My wife likes her kindle hardware.

I love stumbling upon EPUBs and using Amazon’s website to send them to her kindle.

Game development and teaching.

Two industries that would be right up my alley. Two industries that prey on and exploit people who have a strong passion for their work. Two industries that I have stayed far away from. :/

sudo exit simulation please abracadabra Rumpelstiltskin

But not beyond the brain-in-a-box’s comprehension!

#TrumpTardigrades

They will finally inherit the earth once humanity and 3/4 of animals burn away.

I cannot help but respect any organization that has “here are the conditions that make our product useless” in their FAQ.

It’s an effective way to describe what their proxy does, for sure. It’s just nice to read public-facing text that doesn’t feel sanitized by committee.

Oh YouTube. You are in such a dominant position for talented individuals who want to create their own TV show. You’ve been pissing people off for a long time, but changing what “YouTube” even is seems way worse.

I will even pay the $15 for my family to be able to easily watch or listen to whatever they want in a native app on whatever platform they’re using. And I like how it makes my views more valuable to the creators I care about.

But if it’s not cheap, easy, AND ad-free, it is not difficult to block ads or even download videos I care about onto my Jellyfin server.

It looks like the latest firmware on their website for my old-ass black & white brother laser was released in 2019.

Hopefully that thing lasts another few decades on top of the ~15 years I’ve already had it, because it sounds like it’s the last printer I’m going to buy.

Maybe we should all throw some kind of support behind https://ladybird.org/ with an eye to the future.

That project isn’t problematic for some reason I haven’t heard about, is it?

(Problematic other than web browsers being gigantic pieces of software, and ladybrid itself not even being in alpha yet)

Texas… warns AGAINST something dumb?

Genuine surprise over here.

I wonder how much this affects things if you’ve already gone through Firefox’s settings to max out privacy and turn off all telemetry.

I resisted switching to Librewolf because Firefox works great (including M365 in Linux at work) and seemed to have the options you’d want for privacy and security.

This doesn’t feel like an emergency, especially in a chrome/edge dominated world. But it’s back on the list of things to investigate transitioning away from.

Good stuff to think about. Thanks! I think I’ll keep the email issue on my mental list of things to address as I keep FOSSifying and self hosting things.

Not just him but undoubtedly millions of fellow Americans.

When one is dead and broken inside, they look to external quantitative factors for validation. They convince themselves that the more measurable & “objective” those factors are, the more they must be representing some underlying truth. They represent the meaning of life.

And the shitty thing is that those who only care about money and power see the worst of humanity getting rewarded with more money and more power.

Their fucked up personal lives aren’t evidence of something wrong with them. They are evidence that such silly feel-good nonsense is unnecessary at best, and a terrible weakness at worst. You know, the kind of shit you’d expect from a cartoon villain in a children’s movie.

Edit to add an anecdote: I’m sure people from conservative families will feel this one. Say in front of one of the broken people that Musk is an idiot and a bad father, and the reply will be something like “well he’s made a million times as much money as you, so that shows how smart you are!” Or maybe “his kids are set for life - have you done something like that for your kids?”

I’d say this move seems too dumb even for fiction, if that wasn’t the SOP for the entire country I live in.

Given the context though, I’m curious if one of you privacy experts can change my mind on how I approach email.

I don’t use email for any meaningful communication where I expect privacy. It is essentially the way for companies and a few other organizations to send me low priority information and/or confirm my identity to reset a password or whatever. Because of that, the only attributes of an email service I really care about are reliability and availability, including not having emails silently blocked for not coming from a “trusted” provider.

So what is the practical risk of just using a Gmail address for that stuff, equivalent to hiding in plain sight? Yeah it helps Google fine tune their advertising model for me, while I’m running Linux on all my machines and blocking ads on any device I touch. My social media is Lemmy and my streaming service is Jellyfin.

Am I risking too much if I use it as the corporate contact point that it is? Am I just letting my white/straight/cis/male privilege show through?

Yeah. In my experience babies can be pretty fun people to be around and they have much healthier ways to express their emotions.

People are pathetic.

Absolutely! I mean look at that sad sack of shit on the sticker in the photo!

Your #4 seems inaccurate, unless you were just walking us through your changing perspective as you joined.

This place is very left leaning and I’m sure it’s loaded with people who happily call themselves socialists while shouting down the MLs/tankies.

The main difference afaik is that they support authoritarians.

Sounds to me like we need universities and maybe even governments to be running Lemmy instances.