somewhere rather than getting turned in.
@matigo I'd say no, for the same reason I don't have "adblockers" installed. The site is making an implicit contract with their visitors -- "we are sharing this valuable content with you but in order to pay the bills and enable us to do so we need to also show these ads". You can refuse this contract and not get the ads, but to do so while still getting the content is "wrong" in my opinion. I think partial RSS is great, since it lets me scan the headlines on sites where I sometimes find valuable content but I don't want to always visit them and get their ads. The partial RSS allows me to only visit the site (and get the ads) when the content value appears to be something where I will agree to the ads part of the contract.
@matigo I have low needs and plan to keep it that way. I can retire and live on very little and am arranging things to provide at least that.
@matigo once I’m not tethered to this location I dream of leaving this horrid state. CA weather is far too warm for me. I’m more comfortable up in Washington state.
@matigo not to say I think I’ll realistically have it all paid off before I retire. But I hope to get it as low as I can.
@matigo the windows partition is where I put most the games. It was annoying watching it take an hour to fail to update every month.
@matigo I also hope for a slight early repayment. I’m hoping to move when I retire, which is well before 30 years from now.
The Windows10 on my laptop finally managed to apply the 1809 update! All previous attempts (roughly once a month) ended in bluescreen for one of the mid-update reboots and an auto-rollback.
@matigo I’m sure it’d only be ten or 15 for someone paid a good amount. My income is a tad low for this field, though, so it’s 30 for me.
After years of debt-free I’ve decided to go and get saddled with 30 years’ worth of debt. But now I get to move closer to my work, so that’s nice.