Yeah, I usually approach this stuff from the standpoint of someone who is already actively self-hosting. For people stuck in Google/MS, it is certainly better.

Vaultwarden is free. Bitwarden is free. Bitwarden Premium is 10€/year.

For what it offers, Proton is pretty expensive. They are also making inter-operation with other services difficult or impossible.

There’s much worse, but they aren’t that great either.

I use qemu/kvm with vm manager. There’s a lot of other options too. Most of them are valid indefinitely.

I use the Win11 LTSC IoT Enterprise Image, because it cuts out most of the usual windows bloat. Maybe have a look at massgrave.dev.

You can hand over a USB device fully to a Windows VM. That’s how I update my Yamaha stuff.

Christian conservative with some pretty bad corruption scandals under her belt. She sucks.

… sure. Nothing here is wrong, but there’s ways to try and mitigate that. And then it’s kinda an arms race, and vigilance.

Good as a general recommendation.

I also feel like the risk levels are very different. If it’s something that performs a function but doesn’t save/serve any custom data (e.g. bentopdf), that’s a lot easier to decide to do than something complicate like Jellyfin.

I do have public addresses for Matrix, overleaf, AppFlowy, immich because they would be much less useful otherwise. Haven’t had any problems yet, but wouldn’t necessarily recommend it to others.

I’d never host any stuff with “Linux ISOs” on a public adress, that seems like it’d be looking for trouble.

Yes. Strip searches suck. This is about publically sexualising people against their will. That also sucks.

And some people seem to be hell-bent to put much more scrutiny on the person being sexualised than on the person sexualising them.

The way the many societies treat nudity is a problem, but that is a wholly separate issue from people getting ‘undressed’ against their will.

What annoys me with Tuta is that they make PGP encryption very difficult (they don’t implement it at all, you have to use external solutions, which is made more difficult because you can’t use external clients).

They argue it is less secure than their solution where they send non Tuta users a link and you give them a password. I argue that PGP is something people would use, while their solution isn’t.

Proton does implement it, but I also have my gripes with Proton. Both of them feel like they want to build a walled garden / avoid being inter-operable.

I was thinking of the Firewall, and was a bit surprised - seemed outside your normal wheelhouse. This makes a lot more sense, lol.

That building looks kinda like a stick of ram from the front.

I am already self-hosting Matrix for my friend group. I suppose where just gonna move more and more stuff onto there. Doesn’t fix the issue, but you don’t have to go quietly.

Sure, but that’s a different issue, not covered under ‘imagine using Android’, I’d say. Also, as you said, used sales exist. One could argue that those also make a new Pixel more desirable, but that’s out of scope for me personally.

Few things one could ever do are perfect. I also think ‘rewarding’ Apple for recent decision, or at all, isn’t sensible or deserved. I also think that one or a few hardware sales probably aren’t going to have a significant effect on a corporation that size.

There are few tech products you can buy with a clean consciousness if you look at production and recycling practices as a whole. I still think buying a pixel, in whatever way, and putting Graphene on it, in this current moment, lands you with the best compromise between privacy, security, and freedom from ads and surveillance. But that’s subjective.

Android is still free enough for Graphene and other custom roms to be based on it. Which I feel is still a better option than iOS.

I don’t usually engage with trolls, but my train is late and I’m all out of productive things to do while I wait.

I am not going to debate whether this is AI. If you want to believe it isn’t, you’re welcome to do that. As for why it’d be bad - I believe that a technology that is trained on the work of many artists, without permission or compensation, that puts control of visual - I am not going to call them artistic - outputs under the control of a few tech oligarchs, is bad, and should be boycotted and sabotaged if possible. Even open weight models are, ultimately, usually trained by large corporations, and openly available by their ‘benevolence’. If they decide their next generation model will be closed source, it will be.

I also believe that the sheer amount of both monetary, and physical, resources currently expended on generative AI and related technologies is largely wasted, in a world where we can hardly afford such waste.

Also, please substantiate why using rather clear signifiers of ai generated content to claim something is ai generated is likely to cause harm, and why, in your eyes, ‘pro-ai’ aren’t required to proof the merit of their believes.

Oh, and while we’re at it - do you happen to know whether there is a seahorse emoji?

If you don’t see it, I dunno what to tell you.

I have a windows VM for Adobe products, etc. Works fine for my usecase. If you need full GPU Acceleration (e.g. for Premiere), it gets a bit more complicated, but is doable still, as long as you have an iGPU or second GPU.

Yeah. What it probably won’t have will be the hoch res camera array for look-through the Vision Pro has, but as long as you’re more interested in it as a productivity tool rather than something that reproduces all the Vision Pro “sparkle”, I definitely see potential.

The vessel was built by Oceanco, a firm that’s done such a good job that Newell just decided to up and buy it outright in August

A yacht - and a yacht builder.