Quite fear mongering and not very educative. Throws around a lot of terms whose meanings are not explained, nor are there links to further descriptions. This doesn’t help people who need to know about this stuff. If you already know about this stuff, it doesn’t really add any value.

I’m having a hard time defining “best”, so I’ll put out a few categories:\

• Most used: my rooted Samsung Galaxy S23, which I use for listening to HiFi music (Tidal + Android USB Audio Player + AudioQuest DrangFly Cobalt DAC + Sennheiser IE 900).\
• Most fun tinkering with: used Lenovo ThinPad T480, on which I swapped out the storage, RAM and wireless network module {1TB, 32GB, WiFi 6e}. I also learned Arch Linux and some C programming on it.\
• Bringing it with me everywhere and is not my phone: my rooted Samsung Galaxy Tab A9+ and my Deltaco WK90b keyboard, a form factor which they have stopped making, which is bonkers. I bring these two to local coffee shops and libraries and learn coding on Termux.\
• Having own the longest: my sound mixer Notepad 8fx by Soundcraft, 42 inch 4K Philips TV and Adam A5X studio monitors. The studio monitors, I have had for more than ten years. The mixer and TV, for about seven. This is my media setup for consuming video and audio. I play video on the above mentioned Lenovo laptop, streamed from my Linux ISO torrenting rig and audio I mostly play from my vinyl player. This also used to be me karaoke setup when I still had a Nintendo Switch and when I still was happy.

Everything everybody else has already said. Also, check out my previous post.

Keep in mind: no port forwarding, wireguard only

I have only every used Mullvad. Never looked back. Have their app on my parents’ computers and my phone. Also running an OpenWRT router bound to one of their servers.

“Slapped” 🤣 I think I forgot to remove the getchars after having used scanf, I had learned here. As you said, to clean up the input buffer.

I had JUST written down in my TODO list to make a function of it! 😁

Thank you so much! 😊

Sweet! I’ll check it out! 😊

Ah, gotcha! Thanks!

I am not accepting applications at this time. But when I open shop again - whenever I manage to manage my depression -, I require the following: strawberry cake.🍰

Yeah, the gif is just a representation of what I feel at the time. What I actually do is kiss her on her cheek, whisper in her ear that she’s the most beautiful person in the entire universe, upon which she smiles slightly which in turn disrupts her snoring. Bada bing bada boom.

That thought never occurred to me. What the… Have you seen or heard or read any articles that talk about back pain among those that have been infected by covid or that have been vaccinated?

Exercise balls. After my boss bought a dozen for the workplace, I realized how much less my lower back was hurting. If I make an effort to also move my hip in various ways, it hurts even less. I decided to buy one myself to use when gaming on my PC. Works like a charm. Does my back still hurt? Yes. Has the exercise ball worked better and been more cost-effective than any other option thus far? Yes.

My problem is some kind of hypertension after overdoing cycling about six years ago. At least that’s what they think. After having seen several specialists and doctors, they still don’t know.

Edit: who am I kidding, you’re right. My comment was spiteful. I do apologize.

And I am not trying to besmirch any person or generation, but I do think that there is a correlation between the amount of literature the “older people” of today were exposed to during their youth compared to those that you refer to by saying “young people”. Since you didn’t specify a demographic, I am not touching on any socioeconomic circumstances and/or cultural factors that may or may not lead to young people not being able to distinguish between utopia and dystopia.

Sic! Thank you so much! 🩵

Learning my first ever language, C. The goal is to get a better understanding of how machines interpret human readable code and for me to be able to read and understand it. As of now, I’m not trying to develope anything in particular, although down the road, it would be a fun experiment to try to write as many of my computer and smartphone applications and environments as possible. Just to see how self sustaining one can become. 😊

You mean like the breakdown I had yesterday and I thought that it’s time to end it once and for all because of how miserable and worthless I am? Nah, not been there, not done that. /j

Somehow I’m still here, on the bus, on my way to work.

After I finish the few hours of work that my doctor allows me to do, I guess I’m looking forward to sitting down at the local library to do some hobby programming. I’m also looking forward to see some of my colleagues. Not all of them.

If you would have to say at least one thing that you could look forward to today/tomorrow, what would it be?

I mean… Have you seen their culture?

I am ALL for exhibitionism in non offensive settings, but Microslop up my ass? No spank you. 😝

Whatever its shortcomings, it surely must be better than Microslop’s Coshampoo. Who the heck wants an attendant watching you shower?!

Everything that has already been said, and also, call your ISP from a number available not on this email, but on your contract with them. Ask your ISP on the phone to confirm whether they sent you this email. For this, have available the timestamp of the mail.

Optionally: report it to the local authorities. Attach the e-mail in its entirety. Not to expect any particular action from them, but to make sure that you have done anything and everything in your power to get ahead of any possible problems.

Ah, forgot about those. Thanks! On Linux, I read man pages all the time. Need adopt that same rutine.

Regarding getchar() returning the ASCII code of the input, I commented this is the OP:

getchar() will return the ASCII value of chars and ints if I use the format specifier %d.