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@ turboSnail @piefed.europe.pub

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Stopped using Reddit when the API disaster happened. Switched to Lemmy and stayed there for about 2 years. Now, I'm experimenting with Piefed.

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    Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent. At a billion-device scale the climate costs are insane.

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  • That's totally doable! Get a domain, find a server you like, pay for hosting, and you can install whatever you want on it. If you want to have your own cloud service, just install nextcloud. Install pihole and start blocking ads everywhere. Do you want to run an LLM in your own cloud? Totally doable as well. Maybe even host a Fediverse instance, while you're at it.

    I know I don't have the time and energy to play admin in my free time, but I can definitely see the value in a hobby like that. I don't mind paying for a cloud service or email, because that way I can be sure amateurs like me aren't running the show. Obviously, I'm not paying Apple or Google to defile me. Those scammers don't deserve my money or my data. Privacy respecting companies deserve to be paid for their efforts though.

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  • A fully de-goggled Android won't be able to run some apps. For example banking apps tend to be really picky about these things. Either the app runs on a vanilla Android or it won't run at all. Sure, you can get rid of Google, but you'll be making some sacrifices. Another option is to use iOS, but it comes with some messed up sacrifices too.

    A third option is to use a Linux phone, but I haven't got any personal experience with that. Looks promising, but apparently many basic necessities aren't available yet.

    If you don't really need anything more than email, SMS and phone calls, a de-googled android and Linux phones should be fine. If you want to be more compatible with the rest of the modern world, iOS is the least bad option here. Still, pretty awful but at least you can guarantee that all the modern mobile things work. Sure, you'll be living without Google, but you'll be living with Apple now so... Is that a win? Probably not.

    Either way, Linux phones look very promising. Remember to check back in 5 about years to see if the situation has improved. Some EU countries are currently severing their ties with American spyware companies, and this move could result in developing the mobile Linux ecosystem to a more usable state. If that happens, I'm probably going to recommend ditching your iPhone and Switching to a mobile Linux phone.

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  • Same here. Our IT guys have good taste in browsers, but they also know that some people in the company may still need one of the messy sites that are incompatible with web standards. Chrome is for those edge cases.

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  • Congrats! You've just beaten the final boss and finished the main quest of Gmail. Sounds like a great time to switch to Tutanota.

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  • And install Firefox or one of its many forks.

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  • Absolutely! The environment you grow in plays a significant role in determining who you become. Some times I wonder what my hobbies would have been if I didn’t grow up with computers. Maybe I would be disassembling engines and gearboxes all day.

  • America Trembles as Transportation Secretary Announces Plans for Air Traffic Controllers to Lean on AI Tools

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  • Grok will be the pilot and Copilot will be the copilot. Air traffic control could be handled by GPT.

  • America Trembles as Transportation Secretary Announces Plans for Air Traffic Controllers to Lean on AI Tools

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  • What's the worst thing that could happen??

  • Hypothetical: Humanity is planning a year of shutting off the internet to quell the advance of the AI singularity. You can keep your computer but there will be no networking. What would you do to prep

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  • Get a Blue-ray drive (one that writes) and a bunch of blank discs. You won't be talking to people online any more, but you can talk to them in person. When you do, you can find out what they downloaded before the great network blackout. When you find something worth having, take a copy of it. You won't be able to store all the terabytes of cool stuff on your computers, so that's why you have the discs.

    BTW, you should totally download some Linux ISOs, relevant wikis, ebooks etc. Obviously, you won't remember to download everything you need, so that's where the blueray discs will come in handy. Also, other people might want some of the cool stuff you have, and discs are pretty handy for that as well.

  • Are OnlyFans models the best way to explain the climate crisis?

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  • I’m watching this for… err…. educational purposes. Seirously, I am! Now look, it’s about climate change and carbon sequestration through photosynthesis.

  • Which one is more annoying: leftover bread or leftover cheese?

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  • By the time you notice, the disparity already has grown to such an extent that compensating for it becomes hard.

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  • In one documentary it was called Δp, for pressure. Either way, bad stuff.

  • Which one is more annoying: leftover bread or leftover cheese?

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  • If I keep track of the quantities, I could definitely make the numbers match in the end. That’s probably a better approach than my “just wing it” style.

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  • I’ve personally faced the cracker conundrum before. Leftover brie feels odd, because you shouldn’t just throw it in the fridge and forget about it. If that ever happens, I’m obligated to buy some more crackers the next day.

    Leftover crackers are fine though, because they have a long shelf life. Brie doesn’t.

    However, you can always put an extra thick layer of brie on a salt cracker to make the numbers match. However, if they’re grossly mismatched, it’s better to have leftover crackers IMO.

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  • Not only that, it’s also asbestos free!

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  • I knew someone would figure it out. Top tier detective skill!

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  • LOL. Yeah that should work too.

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  • Together, they’re awesome, but one missing is a bit disappointing. There’s clearly a synergy between these ingredients, like peanut paired with chocolate. Each flavour is individually just fine, but together they create something far superior. Being forced to settle for fine is just disappointing when the memory of something far nicer is still fresh in your mind.

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  • I screwed up the original post. It went to a pretty quiet community, and I tried to fix that by cross posting it here, but I screwed up that as well. Initially, it was just a title and a picture, with no extra details. As soon as I realized that, I quickly copied the original body here as well. However, many people had already replied by then. Oh well…

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    turboSnail @piefed.europe.pub

    Which one is more annoying: leftover bread or leftover cheese?