You’re allowed to be human. Better to clarify what you mean to other real humans than waste huge amounts of electricity and water and create unnecessary pollution by filtering your humanity with a shitty LLM.

Imagine my confusion given it’s April 2nd where I am.

Biggest wealth transfer in human recorded history so of course they do.

Starlink is space junk to start with.

Dammit, now I’m hungry

I’m really glad to hear that from Endeavour! I was on vanilla Arch for 10 years and been with CachyOS for the past year. But we have EndeavourOS on our kids computer and a laptop. I’ve been wary of Cachy now since how the mods have reacted to discussion about age verification And I would prefer to stick to something I know (although I’ll be keeping Artix in my back pocket just in case).

Used Arch for 10 years. Been trying CachyOS for the past year. Considering Artix if systemd continues down the age verification slippery slope. Haven’t tried it but NixOS looks interesting.

https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/1413097-melania

Fixed the bleurgh Amazon link for you. 😉

Awesome, thanks! I’ll have a look into that! 🙏

€25 is double with our exchange rate and our org would be pushed to afford even $10 per month. We’re not a massive charity, just a small community organisation. I was looking into AWS because it would cost little to nothing with the non-profit credits.

I’ve had a self hosted Matrix server at home so I’m familiar with it but the format is too much towards the chat end of the communication spectrum than the forum end and we need something that’s either a forum or similar in format.

Federation is an absolute no-no as we would have no control over any other servers the data federated to. And as far as I can work out, Matrix still has metadata issues. I realise going from Facebook to Matrix is still a massive leap in privacy but if people ask why it’s better than Facebook, if it can’t be a high level of security, it makes it harder to convince them (even though staying on FB would be worse - people have just become so normalised to FB’s privacy invasion, they just don’t think about or want to think about it). And despite having used Matrix for a while, I’ve become wary of where Element is taking things.

We could go the XMPP route but, again, we need something on the forum end of the spectrum, not something like group chat, Facebook (which makes finding previous information difficult), or Discord (same problem).

If I need to change the icons for accessibility reasons, does my anti-ableism cancel out my bigotry? 😅

“All the temporary shit will be saved on the hardcoded directory ~/.fuckyou and not /tmp”

.fuckyou 😂😂

A recent bugbear of mine has been hardcoded icons.

It’s crazy how perfectly I can hear his voice, with that unique intonation and pauses, saying this. He’ll be turning 100 years old this year, bless him.

This is our ginger in both pictures. You can never predict which side you will get.

Aside: don’t buy into the myth that older cars need more maintenance or cost more to maintain. Its an excellent sales pitch to convince people to keep upgrading but it’s not always reality. Modern cars can easily cost more to repair and maintain than older cars because more technology = more that can break. Car manufacturers have, over time, crammed more and more proprietary parts into cars which they can then charge exorbitant amounts for and force you to use their mechanics rather than your local.

I have both an 25+ year old Toyota that’s still going strong and still only needs basic maintenance (parts are also easily available and cheap). I also have an ‘older’ Nissan Leaf EV that is very little maintenance and has nothing in it that reports back to Nissan. It’s got a nice balance of technology and most things we can maintain or repair ourselves if we want. Parts for this are also easily accessible and cheap.

I also highly recommend people learn more vehicle maintenance themselves (easier of older cars with less tech) so you can either do things yourself and/or you’ve got more knowledge yo protect yourself from mechanics and car dealers who try to scam you by repairing/replacing things that don’t need it.

I switched to GrapheneOS about a year ago. It was a conscious choice and I also wanted to use my phone as a phone. I installed the absolute minimal apps needed to function when out and about. I refuse to use things like Messenger and WhatsApp (I redirect friends and fam to Signal). I also experienced a decrease in phone usage which has been really nice. I feel like I’ve definitely kicked the doomscrolling habit as I don’t feel inclined to pick up my phone all the time and the only time I use Lemmy (Voyager app is the only social media app on my phone) is when I’m in a waiting room.

I really love the freedom that my phone is (mostly) just a phone and I’m not constantly online and constantly available. There’s just this weight lifted of not being constantly aware or hypervigilant about my phone.

If I ever couldn’t use Graphene anymore for whatever reason, I would just go back to using a dumb phone and prepare ahead more.

Is there a particular reason for Zulip vs something like Signal or Jitsi or Matrix? (Also asking for myself because I’ve been looking into Matrix again lately and this is the second time I’ve seen Zulip come up and in relation to VTTs lol)

I mean, capsicums (bell peppers) have more vitamin C per gram than oranges so…

Reminds me of a friend who had this whole long social media series using #notourcat and I always read it as No Tour Cat. I was like, damn, poor kitty doesn’t get to tour like the other kitties 😅

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