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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The rise of ‘Frankenstein’ laptops in New Delhi’s repair markets⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, even if we didn’t reuse, we could at least recycle. We got so into the craze of shoving computers in everything we stopped considering if we might be better off sticking to easily fixable tech for some things. My appliances are old as dirt, but parts are very affordable, there are 100s of youtube videos on how to fix them, and there are very few things that can break to begin with. That’s a far cry from the landfill of bricked smart fridges next to a factory somewhere.

• Testing vs Prod
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Signal and the noise: Why the messaging app is great for privacy but not for war plans.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Also, if you want to have more than one war at a time you’ll need to purchase add on slots for $4.99ea.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Europe’s GDPR privacy law is headed for red tape bonfire within ‘weeks’⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  As someone with a lot of time spent in Europe and the US over the last 30-40 years, it seems like Europe is often happy to jump on the bandwagon of America, they just want someone else to go first. I also think American music and cultural exports are spreading our cultural degeneracy around the world for a long time and Germans slurp it up. I really hope the better education system will immunize them against the worst of it, but the rise of the AfD makes me doubt.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Other than a faulty charging port, is there any reason to use a wireless phone charger over wired?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Is yours under the surface? I tried using one, but didn’t like the clutter of the pad on my desk. I’m a special kind of neat freak in my immediate work space though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Musk 'Pressured' Reddit CEO to Silence DOGE Critics, Leaving Moderators Outraged: Report.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s what every company/organization I’ve ever worked for has done. Oh, this intranet tool works okay and no one is complaining. Lets redo it in a “modern” style… (adds whitespace and truncates every meaningful text field so you have to mouseover and scroll for miles to read any of them even on a 4k display).

  I think part of why Reddit succeeded initially was because it had some very KEY strengths/advantages. I would say that the old design and the URL scheme are part of that. It fit any screen nicely from phone though 4k TV, portrait displays, whatever. It was a simple design, but extensible by custom CSS and if you knew what you wanted, you could skip straight there by typing r/ or u/ in your URL. Enough reminiscing, if old reddit is gone,I don’t know if I’ll even be able to use reddit at all for anything. New reddit is one of those interfaces, like twitter, that never really made sense or worked for me. I’m just a Lemmy guy I guess.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How to Enter the US With Your Digital Privacy Intact⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Most airports do it like this, but I’ve been to places hat need a transit visa just to get to your next flight. Odds are you are correct for a US connection.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OneNote to perish alongside Windows 10.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I could go a lifetime without ever using OneNote again. That goes doubly for a web version.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mozilla Foundation Calls on Tech Industry to Block ICE Contractor⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Serious question: how do they avoid siphoning up data from states or countries with data protection regulations?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The wildest details in the Facebook memoir Meta is trying to bury⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m relieved that people are so into labeling even if they don’t understand it. You can’t become informed without information.

  Not surprised at the stupidity. People are dumb, selfish, and entitled. Americans are a great example, but it’s not only Americans. We just did the speed running version.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Secure Storage That Won't Die With my Server⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It might be a dumb question, but how does it have it’s own OS like a NAS, or is it basically a box attached to the host and everything is done via software? I encountered some confusion between enclosures, DAS, USB array and some of the other terms I was seeing.

• Secure Storage That Won't Die With my Server
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is your bath mat situation?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  My partner bought a diatomaceous earth bathmat to replace the rug in front of the shower. It’s like stepping onto a piece of cardboard, so zero points for luxury. It does catch and re-evaporate the water well, so full marks there. Humidity is naturally low here, so no I have little to no worries about mold.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Day One alternative? (FOSS preferred)⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You can sync Obsidian with your own storage location. There are plugins to do a lot of what you’re asking for. Downside is that it’s not open source, though your content is all stored in plaintext so you won’t lose it due to lock-in. It also might be more than your asking for and a simpler, more tailored, solution may be out there. Paired with a self hosted Nextcloud server, you may solve a bunch of your PIM needs at once.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Could your body adjust if you separated your macros into meals? Like all carbs for breakfast, all fat for lunch and all protein for dinner? What would happen?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t have an answer for you, but I do want to say: great question.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨France runs fusion reactor for record 22 minutes⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks for sharing. As a frequent cyclist who loves cheese and doesn’t drink soda or eat many sweats, I feel like this will be an interesting read.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨France runs fusion reactor for record 22 minutes⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The food has been impregnated with microplastics as well. This machine runs on sugar, but someone put oil in the tank. :-/

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨BlackBerry's iconic keyboard patent has expired⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I used a Palm Zire 31 and Later a Dell Axim 51v (Windows Mobile) in high school. People thought I was weird, but it kept me organized. I miss how simple and functional those programs were. This was largely pre-enshittification.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's up, selfhosters? - Sunday thread⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m running Nextcloud and PaperlessNXG on my servers. Over the last few months I tested out my remote management. Now that I’m back home, I’ve been making a few adjustments based on my learnings. Firstly, Wireguard is slower than a turtle, while Tailscale has been a little bit faster. I’m guessing this is due to my upload speed and switching to fiber may fix this.

  I’d also like to add TubeArchivist back in since there’s some great videos that I don’t trust Google to preserve given the direction things are going.

  The folks on the “privacy” Lemmy gave me some good tips on app replacements and after making a big spreadsheet with all my apps, their licenses, etc., I cut down my remaining proprietary apps by at least 50% and I only have a few proprietary essentials that still depend on Google Play. I’ve been meaning to do this for a long time and I almost have a path towards completely removing all Google, Amazon, and Microsoft products from my life.

