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Mouse Potato Utils/Universal Plugin

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Hopefully this is the last time I have to implement the backend for this - I'm going to reuse the code for this from now on. (The display, however, could definitely use some work.)

You don't have to go through the same ordeal. Get the source code from my Codeberg repo - it's MIT licensed and GenAI-free.

You can also follow the plugin development on my:
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Right now the best I can think of are Rumble and Dailymotion, both with certain issues.
As for Peertube, I don't know where to start, but I'd like to set one up one day.

Which is why it's a shame to see you fight each other as if that isn't the case.

I would wholeheartedly recommend reading How To Win Friends And Influence People (or at least this summary). Especially if you're trying to convince people to vote in the midterms.

While piefed.social is great so far, I would really like to start my own thing for several reasons. But I don't know where to begin and would like to join relevant communities before starting (for example, I heard there are Matrix servers for this, but haven't made the time to actively look for them yet).

Any advice?

The Zagreb demonstrators demanded that the government come up with a plan to clear illegal toxic waste in 20 days. Prime Minister Plenkovic has promised to tackle the issue.

"If you're not paying for the product, you are the product being sold". I don't know where that quote is from, but it's only becoming more and more obvious as time goes on, from social media to "free to play" games.

And if you played these games on mobile, you'll know what I'm talking about: microtransactions, battle passes, ads in games, blatantly misleading ads ABOUT the games, some even resorting to AI slop... and don't get me started on the YouTube channels promoting all this. (I swear, some of them have less soul left in them than the slop machines they use...)

And then I got an annual Google Play Pass, with the intention of using it to try some paid games and post about them weekly on Mastodon.

Eventually I got bored of this, and my posts didn't get any traction... but the pass was still worth the peace of mind of not seeing ads or microtransactions, and playing actually good mobile games once again.

For me, I think it might have been over ten years. Not sure tho, might have climbed one in the meantime. But either way, it was too long.

Sending people to Mars, keeping them alive there, and bringing them back (optional) is hard.

Sending robots to Mars is easier. It's been done in 1997 and artificial intelligence and robotics have made major strides since.

A semi-autonomous* settlement with life support should be built before we send people there. This will save a lot of time and make the mission far more likely to succeed than if we treat it like a camping trip and make astronauts set their own "tents" up.

* with high-level operations being managed remotely, but real-time operations requiring automation due to the unavoidably high ping between Earth and Mars

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