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- Comment on Fairphone posted 83% year-on-year growth in Q4 2025 - A journey away from Big Tech to a more sustainable alternative 2 days ago:
The future of industry is doomed with gen z being militantly unwilling to take a phone call. But I am holding onto some hope because I hear they’re also spearheading the CD music revival, so I just hope they also recognise the retro-coolness of telecommunication.
Otherwise, the art of verbal communication will die. People will meet and connect via text, only to be completely overwhelmed when they meet irl and have to talk to one another face to face. But social life is inconsequential. But at the end of the day, for the purpose of business communication, if you can’t talk on the phone, your just a fucking pussy.
- Comment on Why am I getting downvoted 1 week ago:
Don’t take it personaly. This just isn’t the community to be posting your little life updates in. In my opinion, you’d get better engagement over on mastodon. Plenty of neuro-diverse peeps and it’s generally better suited to micro-blogging then Lemmy.
- Comment on DVDs are the new vinyl records: Why Gen Z is embracing physical media 1 week ago:
The future is self-hosted digital media. I’ve got no qualms with pirating media. But I am an advocate for buying digital media from artists directly.
- Comment on 20 Years of Banning Phones. We Don’t Have That Long for AI. 1 week ago:
This article reads like it was written entirely by AI, and I’m willing to bet the “Promt Author” won’t deny this either given their promotion of AI. Its not just the em dashes, there’s a particular AI vernacular that’s becoming more and more obvious.
I don’t disagree with the idea that we need to prepare our future generations for the truely changing world of technologies etc, but like most others in the comments, I’m sceptical that embracing these technologies without careful consideration for what it means for generational knowledge and human intelligence in general is iffy at best.
- Comment on System requirements for a Matrix server? 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, true. But I saw people mentioning XMPP in the comments and thought the link might be helpful for some. It’s not like it’s wildly unrelated to the topic.. I stand by it.
- Comment on System requirements for a Matrix server? 3 weeks ago:
Self hosted XMPP easy mode
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
This looks cool. Good luck with it
- Comment on Australia said to grant US access to Australians’ biometric data 4 weeks ago:
Because we’ll always be too scared to say no to the US. We’re their bitch at this point. We’re a little less loud then they are, but we’re just as fucked up where it counts.
- Comment on Turning Gaming Handhelds into Digital Audio Players: An Interview with Riley 4 weeks ago:
Yeah I agree actually. I knew it the first time I heard wolves. The song wolves in wolves clothing is amazing.
- Comment on Turning Gaming Handhelds into Digital Audio Players: An Interview with Riley 5 weeks ago:
One of their best for sure
- Comment on Turning Gaming Handhelds into Digital Audio Players: An Interview with Riley 5 weeks ago:
You got me when the NOFX track… I’m here for it
- Comment on Is this sort of packaging even legal in aus? What in the shrinkflation is this? 1 month ago:
Still a waste of money if it doesn’t do anything tho
- Comment on What if the Internet Goes Down? - 15 Jan, 7PM CET 1 month ago:
Sadly I missed it. Was it recorded?
- Comment on Is this sort of packaging even legal in aus? What in the shrinkflation is this? 1 month ago:
Bref is better. More expensive yes, but my toilet never smells like shit or piss with Bref (not sponsored). Tried using those gel things for a while but I noticed no improvement.
- Comment on 'Signal' President and VP warn agentic AI is insecure, unreliable, and a surveillance nightmare 1 month ago:
You’re not wrong. But save some love for Udbhav Tiwari
- Comment on What if the Internet Goes Down? - 15 Jan, 7PM CET 1 month ago:
What time zone?
- Comment on ChatGPT fried my drive!? 2 months ago:
Totally agree. The docs don’t talk back and can’t clarify specifics or uncertainty. I always read the docs first (probably should have noted that in my first comment), but often I’d have specific questions or concerns regarding unintended affects on other services on my sever etc.
I’d never JUST run with AI to set something up. But it’s like having someone sit with you who knows what they’re doing, but dont know anything about your existing setup. So asking questions while also explaining my current setup, and pasting in and errors or warnings, is what made it useful for me.
I know some people think you should just learn from docs alone. That’s fine. My anecdotal comment was only highlighting how I was finally able to do something outside my knowledge and skillset because I had specific contextual help from AI.
- Comment on ChatGPT fried my drive!? 2 months ago:
I did both 🙏
- Comment on ChatGPT fried my drive!? 2 months ago:
I started my self hosting journey a bit over a year ago. Now I host and maintain multiple services for me and my family. 1000% absolutely could not have set it all up without ChatGPT. Just no way.
Thing is, I’m not a computer beginner. I’d confidently say I’m a moderately advanced computer user with a decent understanding of Linux/BSD and POSIX shell. I used ChatGPT to learn how to set things up gradually. Yes, things did break a couple of times and I spent a few late nights fixing them, but I never ran commands that I knew were irreversible until I fully understood what they did. This cautiousness comes with experience.
So, unlike many, I do encourage the use of ChatGPT for assisting with computer related projects, just know your abilities and don’t trust the robot unconditionally.
- Comment on Creating apps like Signal or WhatsApp could be 'hostile activity,' claims UK watchdog 2 months ago:
XMPP FTW
- Comment on Creating apps like Signal or WhatsApp could be 'hostile activity,' claims UK watchdog 2 months ago:
I’m self hosting my own xmpp server. Feels good.
- Comment on Creating apps like Signal or WhatsApp could be 'hostile activity,' claims UK watchdog 2 months ago:
The UK is really battling to knock the US of the top of the fuckedest country list ain’t it
- Comment on Promised myself I will support them after they go stable. They kept their promise and so did I 4 months ago:
Same bro, just became a supporter myself. Worth every dollar!
- Comment on Beginners Questions about Audiobookshelf, DNS and nginx 5 months ago:
I'll suggest you look into tailscale. It makes the process a whole lot easier
- Comment on It's Not Just You: Music Streaming Is Broken Now 5 months ago:
I'm starting (a little late) to build my music library this way too. I self host jellyfin , for which there are some nice music players. But, I still have my Spotify account currently while I gradually build my personal library. I'll admit tho, I will miss the algorithm and artist suggestions
- Comment on Spotifies come and Spotifies go, but that folder of badly-sorted MP3s will still be there in the 2050s. 6 months ago:
It's not the quantity, it's the quality. Sure I can search for similar artists with other means, but the Spotify algo is just on point. Probably so after many years of feeding it my listening habits.
I'll eventually drop it for a self hosted service with machine learning that I can train.
- Comment on Spotifies come and Spotifies go, but that folder of badly-sorted MP3s will still be there in the 2050s. 6 months ago:
Spotify or the last subscription I have. I'm otherwise completely free of big tech.
The reason I can't let it go is because I actually would never find new music I like without it's algorithm. I've found such got music based off it's recommendations. I know I could still find these bands without a premium subscription. But, music is a big part of my life and I just don't want to faff around when trying to find some music I like. For the same reason I think I'd struggle to self host my music because it's totally fail to work at the worst times no doubt