  Next, I’d like to set up Wander to eventually get rid of Garmin/Strava but I haven’t been able to figure it out and I’m still locked in to some degree because of my hardware (Garmin watch). The Ring doorbell has to be the next thing to go, but I’m exhausted and haven’t had the motivation to start a new project until the dust settles from the last one.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Smartwatch That Was Too Good For This World⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I heard great things about the Pebble from someone who had one.

  Personally, I had a few different smart watches and learned a bit about what I want over the years:

  • Mi Bands (Xiomi Devices) that had otherworldly battery life (like a month and a half in some cases) but had trash sensors and were junk without the unofficial apps that made them great
  • Some Android Wear/ WearOS smart watches
  • a cheap ass POS Temu-equivilant no-name junk watch
  • Multiple Garmin devices (touchscreen Venue and button controlled Fenix)

  This made me realize a few things:

  • I don’t want or need a super-smart watch
  • battery life and capable sensors are way more important than stupid flashy shit
  • the display tech I want indoors in my office is not the same display I want on a wear-everywhere watch (TFT looks stellar under bright sun)
  • buttons beat a touchscreen each and every day of the week and make the watch a convenience rather than a finnicky gadget

  To be fair, this is MY use case and yours may differ, but when it comes down to it, I’m sure that I’m not in the market for a wearOS or Apple Watch. I love the button operated TFT screen Garmin watch I’ve been using for a few years and if I don’t replace it with another Garmin watch, it’ll be something like Pine Time, Pebble, or something that works with gadgetbridge.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Unofficial TikTok downloads surge in the US⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I also felt like the author of the article ignorantly weaponized the name to make something completely mundane sound like a bad thing. They totally stomped right into the corporate moustrap while doing so. Why not call all app stores something like “corporate single source installation” or “[Microsoft/google/apple] assisted installation”? Maybe someone will write an article on the dangers of that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meta confirms ‘Project Waterworth,’ a global subsea cable project spanning 50,000 kilometers⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve never had a reason to hope for a localized undersea earthquake before…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨wanderer v0.15.1 -⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m a fan of Wander, abd have followed these posts with great interest, but haven’t been able to successfully install it get myself. I’ll give it another try in late Feb early Mar.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Modding the Gulf of Mexico Back⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Traffic isn’t too bad where I’m at, but I find myself missing satelite images and streetview, both for exploring and locating garage entrances or anything else. Having said that, and thanks to my buddies here on Lemmy, I successfully eliminated over half of my proprietary phone apps and shoved all the remaining proprietary stuff in a single folder so I would only access it after trying the FOSS alternatives. Anything that has a web portal instead of an app is going next, and that includes Google Maps.

  Organic maps is great, OSMand is great if more detail is needed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reddit plans to lock some content behind a paywall this year, CEO says | Reddit executives also discussed how they might introduce more ads into the social media platform⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I never understood the desire to search in conversational language via AI. It’s gone to far for my taste. I just want to be able to scour a huge volume of info for my exact search terms, maybe with a few synonyms or misspellings included. Google and AI keep trying to assume they know what I’m looking for, but they’re always wrong (intentionally wrong based on their own motives).

  The reason the dataset interests me is that search has gotten so bad that I can’t get any non-corporate information from search engines anymore, just more pig swill, chumbucket ads, and misinformation slop. Anything I search for would probably give better results if I just searched old reddit, Wikipedia, and a few other datasets locally in a simple way. Not sure what software is best to use for something like that, but I’d like to collect a few mostly pre-AI datasets now to get the ball rolling before you can’t find those online anymore either.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon’s killing a feature that let you download and backup Kindle books⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Apparently Boox has been a stomping all over the GPL licensing terms. You can find a lot of info on it, but here is a non-reddit link: www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=277431

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reddit plans to lock some content behind a paywall this year, CEO says | Reddit executives also discussed how they might introduce more ads into the social media platform⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Is there anywhere I can find a complete scrape of Reddit threads and comments from before the 3rd party app apocalypse? There was a lot of useful info shared on there, but I don’t want anything to do with what that site has become. I’m happy just to CTRL+F a big dataset. It’ll probably still work better than either Reddit or Google does nowadays. Without media I imagine I could fit it somewhere.

  Also, Spez is a greedy little pig boy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'Meta Torrented over 81 TB of Data Through Anna's Archive, Despite Few Seeders' * TorrentFreak⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  If someone was to acquire a few hundred gigs of books and feed them to something like paperless-ngx, would it work as a sort of google of books? Are there any software projects better suited for doing thisand understand synonyms and perhaps some context? I guess AI search but guided for the intermediate user.

  Google is so bad lately. Basically every result is official sponsored corporate biased BS. It would be nice to be able to instantly query a bunch of ebooks.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reddit is purging NSFW subs as well as trans-related subreddits⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Kinky people are still going to be kinky even if they can’t post about it on Reddit. Here’s to hoping lemmyNSFW gets some of those “niche subs”. ;-)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Californians Say X Blocked Them From Viewing Amber Alert About Missing 14-Year-Old⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think a good first step would be to require all public services and similar to transition to FOSS software only. Schools, governments, public health, etc, should not, generally speaking, be in the business of making money for private interests, nor should our data be stored in these black boxes. If we don’t own it; it owns us. Sure that’s a huge departure from current reality, but I see it as fairly clear cut. I’m sure people will say I go too far.