Oh that’s some good stuff thanks for sharing (and writing it)! Only had a chance to skim it just now but bookmarked for later.

… don’t tell people you don’t know that they are eggs? Let them figure that out for themselves?

Is that the one?

A better Cat in a Hat than Mike Myers.

GrapheneOS is the only one that can really sever the Google connection. LineageOS is kind of a halfway point but still relies on an amount of Google to function.

I am not OP but I actually have similar questions on backup because I didn’t have access to my Immich server for a few months and got really behind on keeping it updated. I want to make backups before I do a manual update, but I don’t know if following the directions on Immich’s Backup and Restore page is good enough or if I should handle it another way manually.

Newspeak and doublethink at the same time, ackshually, but I think everybody gets what you both mean.

We can care about both. They are all awful.

Okay I am gonna get very real with you for a minute:

Ever since I got cancer I feel like I am going crazy/getting dementia because I constantly replace words I mean to use with similar but not quite the same words. Sometimes I literally know a word but when I am actually speaking out loud cannot force that word out of my mouth, I am just stuck, blank, unable to speak suddenly.

Your inner pedant doesn’t know what’s going on in other people’s lives so maybe take a minute and think “maybe I don’t need to remind this person they are going crazy” and spend three paragraphs chiding them for something they cannot fucking control and depresses them deeply. Just step back a moment and realize your personal experience of being able to speak clearly is not everyone’s personal experience and that maybe being outwardly pushy about it isn’t helpful to them at all.

You don’t know what is going on in other people’s lives or why they speak the way they do. They could be a non-native speaker, or they could be having serious issues with their brain, like me.

So seriously take your pedantry and shove it up your ass. You still could understand what I meant. You didn’t have to shove my problems in my face like a dick. I changed it, for what it’s worth, because you’re correct, but I often make those changes hours later after I’ve noticed them, you just happened to catch one I made before I went to sleep. I don’t need dicks being pedantic dicks about it.

I mean, this sucks, but Apple’s Airpods are far more egregious, far more numerous (something like 550 million+ versus 10,000+ AI pins), and have spawned an army of copycats all which cannot be repaired and are just ewaste waiting to happen.

It’s really that the entire fucking industry just doesn’t god damned care and I can’t even find places that reliably take electronic waste like desktops and laptops, let alone this fucking horseshit. USA produces massive amounts of ewaste and basically is like “fuck it” on creating a recycling industry around it.

This problems goes so far beyond these dinky AI pins.

Futurama was making jokes about the horrors of ewaste in its first return run in 2013, it’s 2025 and it’s only gotten worse.

Bun-blebee?

And even with alternatives, corporations own all the infrastructure. There is no publicly owned and operated infrastructure anymore.

My data still has to pass through their pipes, and if at some point they decide they don’t like my data, they can just block it from going through their pipes entirely. Coupled with deep consolidation of ISPs, it means effectively being blocked from communications on the internet.

I’m so startled right now.

1996 telecommunications act in the US for one.

Because we dropped community communications in favor of corporate communications for two.

Bring back barb wire phone networks.

I always upvote short kings and tall queens.

Astute point, they’re throwing the baby out with the bathwater here and hurting the disabled community to push their inferior product that nobody really asked for.

Just because I don’t use it doesn’t mean others who need it also don’t.

For sure, but I am also capable of doing that with my thumbs… which is what I do.

Good thing I never used Google Assistant then.

Just be careful running a Tor node and what kind of data could be flowing through your machine… It’s Tor… so some of the data can be pretty fuckin unsavory while other data can be political dissidents who need safety.

modern copyright law is far, far overreaching and in need of major overhaul.

https://rufuspollock.com/papers/optimal_copyright_term.pdf

This research paper from Rufus Pollock in 2009 suggests that the optimal timeframe for copyright is 15 years. I’ve been referencing this for, well, 16 years now, a year longer than the optimum copyright range. If I recall correctly I first saw this referenced by Mike Masnick of techdirt.