These link only clickbait posts irk me a little. First of all, I’m not going to take the bait. Second, I’m not going to use your ”privacy tool” without understanding it’s upside and having a tentative grasp of what it does and what data it uses. Third, I’m not convinced there are any best practices, privacy-wise, for using blatantly statesponsored Chinese spyware or that there’s any helping you if you’re still on X.

Reading this comment is a great litmus test. If you think that sounds dumb and nothing at all like a brilliant master plan, you are not part of the world’s financial elite.

Thanks, just had my ass handed to me by you :D

It’s fun, maybe make sure to feature articles related to the Wiki resources used so that my random guesses can result in some learning?

Some pictures are very hard (obviously), maybe find a way to have different “levels”?

To me, it would also be fun with more trivia oriented photos (landmarks, famous things in museums) but that would of course move away from the geography theme a bit.

That old one hit wonder

Yea I can understand having a pretty set comfort range, climatewise. If that were my situation, I would be dead set on living in a walkable place in California. I walk and bike from -25 C to 35 C (~0–90 F) and will just put on raingear if needed, that’s freedom for me.

This comment is truly mindblowing to me!

I do welcome you sharing your perspective, but I also feel like we must be of different species, because I so profoundly cannot relate at all. Fascinating!

Well, it’s not uncommon in some countries with perpetual loans for individuals, so sure!

It’s usually a matter of agreeing the right interest and offering the right security. You will get a worse deal than Google.

This is some true believer shit.

Google launched less than thirty years ago.

At the current rate of deterioration, it’s not exactly certain to what extent the planet will be able to sustain human life, much less whether a much loathed spyware company will still be around to pay the bills.

[Disgusting rich people who are destroying the planet choosing new disgusting places to travel to]

I think its usually in some Microsoft subscriptions if you’re on PC/Xbox, could give you a decent chance to give it a go. If it turns out to be a forever game for you, that might end up more expensive in the end – but maybe that’s fine in that case

It was just boring and empty, except for Space Pirates using clean language and some other really bland factions. It tried to cater to everyone and just sucked. That’s to say nothing of the endless load screens and RNG planets

On my death bed, one of my many regrets will be having played Starfield

Yes, I find this credible. At the same time, FOSS and Linux seems to be all the rage now, with big tech’s ties to the Trump regime etc. Even though it’s been nearly two decades ago since I first installed Linux (in the late 00’s I even had an awkward “FOSS as an ethical alternative to piracy” phase), I am not in the tech savy crowd that’s been mainlining this stuff for life – rather I identify more with the growing number of tech illiterate dummies that think “FOSS = good” because Pewdiepie said so or copy/pastes sudo commands that replaces half my boot drive with North Korean crypto malware.

There are actually a few closed apps that do it, some claim to make your phone discoverable as a Bluetooth HID and others via a server/client combo. But I don’t really want to have an internet enabled device being able to track all my screen interactions and control another internet enabled device without some assurance that there’s nothing nefarious going on behind the scenes.

Thanks, yes, I came across it and it looks very good but the target device is an IPad so I didn’t consider it an option (well, I found no closed or open options I liked, really).

I understand you better now. Yes that’s certainly possible, plausible even. But it would seem useful for someone who wants to boost the credibility of their (hypothetical) keylogger app with exotic permissions to have a way to independently be recommended as a good open source option by two leading models in mainstream use.

Strictly speaking, it doesn’t know anything. But regardless of the merits of LLMs, the AI box is the top result on the biggest search engine in the world by default, and what I’m wondering is whether this is an example of intentional manipulation of the search results to give people who don’t know better the false impression that apps are open source.

Check out Navidrome if you’re into self hosting

For me this is the year of building a media and music library of my own, legal or not. I’ve already cancelled my music streaming subscription, now it all just comes down to finding new, joyful ways to still explore and listen to music

Yeah, as ridiculous as the record labels are – their reaction is exactly what one would expect after such a high profile move.