This device is now mandated to watch TV or browse the internet in Germany:

Well, Proton can move wherever they want and be as good as they what, I’ll never be a customer again because of what their fuckhead CEO Andy Yen said.

I don’t care that he’s backpedaled, I don’t care that Andy Yen isn’t Proton-the-company, and I’m even willing to accept it was a very unfortunate duh moment on his part. Here the thing: I don’t have many ways as a nobody to get back at Trump, but one way is to not give any of my money to anybody who enabled him, even by mistake.

So Proton is on my shitlist forever thanks to Yen.

That’s why my email provider is in Norway and not Switzerland. Norway has much stronger privacy laws.

Using Copilot even as a mere coding assistance is insane, if no other reason than you’re sending all your code to Microsoft, and you also let them monitor your work habits in uncomfortably intimate details.

My experience with Discord, period:

This new trend of using “slam”, “blast” and “torch” in each and every headline in a cheap effort to make it more sensational annoys the living shit out of me. It’s like English for toddlers…

Clearly the key to success is how hard-boiled the eggs are.

What a clot.

On the other hand, this is what Americans want, this is what they get. Although in fairness, Dubya started the tradition of cretinous presidents.

You gotta love how quickly Bambu Lab got their ass handed to them.

Also, they’re really testing the Streisand effect with this one: talk about bad publicity when even people who don’t know the first thing about 3D printing knows you’re a shitty 3D printer maker…

My opinion is this: who can I speak Esperanto with?

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Exactly.

The problem with Esperanto is that languages don’t work like that: they’re not created out of thin air. They exist because people speak them and they come into existance from other languages that get distorted beyond recognition by the people who misuse them.

No living language is known to have been conjured into existence, with perhaps the possible exception of a few rare language isolates like Basque that might have been invented from scratch a long time ago, since nobody knows where they come from exactly.

Good information. Makes sense too. thanks!

Yeah I read about others trying to make optically usable lenses. That would be great!

But my purpose was to print a dimensionally accurate template for my 3D-printed frames.

That went south because printing this object in one go with a FDM printer is almost impossible to print cleanly. So I gave up on that. But I was still curious to use it to find out if I could use acetone to reassemble two clean halves of it, and find out what kind of polish PLA can take.

You know, just out of curiosity 🙂

It’s so ironic that Pixels are the go to devices for privacy roms these days.

It’s so ironic it’s a show-stopper for me. I’m not paying fucking Google to escape the Google dystopia. Nosiree! That’s just too rich for me.

This is why I own a Fairphone running CalyxOS. Yes, I know GrapheneOS is supposedly more secure - I say supposedly because I think 95% of users don’t have a threat model that justifies the extra security really. But I don’t care: my number one priority is not giving Google a single cent. If it means running a less secure OS, I’m fine with that.

There’s no way on God’s green Earth I’m buying a Pixel phone to run a deGoogled OS. That’s such an insane proposition I don’t even know how anybody can twist their brain into believing this is a rational thing to do.

As a CalyxOS user myself, I was about to reply with some comparison points, and then I thought… Why bother. I’ll just get downmodded and dragged into another pointless argument with people who think it’s vitally important that they should be right and I’m wrong.

So my take is this: whatever works for you.

You like GrapheneOS? More power to you.
You like CalyxOS? You’re a rockstar.
You like IodéOS, LineageOS or /e/? Cool!

What matters is not to run Google’s surveillance stack. That’s what’s important! Even if your deGoogled OS of choice isn’t quite entreprise-grade, it’s still 95% safer and 200% more honest than anything with straight Google on it.

I’d rather have a camera with complete lines, not just the top.

Most people I know who have any trouble tolerating advertisement use Newpipe. I don’t understand how the official Youtube client is even relevant anymore.

Bromite is a terrible idea. It’s 9 months out of date and it isn’t maintained anymore. It’s superceded by Cromite.