njordomir

@njordomir@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Day One alternative? (FOSS preferred)⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

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

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨wanderer v0.15.1 -⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Facebook and Instagram to Unleash AI-Generated ‘Users’ No One Asked For⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They will be able to steer entire cultures and countries without ever appearing as if they were sitting in the drivers seat. This is the social control endgame playing out in front of our very eyes. Why use violence to control people when you can subconsciously persuade with bandwagonning and peer influence by tempting people into parasocial relationships with AIs you control. Expect the AIs to offer real benefits, but with hidden catches. Like how rats are killed with 10% poison and 90% tasty treats, we will be steered to our doom by exploiting our desires and weaknesses and our inability/unwillingness to take into account the future effects of our decisions today. This is nothing new, it’s just a larger, subtler, more wide reaching way of doing it.

• Will any UPS work with Linux?
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube Jewels look like they were ripped straight out of the Reddit Gold playbook⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Can you imagine being paid for your work in digital jewels and rubies? It’s not there yet, but were getting closer and closer to being a modern day Tennessee Ernie Ford, paid in scrip and buying everything at the company store.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tidal is laying off more staff.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That is a package like “tidal-hifi” or something like that that can basically put the web app on your linux desktop ad an app.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How long do you think we'll keep seeing "formerly Twitter"?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They really shouldn’t be allowed to name anything after a single letter. VW, BMW, ABC, TBS are all bad enough. X conflicts with too many established uses.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it offensive for me as a man to dress as a male version of a female fictional character for Halloween?'⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I can’t see a problem with fictional characters. It’s when you bring in the real people that the drama starts. Trans JK Rowling, KaMANla Harris, Hillbilly Eilish, and Marjory Taylor Peen all seem like they would raise a few eyebrows.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sweden, Norway rethink plans for cashless societies over fears that fully digital payment systems would leave them vulnerable to Russian security threats⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t like using cashless anything because I know part of the cost is my privacy. Having said that, convenience is a powerful draw and cash can be a pain, especially when you have to find a spot for small coins.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google creating an AI agent to use your PC on your behalf, says report | Same PR nightmare as Windows Recall⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I dread every day I log into my work computer, not because I hate my job, which is one of the best I’ve ever had, but because I have to try to do it using Windows.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'Electric Plastic' Could Merge Technology With the Body in Future Wearables and Implants.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If you would like to activate your heated bum that’ll be 19.99 USD /mo. I know we already installed the hardware, but you have to pay us to use it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wikipedia article blocked worldwide by Delhi high court.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, you know there’s bound to be some juicy drama if they want to remove it so bad.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do cell phones have a data limit but home internet doesn't?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  My German friends and family don’t believe me when I tell them how expensive internet and phone is in the US. They all think it’s expensive in Germany. Having said that, there are some big differences in take home pay.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨“I am still alive”: Users say T-Mobile must pay for killing “lifetime” price lock⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I agree about peertube. I’m lucky that my niche has some creators with a peertube instance at urbanists.video (like c/fuckcars) for me to watch. I check that before youtube now and it cuts my YouTube usage by 5-15%.

  I know we’re off topic, but do you have call recording on Graphene? Also, how does the adblocker work. I find most adblockers use the VPN to create a loopback to listen on. I use a VPN frequently, so that interface isn’t available and I block ads via hostfile.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨“I am still alive”: Users say T-Mobile must pay for killing “lifetime” price lock⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I had a Google GSuite account from back when they advertised it as a free for life solution for families who wanted to use their own domain. They stopped offering this a long time ago, but kept us around. A few years ago, they tried to end it, but walked that back after facing resistance. We were among the earliest adopters and many of us shilled pretty hard for gmail over the years. Not only would they have gone back on their word, but my app and media purchases would be tied to a crippled no-email account (identity only) because they didn’t have a migration path to normal gmail. That means multiple logins. Also, the gsuite inbox doesn’t have the inline ads or anything while the regular one does. I’ve been working to move away from google because I imagine they’ll try to end this again later, but also just because we understand better who google really is.

  The site the greedy little pigboy runs was instrumental to the resistance but since it’s enshittified, we may not be able to resist again. Its fine to say something is for a lifetime, but you have to honor that or you’ve been dishonest and no one can trusts thing you say.

  The only reason I still have google around is android. When we finally get a linux daily driver phone that meets my minimum needs, I’m migrating the remainder of my stuff. I’ll happily give up some functionality to do it. I just hope they can keep their free for life promise until then.