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If you use "smart devices" cheap Chinese garbage that requires a 24/7 connection to some random insecure cloud server in your home, you're a fucking moron. But there are some great solutions that run entirely locally and enable you to do some really cool home automation. Check out the !homeautomation@lemmy.world community, as well as !homeassistant@lemmy.world. Home Assistant is probably the best piece of software for building an actually smart home, that's also sovereign and not reliant on an internet connection or some company and their infrastructure.

I actually used kbin, but I switched because I dislike kbin's user interface and the fact that it's written in PHP. I also considered self hosting kbin, but I want as little PHP stuff on my server as possible. I'll look into self hosting Lemmy instead. I might also check out mbin, but unfortunately it's PHP too, not a rewrite in a better language.

He's using kbin, it's like Lemmy but they don't call it communities, they call them magazines. I think this is what he refers to: https://kbin.social/m/degoogle. But it ain't great, I recommend the !degoogle@lemmy.ml community instead.

I was actually thinking about downloading and archiving everything, but then it got taken down. Damn.

That's great

Unfortunately the podcast doesn't exist anymore. I really liked it.

That's what fivefilters-full-text-rss-docker is for

The Pixel Tablet comes with Android, not with ChromeOS. And you can install GrapheneOS on it, just like on a Pixel phone.

No, thankfully I don't use any of their products. But I find their statement ridiculous. If I buy something, it's mine, I own it because I paid for it. The manufacturer can fuck off.

Libreddit should fix this

If you use a Google Pixel Tablet, you can install GrapheneOS and revoke Sensor permissions for all apps.

There are multiple instances hosting Piped. You can look at the list of public instances and pick one you like: https://github.com/TeamPiped/Piped/wiki/Instances

I also recommend the Libredirect addon, which automatically redirects all YouTube links to Piped.

On Android you can use LibreTube, which also uses Piped.

On iOS you can set up Yattee with this guide to use Piped. But you can also just use it in the browser if you like.

If it works it works I guess.

No don't get me wrong. uBO doesn't block all JavaScript. It has lists with individual scripts that are known to be used for ads or tracking, and these get blocked. All the other scripts load as usual. This already improves website load times and probably also battery life. Another interesting solution for reducing CPU load may be DNS based blocking. That way, the CPU is not impacted at all, the browser tries to load the script but it just silently fails, because the DNS records for the tracking and advertisement servers won't be provided.

Because that statement is really ridiculous.

I enjoy helping people out, when I have some free time. Otherwise I would waste my time scrolling on Tiktok or Instagram Reels lol.

I believe Firefox now does what ClearURL advertises (removing tracking elements in URLs), but I'm not sure I'll have to check again

Yes, they added such a feature in version 120 I believe, but I would still use the uBlock list. The performance impact is not noticeable at all, it doesn't hurt. But the ClearURL extension is kinda unnecessary.

No problem. Unfortunately Tampermonkey is recommended in many articles, guides, blog posts, etc. because people are unaware of what it does. Violentmonkey should be far more popular, so users stop downloading proprietary crap, simply because it's the best known userscript extension.

I've seen this on a few Linux distros. MacOS also has something similar, not based on XDG but it works really well. It also uses the open command.

We should do both. Don't buy products from shitty companies and use as much FOSS as possible.

Personally, I just use a IR blaster to control my AC locally

Same, it works really well for me. In fact, my AC unit is a little older and can only be controlled through Infrared (or through buttons on the unit itself, but that's stupid)