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- Comment on How much support does the idea of "Mass Deportations" (in the USA) actually have? Do you actually know Americans IRL that support these policies? 5 hours ago:
I know some now legal immigrants, who were granted amnesty in the 80s, who support or feel indifferent about the mass deportations…
Sadly, something I’ve realized that is part of our United Statian culture is that we believe: “If I suffered, then others must suffer as well.”
- Comment on Advice on moving my Spotify library to Navidrome 1 day ago:
So what do they actually offer, on top of the work of creative people making music? Not much.
OK, so I left Spotify for Navidrome a while back BUT. What Spotify sells isn’t music. Spotify sells curation and recommendations. Most people aren’t music lovers that want to hunt for cool new music. They just want a pre-generated list of songs that they’ll more or less like. That’s actually kinda huge.
A recommendation engine is something I wish fediverse or open source would tackle. I’m on Navidrome now, but I’m definitely listening to way less music now—access isn’t an issue—I just haven’t had time to hunt around for new music. Investigating new bands takes time. On Spotify, you do it without even really thinking about it.
- Comment on Why Decentralized Social Media Matters 5 days ago:
Leaving a social media platform often forces content creators to start over from scratch on a new site.
Don’t Lemmy and Mastodon also have this problem to some extent? Like, all the comms on lemm.ee will have to start over on new instances, no? Is it possible to migrate all subscribers, comments, and posts? Or just partial migrations?
- Comment on This fell off my car, can I just rip it off and not care? 1 week ago:
I went to one of those corporate places for an oil change … This fell off sometime on my drive home from work.
Exact same thing happened to me. Ever since then, I do my own oil changes.
Although, there’s definitely a startup cost. If you’re tight on cash, then I wouldn’t recommend it.
I guess the splash shield isn’t essential for driving… although, you should probably get it back on at some point. It’ll keep the elements out of the engine a bit. Getting water down there will probably lead to corrosion in the future. Not to mention rocks that could dent things down there.
It shouldn’t actually be too hard to put it back on. It’s usually just held on by plastic screws. You just need to buy replacement screws (a few bucks) and find a screw driver. The hard part would be lifting the car high enough so you can crawl under it. Then just line up the holes and put the screws on.
- Comment on Does anyone use a phone without a protective case? 1 week ago:
I don’t use a phone case. I already think phones are too big. Adding a case makes the phone even bigger and even bulkier. I’m usually pretty good at not dropping my phone.
Yes, usually, because I actually did drop it recently. 😅 Although, the screen is fine. It just has a little love tap on the corner. It’s got character now. It’s got the “worn” look.
- Comment on WTF is a rural town in the USA? 1 week ago:
Huh. Californian here, I usually only hear people say “village” when talking about towns in poor countries. (I don’t agree with this.)
- Comment on Release v0.6.11 · open-webui/open-webui 1 week ago:
Open Source, permissive! Do what ever you want with my code!
No, not like that!
- Comment on Release v0.6.11 · open-webui/open-webui 1 week ago:
Mommy, that source available project is claiming to be Open Source™️! 👆
- Comment on AI is rotting your brain and making you stupid 2 weeks ago:
To “waffle” comes from the 1956 movie Archie and the Waffle house. It’s a reference how the main character Archie famously ate a giant stack of waffles and became a town hero.
— AI, probably
- Comment on AI is rotting your brain and making you stupid 2 weeks ago:
Soon people are gonna be on $19.99/month subscriptions for thinking.
- Comment on Duolingo CEO tries to walk back AI-first comments, fails 2 weeks ago:
Any recommended alternatives?
- Comment on Stack overflow is almost dead 3 weeks ago:
Yep. 200% agree. I still post questions on SO, but when I don’t get any answers, then I have to go to Discord… :(
- Comment on Stack overflow is almost dead 3 weeks ago:
the whole XY Problem
lol. I hate this. Just answer the damn question or don’t. I’m not asking you to validate if what I’m doing is weird or not. It’s weird! I know! That’s none of your business. Just answer the damn question or don’t. Simple as.
- Comment on Stack overflow is almost dead 3 weeks ago:
get closed as a duplicate of the similar post
I’ve definitely had this happen to be before. It’s annoying.
What I do in that case is proactively say:
I’m facing problem X. I’ve tried searching for solutions. I found post X2 and X3 that are similar, but my problem is actually different because of Y.
Sometimes it helps.
Also, if you see people being assholes you can report them. There’s a flag for “unfriendly or unkind”. I’ve definitely used that before.
- Comment on Stack overflow is almost dead 3 weeks ago:
Even without LLMs, it’s possible StackOverflow would have eventually faded into irrelevance
Yeah, exactly. A lot of groups have a Discord :( or other forums where people ask questions. I know I’ve had to ask questions on Svelte’s Discord :( for example. And I think even once on some YouTube influencer’s Slack…
Sucks cuz both of those places are silos and my questions and answers are forever lost.
