it’s defo non native speakers and translators. and these days some people tend to paste an llm ‘paraphrased’ version instead of a direct machine translation

tailscale. and then use vnc(tigervnc-server or x11vnc) and ssh

i’m not from the US and i feel it all the time here on the threadiverse. in most cases i don’t feel there is any malicious intent so i don’t nitpick(?) about it though

kinda unrelated but recent nvidia linux drivers are already open source. i’d love to see the older drivers be “open sourced” too because my ancient gpus aren’t supported by open-gpu-kernel-module thing tho

When a single salary could comfortably support a whole family, people had more time

was there really time like that tho? just sounds like rose tinted glasses tbh. maybe because i’m not US based but people here were poor af back then and things got much better these days.

tbh yeah. i don’t use ai but art stuff looks fun and i’d like to make things but i suck at it.

most likely configuration issue on the instance that hosts the image.

i haven’t bought new hardwares for a long time. it’s mostly all older used items, sometimes even straight out of garbage bin.

the newest machine i have is from 2021.

• use DiscordChatExporter-incrementalBackup to backup to json (there’s a web viewer made by the same dev)
• use this UnDiscord fork to purge all messages

not sure bout ms but nintendo, i doubt they ever will.

play phone games (bejeweled/parking lot…) or read books/manga/wikipedia

soulseek is very easy to use. everyone shares a folder on their computer, and one can query keywords on everyone’s directory listing and download off of them.

install the client nicontine+ (on desktop. if on android, use ‘seeker’. there’s none for ios), choose a nickname, set a shared folder, optionally fill it with some media you already have, and you can start using immediately. i recommend setting the shared folder the same as the soulseek download folder so you get to share what you download.

since soulseek is P2P and requires direct network connection, at least one of two peers need open ports. so if you have open ports you can download from everyone, but with closed ports you can only download from those who have their ports open. so, port forwarding is optional and not strictly necessary.

i haven’t ever heard of receiving letters from ISP because of soulseek, since it’s surprisingly quite under the radar for some reason. ISP letters are usually because of torrents. but still, soulseek protocol is unencrypted so it’s not impossible. because of this i don’t recommend usage on public wifi. use it through a VPN if you can.

i usually don’t do anything unless it breaks. (other than cleaning exterior dust)

plastic clips on those consoles are fragile, so frequent disassembly may actually have adverse effects

the F-Droid repository IzzyOnDroid has pretty good AI policy. (#)

We are strongly opposed to apps which are fully or in part created by generative AI tools.

it’s pretty good.

but because of the 1GB ram limit, you can’t run many apps at once on iOS 12. the phone can be (untethered) downgraded to iOS 10.3.3, so that would make it more usable as a feature phone…

modern app support is of course terrible. but there are community patches for some popular social media stuff if you need those. the builtin Safari browser is quite broken on ‘modern’ websites, but someone recently ported Chromium to run on iOS 12+ and that kinda works albeit slowly.

kitkat? they blocked direct sdcard access and introduced SAF

i used to download from deezer when public ARLs were extremely easy to get and use, but they got more restrictive recently. these days i just soulseek.

how’s the battery on old smart watches? i guess they can’t be replaced?

thanks! will look into it

i see. i also don’t use push notifications, but to have my discord using friends move over i need to reach feature parity.