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by l72 3y ago
Glass shouldn't be recycled. It should be reused! We _had_ standard bottles that could be transported back to local producers, cleaned, and reused. It is interesting looking at beer bottling in China. Glass bottles are reused by all th
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by l72 3y ago
I find AirBnBs only make sense in two scenarios: - You need a "long term" stay, like 3-6 weeks. When I travel over seas, I usually stay in a single city for at least 3 weeks. Having an AirBnB makes sense. I don't need daily c
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by l72 3y ago
I write in multiple languages daily on Linux, including English, Russian, and Chinese. Switching keyboards (at least with gnome) is a simple super-space. While in my default (English) layout, it is easy enough to add in accents other charac
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by l72 3y ago
Also, if I have a question, I no longer use a general search engine, and instead go straight to ChatGPT.
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by l72 3y ago
Here are some of the things I have used ChatGPT for: # Writing - I've had it rewrite some of my blog posts to give them more style - I've asked it to help me with some business letters - Rewriting my letters to city counselors sta
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by l72 3y ago
IMAP supports server side searching. IMAP also supports custom flags (similar to GMail's labels) which can also be searched on. However, unfortunately, most email clients don't seem to support IMAP custom flags (Evolution and Thun
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by l72 3y ago
What are some examples of searches that you do? I guess I am just surprised at how often people search using a general search engine.
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by l72 3y ago
How often do you use a general search engine and what are you searching for? For me, if it is related to my job, I am usually going straight to the docs, language forums, and sometimes stack overflow. It's only if I am looking up a spe
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by l72 3y ago
I self host vault-warden on my home network, but it is not publicly accessible. Like all my services I self host, I keep them internal only, then use wireguard to have an always on vpn back to my home network. This way, I only have to focus
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by l72 3y ago
Do you find that you really have degraded performance with Flatpak? On my pinephone running postmarketos, all my non system applications are from Flatpak, which allows sandboxing and easy updates. I can't say I've noticed any perf
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by l72 3y ago
Agreed. Having use linux and FOSS since the late 90s, it is interesting to see how much we've had to lock down mobile devices and proprietary operating system because we can't trust the applications (and in some cases, the OS) tha
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by l72 3y ago
> We're not anti-union, but we're not neutral either. We're not racist, but ...
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by l72 3y ago
I'm not suggesting that anybody would be required to use their government provided email for everything. I am just suggesting that it should be available to every citizen as a right, since a reliable email address is so important to ev
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by l72 3y ago
But that puts all the data on a 3rd party site where I _might_ be able to make a copy of it for myself. It is annoying to get an email from my bank about an "important message", and instead of just sending me the message, I now ha
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by l72 3y ago
Also, the post office would have lots of incentive to implement encryption (s/mime or pgp) as they aren't interested in analyzing messages. They would want to make sure that government services can send secure communication to you
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by l72 3y ago
Sure, but sometimes we don't care about knowing who is communicating. For example: I don't care if someone knows my bank sent me a message, but I want the content of the message to be secure (not just in transit, but also at rest)
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by l72 3y ago
That is why I suggested the post office. It is highly regulated but separate enough from "the government" (at least in the US). I expect that many people would still use 3rd party providers for personal email and less important th
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by l72 3y ago
Sure, but 100M is prohibitively low. No one will actually use this if it is capped at that. I do volunteer technical work with some of our homeless shelters. Having access to email is critical. Without it, they have no access to a whole hos
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by l72 3y ago
100MB for storage or per email? For storage, that is way too small. You can easily hit that limit in a few months of light usage. All my utilities send me PDFs each month, and that adds up quickly. Last year, while doing renovations, the co
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by l72 3y ago
In my opinion, for the US, the postal service should offer free email addresses to every US resident. The Postal Service is highly regulated, and you won't lose your email over a comment on Youtube.
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by l72 3y ago
Also, there should be a permission API around this for each website (like camera/microphone), that explicitly states why the website is requesting this information and what information the browser will return to the website.
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by l72 3y ago
If the topics API is really just returning a list of things the user is interested in, like: 2: 'Arts & Entertainment/Acting & Theater', 3: 'Arts & Entertainment/Comics', ... 132: 'Co
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by l72 3y ago
Containers are really great. Even my non-technical spouse uses them (She isn't quite ready for the temporary containers add on yet though). However, there are some downsides to containers vs profiles, mainly that you can't have di
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by l72 3y ago
I really don't like mac os's graphical shell. I am constantly frustrated by how terrible its window management and virtual desktop support is. I also find developing on a mac is so frustrating. The package management experience is
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by l72 3y ago
I'm not doing any super heavy cpu workloads nor any heavy 3d graphics, so I don't really notice any issues. Surprisingly, the battery lifetime is still excellent.
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by l72 3y ago
As Asahi stabilizes (especially with their new Fedora remix), that is my plan.
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by l72 3y ago
Work issued me an M1 MacBook Pro, but all my development is under Linux. Linux has been my preferred environment since the late 90s. While I find the MacBook Pro hardware to be nice, I find macos clumsy and frustrating, and my productivity
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by l72 3y ago
If Siri would just respond to me at the same volume level, that would make her 10x more useful to me. Sometimes I whisper a reminder and she SHOUTS it back to everyone...
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by l72 3y ago
There is an interesting short sci-fi story called “Exile’s End” by Carolyn Ives Gilman based around similar cultural ideals. The author is a historian that focuses on Native American history.
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by l72 3y ago
I also struggle to sleep due to anxiety about what I could or should be doing. I started using a visualization meditation technique. I don’t watch a wide variety of tv, instead I tend to watch my favorites over and over again so I have a pr

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