Same. This picture is surprisingly accurate.

I see this as malicious compliance, and I love it.

I really like that!

A while back, Someone shared their collection of radioactive ceramics. Opened up a new world for me!

Growing up in the 90s, there were so many hobbies that were unobtainable.

Like, I was a kid and didn’t have anybody to teach me about trees. So they recommend you go to a library and get some books on trees. But the books are either at a college level, or something extremely basic. And your support was only as helpful as the librarian. So they knew zilch about the topic, you’re fucked.

Today, you wanna know about trees? Visit a wiki. Watch YouTube videos. Ask AI. Go to the library with actual resources to get the right books or audio books.

Huge opportunity and a wealth of information.

Fun fact: internet explorer was originally built off the File Explorer.

I kinda stopped following programming for windows a decade ago. But in sure there is some ancient code from 30 years ago that is holding some critical files together.

Need a Explanation?

(Gestures vaguely in the air)

You nailed it!

What grosses me out is that to get all those features, I have to be okay with my video data potentially landing in the hands of some company using it train AI or something.

Eufy was caught recently doing that. (And it’s my current solution for remote home camera system)

It’s built off of OSM. Which is how it should be.

Absolutely a depression indicator.

Post-election, my wife and I are going hard on co-op games again. We are not feeling so great.

But prior to that, we were casually gaming, maybe 1-2 hours a day at most.

I say “Damn, Gina!” after the 90s Fox sitcom, Martin.

This is the way.

Finding other ways to get your media that doesn’t blast you with ads.

Or if it always blasts you with ads, find a way to block them.

Don’t let the terrorists win.

OP was asking about Normal people.

Of course non-normals ad block.

But I’ve seen my parents use their phone and ignore the 60% of ads take that over the screen.

I tip my bank teller, the canvasser with the clipboard in front of the supermarket, and the traffic light for turning green.

I self-host and dabble with this stuff. Im an engineer for more than a decade.

But I really struggled to find a solution that has a really high uptime with minimal maintenance. Ive set up some raspberry pi projects, including cams. Why would I want video to transfer to some company?

But the trade offs were significant. Every few weeks, there was a new problem. Maybe my router. Maybe my internet. Maybe the Pi. Maybe something else. Maybe it’s my VPN when I’m trying to dial into the network. Maybe it’s my phone app no longer seeing the device. Maybe a update broke it. Maybe God hated me that day.

After six months and spending 2-3 hours a month maintaining it, I burned out and just bought an off-the-shelf solution with a mobile app.

Of course, I only use it for security and it doesn’t exist in the house. It grosses me out, but it’s been two years of plug-and-play and just working without setup.

You literally cannot search for Mastodon without getting a weird ass 2-paragraph manifesto about The Fediverse.

End users just want to use shit.

This is unfortunately the world of open-source.

1. Nerd tells you to use the open-source thing.
2. Non-technical tries it and asks questions
3. Nerd proclaims it’s not a real problem/your fault/not applicable/fix it yourself
4. Some company takes that open-source version or idea, makes it easier for end users and monetize it
5. Nerd gets angry and repeats step 1

Source: I am nerd and I contribute to open-source.

This is my neighbor all the time.

Like dude, round up!

It’s a shitpost youre not allowed to bring logic into this

Please don’t pee on your partner without consent.

And this is why we do The Scotty Principle