They don’t roll themselves up into a compact ball and lay still when feeling threatened.

Hedgehogs do that.

I have already several times kicked hedgehogs across the lawn in the dark because of this behaviour (involuntarily of course)

What’s your kill count in the trolley problem?

It’s not the looking-at-th-screen-thing, but rather the switching-the-camera-on-in-the-first-place-thing, the understanding-anything-at-all-while-the-screen-is-covered-in-people-thing and the not-being-a-total-exhausted-mess-who-needs-an-hourlong-pause-to-function-again-afterwards -thing.

So no, wouldn’t be useful, I am afraid.

Have been thinking the same.

I have a serious anxiety when it comes to video calls. My direct colleagues know about it and don’t mind, but it is weird when having remote meetings involving other people. This is probably really harming my professional success.

So I was considering trying some Chatroulette like service to get more relaxed towards video calls, but was really put off when hearing about all the offensive sexual weirdness there.

Eyechat would omit that while still being near enough to a classic full-face video-call. I think this might actually work as some kind of exposure therapy. I might give it a try.

Interesting read, thank you!

And the page it is published on seems to be also quite cool. Science based journalism, exactly my thing.

So theconversation.com is now part of my news bookmarks.

Doesn’t help in summer…

The article itself sounds a lot more relaxed than the heading suggests.

Nonetheless, this is still stuff for c/fuckcars

But why? To ensure some status quo by making higher education only available to an existing upper class?

In Germany I have the impression that decreased support for basic ecucation is at least partly connected to the increasingly inversed age pyramid, but that may not be the whole story.

Apparently not that obvious, considering the state of school funding in many countries, mine included.

You might want to look up “Enshitification”.

No surprises here…

Excuse me sir, are you living in the past?

And also: where it found the config file it is actually using at the moment. This would cover the 90% of the cases in which you just want to change a single Key to a different value or something or so…

l am using it to revive old phones since its cyanogenmod days. There has been a lot of progress on the installation and update side, much easier now, so perhaps just try it.

Much better than a phone without Seurity updates…

You could go for Lineage OS.

OnePlus Phones are well supported, even the OnePlus One gets regular updates.

Was considering buying a OnePlus phone just for that reason alone.