Over-60s with only virtual contact 'more lonely'

Over-60s who relied on only telephone and online contact felt more lonely during the pandemic, a study suggests.
"Virtual contact on its own is not beneficial to older adults' mental health," researcher Dr Yang Hu of Lancaster University told the BBC. However, when used to supplement face-to-face contact, it was associated with "enhanced mental wellbeing". But researchers stress their findings reveal an association, not causation - and more research is needed. The study, published in the journal Frontiers in Sociology, was conducted by Dr Yang Hu and Dr Yue Qian, at the University of British Columbia in Canada. The researchers used data collected from 5,148 older people aged 60 or over in the UK and 1,391 in the US, surveyed both before and during the pandemic.

Leftover pinto beans for lunch, straight out of the fridge cold. Still amazing.

Genshin Impact is 100% a gacha game. But unlike many gacha games this one also has a great open world to explore with a ton of lore, quests, events, and more that do not require you to spend a penny.

It is the best JPRG style (it is not a Japanese game) game on the free to play landscape IMO.

For those not familiar with the gacha game style....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gacha_game

Like all gacha games, it does have a top end that you will never see without spending thousands. But that top end is not required to enjoy all of the content that comes out. By top end, I mean getting a limited time available 5 star (gold/best) character 7 times to max it out. But you can easily get multiple limited time 5 star characters just by playing because the developers added a "pity system" that guarantees a 5 star every so many "wishes." You can earn enough rewards in game for a wish every 2.8 days from daily quests alone. But they is always an event running that has quest rewards of the in game currency also.

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@dustinb3403 said in What does your desk look like?:

Yeah I agree with Scott here, an employee is someone you hired after the business is in place, not a founder etc.

That has nothing to do with what @Dashrender said.

Good thing #346: I just reached level 11 of Pineapple Spanish: Fluency Vocabulary Course on Memrise. #memrise #learning

A little nostalgia....

Captain Pike in TOS - Jeffrey Hunter - played Jesus Christ in the movie King of Kings, ca. early to mid 60's.

If you think of it, a blue eyed Jesus is a bit odd.

@hobbit666 said in How to Secure a Website at Home:

Why not GitHub or GitLab for free?

That was part of the etc 😁😁😁😁
Also I thought GitHub was more for storing scripts and opensource stuff.

It's not generic hosting of websites as you don't have control like you would on a normal webserver.

It's simplified hosting and the github/gitlab pages was initially intended to complement the projects on there. So it would be easy to make a html website from the git repositories, for instance for documentation.

Since you can store any files on gitlab/github you could of course also use the pages for any type of static website.

Here is how to get started in the simplest way possible:
https://guides.github.com/features/pages/

@pete-s said in Financially hobbled for life: The elite master’s degrees that don’t pay off:

Well, the students didn't have spreadsheets on their mind when they decided to go for life crushing debt...

LOL, right. Why would they do that!

@nadnerb said in audio book / Podcast recommendations -:

@wrcombs said in audio book / Podcast recommendations -:

@nadnerb said in audio book / Podcast recommendations -:

@wrcombs said in audio book / Podcast recommendations -:

I have approx. 12.5 hour of driving ahead of me next week. (6hours one way+ driving around the city)
Looking for Audiot Book or Podcast Recommendations to keep me somewhat sane during my time in the car.

Someone recommended “gluten is not your problem “ to me but I’m not really a podcast person so I haven’t listened to more than a few minutes.

sounds like it's about food..

I think there’s more than just food from what I was told but I’d hazard a guess that there’s a lot about food

interesting, Thanks!

Welcome @fsalazar from NTG Bolivia.

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@scottalanmiller And Momma just asked if she could have speakers in the laundry room and She Shed!

Happy birthday @travisdh1

@pete-s said in Email Send Error Research:

@dashrender said in Email Send Error Research:

@jaredbusch said in Email Send Error Research:

@wrcombs said in Email Send Error Research:

So would it likely to assume that Username and password are incorrect ?

If the computer receives email, then the username and password were likely correct. Outlook's account setup wizard will only ask for the information one time by default.

If this system has never been able to send email, what is likely incorrect is the email server configuration details.

If it once sent email, then mostlikely Outlook had a connection problem once and popped up the credentials box, then the user put in the wrong info.

This seems VERY likely at this point!

Probably entered the Windows password he uses to login.

Probably his personal email password from home.

So, if you are supposed to be some awesome cloud expert (see bluestingray.com)............

How the fuck do you not know who an IP belongs to?

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Oh look, it belongs to NetStuite... The customer's ERP.....

