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njordomir

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  • Repairing the Steam Deck LCD Gets Much More Expensive as Official Battery Reaches $180

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  • Yeah, I love that this sort of thing is an option now. I do 80% on my ebike and 90% on my phone. Hopefully that will prolong the life of two of most frequently used gadgets.

  • Replacing Ticktick with a Self-Hosted ToDo App

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  • I got shareware vibes from it when I tried it. Currently I am using Kanboard and Vikunja, but I haven't found the perfect set up yet. All of them are an improvement over Ticktick or Todoist, but I have yet to find perfection.

  • PBS broadcaster loses access to 50TB of data comprising 70 years of TV history after contracted cloud storage vendor goes defunct

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  • I knew someone who had multiple seasons of both Mr. Rogers and Reading Rainbow!

    But I also probably know someone who has Thanos and Fast and Furious.

  • Remembering the pre-Google web, when search was an experiment: “Most people have completely forgotten how chaotic it really was.”

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  • Yep, Jeeves was really popular for a while. I was an Alta Vista fan for a while too. It was one of my favorite early searches.

    What I really miss about early web searching is the cached pages where you could see all your highlighted search terms exactly where they appear on the page. Modern google dumps you at the front door to the corporate walled garden and you usually have to search again with some shitty embedded search tool. Old Google would link you to a .htm or .html page with the exact answer.

  • Remembering the pre-Google web, when search was an experiment: “Most people have completely forgotten how chaotic it really was.”

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  • Cool article. I remember the good and the bad. When it comes to search, it has gotten worse over time. I'd love to use some early 2000s Google again. It wasn't perfect, but the bones were there.

  • SpaceX’s Terafab will rely on natural gas power plants, not Tesla solar panels

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  • We'll turn this into the worlds biggest racquetball facility before Elon ever makes it to mars.

  • 2027 RAM Capacity Has Reportedly Been Sold out

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  • It's frustrating to see the tech industry take this path, because there were alternative paths that didn't lead us here. We are in a selfish and shortsighted time.

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    What sucks about having no internet and what is great about it?

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  • I ended up in a similar place the first time I quit Facebook. When I went back, I did so far less and pretty much only from a desktop PC. It really balanced things for me at the time. I also hope OP gets what they're looking for.

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    What sucks about having no internet and what is great about it?

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  • OSMand does this too if OP wants a more FOSS flavored option.

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    What sucks about having no internet and what is great about it?

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  • Protip: they make little pocket notebooks that could fit in a back pocket. Maybe 10x5cm. You will need this because you likely don't realize how many times a day you whip out your phone to research a random thought. Those thoughts are valuable! Write them down for later. At least that was my experience.

  • Senators demand crackdown on wildfire “prediction market” bets | Fire experts warn such markets could incentivize arson.

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  • Thanks for the insider info. Someone go put a bet on this guy not escaping climate change or arson gambling markets. /s

  • Winona police want to know who stole their Flock surveillance cameras

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  • I imagine there are also some low level cops relieved to see them gone but don't want to say so publicly. After all, AI is coming for their jobs too. Pretty soon buying a state patrolman a Honda Goldwing to patrol the highway will be an impossible sell when we could just strap a few more cameras to a pole or fly a drone. Everyone but the bootlickiest of the bootlickers will eventually hit their breaking point with this increasing public surveillance, just not until it goes poorly for them personally.

  • Google Assistant will vanish from Android phones and connected devices in September

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  • I degoogled (mostly) a while ago, but home assistant has a pretty configurable local voice assistant. If you have remote access to your server, I imagine you could cobble together a good keyword based personal assistant that sets alarms, turns lights on and off, and reads you an RSS newsfeed while you drink your morning coffee.

    We're truly on the technological downslope now. First it was all about the user and making software accomplish a purpose, then it was all about the user as long as it was profitable, now it's fuck the user - be profitable.

  • Should you still buy your next smartphone — or subscribe to it instead? Apple, Samsung … are betting that leasing, subscriptions, and guaranteed buyback programs can make upgrading more attractive.

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  • I will go without. I will drag a PC and a mobile router everywhere I go before I rent a phone. Can these asshole corporate bullshitters just go to mars already so we can be free of them?

  • SpaceX won’t remove all of xAI’s unpermitted turbines for another year

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  • Arrest their entire c-team.

  • New York school pauses plan to deploy humanlike AI robot teacher after backlash

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  • I'm curious how Van Halen would feel about the robosexual youth's take on "Hot for Teacher".

  • Microsoft's Windows 11 push backfired, so it's quietly keeping Windows 10 alive for another year

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  • Others have mentioned Bazzite and Mint. I have used both. Bazzite is gaming focused, but, in my opinion, slightly harder to administrate due to the whole immutable/atomic thing. I went over to a buddy's recently who is running Mint. It's been a few years since I used Mint, but it was a great all around Linux system, doesn't have any of the Bazzite weirdness, and it was exciting to see it used by someone out in the wild (not in my own home).

    If you weren't a gamer, I would almost certainly recommend Mint. In your case, I would say try them both out, break them, push them to the limit and throw weird scenarios at them, maybe shut the computer down incorrectly a few times. See if you feel more comfortable with one or the other, then do a reinstall of the one you liked best after breaking them both. It is more work up front, but it's worth knowing you can maintain your system when it very occasionally breaks or has an issue. Above all, make sure you take regular backups. That way you can mess with stuff and not worry about whether or not you'll break something.

  • Does anyone here want / already have children?

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  • I want kids and I've been wrestling with the fact that I'm getting older and the US is only getting shittier. Some people my age have kids who are in middle and even high school. Over the years, I've also been told more than a few times that I would make a good parent. I just don't know if I have the energy left to do a good job raising a kid while struggling against an increasingly rigged and broken system. I already got a bonus family member (not a kid) who is related to my spouse and lives with us. This has cramped my bachelor style significantly and clearly moved me into the "head of the family" stage of my life. If I'm gonna live a family life, I would like to mentor someone else to reach for the stars. In the US, you're the odd one out if you don't have kids. That's a selfish reason to have them, but sometimes you just want to play on "normal" difficulty like everyone else. I grew up with a good family life and involved parents and I'd like to pass that on to someone with a few modifications based on my own experiences. I'm just gonna need some universal health care, schools where the kids don't shoot each other, universal pre-k through college, $2/dozen eggs, etc. Also a 75% discount and an assurance that I won't get surprised with a 2 for 1 deal would be nice.

  • If you could remove one animal from existence, what would it be?

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  • Here's the answer I was looking for! I'm surprised I had to scroll so far to reach it. We are the source of most of what's wrong with the world so I'm pretty sure the rest of the animals would vote us off the island too.

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    Is It Worthwhile to Serve Video off a Server separate from my NAS?

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    Getting Fiber - Please Help Me Understand Routers

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    Considering Hosting NAS/Server

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    Will This Setup Work? - Nextcloud/Lemmy/PixelFed