I try to keep an eye out for repetitive tasks that might make good projects. I just started a python script that’s going to download all my google photos so i can free up my cloud storage.

Import Driving.Self

What do you use for hosting? I’m looking for a good host and highly budget conscious.

What makes hosting with PHP cheaper than with python?

I’m glad I didn’t pay for this. It looks fun but the performance is terrible it’s literally freezing right now as I’m trying to quit. It eats up almost all of my CPU. I don’t have a high-end gaming rig (any more), but i was able to get better performance out of the outer worlds.

Excuse me i think you mean ctrl+c:w

in order to use the “share nearby” feature between a phone and a PC, yes, as far as I can tell

edit: I should probably mention my phone is still googled.

the chat app?

i think syncthing is actually going to be a better solution for what i want to achieve (keep local music files on my phone on my PC too), but it’s good to know these things.

Peace

Is this automatic? I got a windows 7 key like 11 years ago, then did the free windows 10 upgrade. I am planning on rebuilding my PC, including a new mobo. Will I be able to activate through my MS account?

I think we’re just as bored. We may in fact be worse off for having increased our “interest threshold” such that we must seek more and more stimuli in order to stave off boredom.

Doomscrolling is the new boredom.

I’m just beginning my de-googling journey. However when I think about the potential loss of convenience this is what I tell myself: in exchange for convenience, particularly since the dawn of the smartphone era, we have lost a deeper understanding of how things work under the hood. And how much convenience have we really gained? I think it is more likely we have been led to believe our convenience has been increased when really the only convenience that matters is how convenient it is to advertise to us.

Who has read The Master Switch by Tim Wu? It’s a great book and that essentially argues every mass communication medium started off as a decentralized playground for hobbyists before consolidating into a centralized profit seeking (or profit-seeking-enabling) entity. It the ends with the question of whether the same destiny awaits the internet.

I remember hoping it didn’t, and that hope grows harder to maintain by the day. It’s so fucking sad.

I just hope that even if this standard is implemented, the protocol maintains enough of it’s flexibility for small enclaves of people who still believe in the technology’s original vision to “opt out” of it.

I sort by new. It seems to work. There’s a severe lack of comments, which I am trying to do my part to rectify.

All that is solid melts into air

Please share your ad blocking strategy when you do!

I never used bare DOS, my first experience with a PC was on windows 3.1

I think about this a lot. I’m so grateful I had the experience of messing with the windows registry and other phenomena of the 90s.

I think it might be a bit of an xy problem. I myself have hoped for the runaway success of the fediverse. But I realized it’s not actually some absolute number of users I want. What I want is for the fediverse to have that same “there’s a community for anything” that reddit had.

I’m starting to hope the fediverse doesn’t get too big now, honestly. There’s a certain number of eyeballs that is going to attract people interested in exploiting those eyeballs, and I don’t know if the fediverse is robust enough to fight them off as the pot of gold they see begins to overflow. It’s hard balance to find. And maybe the decentralized aspect of the fediverse does mean that it can’t be fully assimilated by capital, I don’t know.

Were living in interesting times.

I spent most of my time on Reddit in the learn programming subs, so I’m glad at least that demographic has moved here. I’m almost 34, don’t work in tech but want to, don’t use Linux but want to (and if the rumors of windows adding ads to the OS are true I will switch to Linux full time except for gaming). I wasn’t really that invested in the reddit API changes but I liked reddit when it was more under ground and wild west. I used to spend a lot of time on rcsources (those days are behind me regardless, though). So I wanted to see if there was still room on the internet for the outlaw tech cowboy shtick, and Lemmy stepped up to the plate.