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by floundy 1y ago
Sorry, worded poorly, yes I feel Macs are less “dumbed down” in the sense that user experience and design aren’t sacrificed to try and make it easier for the lowest common denominator to use, but in the end it’s just worse for everybody. Ex
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by floundy 1y ago
Yup that’s why I started self-hosting, when my wife got pregnant and we started to think about what technology access for our future kids would look like. I started with CasaOS and Jellyfin. Quickly outgrew Casa and moved to learning Docker
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by floundy 1y ago
Wasn’t BlueSky kinda ruined by the whole leftist Twitter exodus while simultaneously being fawned over and settled by Reddity political types? Maybe I’m missing something but I’ve tried to use it a few times and it just feels like another i
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by floundy 1y ago
I’m not going crazy, right, nearly nobody aside from professional writers used em dashes prior to 2022. And the whole bolded topic intro, colon, short 1-2 sentence explanation seems way more like a product of GPT formatting than how organic
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by floundy 1y ago
My self-hosted Linux server increasingly feels like the only real computer I own. I did within the last year switch from Windows to Mac for my primary desktop, and it feels like I regressed about a decade in the dumbification of computing c
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by floundy 1y ago
This is hilarious projection of your preferences and market predictions onto every other consumer. I bought a 2024 Toyota hybrid. I don’t care about electric vehicles and won’t bother reinvestigating them until 2034 at the earliest. I don’t
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by floundy 1y ago
So the way I understand Tailscale is that it's built on top of Wireguard; Tailscale claims it's "easier to use" but I haven't found Wireguard to be difficult to configure at all. Are there any extra benefits to usin
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by floundy 1y ago
I definitely don't open a bunch of ports to the internet! I use Wireguard to VPN back into my home network from my mobile devices. Wireguard only responds to packets that contain a valid preconfigured crypto key, so while the WG port i
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by floundy 1y ago
You're speaking of some idealized moderation system where tone and politeness is enforced, and human corruptibility does not entice moderators into censoring speech they disagree with? Yeah sure, I'd love to be there. It's ju
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by floundy 1y ago
Perhaps there's simply no middle ground between something like Voat which turned into a gathering place of bonafide racists, and something like Reddit which is essentially just a confirmation bias hugbox. If there is, it's certain
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by floundy 1y ago
How is this a "gotcha" when I'm on the internet I'm being forced to use? I pick the most agreeable platforms. I like that HN filters out politics, sports, and celebrities, it's more like a themed forum than an open
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by floundy 1y ago
I'm working on De-Googling. I now have a Mac and an iPhone instead of Windows/Android, but switching from Drive to iCloud seems a fairly parallel move. I also set up my first home server with RAID NAS. It's on my list to spin
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by floundy 1y ago
Turns out that echo chambers with manufactured consensus are quite profitable.
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by floundy 1y ago
Actually, no, reasonable people do not want either platforms or governments to moderate content. Who defines what "problematic content" is?
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by floundy 1y ago
The tech companies have wised up and they'll continue to speak idyllically about what "should be" and maybe even deploy watered-down versions of it, but really they're just buying time to where they can get even bigger a
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by floundy 1y ago
That's hilarious given that Reddit is utterly overrun with blatant, low-quality LLM accounts using ChatGPT to post comments and gain karma, and several of the "text stories" on the front page from subs like AITA are blatant A
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by floundy 1y ago
It can't be mere coincidence that there's a significant overlap between crypto bros and AI boosters in my social circles.
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by floundy 1y ago
The conclusion of "declining middle class" doesn't follow from the article. Disney theme parks can only admit so many people per day (scarcity) and for Disney fans there's no real replacement Mecca (inelasticity). This i
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by floundy 1y ago
Since these E-Ink phones all suck in specific ways or have uncertain compatibility with US cell carriers I carry 2 devices, my Android smartphone (which I've dumbed down in a similar way to you) and a Boox Palma 2 (which I use for read
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by floundy 1y ago
Typing on the Palma's screen sucks due to the input delay. At least if you have fat fingers like me and prone to making typos on touchscreen devices. Typing on the Palma with a BT keyboard, however, is an absolute joy.
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by floundy 1y ago
Even your comment reads like GPT. What's that weird delta character, something you copy/pasted from GPT that didn't render on HN? As an (actual) author, I don't want to read AI output. I don't want to read AI output
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by floundy 1y ago
>You have been blocked from The New York Times because we suspect that you're a robot. Thanks, AI.
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by floundy 1y ago
"Normal" users lose yet again. I have 2 tabs open. When I'm done writing this comment, I'll close one of them.
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by floundy 1y ago
I installed KOReader following these instructions: https://github.com/koreader/koreader/wiki/Installation-on-Ko... Wallabag plugin is built into KOReader. Launch KOReader by clicking the icon it puts in your
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by floundy 1y ago
I switched to Wallabag. 14 day free trial (an actual free trial that doesn't require CC info). There's a Pocket import function. I found it useful to filter the .csv that Pocket downloaded me into two .csv's, one for unread
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by floundy 1y ago
>like Reddit which no longer allows anonymous access to NSFW subreddits in the UK I haven't heard of this. Is Reddit enforcing ID verification or are you meaning UK residents simply need to be logged into Reddit to access this conte
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by floundy 1y ago
>Whether it was written by Shakespeare himself or AI, is irrelevant I couldn't disagree more, the products of AI lack all value of the original works, namely that it was created through the mental effort of a real human, is known to
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by floundy 1y ago
I had a (definitely non-billionaire) coworker crowing to me about the scientific discoveries AI was going to make the other day. I was poking him about how that would happen, how the AI could do anything other than recite and recombine base
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by floundy 1y ago
We might be able to get you up to a whole dollar, just listing off the various chat/messaging apps Google has killed off over the years. I take it as an opportunity to move to FOSS/self-hosted substitutes when that happens.
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by floundy 1y ago
Not for ARM.

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