Honestly, I would just tell them

“No thanks”

Remember that no is a full sentence and you don’t owe an explanation to anyone. It’s not a part of your job, unless they pay you to attend. But they almost certainly don’t. I know it’s easier said than done, but try to not succumb to social pressure, it makes life so much better. Our free time is already very limited, so spend it how you want to. If they still try to pressure you into going/giving them answer you can say it’s something personal/private. And if they still pry further you could mess with them by making something up that makes them feel like a total jerk (this is pretty delicate, some people will definitely try to get revenge for this, even if it’s totally irrational. So think about it carefully, alternatively make them regret prying another way that doesn’t hurt them emotionally & socially)

Some people will not like if you behave that way, but try to live your life the way it fullfills you/makes you happy. There’s always gonna be people that don’t like or straight up dislike you, but fuck 'em. They’re not even worth thinking about when you’re busy enjoying life :)

Sorry for the wall of text. Anyway, that’s my 2 cents on the matter

This is only really secure if your server is in a trusted location imo

gocryptfs is what I’d use for this. It’s designed with cloud storage in mind

Using strong encryption should be enough for your use case, unless you’re a high profile target. Even then, it’s more likely whoever is after you will try to get access to your unencrypted files instead because cracking strong encryption isn’t worth it most of the time

Iirc your cloud service provider could still figure out your unencrypted directory layout and filenames. You should really do some research on this if you wanna make sure you know all the risks

Not for me

JS is not slow.

Since JS is single threaded it can be pretty slow compared to anything being able to use multiple threads

Easiest way is to get Windows 11 LTSC from MAS

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Why not use fish though?

Sad blub

Probably stupid but I feel like I’m weird and don’t need as much water as the health officials recommend. Like I’m a more efficient model

Let’s hope your right, otherwise you’re going to experience kidney stones sooner or later. And also all the other effects of sustained dehydration which are no fun and some are irreperable

I currently mostly listen to german rap music.

Only to a handful of artists though because most are fake idiots whose texts don’t have meaning in them. It’s always the same and everyone just produces whatever they think will sell best, zero own personality in their songs

Same for the gasoline. It’s not as uncommon to like it as you might think

That’s it for my streak. Gone, reduced to atoms

I haven’t seen a single ad on any of my devices for more than 10 years

So, no, I did not

females have historically been treated miserably

*People not born into wealth and power

FTFY

My favorite artist is Acaz (german rapper). Can’t tell you my favorite song of his because I love all of them

They updated to 19.0-rc5 some days ago. Might have been accidentally and now it messed up their database or something, idk

Before that I didn’t have a single moment where I couldn’t browse Lemmy via their instance