helenslunch

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helenslunch ,

Damn I was gonna buy a P9 just for this feature...

helenslunch ,

We can try to pretend like this will hurt OpenAI, just like we tried to pretend that killing the API would hurt Reddit, or that no one would buy their stock, or that it would plummet right after IPO, but none of that is reality.

helenslunch ,

Photoprism is straight trash next to Immich. Not to mention the required fee just to upload photos to YOUR cloud...

helenslunch ,

Man they're really getting after it for Android 15...

helenslunch ,

FLauncher

Thank you for that

helenslunch ,

Framasoft is more like Google than they'd like to admit.

helenslunch ,

Is there a Smoked UMAF?

Coming to terms with no longer having privacy and control over my technology

I miss the days of VHS and DVD shelfs in homes, for example. If you bought the tapes and had them in your home, no corporate entity could alter those tapes without your consent, monitor how many times you watch them, sell your data to whomever they please without your knowledge, roll out new mandatory conditions to a 'user...

helenslunch ,

They're not gone, you just have to be more selective.

First, many of us have turned to piracy for this reason. I don't like piracy. I don't want to steal. But I will if they don't provide me with a legitimate and respectful purchase process.

I miss the days of VHS and DVD

You can still buy whatever you want on Blu-Ray.

I've turned off all auto-updates, and I didn't make that change or consent to it.

Bit of a double-edged sword there. Mac can make improvements and they can make things worse. The difference is often a matter of personal preference.

I have much bigger axes to grind with Apple, but I digress. Yes the overarching theme is "control" that Apple wants to maintain.

I clearly don't have 100% control over it.

Linux gives you all the control you could ever want.

replaced copies of Warcraft 3 that I and others had paid for in full and installed on our computers that we could play without connecting to the Internet

Pirate it. You have every right, far as I'm concerned.

I think I want to go back to investing more time, money, and energy into things that aren't connected to the internet

WHY DON'T YOU WANT PERSONALIZED ADVERTISEMENTS?

helenslunch ,

Everything you just said is bullshit entitlement

helenslunch ,

If you really need me to explain it, there's no hope for you. Even a child understands why stealing is bad.

helenslunch ,

LOL WTF dude? You are not stealing food, you're stealing entertainment.

helenslunch ,

LOL why do you people fabricate these stories and then act like they have absolutely anything to do with what I've said?

Oh right, because you don't have any legitimate arguments.

helenslunch ,

If you copy a song or a movie or a game, literally no one loses anything.

You're depriving the creator of that content from compensation for their work. You know this, you just don't care.

helenslunch ,

For that to be the case, you would have to already be planning to purchase the good, and then decide to pirate it instead.

The mental gymnastics you people go through to justify theft is honestly just astonishing, that you're able to delude yourself in this way. It's fascinating from a psychological perspective.

it still requires absurd mental gymnastics to reframe not paying someone money as stealing money from that person.

I agree. No one said that though. You're not stealing money, you're stealing intellectual property. Something someone, or more likely multiple or hundreds of someones dedicated time and money to create, with the expectation of compensation from it's consumer.

it places the onus for fairly compensating artists on the audience instead of the industry.

It places it on the consumer. You know, the person who benefits from the project's creation?

Which is why I mentioned direct donation:

LOL oh please, go on, where are you submitting your "donations" to? Does Brad Pitt have a Patreon page now?

It must be so nice to live in a fictional utopia where everyone is fairly compensated and no one tries to take from others, which is, ironically, exactly what you're doing.

helenslunch ,

I don't, and I find the concept an affront to human creativity

I'm shocked that you don't respect human creativity...

Brad Pitt doesn't need donations.

And I'm shocked that you're now moving the goalposts.

J/K I've heard this same bullshit justifications 38472893 times and am completely unsurprised. Goodbye.

helenslunch ,

I suspect the next Windows OS will be a subscription service

I don't think so. It'll be more like Android, "free" and full of invasive telemetry which is then used to serve you more and more ads.

helenslunch , (edited )

Can't really see any reason to use Thunderbird when every mail service has a web client that looks and works better...

helenslunch ,

If you want to game, my advice would be not to bother with Nvidia GPUs. Even the ones that advertise support for it often have lots of weird issues. In my case, this includes Bazzite.

helenslunch ,

I have hundreds of email addresses and they all come to the same inbox. 🤷

helenslunch ,

The cherry on top is blaming Linux for multiple cases of teams being ass

Blaming anyone is a waste of breath.

It doesn't matter whose fault it is. What matters is that it doesn't work.

helenslunch ,

HTPC OS

helenslunch ,

Sounds like all you're saying is Europe doesn't respect personal privacy or the right to go about your life not being harassed by government officials when you've done nothing wrong.

You can keep that, thank you very much.

You're posting this in the wrong place.

helenslunch ,

You can identify people when it's strictly necessary without identifying them when completely unnecessary.

Identifying people walking down the street is completely unnecessary, it's just harassment.

In the case of US gov., they've been caught repeatedly selling taxpayer info for money. THAT is the problem.

helenslunch ,

You can decrease identity theft by actually creating a not-shitty verification system. Things like SSN and DL #s are required too often, then stored insecurely so all that info leaks, THATS what causes ID theft.

I can't even address "general criminal behavior" because that's obscenely general description. If your insinuation is something about encrypted communication, the US government has demonstrated why we need things like that time and time again.

make you unable exert other rights etc.

