Jeremiah Lee @jeremiahlee@librem.one

“The Beard Effect”

Bearded salesmen increase perceptions of expertise, which then increases trust, purchase likelihood, and satisfaction.

I hope the researchers study chest hair and v-neck/open collared shirts on salesmen next. 🦦

https://phys.org/news/2020-12-manly-beard-sales.html

I did not enjoy “The Prom”.

Fitbit’s story will end with Google’s acquisition. I was an early employee and am interviewing my peers about the incredible experience it was for so many of us.

There is much to tell and I need your help. Is there anything specific you’d like to know about Fitbit’s story? $FIT

I missed this good news on Monday. Trump’s SCOTUS rejected Indiana’s effort to discriminate against same-sex couples and will continue to preserve the meaning of Obergefell v. Hodges. https://lawandcrime.com/supreme-court/even-with-three-trump-appointed-justices-on-the-bench-scotus-declines-to-roll-back-marriage-equality/

Ooh, ah, ee, ah, ooh, ah

TIL Dolly Parton covered my favorite Cat Stevens song and there is an hour long electronic remix album of it. Happy holidays to me.

https://songwhip.com/dolly-parton/peace-train-remixes

Just a friendly reminder that you have tons of excellent alternatives to nearly every Google product—including that one you loved it killed.

https://restoreprivacy.com/google-alternatives/

@da@mastodon.technology EU preferred, EEA allowed.

UK is neither for now and also is Five Eyes, so not listing.

@da@mastodon.technology Awesome! Thank you, adding now.

I created a wiki for people seeking alternatives to US-based cloud providers—and I need your help.

Do you know of EU-based alternatives to AWS, Azure, GCP, Cloudflare, et al? Please tell me about them!

https://www.eucloud.tech/ #GaiaX

Geographic locks in the Apple App Store are a usability nightmare for the 10M Americans living abroad.

I have 2 Apple accounts I have to sign out of/in to in order to maintain my US app subscriptions and update apps only available in the Sverige Apple App Store.

“The top 1% of creators takes on the 1%” is a headline I hope to read one day.

“Aqua Explosions” is my favorite song on the album. https://songwhip.com/atomicunit/aqua-explosions

If you enjoy Tycho and other chillwave/ambient music, check out the first album by Atomic Unit.

https://songwhip.com/atomicunit/breaking-news-vol-1

Boomer politician resigns when the public learns his wife posed in Playboy.

Gen X politician resigns after consensual sexting.

Millennial politician is like, “Subscribe to my OnlyFans and vote for me if you want to see this body in Congress as it takes down the oligarchy!”

I splurged on a switch with power over ethernet to reduce the number of cables in my networking closet when I inevitably build a Raspberry Pi Kubernetes cluster.

Replaced the 18 year old “fast ethernet” switch in my condo with a new gigabit switch and now my Internet access is even faster.

I love how fast and cheap Internet access is in Stockholm.

I wish EU cloud providers would do something as new and useful as anything AWS announced this week at #Reinvent instead of solving imaginary cloud problems with #GaiaX.