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I personally find it quite easy to like parts of the government while disliking other parts of it.

My position on police is complicated. I don't speak to police. I don't like interacting with police. I've met some officers that were real dicks. I don't like our justice system.

I still can donate to the police retirement fund and the shop with a sheriff program, the latter of which is really about the kids, and the former of which falls in line with my some of my other beliefs.

I don't believe in the hate-motivated politics going around right now.

I don't personally feel very confused or conflicted by this situation, although I could see how others might view it as cognitive dissonance--largely because they're working with like 0.01% of the relevant information about me used to form my decision.

Edit: also, thanks for revealing your method. I confess I know a few usernames by heart, and recognize yours as familiar, but there's only maybe 2 commentors here I could nail down to an specific comment. I figured it was probably just some search-box wizardry.

2nd edit: Time to change usernames again, haha. I cycle them sometimes to avoid all the metadata.

What a weird flex. Can we talk about how you managed this? I really hope you didn't go back and read pages and pages of my comments to find a gotcha.

This is HN, so I assume you've built a tool to do it. I'm really curious to hear about the method.

I don't "really enjoy sticking it to the government." First of all, I just chimed in on the other guy's comment. I made a joke about FPV drones.

Second of all, the guy who is supposedly sticking it to the government didn't make that claim himself. He was accused of that by the next comment. I think he probably just wants to check stuff out before it becomes illegal, and that doesn't make him a crank.

I'm just tunneling, really. I prefer the logs on my WG box vs the local ISP and whoever else in-between. I don't think my webhost is really in the business of tracking down VPN users and selling out their browsing history, although it's possible. I do think my ISP probably is cashing in on people's browsing history, though, in some form or fashion.

I use a pi-hole as well to block the trackers etc as much as possible, and so I don't leak DNS requests to the ISP either.

You made up the "pounds" part, he didn't say that. Also, buying things before they disappear is hardly "sticking it to the government."

Yes, it's my VPN triggering it. I run my own Wireguard on a DigitalOcean box, and I'm the only user--so not exactly a lot of bad traffic coming off of my IP (may have in the past, though).

With the prevalence of Cloudfare now, it's pretty onerous to captcha every visit to a new site just because VPN. You would think Cloudfare could at least give me a "session" that persisted across the web, if they're going gatekeep the whole fucking thing.

It occasionally crosses my mind while I'm having the time of my life flying my FPV drone.

Length doesn't make it harder to crack, entropy does.

Length is a good way to add entropy if the characters are not predictable.

"Ava234ncqli3h23rn2f" is a lot stronger than "Ava234ncqli3"

"DonaldTrump" is barely stronger than "Donald"

Hopefully that makes sense.

Half the web has a CAPTCHA just to view content. Thanks, Cloudfare.

That's what I've always done, with an upper limit of 1.

More seriously, this just kicks the can a little bit.

"Already people can chuck a + in the user part...so really there's not much point trying to maintain a 25:1 user to email ratio"

I bought a surface for that reason. I like the portability, and it is just a normal PC with a pretty bad keyboard.

I've already decided the same, and my current vehicle is a 2015, before they started this new wave of nonsense.

I drive a truck. I think I'm going to get my favorite body style of F150 (late 70s/early 80s) and put a brand new engine in it, and whatever else it needs to make it 100%. I don't need any tech except one of those things that turns AUX into FM radio.

When I bought this truck, it replaced a 1996 Jeep Grand Cherokee with 318,000 miles (512,000km). I can live without luxury. I'll miss my heated steering wheel, though.

I collect my rainwater for household use. I must admit, until this moment I had never considered that I interact with space dust on the daily.

NFTs commemorating assassinations of important targets available at the gift shop after conflicts.

What's a nomad? You caravan around and settle new tiles?

I vaguely know that's possible, but I don't venture out a lot honestly.

I still play vanilla. I've never beaten it.

There's a difficulty slider alongside the storyteller.

They're not the same.

Why do I need to go to a specific spot? I have devices that take text input on my body at all times, and I sit in front of one for most of the day.

