The sheer amount of pro-communist/pro-china comments is insane here. Plus the number of giant emojis that spam up the whole comment feed. Honestly, most of my real issues come down strictly to Hexbear users. A lot of their behavior completely ruins the platform for me.

That and the lack of fanbases for the things I like. There's very little Star Wars or Halo fan presence here. Feels like Star Trek is the only fandom with any presence here, so I have to go back to reddit for those things.

Going from 256GB -> 1TB is $400. That's insanity. A 1TB NVME drive is less than $100 these days.

You'll catch on. It's just like using Reddit, except each subreddit includes a web address in the name. Other than that, it's mostly the same.

By the time you're 20 you'll be using Arch Linux and self-hosting everything!

Film photography. Started with a camera I got for free, and $20 worth of film. Quickly spiraled into many cameras that I bought or inherited, and so much money on film and development

Question, where did you find a phone that isn't run by an ad company?

Heck yeah

I'm blown away by how captivated I am by Ray Stevenson. His presence on-screen is just amazing. He's definitely the stand-out member of this entire cast. I hope his character arc is wrapped up in this season because I don't think any other actor would be comparable.

Another bump for Proton. My wife and I share an account with a few different addresses each going to their own folder. (One for me, one for her, one for shopping, one for spam, etc) Their VPN is great too and includes ad/tracker blocking.

Sacrifice a few extra bits and you can do floating point arithmetic on your fingers too

1. Ditch Chromium.
2. Use a Password Manager instead of "log in with Google/Facebook/whatever"
3. Keep tabs on Mobile App permissions and revoke as many as you possibly can. I revoke location permissions from every single app except Navigation apps, which have to ask for location permissions. If possible, remove apps in favor of Native Alpha / Hermit web apps

I've been using Photoprism. Single-user is fine for me. I see lots of people switching to immich, but haven't checked it out myself.

Photoprism supports sharing albums via link to people who don't have accounts. Mine is remotely accessible using Tailscale. I would like to set up proper remote access via DNS, but haven't made that leap yet, I'm too nervous about opening ports up.

I just bought in to mulvad today via Tailscale, so far so good, I like it!

TandoorRecipes is a great little recipe-hosting service, and it's available as an app on Unraid. No more saving recipes in my notes app, I actually have nicely-formatted ingredient lists and instructions.

A year or so I turned off targeted ads from Google. I very quickly noticed an increase in ads with anime tiddies.

I guess Google sees a correlation between people who worry about privacy, and people who are likely to click on anime tiddies...

What in the boomer humor is this?

def centaur(): return horse / 2 + centaur()

FTFY

I think the idea here is that if mods are bad on, say, [email protected], everyone can just leave and make [email protected] or wherever. There should be more competition here, at least in theory. Time will tell how well it actually works.

For me it was TLOU pt 1. I was so excited for it to come to PC, but it ended up being completely unplayable, and I wasn't really a huge fan of the third-person cover-shooter gameplay. I played about 3 hours (and 4 hours of waiting on the menu) during the first week, and haven't touched it since.

A lot of jewelry boutiques sell both these days. When I bought an engagement ring, most places I looked have both lab grown and mined diamonds as options when you pick a diamond for the ring.

Most reputable dealers claim to have cruelty-free sources, but synthetic diamonds were about half the price, so I still think buying mined diamonds is a bit silly.