VariousPrograms

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by VariousPrograms 2y ago
Are there any simple vehicles left in the US, EV or otherwise? The lowest frills cars I can think of are the Mirage and Versa, both on their last legs. Similar to the vocal minorities who want compact hatchbacks, wagons, small trucks, or ma
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by VariousPrograms 2y ago
Use whatever works. If gaming is a top priority and things like FOSS, surveillance, and ads aren’t OS dealbreakers I don’t know why you’d force yourself to game on Linux. I’d guess for many Linux fans Windows isn’t even an option for those
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by VariousPrograms 2y ago
I mean that sedans are too small for American tastes. Automakers are phasing out sedans like they phased out subcompacts because people don't buy them. Americans basically buy crossovers at a minimum now.
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by VariousPrograms 2y ago
The first time I drove some new-ish Toyota that displayed a tap-to-dismiss advertisement for the navigation subscription every single time you started it up, I knew I would never own one of these smartphones on wheels.
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by VariousPrograms 2y ago
A safe, air conditioned kei truck would be great, but I can’t imagine a small truck in America given the current gigantic car culture. Sedans are too small for the American market now, let alone subcompact cars which are already gone.
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by VariousPrograms 2y ago
The risk to Manjaro is being branded “Spyware Arch Linux” by detractors and privacy enthusiasts, regardless of how deserved the label is. I’m not sure why that’s worth forgoing the obviously more user-respecting option of defaulting a check
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by VariousPrograms 2y ago
There’s always closed source, subscription based, privacy invasive software causing problems to be solved. If people didn’t want solutions to these problems I wouldn’t see so many ads for data broker removal services or people complaining a
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by VariousPrograms 2y ago
What is the market for this? Users use Google/Facebook logins because it’s one easy click and no one cares about privacy. Users who care don’t want a unified identity tied to all of their online activity, regardless of Eartho’s current
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by VariousPrograms 2y ago
The SBC can make sense depending on energy cost in your country if you just need a little 24/7 DNS or NAS. I have an SBC w/NVME that idles at 1.4W (~$2-3/yr) and an x86 server idling at 11W (~$20/yr). If you're real
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by VariousPrograms 2y ago
It's silly how privacy detractors try to associate so-and-so terrible group with any software that simply lets people talk without corporate or government surveillance, as if the concept of a private conversation is a strange and suspi
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by VariousPrograms 2y ago
It's definitely not reasonable. You shouldn't lose your right to vote because you don't know which office of government pays USPS mail carriers or the term length of US judges. There are lots of likely-disqualifiers mixed in
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by VariousPrograms 2y ago
A 4-day work week at 80% pay is the dream for me. I had the chance to work a 3x12 week for a year and it was the best year of my entire life. There’s nothing more valuable than time.
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by VariousPrograms 2y ago
If you're mooching the free tier of something with a Pricing tab on the website, you're always on borrowed time. It's worth finding a slightly less polished non-commercial FOSS program you're happy with for simple applic
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by VariousPrograms 2y ago
I assume any information I put online (intentionally or not) will be sold to data brokers, AI, etc. at this point. Privacy policies and settings are pointless because they frequently change or auto opt-in like this, sometimes forcing you to
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by VariousPrograms 2y ago
I would give up the internet before I register my biometric ID with Sam Altman’s crypto orb.
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by VariousPrograms 2y ago
6 months ago you’d have to tell your friends to join you on Mineclone2, a Minetest game, which was like telling people to switch to Doodle Chrome on Microsaft Wandows Beta. Any new name is so much better.
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by VariousPrograms 2y ago
Gadgets were more fun before everything felt like a data miner. I used to buy all sorts of tech junk 20 years ago like PDAs, GPS, MP3 players, fitness trackers, etc. but the primary purpose of everything now feels like sending all my data t
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by VariousPrograms 2y ago
I frequently think about the Neofetch dev who archived everything on Github and just put “Have taken up farming.” It just feels like he escaped the Matrix. https://github.com/dylanaraps
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by VariousPrograms 2y ago
I’m happy with Proton products personally but I see so many feature requests from users sitting for years on their core products. If anything I feel like the effort that goes into this instead could hurt Proton by branding them as “a crypto
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by VariousPrograms 2y ago
Claiming modal consent dialogs are “user hostile” then making an obvious anti-feature silently opt-out is really insulting user intelligence. The browser is one of the most important tools and we’re stuck with no truly good options. I’m pos
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by VariousPrograms 2y ago
I am a VTSAX and chill-er. Before doing the math, I spent years with an EFE managed account that would’ve eaten $100,000s in fees over the life of the account, which seems like overkill to shuffle around a few index funds in a 401k. I shoul
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by VariousPrograms 2y ago
Cool stuff! I had fun with Genfanad for a while. Keep it simple so the RSC fans don’t riot :)
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by VariousPrograms 3y ago
I had the same experience with the Disney parks app not working properly at all on Graphene. Otherwise I haven’t had issues, even with other fitness/map apps that require GPS.