harsh3466 @ harsh3466 @lemmy.ml

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Checking in with a 2014 27” iMac. It’s still running the original 3TB Fusion Drive, and I stuffed 32gb ram in there too.

I've been doing a bit of distro hopping with it. Have run Ubuntu and Linux Mint with no issues and currently running the latest Kde Neon beautifully.

Ah. A butterfly keyboard aficionado!

As a user, I love lemmy, and I want to thank you and the other devs that work tirelessly to develop it.

Also as a user I value the ability to manage my data, and hope to see image deletion implemented when you’re able to do so.

After having read the Nightmare piece, my decision was to stop posting images directly to lemmy. To share images, I’m going to self host an Imgur like service so if I do want to delete an image, I can.

I’m not a developer, and can’t contribute code to address the problem, but, at least for myself, I’ve got a solution I can implement.

Could be because, iirc, Amazon is starting to move away from Android.

I haven’t been brave enough to try to compile my own kernel or install an OS like Arch. I’ve got a machine I can tinker with, and it’s on my list of things I want to learn how to do.

I love open source. Both the philosophy, and the incredible usability of it all.

That’s cool. I haven’t looked at any local/foss llms or other generators, largely because I don’t have a use case for them.

My current favorite albums are:

• Allison Russel - The Returner (2023)
• Black Eyes Peas - ELEVATION (2022)
• Run The Jewels - RTJ4 (2020)
• Descartes A Kant - After Destruction (2023)
• Tommy McLain - I Ran Down Every Dream (2022)

I’ve been opting out of the internet at large. It started a few years back just disconnecting from social media, but as AI has begun to pollute everything and enshittification ruins everything, I’m just kinda done with it all.

I’ve been enjoying Lemmy, and I’m hoping Lemmy doesn’t turn into an AI circle jerk.

As a result I’ve been building out my server with services I want to use that I control so I’m not trapped by enshittification or inundated with AI where I don’t want it.

With all that being said, I know AI is here to stay. My biggest problem with AI is these companies gleefully gobbling up our data, our art, our words, our creativity, using it to feed and train, and to make billions, while we get nothing. It would be one thing if all these generative models were open source and freely available for everyone to use and benefit from, but that’s not the case. I know there are open source models, but the big ones are all paywalled and in many ways being weaponized against us.

At some point I hope generative AI becomes a boon to society. Right now, I’m too cynical to believe it will. I feel like it’s just going to make things worse for the majority of people.

I have 50 apps total.

Of the 50, 17 are system apps that can’t be removed (iPhone), leaving me with 33 apps that I’ve installed.

Of the 33 installed apps, 17 are self hosted and/or fully or partially open source apps & services, which works out to 51%

Edit to add: I choose open source whenever possible.

For me it’s just Linux itself that’s cool. I mean, I get the different distros have different opinions and things that make them neat, and that in and of itself is what’s so cool. FWIW I use Ubuntu (server) and desktop.

While you’re right about Android not restricting browsers, the context that is missing here is that the EU is (rightfully) forcing Apple to allow actual alternative web browsers/engines. In doing this, Apple is claiming that it’s too hard to support pwas while complying with the EU rulings.

It’s utter bullshit, and pwas should continue to be supported in safari and other browsers on iOS, but Apple’s just gotta be a spiteful asshole while complying with the letter of the EU law.

I live in the United States, currently use iOS devices, and regularly use pwas. It’s pretty unlikely my next phone will be an Apple device. I’ll probably end up with a pixel running Graphene.

Welcome!

Fuck Mitch McConnell.

It’s definitely isn’t my best photo work, but let me tell you, it was delicious!!!!

Not an insect. Bit of seasoning.

Hahaha. Yeah. That hair.

There are A LOT of self hosted Wordpress sites out there. Many of them you wouldn’t know unless told they were Wordpress (I believe both The Verge and TechCrunch use self hosted Wordpress). I myself have two self hosted Wordpress sites. Though I’ve been considering moving away from Wordpress for awhile now.

Shit like this should be opt in by default. But no. Instead of respecting the users they count on ignorance, forgetfulness, and obfuscation for this kind of fuckery.

I would love tab groups