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Yeah, that’s the one thing that’s missing for me. On Reddit I was on the Arsenal subreddit where after a game there would be thousands of comments. Here, there are maybe 5.

Lemmy is doing great when it comes to general news, politics, memes, programming stuff, etc. But, it will be a while before the more niche communities are healthy.

OTOH, Reddit is changing too – not just that it’s becoming more corporate. But also, more and more posts on /r/all are about India and India-related things. People in general seem to be dumber – angry about dumb stuff, more spelling mistakes, just little things I’ve noticed.

Anyhow, I really appreciate sh.itjust.works and The Dude, and especially the openness of how things are going.

Yeah, first of all, this wasn’t what the average person wore. This was something that a rich person wore to show off their wealth. Second of all, it was probably not their “everyday wear”, but something they wore for a special occasion like “Fashion Week”.

He seems to set a timer and make sure he reminds people about that at least once a month.

That’s really amazing. Before I got my 1080 I remember how having a video card that was just 5 years out of date meant many new games were completely unplayable. I wonder if I can hold out long enough for the next batch of AMD cards to come out. I’m on Linux these days and would really prefer to buy an AMD card, but I don’t want to buy a medium spec card, and the last high-spec card AMD released was the 7900 type cards from 3.5 years ago. I wouldn’t want to replace my 10 year old card with one that’s 3.5 years old. That seems pointless.

Is it surviving? I’m on a 1080 and there aren’t many games I can’t play, but I’m finally having to make noticeable sacrifices in quality to get a decent frame rate. I can still run games at 1440p though. But, for a 10 year old card, it’s amazing what it can do.

It’s unbelievable how well that one line of cards is holding up. I’m on a 1080, no Ti. Still runs most games on decent quality settings at 1440p and 60+ fps.

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This is why lawyers advise clients to use a PIN instead of face ID or fingerprints

That’s because cops don’t need a warrant if you use a face or fingerprints, but they do if you use a PIN. What you’re talking about is for protection against casual, warrantless searches.

What I’m talking about is a subpoena where you’re required to present evidence. The fact that it’s encrypted is irrelevant. If the data is subject to a subpoena it doesn’t matter if you store it encrypted or unencrypted, you’re still required to present it to the court.

If you keep you stuff updated

Keeping stuff updated is a chore, and it can take hours out of your week, often when you don’t expect it or don’t have time. When that’s someone’s full time job and they’re updating it for hundreds, thousands or millions or people, there’s a better chance they do it right, and a much better chance that they do it in a timely fashion.

I am not your lawyer and this is not legal advice for you or anyone who reads this.

I hope you’re not anybody’s lawyer, with your lack of knowledge of the law. Did you graduate from Dunning-Kruger law school?

Communication that can’t be shut down: Matrix, Mastodon, email servers you control

Uh, those can all be shut down. You may control the server but you don’t control the datacenter the email server lives in, unless you’re hosting out of your house, which is a bad idea. You also don’t control the pipes to and from these servers. There have been many plans over the years requiring that ISPs ban users who are accused of copyright infringement. And, even if you don’t infringe copyrights, we all know about how the DMCA can be weaponized against people who have done nothing wrong.

File storage that can’t be subpoenaed: Nextcloud, Syncthing

Sorry, your own file storage can be subpoenaed, you just don’t have a lawyer on call to help you through the process. If you think “haha, I’ll just delete the data”, you can be in much worse trouble. AFAIK in some cases the judge / jury are allowed to assume that evidence that you deleted was incriminating.

I self-host things and think it’s a good idea. But, don’t go overboard with how good it is. It’s still vulnerable to government and corporate actions. in many cases you’re more vulnerable because you’re on your own, you probably don’t have a lawyer on retainer, etc.