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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (3 children)

What makes you keep them separate?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

What kind of firewall do you have? (Not on the VM, though something similar might work there also)

I use OPNSense and have an allow rule for the specific IP and port my VPN uses from that VM's IP. Then a block everything from the VM IP after the allow.

I can connect to the VPN no problem, updates and everything work through the VPN. When it goes down it trys to connect normally and fails.

DNS can be a problem when trying to connect to the VPN so make sure to use the IP

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago

Let's see if this works.

x formerly twitter

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 years ago

I rent, I vote NDP. Singh has a temper but he's a good guy.

https://www.narcity.com/jagmeet-singh-conservatives-laughing-canadians-cant-afford-groceries

I have friends who rent who would "love to vote NDP but they're never going to win so they vote Liberal as to not throw away their vote". Fuck. The system is broken if people need to vote like this.

I can't wait for my generation to be old enough to be elected.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (3 children)

I thought Foobar was windows only?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Yeah. My first request was to add a couple GB to my nextcloud and get a couple aliases. Then I wanted to move my mail to them and nothing. I followed up a couple times.

How is mailbox bothering you? I have the cheapest that allows a custom domain and I've never seen anything about moving to a different plan.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Disroot support never responded to my request, even though I supported them monthly so I looked elsewhere. No complaints with mailbox.org

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago

If you're 10+ hours away clocking in for 2 minutes isn't possible.

If you're ever in this situation, look up constructive dismissal. Basically its better to stay home and be "fired" and refuse the voluntarily resignation. That being said, the USA has a lot less protections for employees then Canada or Europe but it's good to be informed anyway.

[–] [email protected] 112 points 2 years ago (8 children)

Amazon employees who refused to relocate near main offices of their teams were told they either have to find a new job internally or leave the company through a “voluntary resignation.”

How dumb does he think people are? This just makes me angry because they're probably going to get away with it too.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

https://archive.is/NNBct

During the first decade and a half of this century, young American men devoted a growing amount of time to computer and video games and a shrinking amount to work. In a 2017 paper that received tons of attention, four economists proposed that better games (“improved leisure technology”) were luring young men away from the workplace. In a response that received less attention but that I found more convincing, economist Gray Kimbrough argued that the interaction between weak labor demand and “a shift in social norms (that) rendered playing video games more acceptable at later ages” explained the data better.

It may be time for some new hypotheses. Statistics released last month by the US Bureau of Labor Statistics from the annual American Time Use Survey show that the time young men spent “playing games” — the survey doesn’t differentiate between electronic and non-electronic games, but most researchers assume it’s chiefly the former — rose by nearly three-quarters of an hour from 2019 to 2022, more than it had increased over the previous 16 years. A Big Increase in Gaming Time for Young Men

Average daily hours spent playing games, US men ages 15 through 24* 0 0.5 1.0 1.5 2.0 2010 2020 2003 2019:1.08 hours 2022:1.82 hours

Source: US Bureau of Labor Statistics American Time Use Survey

*Data not available for 2020

I don’t think there’s been a sudden acceleration in video-game quality improvement over the past three years, and labor demand was quite strong in 2021 and 2022. There was, however, a pandemic that brought big layoffs in early 2020 and an extended experiment in remote schooling and work that continued long after that. Amid all that disruption, young men turned to their computers and gaming consoles. So did young women, but from a much lower starting point. The Gaming Gender Gap

Average daily hours spent playing games, US, ages 15 through 24*

Men
Women

0 0.5 1.0 1.5 2.0 2010 2020 2003

Source: US Bureau of Labor Statistics American Time Use Survey

*Data not available for 2020

What are young men doing less to free up time for all that gaming? That’s hard to say with too much confidence: All these estimates are derived from a survey of about 26,400 households that is subject to sampling and other errors, and while the increases in gaming time are so big we can be confident that they represent a real phenomenon, some of the other changes could be mostly noise. Still, it does appear that, since the pandemic, most of the additional gaming time has come from work and sports/exercise/recreation. 1 The Changing Shape of Young Men’s Days

Change in average daily hours devoted to selected activities, US men 15-24 Since 2019 2003-2019 Playing games 0.74 0.51 Sleeping -0.03 0.41 Eating and drinking 0.10 0.16 Computer use for leisure (ex games) 0.05 0.10 Household activities -0.10 0.14 Educational activities* -0.04 0.07 Organizational and religious activities 0.06 -0.14 Sports, exercise and recreation -0.26 0.16 Watching TV -0.04 -0.15 Working and work-related activities* -0.35 0.03 Socializing and communicating -0.03 -0.41

Source: US Bureau of Labor Statistics

*Includes travel time to school or work

Before the pandemic, there was a big decline in the estimated time young men spent socializing and communicating, and smaller drops in the time spent participating in organizational and religious activities and watching TV — with the latter activity, at 2.14 hours a week in 2022, probably destined to be surpassed by gaming soon. Notably, given the academic debate discussed at the beginning of this column, there wasn’t any decline in hours worked. That’s partly because young men’s average working hours rose after the periods examined in the papers discussed above, which seems to lend support to Kimbrough’s argument, but also possibly because both papers examined trends among men ages 21 through 30 while the statistics in all the charts here are for ages 15 through 24, which is how the BLS reports them. 2

The share of men ages 15 to 24 who spent at least some time playing games on an average day topped 50% for the first time in 2022, at 52.4%. Before the electronic era, playing games was often a social activity (bridge, anyone?), and it’s possible that part of what’s been transpiring is that the social aspect of gaming has made a comeback, with a big boost from pandemic lockdowns during which multiplayer online games provided a socially distanced way to spend time with friends.

Then there’s the question of games versus work. The 20-to-24 age group has lagged both teenagers and prime-age (25 to 54) workers in the job market recovery of the past three years, with labor-force participation still down 2.1 percentage points since February 2020 among the men, as of May, and 1.3 points among the women. I don’t think games are really the cause of this, but the big increase in time spent on them could be a symptom of the disruption the pandemic caused for a subset of young adults who had just joined or were on the cusp of joining the labor market, and it’s possible that heavy video game use is making it harder for some to get their lives back on track. Among men ages 15 to 24 who spent at least some time playing games on an average day in 2022, the average time spent was 3.82 hours, which is a pretty significant chunk of the day, and 8% of those in the age group played for six or more hours a day. 3 I think that might be too much!

Don’t worry, though, I’m not going to conclude this column by yelling at the youngsters to stop spending so much time playing video games. How could I, given that young men and their gaming consoles still don’t hold a candle to old men and their televisions? American men 65 and older spent an average of just more than five hours a day watching TV in 2022, up from just more than four in 2003. Senior Citizens Watch a Lot of Television

Average daily hours spent watching TV, ages 65 and older*

Men
Women

Source: US Bureau of Labor Statistics American Time Use Survey

*Data not available for 2020

I don’t think this trend has significant labor-market implications, but the fact that those 65 and older make up a larger share of the US population than ever and are watching more TV than ever probably explains a lot about our strange political era, and also just seems kind of sad. The slight decline in TV time since 2019 is within the margin of error, but the fact that it didn’t grow during the pandemic is at least slightly encouraging. Seriously, my soon-to-be-fellow elderly Americans (I’m 59): stop watching so much TV!

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