coffeejunky

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coffeejunky,

I tried obsidian, but the Android app is pretty terrible. So in the end I still use Google keep. I would definitely like a more open Foss option, but haven’t found one that works on Linux and Android that I like.

coffeejunky,

I actually had it the other way around, I wanted to learn to understand and speak Spanish a lot better. My wife is half Spanish and her family speaks zero English. Anyway started to learn with Duolingo and my Spanish did improve. But after a while I got to a point where most of the mistakes I made where spelling errors. I don’t care how to spell in Spanish, I’m not going to write them, I just want to understand it and be able to respond. There is no option (afaik) to just learn the meaning of the words.

coffeejunky,

Yeah I’m not surprised or angry about it, isn’t this basically what has always happened? Like at some point we had elevator operators, some company automated the elevator and now there are basically zero elevator operators.

This is just happening all the time, like when I was a kid every gas station had people working at the station. Nowdays most stations around me are completely without workers, it’s all self checkout (like supermarkets, McDonalds, etc).

coffeejunky,

We also don’t have the grid support for everyone to start charging at home. At least not where I live. At the moment even solar panels are becoming a problem, major peaks during sunny days, where energy prices even go negative and people with dynamic energy contracts turn panels off.

coffeejunky,

Even before mobile phones, there where paid phone services, some about sex but some just to talk to people, that got people addicted.

I remember something called “the party line” where you would dial a paid number and you would be connected to sort of a group chat with some other people.

Some people even got in debt because of massive phone bills.

coffeejunky,

Wait YouTube had ads? 😉

coffeejunky,

If you enjoyed it and you wasted less food great. Don’t care about other people’s opinions.

coffeejunky,

Thanks the clickbait title really threw me off.

Have been using Firefox on Android for years, it’s pretty good with a decent adblocker.

YouTube screwing itself with adblockers again

I use Firefox and uBlock Origin. Not sure what kind of experience anyone else is having with YouTube, but recently my home page has been empty because I “don’t have watch history turned on”. Okay, fine. I won’t be able to browse suggested videos, and I’ll spend less time on their platform....

coffeejunky, (edited )

I have been using revanved for years, never really had major issues.

Also just not using the service isn’t going to change anything. I think Reddit was a good example of how companies really don’t listen to their users.

So I’ll just keep using it without ads, once it doesn’t work anymore I’ll just switch to the next solution or stop using YouTube. I do have Nebula so maybe I’ll just, only use that at some point.

coffeejunky,

Did you see that John Oliver piece on Musk?

youtu.be/Eo3zORUGCbM

coffeejunky,

There is a reason I only watch YouTube on my phone or laptop and not my smart TV. Because we went from one ad every few videos to multiple unskippable ads per video. It has become worse than old cable TV.

coffeejunky,

Take CPUs for example, ARM CPUs where kind of a joke 20 years ago, but now they are taking over X86. So its actually not bad working on competing technologies. Even about cars there is an example like that, also maybe 20 years ago battery cars where kind of a joke, while hydrogen fuelcells where all the hype back in the day. While now it seems battery is definitely winning. Although maybe in the next 20 years this turned out to be completely wrong again.

coffeejunky,

Electric, not really sure if this is a real question or sarcasm.

coffeejunky,

Ok fair point, it’s pretty clear in this case it’s about bikes vs cars, but technically correct.

coffeejunky,

Did you read the article? Because there is zero infighting and it’s not about cars vs bikes. The article is basically just saying that everyone is looking at electric cars, but electric bikes and mopeds actually have much more impact at the moment. That is because in a lot of Asian countries these are the default mode of transport. It’s way cheaper to replace fossil mopeds with ebikes and emopeds.

Also what do you mean not as many people can use them at the same time? These things have pretty small battery packs, you can just charge them at a regular socket in your house.

Also an ebike is way lighter than a car so the amount of microplastics is way less.

Your whole point about distance? The article starts that 60% of trips in the US are less than 10KM, easily done on an ebike or emoped.

coffeejunky,

Let me guess American? In Europe basically everyone uses Whatsapp, lots of people use Telegram some use signal. I use all of them.

coffeejunky,

Yeah when I got my first smartphone and whatsapp wasn’t around yet I had to pay like 10 or 15 cents per sms. So when WhatsApp became an option everybody and their mother jumped ship and joined. For a while sending an sms and getting back I’m on WhatsApp was a thing.