Again, incredibly generic.

What's a good NAS and server system under CAD$900 (USD$658)?

I am currently using an old laptop (circa 2015) with a 250GB SSD in it, and 4GB of RAM. It runs Fedora 39 Server, and only hosts a Jellyfin instance through Docker right now (though I want to use Nextcloud later too). There is only 15GB of storage left on it, and the CPU is constantly overloaded (due to forced transcoding). I...

helenslunch ,

My recommendation would be building a Jonsbo NAS. They're relatively affordable. You probably also want a mobile CPU for better efficiency. I don't recommend ARM as it will greatly limit the variety of software you can run on it. Erying and CWWK/Topton make ITX mobos with mobile CPUs. These are Chinese brands but I don't really see anyone else making them.

The cheapest and easiest thing to do would be to just use an old standard desktop computer case that can hold a few HDDs.

helenslunch ,

Also that asus scammed gamers nexus is not that relevant for most of us.

If you actually watch the video, it documents how Asus ALSO scammed pretty much every other one of their customers who ever submit an RMA by making up lies about damaged components, charging to fix things that aren't broken, then giving you just a few days to respond before they threaten to charge you shipping to send it back to you disassembled.

helenslunch ,

Unfortunately this is just the state of YouTube. If you don't do clickbait, you're just irrelevant. And YouTube does nothing to curb this.

helenslunch ,

I don't pretend to know how any of this works, but the link is obviously already there in the browser, otherwise it couldn't direct you to it.

helenslunch ,

This is exceptionally frustrating.

If someone posts a YouTube link on Facebook it will show the thumbnail and the description and that's it. There's literally no way to locate the video because it obscures the address, ensuring that the only way to reach that link is by clicking it and running through Facebook's tracking system (l.facebook.com).

YouTube itself has also begun doing the same thing, obscuring the title and channel in the browser, so you can't even search for the video via FreeTube or NewPipe or anything else.

Reddit is also doing this now by hijacking links and redirecting to out.reddit.com

Sad days.

helenslunch ,

Except if you hover over it, the browser will show you where it's redirecting to and not the tracking URL. That's the whole point.

helenslunch ,

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helenslunch ,

Unsurprising. But yeah I see them everywhere now.

helenslunch ,

I have all kinds of software that are supposed to stop this. They don't work.

I even manually add the tracking domains and they still don't work.

helenslunch ,

I'm all ears, what ya got?

helenslunch ,

None of those frontends work. Every single time they just take me to a dead site.

Randomly getting Notion email, after having deleted my account years ago... ( slrpnk.net )

Welp I guess this is the perfect example of companies not deleting your credentials and account info when asking for it... I deleted my Notion account several years ago. And completely randomly today got an email from them about data retention, assuming this is one of those "important" emails they have to send out. Sadly, years...

helenslunch ,

Yes, exactly like that.

I've had companies just not respect your opt-out preferences. I've seen regularly they add new email categories (presumably maliciously) so that they can continue spamming you.

Less commonly they will sell your contact info to third parties

With an email alias you can simply disable that address, and any emails sent to it will be bounced back to the sender.

Also keep in mind that email is one of your main personal identifiers (PID) on the web. When data mining companies buy up information from various sites and services, they use it to link together your activity in order to expand your profile.

helenslunch ,

Account suspended, please upload selfie to continue (no thanks xi).

I mean, I hate Facebook as much as the next guy but...I'm pretty sure your Facebook page probably already has hundreds of photos of you, so it doesn't seem like a big ask, but it also seems like a terrible verification method...

helenslunch ,

They said "for the past 3 years", indicating they were using it previously.

helenslunch ,

What is your point? Do you just not realize the world existed prior to 3 years ago?

helenslunch ,

Yeah, the point is I don't want to watch the tutorial. Even if I did, it'd probably all be gibberish to me.

On Debian I just click the file and Bob's your Uncle.

helenslunch ,

I'm not looking for tutorials. I was making the point that you don't need to learn to use it. You just double click the file and you're done.

helenslunch ,

I didn't recommend Ubuntu. I recommended Ubuntu-based distros.

helenslunch ,

Well that's an interesting take

helenslunch OP , (edited )

Open source has a long history of commercial backing. Ever heard of a little project called NextCloud? Matrix? Nothing changes. It all works the same way, because it's still AGPL license.

helenslunch OP ,

You can look at some of their existing apps to see how this works.

Can somebody explain why game makers don't start their own companies together?

It seems like every other week a game studio is massively laying off employees; sometimes after years of development. What I'm reading is that it's a quick way to lower expenses and pad the investors' pockets, flooding the market with developers and reducing their value, to then hire them back a few months later at lower...

helenslunch ,

what's holding back gamedevs from banding together to either unionize or start their own companies

Same thing as any other business: money.

helenslunch ,

They do. There are plenty of indie Devs.

Exactly. In fact, there are so many indie Devs that it's nigh-impossible to break through the massive numbers of them. Occasionally there are breakthroughs like Stardew Valley, Hades, Vampires, etc.

On the other hand, you partner with a company like Microsoft or Sony and you're basically guaranteed success. They put up all the capital to make sure you make it to release (albeit probably a rushed, half-baked one that you just fix later because why not). Even if your game blows ass and is completely broken, full of DRM, microtransactions and ads, gamers still buy that shit up.

helenslunch ,

I think there is a correct and perfectly fine way to advertise but it certainly less effective.

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