- Comment on Simple NAS hardware for home use? 3 weeks ago:
Music
I’ve been using Navidrome for a while now and it’s been great!
- Comment on Simple NAS hardware for home use? 3 weeks ago:
Same thought! I tried a NAS once and it was just a slower, more locked down version of a regular server I could build myself.
I’m not sure I fully understand the point of a NAS. I guess, is it supposed to be an off-the-shelf server for non technical people?
- Comment on Google restores Nextcloud user’s file access on Android 3 weeks ago:
YES! Nextcloud is actually kinda good. I was skeptical for a long time, but I’ve changed my mind recently.
If you don’t want to self-host (I’m not there yet, it seemed like a pain at first glance), then there are 2 online hosting providers that I’ve used recently.
- nubo.coop fully manages Nextcloud for you, you just use it as a normal SaaS
- northmail.ca also Nextcloud as a service, same as Nubo
Nubo is in Europe, while Northmail is in Canada.
They both offer email, notes, calendars, contacts, cloud file storage. Nubo also offers a tasks app, while Northmail doesn’t yet.
I’m in the US, so Nubo was a little slow for me. I’ve been using Northmail for about 1 week now. Northmail’s Nextcloud instance is faster for me. Northmail also uses a way more recent version of Nextcloud. Nubo’s Nextcloud is pretty old. Northmail is also offering 100GB for $0.99 CAD per month, which is way more than Nubo.
I had to move off Nubo because my bank doesn’t do international wires.
If Northmail adds Nextcloud Tasks, then I will have everything I want from Northmail!
- Comment on Usernames using randomized nonsense 4 weeks ago:
Brother! 🍻
- Comment on Usernames using randomized nonsense 4 weeks ago:
😆😂🤣 Uuuuhh… Aaaah… I normally generate a random password and use it as my username for most services. Like even my bank.
This is because I’ve realized the username is mostly useless and is just a handle for my account. It doesn’t matter to me if my username is jsmith, meow123, or kekxbek. In fact, it’s easier if I don’t have to come up with something novel or cool.
I’m a real boy. I promise. Not a malicious bot.
Although… If I were a malicious bot, that’s exactly what I would say! 😲
- Comment on LibreOffice: We still see people on the fediverse recommending OpenOffice, despite it having year-old unfixed security issues 5 weeks ago:
I didn’t even realize you could install OpenOffice anymore… it’s doesn’t seem available in the Arch repos. wiki.archlinux.org/title/Apache_OpenOffice
- Comment on Slate, a no-nonsense EV pickup for $20k 5 weeks ago:
Every car I’ve owned has had a way to change the speedometer from freedom units to ✨ metric ✨ .
For knowing what speed I should be going, I roughly follow these numbers. (Note, these are not equivalent.)
- 35mph -> 50km/h
- 60mph -> 100km/h
- 70mph ->110km/h
Also, very roughly 10km ≈ 5mi.
However, most of the time I just follow the flow of traffic.
I voluntarily switched to metric like 10 years ago, so meters, celsius, grams, etc make more sense to me now.
- Comment on Slate, a no-nonsense EV pickup for $20k 1 month ago:
Yeah, 145km/h might be a liiitle under powered. I drive between 120km/h to 130km/h on the US interstates.
- Comment on why are posts from my Egyptian chat getting downvoted? 1 month ago:
Wait, huh?
Users can adjust from their profile settings which language they want to see … posts are marked as English despite being Egyptian, so these posts get forwarded to English speakers
TIL!
- Comment on Slate, a no-nonsense EV pickup for $20k 1 month ago:
A buddy of mine got his Tacoma tailgate stolen in broad daylight during a kid’s football game… I hope any really valuable parts are secured…
- Comment on Slate, a no-nonsense EV pickup for $20k 1 month ago:
not equipped for actual utility
Doesn’t that guy know?! He’s not getting any actual utility from this truck! 😱
- Comment on Slate, a no-nonsense EV pickup for $20k 1 month ago:
what if cars don’t have be ridicules in size
Then you may be interested in this vehicle. It’s about as long as the Kia Niro at 4.4m.
carrying dead weight
I mean, even in a 5 seater sedan, you’re gonna be carrying dead weight. Are you suggesting everyone ride bikes or motorcycles instead?
- Comment on Slate, a no-nonsense EV pickup for $20k 1 month ago:
Whoops! I did mean the Toyota Pickup. Thanks!
- Comment on Slate, a no-nonsense EV pickup for $20k 1 month ago:
One thing that makes me nervous is that there are so many screws exposed. It seems like it would be really easy for thieves to just walk up with a hex key and steal your bumper or panels… 🤔
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