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What do you all check instead of the news?

I've realized that I check the news several times a day but not because I'm curious about what's happening on the grand scheme of things, but because my brain wants to check something that keeps changing with new, evolving information. It fills a slightly different niche than social media, and I don't watch sports so I don't...

ililiililiililiilili ,

Nunti works well. https://gitlab.com/ondrejfoltyn/nunti

ililiililiililiilili ,

The inflation rate has just about always been positive (besides a few rare years in the 1920s and 1930s). Holding dollars has always lost you buying power. Its just that in recent years, the rate of inflation has been enough for more people to notice.

ililiililiililiilili ,

I prefer the TI-83 version from early 2000s.
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ililiililiililiilili ,

The cloud is just someone else's computer. If we could normalize people holding their own data, that would be fantastic. I get that your grandma has a hard time backing up to multiple locations (and testing her backups). Convenient? Definitely. I just don't think your average person understands the ramifications of trusting these for-profit monopolies with complete control of their data. It seems like a magical refuge to far too many.

ililiililiililiilili ,

Its not even a free market. Check the protectionism keeping Chinese EVs out of the US. Its more like the land of corporate profits.

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    I feel legitimately bad when I see friends and family obediently sitting through ads. I absolutely do install extensions and 3rd party clients to remove ads. I alslo help my parents and close family install ad-blockers. I just don't want to be the guy who gets blamed when YT changes something and a 3rd party instance, client, or extension inevitability breaks. Just because I keep up on the latest blocking methods, doesn't mean I wouldn't like an ad-free experience for all.

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    @asklemmy What do you think it would take for people to drop Twitter & Reddit and move to the Fediverse?

    ililiililiililiilili ,

    More blackjack and hookers

    What are Some Good, Recent, and Available Dumb Cars?

    I have a 2010 Toyota Corolla. She's been my trusty steed for the last 14 years and is in good working order. I recognize she won't last forever, and if, god forbid (mostly for her) I get in an accident, I will need to get a new car. So what dumb cars do you drive, and what would you replace them with?

    ililiililiililiilili ,

    No way. Anyone have a link? Its gotta at least have electronic fuel injection. A 2025 Benz with a carburetor and old school distributor is not believable.

    ililiililiililiilili ,

    Nah, Transmission just gets kinda buggy when its loaded with hundreds of torrents. Its fine for light use (or perhaps if you have a ton of RAM). But it definitely gets laggy and occasionally unresponsive after running a few days.

    ililiililiililiilili ,

    Seeding

    ililiililiililiilili ,

    Win 11 license is tied to your motherboard. Switching anything besides that won't change anything. Did you do a fresh install without Internet when you swapped your mobo? Besides that: you could go with Win 10 (preferably LTSC). Your only other option is to ditch Win for an OS that verifiably respects your privacy.

    ililiililiililiilili ,

    Is Fossify's SMS app on F-Droid yet?

    ililiililiililiilili ,

    Thanks! I just found it.

    How a 27-Year-Old Codebreaker Busted the Myth of Bitcoin’s Anonymity ( www.wired.com )

    "This is the story of the revelation in late 2013 that Bitcoin was, in fact, the opposite of untraceable—that its blockchain would actually allow researchers, tech companies, and law enforcement to trace and identify users with even more transparency than the existing financial system."

    ililiililiililiilili ,

    That's crazy that you heard about crypto before it was created in 2008. Are you Satoshi? Did Hal Finney get Internet installed in his casket?

    Each Facebook User is Monitored by Thousands of Companies – The Markup ( themarkup.org )

    Using a panel of 709 volunteers who shared archives of their Facebook data, Consumer Reports found that a total of 186,892 companies sent data about them to the social network. On average, each participant in the study had their data sent to Facebook by 2,230 companies. That number varied significantly, with some panelists’...

    ililiililiililiilili ,

    People are stupid, apathetic, profiting off the status quo, or just too exhausted from trying to keep a roof over their head. The role of government should be to protect citizens from being taken advantage of by corporations. We need a new (or heavily amended) Bill of Rights for our modern civilization. Unfortunately in the US: our politicians are servants of corporations rather than citizens. It's a free buffet for our data (that has been collected through better-than-Orwellian means) and nobody seems to give a fuck. I'm just rambling... I wish there were more of us who gave a shit and demanded privacy protections.

    SUV stolen from Toronto driveway shows up 50 days later — AirTags tracked vehicle from Canada to Middle East, offering glimpse into shipping routes used by car thieves ( www.cbc.ca )

    SUV stolen from Toronto driveway shows up 50 days later — AirTags tracked vehicle from Canada to Middle East, offering glimpse into shipping routes used by car thieves::A Toronto man used location tags to track his stolen GMC Yukon from a rail yard in the GTA to a used car lot in the United Arab Emirates. But despite calls to...

    ililiililiililiilili ,

    Good call. Sedans are un-stealable. taps head

    ililiililiililiilili ,

    I can recommend OpenBoard. Its open source and available on F-Droid or Google/Aurora. It doesn't request Network permissions. As far as updates: it hasn't been updated in 17 months. Its not updated extremely frequently, but it's definitely not abandoned. It works great and I don't see anything it needs added or fixed in my experience.

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