Am also an idiot. I have several raspberry pis and UPS boards mostly operating on hopes and dreams, and the most useful things I do are a single-user nextcloud instance that's even accessible over the Internet, and a smb drive that's always accessible
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I can hear them from inside a car
Duh, it can go 200 mph stock.
Na [na na na] [na na na] [na na na] naa na.
Someone can logically agree to something but emotionally still hate it.
Logically, car drivers should understand and appreciate the zipper merge, bc it makes traffic better. But emotionally it's too difficult for them to let someone in ahead of them.
Same thing you can explain about alternatives to cars making traffic better. But when they see money or (God forbid) space on the road going to infrastructure other than cars, it will feel like a zero sum game again.
That is the biggest challenge I've experienced in trying to promote alternatives
Let's be real the type of hotel I can afford doesn't want customers that care about the Wi-Fi
I will try to investigate further, but for instance if you go to duckduckgo.com, it says something like "this website is not on our whitelist, let us know if you think you need access." It's very annoying, so I avoid the WiFi when I can.
unless you are important they'll tell you to pound sand.
What can you do if the school has a whitelist of domains they accept HTTPS (443) connections for?
You're right they didn't say it very nicely, but they are correct in a sense. You may need to use the "polite but firm card" if they aren't taking no for an answer, but it doesn't hurt to soften the rejection if you are saying no to a picture with a patient or someone else that you cared for. Many people will respect that, and the niceness goes a long way. And if they don't respect it, you don't owe them anything.
I agree, and you can explain that it's not personal, and offer an alternative -if you want- write a note as a memento or something
I think Lemmy does this. Also Mastodon.