And of course, they control the hardware and software. I wouldnt risk it as a foreign national who has occasionally done work in the defense industry, but everyone has a different risk tolerance.

What was your preferred search engine in 1997?

They are probably betting they will make more money from businesses. I.e., actual pros, vs prosumer.

I do like my Synology NAS I bought 10 yrs ago, but these days there are more and better alternatives for people who dont really need to pay for the support and stability.

I have a Shield Pro and several Rokus, but my next will be the ONN 4K Pro. Hopefully it is $30 at black friday again, I’ll buy a few.

Out of curiousity, what does that get you that Pixel+GrapheneOS wouldnt?

Well sure, but it is more than that. Advertising ,broadly, is literally there expressly to manipulate your emotional state. Social media just gives them more info about your state so they are much more effective at it.

Smart. Anything to avoid learning!

https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/group-of-teenagers-using-mobile-phones-in-hallway-at-high-school-gm1500076836-521623716

I suppose it is possible the submitter used AI uncredited, but I doubt it. For one thing, there are other images of the same models in the artist’s page. Second, the state of AI image generation when this was submitted (June 2023) was pretty terrible for things like this.

More likely is that the image “looks like AI” to you because most image generation models were trained on Common Crawl, which includes at least tens of thousands of curated (royalty-free) images. In other words, AI models generate images that look like stock photos because that is what they know how to generate.

Im normally the one wishing for less politics on Lemmy, but at some point you have to draw a line and define what you actually mean by “too political.” Of course, then you’d need to have someone curate media just for you that adheres to that standard… because simple keywords aint gonna cut it. Orrrr, I guess you could just cut off ALL new media.

This isnt some petty political scuffle. This is a trade war that is currently crashing the global economy. China cutting off minerals isn’t really “politics”, per se, at least in the way most people mean it. It is war: An economic war that looks increasingly likely to end up in the shooting kind.

IMO, It’s a better name. I have almost given up on Stash a couple of times because it is a pain is the ass to search for it.

Also, on the flip side, IMO it is easier to remember than Czkawka.

I run Pihole+Unbound, Debian baremetal on a tinypc. RPi was too unreliable. I was too often dealing with issues.

My router is the failback, as it has blocking too.

And pretty much everything else as well.

The app I am using to write this comment is called Thunder. So thats one thing we’ve got.

And I’d move to one of those instances. Don’t need or want any corporations involved in my Lemmy.

No one believed people were dumb enough to vote for tRump once, much less a second time after his insurrectionist mob tried to stage thr violent overthrow of our system of government.

And yet… Here we are.

Fuck you. This shit is traumatic for me. had family members murdered by the actual Nazis. Blocked you and this shithole community.

Reported for untagged gore. Blocked for being a shitbag troll.

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Eh. That seems like wishful thinking. He just blamed it on “the other guy” because his base is gullible and ill-informed.

That… seems like a poor design.