Seriously - the whole thing is such a befuddling mess to us non-Americans.
How exactly can one win the popular vote but not the actual election? From the outside, the reporting I've seen always talks about the faithless elector problem (not in those words - just in describing the problems). Is it more to do with how many votes (electors) each state gets, based on population size?
I believe the states responsible for those silly outcomes have since passed laws to prevent it happening again.
Could be wrong, but I listened to a podcast last week with an American professor who's pretty much written the book, explaining the history of the Electoral College and how it really works. I'm sure he said those states since fixed those loopholes.
Either way, the damage is done today. Another four years of stupidity in charge.
Maybe a small piece of personalised luggage for the holiday. Does she wear makeup? Maybe a nice makeup case with her initials on it.
If that's not her thing, what about something for your home (assuming you live together)? My wife and I tend to buy ourselves the "bigger" things for Christmas, as our gift to each other - some furniture we've been wanting, or similar.
If that doesn't sounds like you guys, there's the tried and true jewelry option. Or maybe just cruise Etsy for the sorts of things she likes (does she like knick knacks, or ornamental stuff?) that might be customisable.
Failing that, have a think about what makes you special as a couple. Is there a shared interest or experience that got you together or you always talk about? Is there something in that?
Finally, I've been holding on to some ideas for future inspiration should I need them:
Jesus - they don't even name the report so interested people can search for it. Lame.
Also, least-intrusive doesn't mean most-trustworthy. Just don't use any of them or, if you do, be sure to take all steps at your disposal to not give any personal information to them.
Lol @ "some 20 years ago ... ADSL from 2002". Thanks for making me feel old!
Great suggestion! Thank you. Have you had any luck accessing it on iOS yourself?
No dramas if not - just that I tried using Orbot and the Tor Browser (the one developed by Mike Tigas, in the App Store), but no joy. I'm reasonably new back on iOS, so I'm not (yet) across the best way to use Tor sites on the platform.
Honestly, I'm using an old gag FB account I created back in 2011. I guess that was well before they started asking people to verify with selfies and phone numbers.
Hmmm - DDG's browser might be a good alternative, if I only use it for this one purpose. Thanks for the suggestion.
Someone else mentioned PWA. I think I'll investigate that angle next. If a PWA doesn't share any data from my device, it means I can use my Mullvad VPN whenever I choose to access it, and get pretty darn close to what I'm trying to achieve.
You are the product and they have a long history of being extremely eager to sell the product.
Yeah, exactly what I said in my OP. I'm aware of the reality of what it is I'm asking for. I only recently moved back to iOS after over a decade using Android, so asking around in the vain hope someone has figured this out.
Hmmm - interesting. I hadn't bothered to check before now, but I'm seeing something similar on one of the two PBS CTs I run.
Comparing the output of
netstat -lantopon both CTs, I can see that the one with more outbound traffic has more waiting connections from localhost on port 82, the port Proxmox Backup Servers provides its API over:I'm wondering if the graph is pulling aggregated network data, including the loopback interface. If so, and it's all just port 82 stuff on 127.0.0.1, then it's probably nothing to worry about.
Edit: found this forum post that seems to indicate it's aggregating all the byte values from
/proc/dev/net, so this is probably nothing to worry about if yournetstatoutput, like mine, only shows API conections to/from 127.0.0.1 on port 82.