JovialSodium

Found it mentioned as an alternative when Reddit announced their API changes.

Some unsolicited advice

• Don't trust anyone trying to make a living off of selling you anything, even something less tangible like a lifestyle.
• If you have extra income after living expenses, set a little aside for personal enjoyment and save/invest the rest. The future is uncertain.
• If you want to travel to far flung destinations and have the means to do so, consider skipping the resort experience. You'll spend much less especially in developing countries and have a more authentic (relatively speaking), and rewarding experience.

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This recipe calls for 4 garlic clove bulbs.

Be proactive about your health.

Signal is centrally hosted thus it's proverbial rug can be pulled.

My first thought when seeing but before reading is "OP should replace the screen". But I can respect you wanting to keep it original.

Great work, looks nice!

Speaking as an atheist, can confirm.

Almost everything on my store page is AAA or liveservice trash.

Very little on my Steam page is. This is just one data point but still it suggests their suggestion algorithm somewhat works for this.

Just an observation on that specific thing not a disagreement with the problem. Live service is trash and needs to go away if it's not an exclusively multiplayer game.

Ublock origin has cookie banner filters. I didn't have this problem, I assume that's why.

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I got caught up in the vinyl revival, so I enjoy collecting that media. But even then, I consider it more of a novelty.

Generally speaking though, I prefer locally stored digital media without DRM over physical media. It's just more practical.

That being said, I'm glad that physical media exists and hope it continues to be made. Choice is good.

I use rsync for this purpose and the only notable bottleneck is my download speed, fwiw.

I can easily believe these types of continued enshittification will help drive more users to Linux desktop usage. But that will still be a small percent.

People have to know and care about the problem and then be willing to put in the effort to understand what to do. That combination is pretty limiting.

I'd love to be proven wrong, though.

Setting legal precidents and regulating the industry are musts to curb this behavior. But we also have power as consumers. The ol' "vote with money" if you will. There are too many uninformed consumers for this to have a huge impact, but keeping our money away from bad publishers and giving it to good ones will help.

All credit cards are 0% if you pay the balance in full every month. Then it's just a matter of if the perks are worth the fees (if that's not something you're already taking advantage of).

Edit: reworded to not use the word balance twice in different contexts.

Link for reference. https://play.date/

Not literally a tamagachi, but if you want to go down the super niche rabbit hole that'll include interfacing a TV and keyboard to a 6502 processor, there's a guy named Ben Eater who does a great job covering that stuff. eater.net or search his name on YouTube.

To an extent. But it wouldn't surprise me at all if sometime in the near future they force the use their own DNS servers within their browser instead of respecting your network configuration.

The best solution to circumventing Chrome's bad behavior is to not use it.

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My guess is we're still too small and niche to be a tempting target.

I think the federated nature of lemmy will make it an easy target when it does come along though.

Disclaimer: I don't really know what I'm talking about.

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This sums it up. I'm too lazy and there's too little incentive.

I was thinking more as a gateway to finding new people in person. Once established, you can choose a different means of staying in contact.

But if any amount of usage may lead to self harm then don't, of course.

Hopefully some better advice comes along that doesn't involve compromising your ideals, which is what I'm about to suggest.

It seems to me the most likely way to meet likeminded people is to find groups and events in your area. And you're going to have the most luck with those big privacy invading social media services. It sucks, yes. But it also increases your chances of creating local friendships.

Up to you if it's worth it or not, of course.

Shopping at big box warehouse club stores has this solution built in, with the unfortunate downside of having to go in to those stores.

Or just a pun that went over my head. Either way, thanks for the answer!

An hour old post about Windows on the Fediverse and no one has said use Linux?

Use Linux.

NES (my nostalgia speaking)

I hadn't heard the term radiation fog before. I figured it probably wasn't as scary as it sounded (to me) and indeed it's not.

https://cloudatlas.wmo.int/en/radiation-fog.html

I wonder how repairable and maintainable these will be as compared to EV's from other markets and if replacement batteries will be available as the original ones reach the end of their useful life.

