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Is paying for a VPN worth it if I'm only ever on my own home wifi?

Worth remembering that almost everything you touch is already encrypted in transit. Your provider can see which sites you connect to, and depending on how your device resolves names it may see the lookups too, but not the contents of your bank session. The sponsor reads deliberately blur that distinction because "they can see which sites you visit" sells worse than "hackers are stealing your passwords".

244 · in/privacy-tools ·

Can hot yoga work at home or is heating a room to 40C a fantasy?

Different angle: do the sequence unheated and see what you actually miss.

I did the 26 postures at room temperature for three months and the practice was still good: arguably better, because I stopped mistaking sweating for effort and started noticing my balance. What you lose is the extra range that heat gives you, and there's a fair argument that borrowed range isn't yours anyway.

Also worth saying plainly: heat plus 90 minutes plus dehydration is a real physiological load. If you've got blood pressure or heart issues, that's a conversation with a doctor before you build a hot room, not after.

76 · in/home-yoga ·

Braising steak went into the cooker frozen because I forgot to defrost it, was that actually risky

I will gently push back on the it is fine for diced consensus. It is probably fine, and probably is doing a lot of work in a sentence about food safety, especially if you are cooking for anyone pregnant, elderly or immune compromised. Moving meat from the freezer to the fridge the night before costs you thirty seconds of planning and removes the question entirely, so I do not understand why we are optimising the other way.

129 · in/slow-cooker ·

Tidy rows of veg or a mixed kitchen garden with herbs and flowers, which one were you still weeding in year three

Rows exist for a reason and the reason is tools. If you hoe, a straight line lets you clear a bed in a few minutes standing up, and that is the difference between weeding taking ten minutes a week and taking a Saturday. In a mixed planting you are on your knees picking weeds out by hand between things you do not want to disturb. If you enjoy that, it is meditative, and if you do not, it is why the plot gets abandoned.

143 · in/kitchen-garden ·

Enqueue inside the database transaction or after commit, where do you put it?

Going to disagree with the outbox recommendation for most teams, at least as a first move. Retrying on not-found with a short backoff solves the race, costs one line in the worker, and covers the overwhelming majority of real occurrences, because the gap is milliseconds and the retry lands after the commit. Combine that with an after-commit enqueue and you have handled both the rollback case and the visibility race for a fraction of the effort. Reach for an outbox when you can measure that you are losing jobs, not because a blog post says dual writes are unsound.

121 · in/queues-and-jobs ·