growingentropy

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by growingentropy 3y ago
I only remember the lab leak theory being discussed seriously once Biden had been elected. Prior to that, it was treated as unenlightened racism. Not that I'm a Trump fan. But the man was a lightning rod like I've never seen for t
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by growingentropy 3y ago
Because when you get away from the center, you've often chosen a "team." Choosing a team clouds your judgment.
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by growingentropy 3y ago
Fair points all around. And by the way? I'm an android fan. Though Apple is more secure in some ways, I would much rather have control over my device.
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by growingentropy 3y ago
Although to be fair, the next paragraph says, "Surprisingly, Google offers a similar deal. The company collects and uses your personal data for targeted advertising, but it doesn’t sell it to third-party advertisers. So it means advert
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by growingentropy 3y ago
https://fossbytes.com/apple-data-collection-explained/ "Now that we’ve established that Apple collects and uses your data to serve ads, does it sell your data too? Turns out the answer is No, Apple doesn’t sell yo
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by growingentropy 3y ago
If you only want one entity having your data, you're better off being abused by Apple. Google invites all his friends over to run a train on you.
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by growingentropy 3y ago
We need multiple large companies, not a few huge ones. Google's "internet DRM" web integrity API is honestly frightening stuff. The Internet as we know it would change.
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by growingentropy 3y ago
Arch is so good. I really enjoyed running it for a couple years, but then that grub issue last year made me look at other distros, eventually ending up on Fedora. I'm coming home. Fedora just does wonky stuff on my computers. I haven&#
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by growingentropy 3y ago
I just ran away from Fedora. I was running Fedora server, and my files were depopulating on my podman containers. Xml files still existed, but were BLANK. Strange behavior. And then I was running kinoite on my main gaming rig, and the wifi
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by growingentropy 3y ago
I think certain mobile websites are terrible on purpose, because they want to put their spyware on your phone.
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by growingentropy 3y ago
...super cool. Man, glad I had this conversation. I have projects again.
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by growingentropy 3y ago
I'll look into it as well. Thank you.
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by growingentropy 3y ago
Oh, I will most definitely be checking that out. Thank you so much. It's funny, I've heard of radarr and sonarr, but I never looked into them because I was learning other stuff.
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by growingentropy 3y ago
Hmmm...I might suggest looking into the transcoding settings and changing some things next time you take a look. Because I run Plex alongside Jellyfin (the wife prefers Plex's UI once I tweak it), and it typically runs just as efficien
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by growingentropy 3y ago
I hand-change every file name. Please tell me I'm an idiot and show me a better way. Lol it won't save me the hundreds of movies I've put in "Title (year).type" format, but it will save some future work.
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by growingentropy 3y ago
And oddly enough, I just canceled them today. Hello, fiber. Goodbye unilaterally-decided bullshit data caps.
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by growingentropy 3y ago
News: Chicago Tribune (a certain browser with a certain addition bypasses the subscription shakedown), New York Times, Washington Post, the Associated Press, Reuters, the BBC. Tech: Hacker News, Tech Crunch, The Verge. Music: Pitchfork. MMA
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by growingentropy 3y ago
What I find helps is going through each category as the mood hits me. If I looked at my one main feed, I would almost be overwhelmed.
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by growingentropy 3y ago
News: Chicago Tribune (a certain browser with a certain addition bypasses the subscription shakedown), New York Times, Washington Post, the Associated Press, Reuters, the BBC. Tech: Hacker News, Tech Crunch, The Verge. Music: Pitchfork. MMA
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by growingentropy 3y ago
News: Chicago Tribune (a certain browser with a certain addition bypasses the subscription shakedown), New York Times, Washington Post, the Associated Press, Reuters, the BBC. Tech: Hacker News, Tech Crunch, The Verge. Music: Pitchfork. MMA
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by growingentropy 3y ago
It's going to sound dumb, but honestly? I filled an rss reader up with some of the best sources I could think of, and am actually really enjoying just quietly taking the world in again, instead of trying to come up with my latest snar
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by growingentropy 3y ago
Oh wow, it'll be so nice to turn my phone off until the expected arrival time. Sweet.
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by growingentropy 3y ago
Absolutely not. The noise of a Discord server of that size would be immense. The substance would quickly be lost to the non-stop noise.
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by growingentropy 3y ago
If it's any consolation, nobody here or there (they're talking about this conversation on a board right now) knows who you are.
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by growingentropy 3y ago
At the end of the day, it's unfortunate that the average user won't be able to wrap their head around Mastodon. Because that's a beautiful UI, honestly.
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by growingentropy 3y ago
Yeah, I'm done with Reddit. I've found some tech forums, some sports forums, and some carnivorous plants forums. That's all I need, and now I don't need to worry about hivemind downvotes when I dare go against the grain.