If these concerns end up being valid, and the tariffs are large enough that these cars aren't priced particularly competitively, that'd be enough for this EV consumer to pass it up for his next vehicle. Will be interested to see how it plays out.

Edit: Wanted to say I'm not against Chinese EV's. If it ends up making sense to get one, I will.

Reel Big Fish - Sell Out

Tool - Hooker With A Penis

That's a fair point. Credit card companies are not our friends, and it's absolutely in character for them to try and nail us in the fine print.

For my part, I know of my annual fee and the rewards I get more than offset it (though not considerably) but it's certainly not always so clear cut.

Maybe you can do something with the tampermonkey extension to catch when that audio is triggered and have it do an api call that your script catches?

I don't know if that'll actually work, I know of the extension but have never it used nor am I skilled with Javascript but it seems feasible.

According to the plan linked in the article https://mailchi.mp/press.kamalaharris.com/vice-president-harris-lays-out-agenda-to-lower-costs-for-american-families this tax credit would be for low and middle class families. Which I agree with and like. Help those that need it.

Edit: copy/pasta of the relevant bit: "Vice President Harris is proposing a new plan to get tax relief to more than 100 million Americans. Her plan will expand the Child Tax Credit to provide a $6,000 tax cut to families with newborn children. Unlike Trump and Vance, Vice President Harris is committed to ensuring no one earning less than $400,000 a year will pay more in new taxes."

I use mailfence. They offer imap, caldav, and carddav. It'll check all those boxes, but I don't think those are unique offerings among the privacy respecting email services.

I use Proton Mail's Proton Calendar app for my calendar though. I was using caldav + davx5 but I had issues with reminder settings getting lost on recurring events.

A quick search tells me that mac mini's have ethernet. Are you able temporarily connect that way to fetch the wifi drivers?

Some ideas:

Are you using proprietary nvidia drivers? Display issues after switching kernels could be driver related. If so, switch to nouveau and see what happens.

See if the issues persists with another display manager, such as sddm.

Re: cell phone scanning. I've seen these camera based book scanners popping up recently. I've never used one so I can't comment on how good they are, but when I read your workflow it occured to me it was worth mentioning. Here's a search result I arbitrarily picked listing some.

https://www.digitalcameraworld.com/buying-guides/best-book-scanner#section-best-overall

As long as the record is in good condition, I find the sound comperable. I've played the same song on a high bitrate digital audio file and on vinyl and I found both equally pleasing to listen to.

I have a Fluance RT80 turntable, and am using the built in preamp. It's connected to a home audio receiver (Sony STRDH590) with a 2.1 speaker setup (Polk Audio Monitor 60 Series II Floorstanding Speakers and a Polk Audio PSW10 10" Powered Subwoofer). A pretty midrange setup in others words. And I'm no audiophile, so weigh accordingly.

Edit: I realized you asked specifically about streaming. This link https://support.spotify.com/us/artists/article/audio-file-formats/ indicates that Spotify does up to OGG 320kbps/AC3 256kbps which is comparable to my personal audio library. So, statement holds.

It depends on the implementation.

If there's no voice chat, text based chat participation is considered optional, and the in-game community isn't toxic, then I might get chatty.

Are ps5's not useful?

I haven't bothered with the last generation of consoles, but I haven't heard anything bad about them.

But maybe my "haven't bothered" comment is a common sentiment and the answer to my own question?

"Peak Windows" is a fun one to ponder. I'd probably pick XP for fairly high reliability and fairly low bloat. Or 2000 if taking business oriented versions in to consideration.

Apology not needed.

I agree with you. The ozone layer is a great example of this being successful. And there are other examples of this kind of issue elsewhere. Like the we have to push for user repair rights or against planned obsolescence (which one could argue this is planned obsolescence, in thinking about it).

A small number of informed users won't disincentiveize companies from abusing the masses. Because most companies are garbage so of course they will if they can. And regulations are the solution. I'm not suggesting we ignore that. But those of us who are informed can still incentiveize those companies that do treat their customers well in the interim.

I concede to the point though. I said, in effect, that supporting businesses that treat us well will help. But I suppose it's more accurate to say that will, at best, stop things from getting worse.