Yeah! I stepped backwards onto what I thought was someone’s foot, apologised, but it turned out it was actually the prong of a swivel chair.

I’ve checked out Gemini a couple of times and find it a fun project.

In my opinion though, we gain more by participating in the wider web. There are a plethora of small web websites out there - it’s only difficult to find them. Blogrolls/blogrings and dedicated search engines like Marginalia help with this.

This also lets everyone have a more granular definition of what’s important to them: lack of javascript, minimal page size, lack of styling, full-text RSS feeds, compatibility with text-mode browsers etc. Everyone can pick and choose what they value without having to hash out agreement over the spec.

I actually want that. Not so I can chat to the AI, but so that everyone else who is forced into the office so that they can be on a call with their teammates in other regions don’t distract me, and vice versa. I have noise cancelling headphones, but even they aren’t enough.

Prosody for me. I set it up over 2 years ago, and the only time I touched it was when updating to the latest Debian stable and enabling some new features in the config files. It’s been rock-solid and just worked without complaint.

I’m pretty good at Mario Kart. I hadn’t played it for about 10 years, but I beat all my friends when I played Mario Kart World for the first time with them recently.

Hi, I’m choosing this comment to reply to everyone at once, since there’s a lot of overlap in the comments.

I’m sorry for not following the etiquette of the community. I’ve updated the post to contain a blurb to explain why I liked the article. I hope it’s ok but if there are any problems I’m happy to amend it or change the focus of the blurb.

I was careful to check the rules before posting, and in all other communities I actively participate in, link-only posts are completely fine, so I didn’t even stop to think it could be a problem. I now appreciate that this is not the followed norm of this community though. I can see that it could be easily misinterpreted as self-promotion, since I didn’t state I wasn’t the authour of the post. I have subscribed to this community for a while and made a couple of comments, but this is my first post here and with the posts mixed in the rest of the feed, I guess I didn’t build a good sense of the unwritten norms of the community.

I am not the authour of the blog post. This is the personal blog post of someone who works for the Sovereign Tech Agency. I appreciate their posts because they took a very thoughtful approach to why they are self-hosting certain things. Their technical approach is an extension of the “why” they are doing it and this is very clearly and explicitly laid out. This is something I quite like, and at least in the blogs I follow, relatively unique.

I am based in the UK. I always catch up on my RSS feeds before i go to bed, and if I see something interesting, I tend to share it on lemmy. I only woke up again now because of the heatwave here! Another lesson learned, if posting to this community again, do it while I’m available for the next few hours.

No, I won’t. If it was cheaper, I’d consider it.

My partner plays games on steam and uses my old gaming PC, running Bazzite and unfortunately with an nvidia GPU. Some games like The Last of Us II has lots of graphical glitches and we have to play around with the steam launch settings a lot.

It’d be awesome to buy a plug-and-play solution as I never know when there are issues with our PC whether it’s to do with our specific setup, or the game’s linux support in general.

As it stands we’ll probably look to get an AMD GPU when we can afford it. Which I think will be in quite a while.

For me it comes down to trust, since the distro maintainers have root on your system. You’d better trust their competence and alignment with your values!

I think they can use remote attestation on the mobile device to prove that it’s a physical device. They do that through Google Play Services or whatever the equivalent is on iOS. So, for instance, scanning the QR code on a custom ROM like lineage or GrapheneOS doesn’t work.

Whether or not it’s optional it’s still pretty dystopian. And I think we’ve seen the path before where something optional but “more secure” becomes mandatory and everything else gets shut off.

Did you know about !nebula@lemmy.world already? Ideally I prefer not splitting the community, unless you feel there’s an unsolvable problem with moderation or focus or something like that.

There’s also YaCy, which is a peer-to-peer search engine. You index whatever you want, and when you search, you connect to lots of other indices as well as your own.

I want to set up my own node at some point. My understanding is that the search results are hit and miss, but you have the power to improve things by building your own index of pages you want to search regularly. And this benefits everyone else too.

Since search indexing is so intensive, I think it’s the right technical solution if you want a truly open and independent alternative.

This looks cool! I don’t want to check another website each day though, I would love to have a Lemmy community with the main feed, similar to the hacker news communities.

The idealistic approach would be: all content freely available, and ask readers to donate if they value it, to fund continual production of more work. E.g. Democracy for Sale. Even better if it’s under a free content license.

The practical approach would be: make some content freely available, and put the rest behind a paywall. But the content should still be available in open formats like RSS, via a private feed. E.g. LWN, Stratechery.

Because they’re probably doing ok, and they don’t want to think about how much is out of their control, and how easily they could be in the same situation.

The idea that success is just down to hard work is comforting, because they think “if I just keep working hard then I’ll be ok”, and “I’m deserving of this lifestyle”. It also lets them not feel any guilt or spend time thinking about those less fortunate - they can simply say “well it must be their fault”.

I use taskwarrior for this. For example:

task add recur:monthly due:eom wait:due-3weeks clean mesh filter
task add recur:quarterly due:eoq wait:due-3weeks replace charcoal filter

There are quite a few web frontends to it too, although I haven’t tried these out so not sure which to recommend.

There were many crazy things, but the one that affected me the most was my RE teacher’s insistence that all non-Catholics would go to hell. My best friend’s dad, who was an atheist and a very kind person, had died a few days before and it made me really upset. My parents complained to the school about it.

I’d quit my job, buy a small house for my partner and I and give enough to my family that they wouldn’t have to worry about money again.

With the rest, I’d set up a trust that donates 1% per year in microgrants to free software maintainers who apply to it. Similar to NLnet, but with no strings attached beyond continuing to maintain the project.

Then, with all my free time, I’d also work on free software.

Will you be allowed to lie about the age? If yes, then it’s a pointless law. If no, then whoever is checking needs to have more control over your device than you do, DRM style. That’s gives them an entry point through which they can put whatever they want without you being able to control it.

I’m quite crazy:

• Marginalia with the no JavaScript filter, then with that filter turned off
  • Good for finding technical stuff, and sometimes recipes! I often find cool blogs this way.
• SearxNG via farside.link
  • Unfortunately (and understandably) many of these sites use Anubis now, so I have to turn on JavaScript, and thanks to Google’s ratelimits the results are either fantastic or not helpful at all
  • But, the public instances can work, so I try with 3 instances before moving on

Depending on the thing I’m searching for, I have search shortcuts set up. These shortcuts are really handy. It seems much easier to get good results on dedicated search engines for each task, than finding another general purpose search engine that’s as good:

• Wikipedia, Wiktionary and Wikidata
• Some other wikis
• Lemmy (of course!)
• Peertube and podcast indexes
• Websites of grocery shops near me

Finally, if all else has failed, I use Google (which still unfortunately happens at least a couple of times per day 🙁). Although, reading the posts now, I should switch this stage to DuckDuckGo instead.

I’d quite like to set up my own instance of SearxNG + YaCy at some point. It’d be nice to configure SearxNG to basically do all of these steps at once that I’m doing manually, prioritise my YaCy index, but use other engines to fill in the gaps, and then gradually fill in the gaps in my YaCy index.