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Just like 3 weeks ago I started using Tailscale. I’d highly recommend trying that.

It does some uuuuh… magic to establish direct connections on most networks. You can verify whether you’re using direct connection or relay using tailscale status on Linux.

It uses Wireguard under the hood. There’s also Tailnet lock feature (still in beta) in case you don’t trust Tailscale to not maliciously add devices to your Tailnet.

This would give you lower latency than the VPS solution. I use it with CG-NAT on both sides. I also started using it for LAN since it establishes direct connection over LAN too, and seamlessly switches between networks so I can disconnect from LAN and keep current connections going over WAN or vice versa.

But I’ve just tried now, and it won’t work even on LAN without internet access. Still better than a VPS solution in some way.

But you may also try looking into headscale which is basically a lightweight self-hosted private Tailscale control server, but I haven’t tried anything with that.

I don’t want to make a separate comment since I am also not from US, but damn, this sounds overblown to me. Especially for someone who’s just related to your friend.
And especially from a student, since students are generally quite poor.

Not sure if you’ll find something that cheap, but RackNerd has some pretty cheap offers sometimes. Thing is, they don’t seem to expire, so there’s this: https://racknerdtracker.com/?sort=price

But I haven’t tried them yet.
Also keep in mind the monthly bandwidth limits.
You get what you pay for, and $10/year is basically nothing.

Oh, and you may be responsible for random people’s traffic depending on the provider. I think I’ve read in ToS of some VPS provider that you have to notify them about running a public service for this reason.

I don’t use it, but Slovak QWERTZ is the standard in my country. But using it feels like a pain in the ass (for me). Some characters need ctrl+alt rather than just shift, others may only be written with alt codes, at least on Windows…

Part of my graduation exam was literally to just type \ % @ & on a computer. Thankfully for me, settings wasn’t blocked, so I just added US layout.

If I need some slovak characters I do either one of the following:

1. Say “fuck it” and write it without diacritics (“like SMS”)
2. If needed in forms, use KCharSelect
3. Smartphone virtual keyboard
4. Like 1 but printed on paper with diacritics added using a pen
5. Write it in English even if I am not supposed to and wait for the outcome
6. Write it in English, pipe it to Google Translate (I find writing in English mostly easier anyway - doesn’t mean I am good at it)
7. Write it in English, (attempt to) translate it myself
8. Good ol’ pen 'n paper all the way (I mean, I’ve got a fountain pen too)

Where did you hear that?
So far I’ve only heard about teaching kids how to use it as a tool rather than trusting everything it says, or even replacing a human. And I’d agree on that. Too many people (by far not just kids) take what ChatGPT, Gemini and chatbots alike say for granted.

I sometimes get this with Mullvad in official YouTube app as well.

So, what are you in prison for?

There is no deal on the table I think that they will want me on it for at least another 2 years before release is considered

OK, 2 years or 6 years then?
Anyway, your legal team has said there is a chance. Only one way to find out.

Really, what are you going to loose? Excessive sex drive?

Well, I can’t directly answer yes/no. I think that refusal should lead to more restrictions on your freedom. I don’t mean this as a punishment, but more so as a protection measure, of others.
You need to understand that you are currently unsafe as-is, and try to work on fixing that.

Searching about the specific drug (for risk assessment), hard to tell for me. I am not a medical doctor. I don’t even know the dosage and length of treatment (in case it’s not long-term).
It does seem like one of the riskier drugs, but do they outweigh the other risks?
It also seems to be commonly used by MtF trans people (it’s a T blocker, so it makes sense). If the risks are worth it in those cases, I’d wager it’s worth in yours too.

And from Wikipedia:

In addition, it has been found to decrease the rate of reoffending in sex offenders from 85% to 6%, with most of the reoffenses being committed by individuals who did not follow their CPA treatment prescription.

Sounds effective.

I encourage you to go ahead with it. If that attraction/desire is so strong that you cannot control it yourself, this will most likely help you feel better too. At least that sounds logical.
Plus you should obviously get some psychological help too, not just meds. You can’t really loose anything by going to therapies, except for a few minutes of time.

Unfortunately, you can’t fix the past, but you can work on the future. You won’t seem weak by trying to get help, quite the contrary. Don’t bullshit others and yourself with excuses. So please, do go ahead with the treatment. It’s not just for others, it’s not just for you, but for both.

Also, maybe it would help if you read or listened to some stories of survivors, and try to imagine yourself on the victim side instead, to build some empathy. You didn’t steal someone’s wallet, sexual abuse creates lifelong trauma.

Again, I am not MD, psychologist or even some good writer, but it sounds like a good choice from the options you currently have.

If you ever catch me smiling at my phone, it’s probably because I started laughing randomly and it’s weird so I am staring at a blank screen which is something you don’t know but the whole thing suddenly looks normal.

Previously solved by facemasks.
I didn’t even have to interact with people much.
I want another pandemic. I mean, in a good way or something…

Developing? Is it?

Your title is missing s in news.

tailed buttplugs

The whole comment aside, just for those unaware, if you see someone with a tail in public, or just anywhere outside of sex-centered environment, it’s almost surely a belt.

And finally “We are reaching out to let you know Alexa key phrase based activation will no longer be supported. For better personalization, Alexa will always process audio in background. Don’t worry, your audio is safe with us, we highly care about your privacy.”

My every usage of assistant boiled down to just “What’s this song?”, so I just replaced it with Shazam.

Gemini… having tried it, you will surely get an answer, perhaps based on random magic.

I’d extend that to around 25 - 30 for such bigger things since around that is when brain generally finishes developing…

Matters when they met.

I left Reddit after API protests, but that’s not where I found it. I was just lurking around elsewhere. Then at one point on Twitter, SDF posted about running a Lemmy instance, so I tried joining it.

Hence the username, I thought this was an SDF’s thing so I used my SDF UNIX username, user224, instead of my regular lukmly013.

user224 was also unintentional, since I intended to use lukmly013, but someone, a user name xiled, has verified my account for free giving me more access. And thus I had to keep the username, originally meant just for testing purposes.
It would otherwise be just $1, but via PayPal which I am unable to use. I even got shadow-banned for cases when guest payments are allowed in my country. And I am not going to make an account for a barely functional service (PayPal).

Let’s drink swill milk [Wikipedia] to that.

The swill milk scandal was a major adulterated food scandal in the state of New York in the 1850s. The New York Times reported an estimate that in one year, 8,000 infants died from swill milk.

Swill milk referred to milk from cows fed swill which was residual mash from nearby distilleries. The milk was whitened with plaster of Paris, thickened with starch and eggs, and hued with molasses.

Swill milk dairies were noted for their filthy conditions and overpowering stench both caused by the close confinement of hundreds (sometimes thousands) of cows in narrow stalls where, once farmers tied them, they would stay for the rest of their lives, often standing in their own manure, covered with flies and sores, and suffering from a range of virulent diseases. These cows were fed boiling distillery waste, often leaving the cows with rotting teeth and other maladies. The milk drawn from the cows was routinely adulterated with water, rotten eggs, flour, burnt sugar, and other adulterants with the finished product then marketed falsely as “pure country milk” or “Orange County Milk”.