Syonyk

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by Syonyk 3y ago
> Also, the internet is currently being scapegoated by the media for the teen mental health crisis but this is only happening in the US and other countries also have teens with internet access. [Citation needed] The teenage mental heal
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I don't know what "very young" is, but I'd assume "Under 8" or so. At which point, they don't need digital devices. Take the time and effort you'd spend on that and buy them legos or something age-su
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And the Washington Post is owned (via a holding company or two) by Jeff Bezos. They're the sort of newspaper that I would expect would be very, very happy to cheerlead for "Everyone on consumer digital tech, all hours of all the d
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Why would you expect anything of that sort to be without controversy? It's saying that we shouldn't hand our kids over to the tech company babysitters, and there are quite a few people, paid and unpaid, happy to argue against sor
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> ...and equip them to make their own decisions when using the internet. The problem here is that the tech providers have A/B tested "engagement" (overriding the will of the people using their product towards the tech pr
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How old are your kids? There's a difference between a teenager, and a six year old (who I'd argue shouldn't be on digital devices at all - there's far too much research on how kids brains develop from interaction with t
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A flip phone (currently a Sonim XP3+, running Android 11 Go, location services disabled). Frequently turned off, often enough with the battery removed. And a laptop running Qubes that I carry in a backpack with a lot of offline capability
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It's slave labor (or close to slave labor) during production (Cobalt Red, Dying for an iPhone are some good overview books on the matter, though you can dive in further if you care), it's working against the "owner" of t
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Glad to hear it! The singing bulbs are a new, and quite unwelcome, development. It seems to relate to the number of filament supports. I've not messed with Syncthing - I've been more trying to drive my life offline and spend les
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This is a big part of the reason I carry a flip phone. Instead of explaining that your "otherwise smartphone looking thing" can't run Apple or Android apps, I just have to whip out the flip phone, flip it open, flip it close
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by Syonyk 3y ago
As opposed to for-profit, ad-driven, surveillance capitalism companies with a demonstrated interest in short term profits and hoovering all the data they can? Yeah. I'd be willing to take that risk. Don't get me wrong. I don&#x27
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by Syonyk 3y ago
> I pay all of my taxes due, and I expect the same from other taxpayers... What are "taxes due"? And at what point does "Creative-but-legal accounting" turn into "Tax fraud"? The tax code is complex and a
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If you're not flying it in passenger revenue service, I believe the requirements get a lot fuzzier - I would expect you'd need at a minimum a commercial multiengine cert to get rated for airliners, but I don't know that you a
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> Why? The CEO of a company this big, no matter their background, has no business building an intimate understanding of the tech. This is certainly a point of contention in modern schools of business thought, but the concept of a CEO w
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> I do not miss T9 texting. I don't mind it. It's easier to do half-blind and just sanity check your results. But more importantly, it's been a thing I use to move some longer form interactions to email. I won't h
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> The last 3 or so years have turned America into a giant mental asylum and it’s starting to be not worth it to talk to a rando. It's more than the past 3 years. People really started coming unhinged in late 2016, by my observati
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by Syonyk 3y ago
Once you've gotten rid of a lot of the more aggressive functions of a smartphone, I don't find the tradeoffs of carrying a large, fragile glass screen worth it. My current flip device (Sonim XP3+) is mil-spec tough (in the sense o
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Get a dedicated e-ink reader device. I've tried reading on phones, reading on tablets, etc, and the problem is that there's always so much else to do - or, at least, things that interrupt you (SMS messages and such on a phone). I
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by Syonyk 3y ago
Well, no, actually. I prefer the form factor of board games, paper books, and such things over any sort of digital devices in the evening. So form factor isn't a big deal. I'm trying to recover an offline-first life, in which I o
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I am so glad to see this backlash. It's been a long time coming. We've tried smartphones out for the past... oh, decade and change. They've been around longer, but were niche enough that they didn't dominate society,
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Oh, absolutely. A desktop is far, far less "fanged" than a phone. It's not with you all the time, and it generally can't send notifications if you don't have a webpage open (I know there are the "web notifica
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It's funny how reality tends to "test your resolve" with things like that. I've got a flip phone (Sonim XP3+) with a viable camera in it. It's not amazing, but it's more than good enough to document stuff li
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I'm not a great fan of fast food, though it didn't seem relevant to bring up in this topic... However, I actually do draw a distinction between "things you have to go seek out," and "things that come to you in your
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Likely internal opinion based on observed external actions: > Of course not. They're on the platform using it, viewing ads, aren't they? > I mean, it's a shame that some people die, because they won't be able to v
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> Is there a competent well-known group implementing things like Asahi for Mac? Not that I'm aware of. Pine's model seems to be "Lob hardware over the fence with some limited but reasonable documentation and hope everyo
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> yes I know there's Treble now "This is the 7th time we've fixed the Android lack of updates issues, and we're getting exceedingly efficient at it!"
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Oof. I'm tolerant of a lot of "broken stuff" in software (I've run ARM SBCs as desktops for quite a few years, though I'm off that because QubesOS doesn't work on ARM yet), but that's an impressive pile o
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by Syonyk 3y ago
On June 1, 2022, the Marines tweeted out a helmet with rainbow bullet tips for Pride Month: https://globalnews.ca/news/8888090/marines-rainbow-bullets-p... is one such link, you can find others. The US Army 2021 v
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Yup. Meanwhile, if you did something like a 2011 GM Volt when it came out, you'd be several thousand gallons of gas and a rather larger amount of money ahead over "waiting and seeing."
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You definitely won't risk leaving large sums of money in your bank account... I suppose it depends on what risk you're concerned about, but if you've got the cashflow to flush money down the lease rabbithole, you probably don

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