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Thanks for the context, appreciate it.
Isn’t it the case though that no matter what is set up, no matter where it is set up,and no matter what by, that it will eventually become polluted by fools? Broadly speaking.
This is why posts like this raise the spirits a bit.
Honestly, people like you are keeping my faith/interest in being online alive. It’s dying at pace and things like this, that you do, help to keep it alive a bit longer.
This has genuinely made my day better and will make every day I go online just a little bit better.
Thank you genuinely.
Thank you for being great. Ireland appreciates you.
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Technology@lemmy.world•AI coders are carrying half-open laptopsEnglish
1043·9 days agoUtterly pointless thread. Drivel. Change your power settings so that you can close the screen and have the machine “do nothing”.
Is this the level of content that is deemed worthy these days? Literally a non-story.
I’m using Proton Mail and use an alias to sign up for each service. Works well and if you start getting spam you can pinpoint who leaked your data due to to the unique aliases.
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Selfhosted@lemmy.world•Any experience with e-ink displays?English
3·10 days agoThis is what I use: https://www.seeedstudio.com/XIAO-7-5-ePaper-Panel-p-6416.html
Using ESP Home Builder in Home Assistant I can push updates to it.
It works, but for me its far too much work for what it is. Updates are a pain in the hole, and come fairly frequently.
I’ve just ditched it now to be honest.
I was using it to display the weather where my wife worked each morning so she could dress accordingly. It did what it was supposed to do but was too much work. Wireless firmware updates seldom worked and it needed to be connected to a computer to reliably update.
For me personally the convenience isn’t there. Compare it to a similar sized tablet that I can run Fully Kiosk in to display a Home Assistant dashboard that updates effortlessly, and its a non-runner.
May be absolutely fine for other use cases but for me it was prohibitive. Battery life is a few months based on waking up each morning to refresh and going back to sleep until the next morning, but, you can’t monitor the battery level, a known issue with these. That simply is bananas!
I’m using Heliboard too but yhe correction is really bad. Very frustrating. Have to go back and correct yhe same words all the time. As yiu can see here, it still has not learned that yhe should be the. And yiu also.
Just goes to show how bad my manual typing is!
I’m.tolerating it but its immensely annoying.
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Technology@lemmy.world•AI Assistants Are Leaking Your ConversationsEnglish
61·13 days agoDid anyone really think they were actually private at any time ever ever?
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Technology@lemmy.world•A hacker ran me over with a robot lawn mower | The VergeEnglish
4·14 days agoThis sounds like a storyline for the next Honey I Shrunk the Kids movie?
And shouldn’t it be…em…the Grass Verge?
I’ll get my coat.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent. At a billion-device scale the climate costs are insane.English
2·16 days agoThank you for the excellent suggestion. Worked perfectly. Managed to uninstall about 50 pieces of bloatware from my phone, starting with Chrome.
Props to you @zerozaku
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Technology@lemmy.world•Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent. At a billion-device scale the climate costs are insane.English
573·16 days agoThis is very alarming. My eyes have never been opened so widely as they are in the last two months since I started ungoogling and FOSSing. This post has veritably split my eyelids.
Edit: Since reading this thread I have installed Shizuku + Canta and removed Chr9me and about 50 other pieces of bloatware from my phone.
Props to @zerozaku for the suggestion.
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Technology@lemmy.world•I stopped playing music on my Android phone and went back to my iPodEnglish
2·17 days agoThank you for the explanation. Its a pretty shit situation from an artists point of view it seems.
I’m guessing there was never any way for artists to fight this model when it developed. It was made so attractive for consumers like me to have music available on tap, that it would have been impossible for artists to fight against that level of convenience and demand.
I didn’t realise the figures were that bad to be honest. I suppose I assumed that because it was a way to get music to more people really quickly, that it would benefit artists.
Appreciate the explanation. 🙏🏼
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Technology@lemmy.world•I stopped playing music on my Android phone and went back to my iPodEnglish
11·18 days agoFair point. Admittedly, I wasn’t thinking about my response from a musician’s point of view.
Can you expand on your comment so I can understand the context a bit? I’m assuming from what you said that paid streaming services are not a positive thing for artists (or maybe smaller artists), and that it would be preferable if people were buying albums and singles outright? I’d like to understand it better.
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Technology@lemmy.world•I stopped playing music on my Android phone and went back to my iPodEnglish
48·18 days agoThis person just needs to manage their notifications and phone control better.
Also, while streaming (in my case Spotify) subs may seem expensive, it would be horrendously expensive to use an iPod and buy the amount of music I listen to (and three family members for that matter) instead. Considering the monthly sub, its fantastic value.
Personally, and without having made much effort, the issues mentioned in the article are a non-issue for me. And did I read that the HD and battery need to be modded?
Seems like a classic case of finding a problem for a solution.
I think it’s still very early in development. From what I have seen/tried, it’s not fit for regular Joe consumption yet, and in fairness they are clear about that themselves. I love the concept though, I hope it becomes more mainstream.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Claude-powered AI coding agent deletes entire company database in 9 seconds — backups zapped, after Cursor tool powered by Anthropic's Claude goes rogueEnglish
4·24 days agoBig deal. I did something like that once with no AI whatsoever.


I’m not 100% sure if it is what you are looking for but I use Voyager in conjunction with TrackerControl. TC blocks all the trackers.
Although I am curious why on the main screen of TC it says that Voyager contacted one country last week if trackers are blocked.
Apologies if this isn’t what you need, is this am example of a Fediverse client? Is that what you meant?