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How do I summon the AI article-shortener thingamajig

I came across this type of comment a lot in the past and want to elaborate on this further for context.

Public instances draw a lot of eyeballs and the tech companies go after them. Private instances are less impactful and get left alone.

I really can't overstate how miserable my video watching experience was becoming prior to self-hosting. I jumped from Piped -> Invidious -> PipedMaterial over the span of a few months as the best instances started to crap out. I used libredirect and regularly cycled through instances w/ the keyboard shortcut to find a easily watchable video.

Eventually, I bit the bullet and self-hosted a docker container of Invidious and it's like night and day. Everything just works, and you can program libredirect so that it operates as if it were a public instance.

In my experience, a lot of public instances initially work perfectly, and then get targeted and hamstrung by big tech. I think of them less as solutions and more as demos to use until things get buggy. I have had the same experience w/ teddit and searxng.

One vote for tracker control so that any apps w/ tracking software have a harder time also.

"Have you no sense of literacy"

I used to install VS code for every new install and now I just stick to Kate. Although the storage impact is minimal, a lot of the dependencies for KDE apps are already present if you are running KDE as your desktop env.

Chrultrabooks ftw!

I'm a recent convert myself. Definitely underrated and if you experience any issues with the publicly hosted versions, they are often resolved through customization if you host your own docker instance

Yeah same. I initially used it for YouTube/Twitter but realized that it's reinventing the wheel that libredirect already created, and doesnt have the same features like pinging instances or being able to cycle through instances if one goes down.

I still find redirector useful, but now use it for things like redirecting away from guilty pleasure websites or when my locally-hosted teddit doesn't properly handle internal links.

Tabliss is very underrated. Nowadays, I rarely see my desktop background but always see the "new tab" and so "new tab" serves as the modern desktop background. I use great photos of my city but there are many categories in unsplash

Exactly. I'm pro-privacy but this analogy ain't it

Don't have any stats but I do use tracker control. Having a Xiaomi tablet, I like that I can also extend functionality to system processes as well (at my own risk obviously).

That was my sentiment exactly. The benefits of being able to buy parts to fix a device is more muted when the replacement part cost the same as a buying an entire used phone. Maybe I'm in the dark, but the cost of screens feels inflated and like a deterrent to fixing devices, in spite of it being likely the leading reason for repairs.

Stumbled across some self-hosted hacks online but hopefully someone does a PR to add instructions to their GH wiki.

Mid/high tier tend to have some flexibility re: upgrades (double check w/ specific models before purchasing). Cheaper models OTOH are mostly soldered but you could potentially auto-mount a micro SD in Linux.

Definitely could've mentioned that upfront tho, so appreciate the question

Same. Slickdeals and forget it. The website is a bit of a privacy nightmare w/ inserted tracking/referral links for every deal though. I've stopped logging in entirely and just use it for emailed alerts.

256 might be harder to track down than finding a 128GB w/ 8GB RAM and upgrading storage manually, but a mid-tier chromebook-turned-chrultrabook could suit your needs. From my experience, since the CPUs are a lower-priority, Chromebook's mid-tier build quality exceeds similarly priced Windows laptops. Sleeker designs et al.

I'm obviously biased. I wiped ChromeOS & I'm running Debian on an HP x360 14c. Forum here: https://forum.chrultrabook.com/ and there's a more active Discord link floating around.

Great to hear. Preferably from a more neutral source next time. Hard to take it at their word when it's so editorialized and filled w/ name-calling. And I say this as someone who probably would end up on a watch list if I gave my personal opinion of Elon

Currently in the throes of attempting to trade for a living.

What has helped me immensely is to 'denature' goals so that I can measure success beyond something binary like "did I achieve X". Instead, I will specify more subtle signs of progress/improvement, and track those instead. That way, even when I fall short of the ideal outcome, I still have actionable, helpful takeaways that can assist w/ my next attempt. Repeat ad nauseum until success.

Another suggestion is to read books like 'Grit' and 'Resilience' and 'Mindset'.

One of us....

Was on it for a few months but jumped ship after bugs went unfixed. Can't fault the owner personally. It's a stressful, thankless job. Hope he finds happiness in 2024