You can call your code enforcement in your city and get them cited for light regulations.

Ive done that when I was at an apartment and a business decided to put lights on all night at our building. They had to take them down so we could sleep. Imagine daylight through your window bright.

They got fined and everything. It was glorious.

Oh interesting! Ive done something similar but not didnt put as much effort.

For me, I just made an unending webpage that would create a link to another page...that would say bullshit. Then it would have another link with more bullshit....etc...etc...And it gets slower as time goes on.

Also made a fail2ban banning IPs that reached a certain number of links down. It worked really well, traffic is down 95% and it does not affect any real human users. Its great :)

I have a robots.txt that should tell them not to look at the sites. But if they dont want to read it, I dont want to be nice.

Steam has some upsides most take for granted.

The work they do to get all the strange controller setups working (and let others make configurations) is a huge time saver when all you want to do is play your games.

Free cloud saves are a life saver when you go from device to device.

The Linux work they do is fantastic.

It goes on and on. But yeah the biggest deal is that if they ever go full corpo....we are in trouble.

Naa most projects are still fine off github. Theres a couple of emus that are now officially off gh and they are still being worked on.

Whats even better is that the squirrel can stop it from attacking for at least 15 turns.

Im just imagining something like Cthulhu coming out about to destroy the word and a squirrel hurls itself at it....and now it has to wait another year for another go.

Incredibly powerful music.

Sorry common programmer lingo. It means Pull Request.

Someone reviewed a thing I did, gave it the ok and we threw it into a program (piefed). Now we see said thing the wild.

I just downvote and move on.

Can we get some examples? I just took a look and i dont see any ai posts here?

Their stocks went DOWN lol.

Other states are going to have the same kind of laws...and some go farther than Cali is going to right now: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/03/many-more-us-states-are-planning-or-already-have-operating-system-age-verification-laws/

This is just the latest.

so now we may have a forked/pirate linux distros because people dont want to be age restricted and phone home.

It burns you out pretty quick. I have a popular library and had to turn off gh issues. So many llm/fake bug reports. Huge waste of time and effort. Github has gone downhill.

Im seriously surprised how fast all that went! Like it was an idea, PR, merge, out on my yunohost in a week or two. Thats insane iteration!

Thanks again for the PR/help!

Yes join the dosins of us 🥧

This is fantastic. Thanks for sharing.

Looks like theres others: https://www.danielarthury.com/

Last year we had around 20ish. So yeah, lots more people.

So other than matrix, is there any other open source system that people recommend?

Ive had a heck of a time with matrix for years. Im glad it exists, but its just not what I like to use. The signup process + logging in system is much too complex for a normal user.

First time Ive heard about Milk-V Duo S. Interesting. Looks very cheap!

What I wouldn't give for a Linux phone (not android).

I think a good test is to shut off your house internet and see what things you still need. Like actually disconnect the router and only go off your own infa. What can you get done, what things do you still need?

For me I found out:

1. All my software development packages, linux isos, etc.... are ALL online. If I was unable to get on certain websites, I would be SOL in doing most of my software development. Even simple stuff like installing via apt would be VERY hard.
2. While I have OSM (open street maps), I dont have address info saved anywhere.
3. Most of my mesh stuff (meshtastic) has online tools for all the builds and deploys. Meaning if the website goes down im SOL getting new nodes out in the wild.
4. Entertainment is pretty much covered, since we dont have anything streaming anyways. We try to keep things DRM free to begin with so books/audio/movies can go to different places without worry.
5. Radio still works, so news isnt really a big deal.
6. I need to get a backup of some encyclopedias and/or get wikipedia somewhere hosted. That would be fun and informative.

Nice! lynx is fun.

I like using links2 + piefed cause theres a Low bandwidth mode that works well with it. You can actually see posts and stuff.