Nothing--duplicate functionality on my wrist. That's useful for me a lot: motorcycling, fishing, kayaking when I want my phone in a dry bag, silent notifications.

The ease of accessing a voice assistant is nice--I double click a watch button to set reminders/timers/alarms. It's a shame the VA is bixby, but mostly it gets the job done.

> Text messages on phones should (optionally) do the same thing...

Fixed that.

Please, just make all things possible! Let me micro-manage the shit out of notifications!

I have an E650 or something like that--an eco-drive. I traded an xbox 360 for it many years ago, when an xbox 360 was worth about 300 or 400 bucks. I was having trouble selling the xbox before I went overseas, but bringing a watch along worked just fine.

It's a great watch. I would wear it more, but it's a little gaudy for me, and heavy. Still, I've really mistreated it a lot, and it just keeps on going.

> Samsung classic 4 (or whatever) is The Correct Answer™.

I think it's the whole Samsung Galaxy Watch line. My Galaxy Watch (original) has one, and they'd be total fools to remove it in a later model.

I think the only time I touch the watch face is to dismiss notifications with a gesture. The dial is super nice, and I actually default to spinning it to wake the face instead of hitting a button.

The dial is my favorite thing about the watch.

As a video game player, developer (non-game), bar/restaurant owner, and a person who likes to cook:

I think the distance between them is about the same, as the GP noted. It's not analogous, but they didn't make that claim.

I have only cooked less than 1% of the time the restaurant has been open. Also "enjoying cooking" has nothing to do with enjoying a commercial kitchen. Pretty sure literally at all.

I feel compelled to put out quality food, but I do not enjoy it at all when I'm not cooking at home.

I'm born with the right to do whatever I want that doesn't violate the laws of physics.

The rights I appear to lose were taken away from me by a society.

I actually don't ever forget that.

I would agree, however that's not my use case. I don't leave my property except about once per week. I do plenty of "truck stuff" without being in construction, though. I don't think you've hit all the use cases with "work in construction."

I want to second the request for a picture. I think this would solve my watch/keyboard problems.

Thank you!

May have to do with posture or body alignment, less than the watch.

My data point: much like GP, I experience discomfort if I wear my (smart/big) watch while programming. Also if I wear a small watch too tightly.

I get a sensation in my pinky that's a lot like what you feel with a pinched nerve.

I just take the watch off if I'm going to be using the keyboard for any period of time. Gaming especially bothers it.

Notably, I rest my left wrist on the laptop body underneath the keyboard area. If I kept my wrists perched in the air, I doubt I would have any of this going on at all.

Not trying to correct, just to be helpful:

I find personally that some watches are extremely uncomfortable, and some I barely feel.

The small, thin watches that don't get hung up on clothing etc work well for me. Timex weekender, and Casio F91W-1. Of course, they have pretty limited utility. Time & alarm.

All the bigger, nicer watches I've tried are uncomfortable, and that's coming from someone who wears a watch basically every day.

Bands can matter a lot, as well. I have a very small "tightness" range where it's tight enough not to slide around, but not so tight that it hurts at all. The bands with a bunch of holes in them sometimes don't have a hole where I need it.

> cheap fitness band on your ankle

This is a cool idea. I hadn't really toyed with the idea of my watch living anywhere but my wrist.

Like the GP, I have to remove mine a lot for computer sessions, as a heavy keyboard user.

I'm really fatigued by all the stuff I have to carry each day. I think the watch is often the best bang for the buck. Pretty small, rarely in the way, lots of utility.

I don't care about the health tracking, so the ankle isn't an option, but I'm going to think about other ways I can use my (Galaxy) watch.

My full size 2015 GMC truck gets 22mpg on the highway. 18-19 around town.

If the business I start takes money from my mother in law for an order, and someone within the business steals the money, I'm paying her back out of my own pocket if necessary.

I'm not saying it's his fault that it got stolen, I'm saying it's his fault that his MIL never got reimbursed.