Once that’s broken into: encryption and backups, purchase new hardware and rebuild. Downtime sucks though.

Yes, but there are a ton of awesome IDEs built on top of the base Visual Studio Code Open Source project, you don’t have to use the Microsoft one.

The icon is pretty borked on Linux

.NET CLI and msbuild are open source, and C# is awesome. And VS Code is open source.

I think they just put them in quadrants with no attention to placement.

TikTok and Instagram were never good, but they provided a platform for people on the streets to provide real time updates on current events that countered the state narrative/propaganda on main stream media.

TikTok and Instagram exposed the truth about the American empire to a significant portion of the population. They want to make sure it’s all controlled state approved content, they want to eliminate our ability to reach eyes and ears.

So sure, have at the Chinese propaganda platform, but not without an alternative that allows us to reach wide audiences… And we don’t have an alternative… Not enough people are on the fediverse and the learning curve is pretty massive.

Because if we say anything positive about AI programming we get downvoted to hell…

I’m not a supporter of the companies making LLMs and how they profit off others’ intellect, I’m not a supporter of their use of the technology for fascism, genocide, and pure evil. I’m not a moron that thinks LLMs are intelligent.

But I recognize it as a very useful technological advancement, it’s a very useful tool and to pretend otherwise is foolish. LLMs are an amazing coding aid, and when used correctly and fed the right context, they can save hours of frustration and research dead-ends.

Edit: see? I just called them a useful tool and got downvoted…

I didn’t push for Kagi… You’re spilling out my point though

I’m just saying that saying “use DDG because it doesn’t use a Russian company’s search engine” while ignoring that DDG uses objectively more evil companies is stupid.

What a way to morally stand up to one evil while supporting a greater evil. Google and Microsoft are complicit in the Israeli genocide, like they’re not just American companies, they provide resources, infrastructure, and intellectual support for the genocide and apartheid systems. But you have no problem with DDG using them, right?

Just be consistent.

If you don’t care about uptime, self host it on the local machine you have and expose it through free cloudflare tunnels.

When the next version of Android breaks support for it…

This is antithetical to the original proposition.

I bought a Ryobi sander with its battery and charger for $20 at a garage sale to do one small job, I have a bunch of Makita tools and batteries but it would be completely foolish to buy a new Makita sander for one job.

I have a greenworks battery system and love my electric lawn mower, but when the stupid edger finally broke, I didn’t buy the same stupid tool that takes a giant 4AH battery because I’m tied into the system, I bought a lightweight Makita edger that shares the battery with my drill driver.

When I need cheap battery tools for one job, I buy Ryobi. When I’m upgrading, it’s probably Makita.

When I needed to cut down a few damaged trees, I bought a wired chainsaw and a long extension cable.

If I just stuck to Makita because I have that battery system, I’d be sitting on thousands of dollars in Makita tools I’ll use once a year at most.

If you’re using supported hardware, sure.

My wifi keeps freaking out, my 2.5G nic simply doesn’t work, my Bluetooth acts up constantly, the razor kernel module made my whole setup unstable and I just wanted to change the stupid RGB lights, HDMI support is unpredictable, Nvidia drivers are a shitshow.

I still don’t miss Windows, but Windows 11 is stable on the same hardware.

But he has a website… He’s just saying Facebook denied him additional exposure unfairly.

They have theatrics, it would have ended up the same way if Biden/Harris won. Democrats (Biden) introduced it in the first place, and your instinct is still to believe they opposed it?

That’s not what I said.

I had issues with auto scan years ago, just re-enabled it and it’s working fine now so that’s resolved, thanks.

The other issue is still a problem, and why I’ll be switching to Navidrome for music. Jellyfin wasn’t mature enough last time I tried to replace my lifetime Plex pass, but I have a feeling I’ll be ditching Plex entirely soon.

Annoyance: Can’t scan your music library from the PlexAmp app, can’t scan it from the Plex app either. Super frustrating when music as added and you have to struggle with pop-up navigation on the Plex desktop site on mobile.

Game breaker: maybe it’s just really hard to find and undocumented, but there doesn’t seem to be a way to use profiles with PlexAmp, either to have individual play history and playlists, or to age restrict some music content.

For the Democrats/liberals who think they’re leftist in the room, note that this done by Biden, how it was put on hold for review so that news spread and pacifies the anger, and how it came back stronger when you forgot about it. And now Democrats will shrug and say “Trump is in charge, we’re powerles.”

Democrats are not your friends, they are not a lesser evil, we need a revolution.

It’s way worse, shooting weather balloons make them sound like angels.

https://investigate.info/company/palantir

They provide police state technology currently used by ICE to target immigrants and several US cities police departments use their tech for “predictive policing.” Not to mention they are actively and enthusiastically testing predictive generative AI to plan war crimes and hallucinate targets in the Gaza genocide. Technology they will bring home as “battle tested.”