Thanks, you all. Makes it kind of simple if everyone gives the same recommendation. And Fossify indeed looks better. I've just installed it. I think it'll do fine.
I think this is about apps and not the operating system. But yeah, the stock ROMs also phone home to Google. You'd need to patch that. For example like custom ROMs like GrapheneOS do. I don't see another viable alternative. But that still leaves you with the issues with the apps mentioned in the article.
By the way: People have started questioning the numbers. Seems it's not super clear whether Deepseek told the truth. And IMO the implications aren't that clear either. If you can do the final training run of a singular model for $5 million... It still might require your parent company to build a datacenter for $1.6 billions and then rent the GPUs to you for $2 an hour. So it's not like Europe can cough up a few millions and compete with OpenAI.
Sure. This might still take a while, though. There have been quite some activity with the audio stuff lately. And fundamental changes. And they released some development board to tinker with voice assistants. I'll probably need to scrap my configs and start over. But last time I tried, it was almost usable. And it's a lot of fun to play around with microcontrollers.
Sure. Piracy and archiving can be related. But what kind of object/shape would that be? Ultimately every digital file is threatened with vanishing. Unless some people keep it around. But that's a very broad statement about how the world works in general.
To be fair, the US doesn't really have a culture in anything useful. regarding the topic at hand. So everything needs to be learned from scratch anyways. Take for example the Fridays for Future. I mean make of this what you will. But even a 15 year old Greta Thunberg and their schoolkid-followers can have an impact on the world. But I can't imagine anything like that becoming reality in the US. Over there, even the adults struggle with very basic things like protecting their schoolkids from getting shot at. So I think every positive societal change will take an immense effort and a big change in everything. Maybe even a revolution. Idk, but I've kind of become disheartened as you can probably tell. It's been a while since some big change happened in the US. But you gotta start somewhere... And maybe it's still somewhere within the country or the people to demand change.
You should probably look up what other people do and connect with them. Like worker's unions, charities and non-profits, people with influence, the political opposition. The big part of "organizing" is connecting with people. So call them, go to their meetings, find individual supporters for your cause, or whole groups who are willing to collaborate with you on topics or the whole thing. Once you have a few hundreds or thousands of supporters, do meetings. Let people talk and discuss their ideas. Form a plan of action and who does what. And once you have a proper organization in place, people to do the various jobs, interconnections which allow you reach lots of people, you can start with the organization of the general strike and the simultaneous protests spread out through the country. But at that point you should have the acceptance of every major union and their promise to back you with their members, plus lots of other people who are ready and waiting for you to give them the go.
Other than that you can always look at the French people. They do a lot of protesting and general strikes. I'm just not sure if that translates to countries like the USA.
Thx. Explains why I haven't heard of any of that. I've stopped accumulating every hobby out there at some point, and I didn't make it to figurines and 40k.
Btw, can anyone explain what piracy in 3D printing is about? Is this about some proprietary and costly replacement parts for a specific use? Or Patreon art/designs by independent creators? And what's Materize? Some underground platform?
Hmm, Home Assistant and ESPhome are evolving constantly and I'd like to try building my own smart speaker (Alexa) with the recent advancements... PieFed is making lots of progress lately. I'm ocassionally messing with local AI and these projects sometimes make big advancements over night. But yeah, other projects sometimes don't, while I'd like them to implement a few more useful (to me) features.
Same, same. But the occasional app refusing to work due to missing Play services, all the Instagram posts everyone except me took notice of, and all the hoops I have to jump through, kind of remind me of that regularly.
Figure out the ratio of your incomes and everyone pays that ratio? Not that hard. I'm not sure if it's super healthy to pay for sex in a relationship. I mean you do you...
I still wonder how they do security. With every other internet facing service, you're told to do updates as fast as possible. Or you're going to be vulnerable against all sorts of attacks. And either Lemmy has far fewer bugs than other software, or someone must be backporting the patches. Or it's just vulnerable and no one cares bc Lemmy is small and unimportant. But yeah, I've been around that time where there were some database issues. And the one or two times federation broke altogether, and people didn't notice right away, so lots of instances had already applied the broken update...
I think it's a bit unfortunate that the biggest instance does these kinds of trade-offs. Sure it's going to help some users with outdated clients. But probably at the cost of security, and if the Lemmy project makes some progress, or fixes bugs, that means most users on the entire platform won't benefit from that. Until maybe months or years later.
Oh no. But at least you made an effort so save someone's life. That's better than the other way round, seeing someone die literally in front of you and living with the guilt for the rest of your life, questioning if you should have done something...
Plus that's really walking around like a zombie. I mean if you don't take your headphones off at all. No matter you were just nearly missed by a car, then sexual assault, and you just keep going... I mean she can't know. Or has balls of steel and just doesn't give a f...
Thanks, you all. Makes it kind of simple if everyone gives the same recommendation. And Fossify indeed looks better. I've just installed it. I think it'll do fine.