And I’d say with a pug, even the aesthetics is highly questionable.

I feel that opinion is only unpopular with the people who bought a pug dog, and for some reason they don’t see how it can’t breathe properly. I always feel sorry for those creatures.

Yes, dishwashers and washing machines are awesome inventions. Though you’d still need to be home to unload the laundry, put it on a rack, gather it from the rack, fold it… Always takes me 20min for the process. Similar for the dishwasher, need to load and unload it, do the coated pans and everything made from wood manually, the crusty cake pans… And then you’ll spend some more time cleaning the house because the vacuum robot can’t do stairs, can’t do tables and the kitchen surfaces… I think there’s still some room for improvement.

And while at it, AI should please also check and pay my utility bills, do the tax forms once a year, clean up my 2TB harddrive, find a cheaper car insurance… I mean it doesn’t really do anything useful and I’m still stuck with all the annoying tasks.

I think it’s basically that. There’s new commits in the conduit repo. But it’s like one minor thing each other month. While other projects have a lot if activity and added a ton of features and MSCs. At the same time they’re equally as stable and possibly easier to use. So… Why not use one of them? You’ll get more features, quicker fixes for annoyances in Matrix. And I always wondered why Matrix doesn’t come with threaded conversations by default. SSO/Authentication integrations. And clients which can do multiple accounts.

Bummer. Yeah I had issues with browser video playback myself. And both Firefox and Chromium-based browsers have so many hidden options, intransparent GPU blocklists… And then people do silly stuff and install third-party browsers which don’t come from the package repositories, so they haven’t been tuned for the specific distribution. And that adds yet another layer of complexity… Luckily it just works out of the box on my current laptop, and in the future I’m not going to install any Nvidia drivers on my machine, either. That has been just too many tweaks for my taste. Though I heard it got a bit better with them. Sorry to hear you can’t make it work. I don’t think watching YouTube should be as hard as it is for some people. (BTW, using Firefox has additional advantages, like a working ad blocker available as an addon, so I for example don’t have to watch any of the multiple 30s pre-roll ads on YouTube. On the downside, Firefox always sucked with graphics acceleration and it still does. Should be fine on Windows, though.)

Did you find out what’s causing this? I found some Reddit threads with people having similar issues with Brave and Chrome-based browsers…

That “it’s not x, it’s y” - thing is really weird. I think it’s even discouraged to talk like that for humans, as it frequently gets people confused. And if the audience is not paying attention 100% they might as well memorize X instead of Y. It’s also mostly unnecessary. If something is Y, just say so. (There’s a few limited use-cases. Like when debunking proper myths. Or in an Ikea instruction leaflet with the wrong screw crossed out and the correct one depicted next to it. And other textbook examples like that. But it shouldn’t be a normal speech pattern, by any means.)

I had ChatGPT do other weird things. I tried writing Python code with ChatGPT. And on more than one occasion it gave me a full screen of text, or computer code… Which I read and copy-pasted… Just to scroll down and find out it goes on to say ChatGPT does NOT recommend doing it that way, and instead do… <more text>

And that really made me feel mocked. Why waste 3mins of my life then, by making me read and copy-paste the wrong “solution”? I don’t know why that is, though. Maybe it came to some “realization” while writing it, and since it’s writing left to right, it can’t make corrections. So it’ll decide to weasel itself out and portray it as some “lesson” in what not to do.

Feels somehow like the “it’s not x, it’s y”. Just with the “not” coming after explaining X. And everything is stretched out over 5 pages.

Or maybe it’a just because they made it prefer longer answers, or give several options/perspectives… And adding wrong ones contributes to length.

Take care. Yeah, some things are really easy. But then at some point it always gets nasty, there’s a million details to learn and you can keep digging down pretty much forever 😆 If you’re at some time in the position to do it as a hobby, there’s ways to make it a bit less time consuming. We have some turnkey solutions. I sometimes recommend https://yunohost.org/ for people who just want to set up a server without dealing with all the low level stuff… But still, it’s an entire hobby.

If you don’t want to install anything, there’s also https://3d.kalidoface.com/ for the browser. And seems they shut it down but there was a 2D version as well: https://2d.kalidoface.com/ (both open source.)

And you might want to cross-check the OBS install instructions. I’m fairly sure it does game capture out of the box these days, so not sure if there’s a need to manually install plugins from source.

Idk. That’s a bit of a treacherous point in itself. I mean first of all life isn’t supposed to be just the bare essentials. But than that argument gets abused a lot, the usual stuff being “a bit of beating didn’t harm me”… but it probably did. At least I’ve rarely seen it been used in a good context. I’d say it depends. Some things used to be better, or simpler back in the days. Some weren’t. I think a lot of things (in society) improved in the 20 years or so since I’ve finished growing up. I don’t think the internet did. All the social media stuff got way worse. But it’s complicated. I don’t see any reason to be on 4chan at 13yo. But at the same time we also don’t want some “clean” dystopian society like in the dark sci-fi movies. Sexuality is part of life. And so is making mistakes, experiences…

Awesome!

Hmmh. Is there good Free Software to do these things with a Linux server at home?

Yeah, I mean they do have to be able to communicate with their friends, listen to audiobooks… Do their homework assignments, look up the bus schedule or text/call mom to pick them up, read/watch stuff if they like… Learn about the world. So there needs to be some sane way to do these things.

But it’s not like anyone needs to send in their ID to Google to accomplish that.

Huh. And how do these age checks work? Is that something you’d call your internet service provider to remove for you? Or is it just the average “Are you over 18? Y/N” popup?

But doesn’t sound too different from what we got. My ISP here in Germany has some secret list of forbidden piracy sites. So I switched to a different DNS server and I’m all good. Is that what they do in the UK as well? Sorry I’m lacking a bit in first hand experience. Haven’t been there in a while. An when on vacation, I rarely try to watch porn or read about automatic rifles 😅

Hmmh, sure. That’s usually 300% of what this is about. Though they have some “genuine” attempts at filtering the internet over in the UK. From what I gather, ISPs are supposed to filter pornography, copyright violations, gambling, weapons and violence and all sorts of stuff (Edit:??) per default. So there seems to be some wish for a “family safe” internet mixed in with the usual exploiting children to manifest some surveillance dystopia… Which definitely is the major reason why this is pushed all around the globe.

Yeah, since it’s the UK, I have a hunch that will include scanning your ID and uploading it to 5 different “international parners” aka American companies. To be tied to all online activity… Why not simply mandate parental controls be implemented in all phones and tablets, and we can do it without all the privacy invasion?

Screw electronics. I’ll finally get time to play my 100 board games, pen and paper roleplay games and all the stuff I currently don’t do, because I’m doomscrolling all day. And I might have to ask the neighbour to bring their accordion and sing some Lady Gaga for me until Spotify comes back online. I think I’d be fine.

Just a word of caution, It’ll be dark in the supermarket at that time. The electronic cash terminals cease to work and half the food is going to spoil within a few hours. So get some cash, rice, noodles, oil, ketchup and canned food. And you’ll need some sort of water supply.

I think some tech can speak open protocols like MQTT. Other than that you’ll have to google whether they require some cloud, and if there’s HA support.

Sure, sorry, you’re in the selfhosted community, so I sent some self hosted options 😆 If you own one of the internet/wifi routers with Wireguard built in (FritzBox, MikroTik, etc…) that might be an option as well. Other than that, I never tried any of the more commercial options, so I don’t know much about it.

Google and/or the Arch Wiki should have you covered. For my Dell laptop I just clicked on Settings->Battery and set it to “Preserver Battery Health”. Done.