tl;dr Don’t be a hero. Give them everything they ask. Use apps to hide your sensitive data. Use a password manager. Use yubikeys. Have a backup app on another device home. Don’t carry all your cards with you. Don’t have all your cards in your digital wallet. Keep a backup phone and an contact list at home. Keep your main baking card/credit card at home. Carry with your a different card for your daily expenses....
Back in 2020, thanks to a tweet from my friend Sam I decided to make a list of just the positive things that happened through that year. Reading back at that post I realise that it is useful even today. You get to appreciate all you did that year. So here is to keeping only the positives of 2022 Consistency I have struggled my entire life keeping good habits consistently. A lot of the times I pick up things just to abandon them later (hello guitar)....
Living abroad gave a lot of us a gift. The gift of feeling discombobulated in regards with belonging. I don’t think this feeling is unique to me, or to Greeks, or to anyone. It’s a human condition as common as life. But I happen to be Greek and I want to approach that subject from that perspective. Every now and again many Greeks that live abroad will have to deal with criticism from other Greeks regarding the choice of “leaving”....
Coming in terms with your uniqueness Humans are social creatures. We thrive in communities, in groups of people, in our families. We benefit from feeling a sense of belonging in those groups and in order to achieve that we try to fit in as best we can. Here lies internal conflict though. How many concessions do you do in order to fit in? How much of your unique self do you give away?...
This isn’t the first time I am doing this experiment. This is in fact my third iPad. I bought the first one sometime when the iPad 2 came out. I did see the potential then. A portable device ready to be with you at any point. It was obvious to me since then that it can fill an important gap. It sounds excellent for writing, taking notes, reading books and consuming content....
The phrase “Τα πάντα ρει και ουδέν μένει” is one attributed to Heraclitus, the ancient Greek philosopher. It translates to “everything flows and nothing stays”. To me this quote is one of the most profound ones regarding life in general. Things in life change, move and rarely remain the same for too long. The real question is how do we change with them? How do we adapt? Changes might include, but not limited to, changing jobs, changing cities, countries, friends, partners, houses, family, anything....
I remember it was the early 2000s when I was reading on the web that this year is going to be the year of the linux on the desktop. Suffice to say that this year kept coming and coming time and again. For me the first interaction with Linux was with Redhat Linux sometime in 1998. A person I was talking on IRC sent me a CD that I installed on my PC....