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New comment by lifter3101 in "Anti-aging injection regrows knee cartilage and prevents arthritis"

lifter3101 — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 03:13:08 +0000

Glad to hear you’re feeling better! How did you find out the root cause and treatment?

New comment by lifter3101 in "Samsung makes ads on smart fridges official with upcoming software update"

lifter3101 — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 04:18:06 +0000

Are they going to lock the fridge for 30 seconds each time you want to open it so that they make sure you finish watching the ad?

New comment by lifter3101 in "How I bypassed Amazon's Kindle web DRM"

lifter3101 — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 23:05:44 +0000

Unrelated to this article. But somewhat related to parts of the discussion here.

One (niche) way to overcome not being able to download books from Amazon anymore is to get ebooks from a library that supports Overdrive/libby. (Some of?) Those support downloading DRM files directly from the app, which you then can run through Adobe + Calibre. Obviously, this is contingent on book availability and your ability to get a proper library card. But works for me for 90% of the books that I need.

New comment by lifter3101 in "M5 MacBook Pro"

lifter3101 — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 03:42:51 +0000

Didn’t you just describe an iPad? Unless you need your second Mac to run “normal” apps.

New comment by lifter3101 in "Don't avoid workplace politics"

lifter3101 — Thu, 02 Oct 2025 20:00:56 +0000

The title says “don’t avoid politics”. Then the content says “what you think is politics is bad politics”, so instead the author suggests how to do good politics.

Let’s apply the same structure to another important area of human relations: marriage. “Don’t be in a bad marriage — here’s how a good marriage looks like”.

Sounds great as a writing exercise. Unclear how applicable it is in most of people’s real life circumstances.

New comment by lifter3101 in "Backyard Coffee and Jazz in Kyoto"

lifter3101 — Fri, 27 Jun 2025 01:58:05 +0000

> Most bars and restaurants for that matter will not serve me because I do not speak Japanese, so they say

I’ve run into this a few times. And half of those times I was able to still get in by showing them a politely written message on the translate app saying that I am not going to require high maintenance and I can just use the translate app to communicate. And each time that happened, they were very generous hosts and both I and, it seems them, had a great time.

New comment by lifter3101 in "The Barbican"

lifter3101 — Sun, 25 May 2025 06:46:48 +0000

If you bought the place, isn’t that your property now?

New comment by lifter3101 in "Everyone is capable of, and can benefit from, mathematical thinking"

lifter3101 — Thu, 21 Nov 2024 22:44:39 +0000

Didn’t we have that experiment during Covid? A bunch of people got paid to stay at home, sometimes for 2 years. How many Grammy nominations since then have gotten to musicians that came out of that? A new face at the Oscars? MOMA exhibiting an artist that was a barista before the pandemic?

At least anecdotally, many people around me now have more children, on the other hand.

New comment by lifter3101 in "Being Raised by the Internet"

lifter3101 — Mon, 30 Sep 2024 03:57:09 +0000

I’m pretty sure the author of the post would have had a similar trajectory had he been growing up now. People who are innately curious and self motivated will always find a Linux networking tutorial. Even if it comes in a form of a TikTok video and not a bunch of burned CDs.