[[email protected] ~]$ whois 208.46.212.86 [Querying whois.arin.net] [whois.arin.net] # # ARIN WHOIS data and services are subject to the Terms of Use # available at: https://www.arin.net/resources/registry/whois/tou/ # # If you see inaccuracies in the results, please report at # https://www.arin.net/resources/registry/whois/inaccuracy_reporting/ # # Copyright 1997-2021, American Registry for Internet Numbers, Ltd. # # start NetRange: 208.44.0.0 - 208.47.255.255 CIDR: 208.44.0.0/14 NetName: CENTURYLINK-LEGACY-QWEST-INET-3 NetHandle: NET-208-44-0-0-1 Parent: NET208 (NET-208-0-0-0-0) NetType: Direct Allocation OriginAS: Organization: CenturyLink Communications, LLC (CCL-534) RegDate: 1999-06-24 Updated: 2018-02-21 Ref: https://rdap.arin.net/registry/ip/208.44.0.0 OrgName: CenturyLink Communications, LLC OrgId: CCL-534 Address: 100 CENTURYLINK DR City: Monroe StateProv: LA PostalCode: 71201 Country: US RegDate: 2018-07-12 Updated: 2021-03-11 Comment: ADDRESSES WITHIN THIS BLOCK ARE NON-PORTABLE ANY ISP ANNOUNCING PORTIONS WITHIN OUR RANGE SHOULD NOT RELY ON PRESENTED LOA'S UNLESS THOSE RANGES ARE ALSO ANNOUNCED TO A CENTURYLINK ASN. Comment: Comment: For abuse issues, please email [email protected] Comment: All abuse reports MUST include: Comment: * src IP Comment: * dest IP (your IP) Comment: * dest port Comment: * Accurate date/timestamp and timezone of activity Comment: * Intensity/frequency (short log extracts) Comment: * Your contact details (phone and email) Comment: Without these we will be unable to identify the correct owner of the IP address at that point in time. Comment: Comment: For subpoena or court order please fax 844.254.5800 or refer to our Law Enforcement Support page: Comment: Comment: https://www.centurylink.com/aboutus/legal/privacy-notice/law-enforcement-support.html Ref: https://rdap.arin.net/registry/entity/CCL-534 OrgAbuseHandle: CAD54-ARIN OrgAbuseName: Centurylink Abuse Desk OrgAbusePhone: +1-877-886-6515 OrgAbuseEmail: [email protected] OrgAbuseRef: https://rdap.arin.net/registry/entity/CAD54-ARIN OrgTechHandle: QIA-ARIN OrgTechName: Centurylink IP Admin OrgTechPhone: +1-877-886-6515 OrgTechEmail: [email protected] OrgTechRef: https://rdap.arin.net/registry/entity/QIA-ARIN # end # start NetRange: 208.46.212.0 - 208.46.212.255 CIDR: 208.46.212.0/24 NetName: SAVV-S233229-0 NetHandle: NET-208-46-212-0-1 Parent: CENTURYLINK-LEGACY-QWEST-INET-3 (NET-208-44-0-0-1) NetType: Reassigned OriginAS: Organization: NetSuite, Inc. (NETSU-17) RegDate: 2015-05-28 Updated: 2015-05-28 Ref: https://rdap.arin.net/registry/ip/208.46.212.0 OrgName: NetSuite, Inc. OrgId: NETSU-17 Address: 2955 Campus Drive Address: Suite 175 City: San Mateo StateProv: CA PostalCode: 94403 Country: US RegDate: 2015-05-28 Updated: 2015-05-28 Ref: https://rdap.arin.net/registry/entity/NETSU-17 OrgAbuseHandle: NATAR4-ARIN OrgAbuseName: Natarajan, Kanakarajan OrgAbusePhone: +1-925-963-2402 OrgAbuseEmail: [email protected] OrgAbuseRef: https://rdap.arin.net/registry/entity/NATAR4-ARIN OrgTechHandle: NATAR4-ARIN OrgTechName: Natarajan, Kanakarajan OrgTechPhone: +1-925-963-2402 OrgTechEmail: [email protected] OrgTechRef: https://rdap.arin.net/registry/entity/NATAR4-ARIN # end # # ARIN WHOIS data and services are subject to the Terms of Use # available at: https://www.arin.net/resources/registry/whois/tou/ # # If you see inaccuracies in the results, please report at # https://www.arin.net/resources/registry/whois/inaccuracy_reporting/ # # Copyright 1997-2021, American Registry for Internet Numbers, Ltd. #

Maybe your AwesomeSite_06 is not so awesome after all.

@wrcombs said in Subnetting:

@scottalanmiller said in Subnetting:

@wrcombs said in Subnetting:

but when the questions are "you need 4 networks which subnet mask would you use on this ip: 10.1.1.25"

That's gibberish. There's no way to know based on what is stated.

I probably missed the actual question.. but questions similar to that confuse me.

It's all math and high school style word problems. It's all about "to meet the requirements", what options would you choose so that the sizes are correct.