Nowadays I think sms is basically part of your plan an for most plans unlimited. But they milked it way too hard back in the day. So most people just don’t use it at all.

coffeejunky,

Teams it’s the absolute worst and it’s the only app that can sometimes crash my Linux machine

coffeejunky,

It sucks that better alternatives like slack went from the big player to a small player only because of Microsofts power over businesses. If teams would win because it was actually a better product I’d be fine with that. But teams is just a pile of shit we are forced to use.

coffeejunky,

Yeah exactly, I don’t want to see it but the same goes for a lot of weird fetishes.

As long as no one is getting hurt I don’t really see the problem.

coffeejunky,

I’m not sure that has to be true. Like you can ask an AI to give you a picture of a sailboat on the moon, while it has not ever seen a sailboat on the moon.

It could be trained on photos that are not pornografic containing kids and images that are pornografic containing adults.

coffeejunky,

Do you think people that are gay are mentally ill? Do you think those people choose specifically to be attracted to people from the same sex? A lot of the same things can de said about people that are attracted to kids.

I’m not trying to say we should in any shape or form tolerate child abuse. But it’s important that we recognize that there are people like this and they didn’t choose to be that way. People have no problem to talk about punishment, but don’t like to also accept that they are also victims in a way.

Good, inexpensive fitness trackers?

I’m looking for a watch that can track my heart rate, stay on my tiny wrist, and that doesn’t cost a lot only to break frequently. Fitbit is….no longer meeting that criteria and was honestly out of my budget to begin with, but i am nervous about spending money again on something random that could also break just as...

coffeejunky,

I was going to suggest this, you just need to not worry about the Chinese government probably having access to your data. On the other hand let’s not pretend the US gouvernement isn’t doing the same.

I don’t know if Xiaomi still sells them, but they used to have fitness trackers without a screen. I really liked that, much longer battery and no annoying notifications on your arm.

Twitter's lost 13% of its daily users and its rebrand has failed (www.bigtechnology.com)

The new data — comprehensive and definitive — should put to rest the countervailing narratives over Musk’s management of the app. Under his stewardship, X’s daily user base has declined from an estimated 140 million users to 121 million, with a widening gap between people who check the app daily vs. monthly. X’s...

coffeejunky,

For me it’s more the other way around, had a Twitter account for years. Didn’t really use it much, a bit more in the last 2 years. Deleted my account after Elon took over.

coffeejunky,

I work in software development, not sure why but most of the sysadmins and DevOps guys I know use Apple (phone and laptop). Most developers use Android (and usually Linux). Most testers use Android and Windows. This is purely from personal experience from the last few teams I worked in.

coffeejunky,

Same, sometimes Google sends me to Reddit, it’s the only visits they get from me

coffeejunky,

How does a completely decentralized platform handle data that should be removed? If some asshole starts posting CP or other fucked up shit, what exactly happens? With mastodont the server admin has the control to remove whatever he or she wants. Not perfect, but you have plenty of servers to choose from (or you can start your own).

You want something like society, mostly free but still with some ground rules. If it’s completely free there is also lots of scams and shady stuff. In the long run I think a platform like that will be banned by governments.

coffeejunky,

Not only that, taking action against open source for “national security” is definitely a road we should not go on! It’s not that far away from Microsoft claiming Linux is going to give China an unfair advantage.

coffeejunky,

Don’t we need a validator of some sort? To teach the ai when it’s doing something right? I wonder how you train an AI on something you can’t do yourself.

coffeejunky,

Also with an app you just buy it. If the app is like 10 euros that’s pretty fast. But with Spotify you need to listen to streams for hours and hours, it’s fucking slow.

coffeejunky,

I understand, but even than playing a song is much more effort (time consuming) than buying an app. It’s just super inefficiënt.

coffeejunky,

That one night where you do get a decent sleep , you’ll wake up with a headache. Yay parenthood!

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