I personally like to keep it on. Most of my messaging is with family and friends and it’s good to know if someone read or hasn’t read my message.

Especially if things are time critical. Picking someone up? Asking if they need anything from the supermarket? If I see that they read the message I know that they are going to reply in a moment. If they didn’t even read the message I won’t have to wait around / can guess that they are currently in the car or wherever.

Sometimes you also have a spotty connection, so the received + read receipt can tell you if they actually got your message.

In general if someone sends me a message and I read it… I’m going to fucking reply to it (if I’m not super busy, and even then I might send a quick message back). I seriously don’t get people who just leave things on read and then forget about it.

But the NAS is in your house… which basically means if it gets flooded/burns down all your data is gone too.

I already have my data on my PC, a second backup inside the same house isn’t worth that much. But instead of relying on a cloud service I just rent a virtual server (for various things) and use Seafile to keep my data in sync.

PC breaks? House burns down? My data is on my own server in a datacenter. My server gets cancelled? My data is on my PCs.

So even with your NAS you are 100% reliant on a cloud backup still, so why did you get the NAS when you already have a copy of your data on your devices?

On the other hand you can lose your email address at any time if you don’t own the domain. So if Google decides they don’t like something you wrote your @gmail.com address could be gone tomorrow. And with it all your accounts you set up (as you need email usually to login or do changes).

The whole e-mail ecosystem sucks :-/

My self-hosted mail server works fine for now, but that could change at any moment.

TDD is great when you have a very narrow use case, for example an algorithm. Where you already know beforehand: If I throw A in B should come out. If I throw B in C should come out. If I throw Z in an error should be thrown. And so on.

For that it’s awesome, which is mostly algorithms.

In real CRUD apps though? You have to write the actual implementation before the tests. Because in the tests you have to mock all the dependencies you used. Come up with fake test data. Mock functions from other classes you aren’t currently testing and so on. You could try TDD for this, but then you probably spend ten times longer writing and re-writing tests :-/

After a while it boils down to: Small unit tests where they make sense. Then system wide integration tests for complex use-cases.

That’s really weird. But I can explain one value there:

You set it to 650 GB (1000 bytes), fdisk might show you GiB (1024 bytes) though. Which would be 634.8 GiB.

It’s the same as you buying a 1 TB disk and you only get a 977 GB partition out of it.

No clue about your other apps though, sorry.

But you can easily test this yourself: Go and try to create a new Discord account without a phone number. Then try to use it.

I couldn’t, Discord immediately forces me to add a phone number on login.

Maybe it’s regional? Or they have different behavior based on your email address provider?

I gave up on having a second account.

You don’t get it. Server settings are only one part of it, Discord also has their own account wide policies.

For example I had a second account I used on Discord. Verified email, used it for years on and off every now and then. Last time I tried to login? No longer possible, I need to add a valid phone number and verify it. I couldn’t even get back into the account at all!

No way around it, if Discord flags your account for whatever reason they log you out and force you to add a phone number. All it might take is you pressing logout once and next time you try to login you’re blocked. If even that.

That’s an old account then. New ones don’t work without. And at some point they suddenly force you to add a number out of nowhere.

If you want to use Discord nowadays you need a valid phone number, that’s it.

Either you agree with it and use their service, or you don’t and delete your account with all your data.

They use this to battle spam accounts (with quite some success, been over a year since I’ve been contacted by scammers), there is no good way around it.

Honestly that’s more user friendly than 9 out of 10 application forms I’ve run into.

The best way for me to avoid this mess for now has always been an email with my pdf files attached.

It’s a language model, it can’t even do math reliably. Yes, it produces code that works sometimes, but it also hallucinates functions that don’t exist or can introduce bugs you won’t notice at first glance.

And writing a script is different than extending an existing code base. How often do you really start a greenfield project?

I wouldn’t even know how to input a code base into ChatGPT to extend, do you just throw in hundreds of files with a 100k+ lines of code?

Knowing the companies involved this is a positive change.

Activision Blizzard is a toxic dump. My hope is Microsoft throws out Activision management and cleans things up.

It literally can’t get worse than it is right now.