Can you imagine being paid for your work in digital jewels and rubies? It’s not there yet, but were getting closer and closer to being a modern day Tennessee Ernie Ford, paid in scrip and buying everything at the company store.

I have to say, the most eye catching part of the article was the domain names. I guess it just goes to show that you don’t complain about free shit.

I knew a guy with almost that exact resume, except he told me it was chickens. He worked in Lagos during the week and went back to his chickens in rural Nigeria on the weekend.

I agree. In a vacuum, Copilot is a good name, potentially S tier. Too bad they shoved it in everyone’s face and made us all hate it. Now they have to rebrand and hope we don’t hate that too. Spoiler, we will.

I will remember this, even more so because of the confused drama that preceded it. In general, I find it difficult for me to endorse any commercial entity, but Bitwarden has my admiration and I will continue to offer it as a better alternative to people I see storing their passwords in Chrome or Lastpass. I’m also happy to pay a bit to support a good product and will continue to support the development even if I switch to self-hosted at some point.

I never appreciated snapshots until I ran a server. I used to just install a new distro whenever anything significant went wrong. Now I use them everywhere.

That is a package like “tidal-hifi” or something like that that can basically put the web app on your linux desktop ad an app.

I can’t switch from Celsius to Fahrenheit, the switch just reverts. I do think it looks beautiful and has weather stats that I use when I bike but other apps don’t always have (air quality, UV) .

I don’t like using cashless anything because I know part of the cost is my privacy. Having said that, convenience is a powerful draw and cash can be a pain, especially when you have to find a spot for small coins.

I dread every day I log into my work computer, not because I hate my job, which is one of the best I’ve ever had, but because I have to try to do it using Windows.

If you would like to activate your heated bum that’ll be 19.99 USD /mo. I know we already installed the hardware, but you have to pay us to use it.

Yeah, you know there’s bound to be some juicy drama if they want to remove it so bad.

I agree about peertube. I’m lucky that my niche has some creators with a peertube instance at urbanists.video (like c/fuckcars) for me to watch. I check that before youtube now and it cuts my YouTube usage by 5-15%.

I know we’re off topic, but do you have call recording on Graphene? Also, how does the adblocker work. I find most adblockers use the VPN to create a loopback to listen on. I use a VPN frequently, so that interface isn’t available and I block ads via hostfile.

I had a Google GSuite account from back when they advertised it as a free for life solution for families who wanted to use their own domain. They stopped offering this a long time ago, but kept us around. A few years ago, they tried to end it, but walked that back after facing resistance. We were among the earliest adopters and many of us shilled pretty hard for gmail over the years. Not only would they have gone back on their word, but my app and media purchases would be tied to a crippled no-email account (identity only) because they didn’t have a migration path to normal gmail. That means multiple logins. Also, the gsuite inbox doesn’t have the inline ads or anything while the regular one does. I’ve been working to move away from google because I imagine they’ll try to end this again later, but also just because we understand better who google really is.

The site the greedy little pigboy runs was instrumental to the resistance but since it’s enshittified, we may not be able to resist again. Its fine to say something is for a lifetime, but you have to honor that or you’ve been dishonest and no one can trusts thing you say.

The only reason I still have google around is android. When we finally get a linux daily driver phone that meets my minimum needs, I’m migrating the remainder of my stuff. I’ll happily give up some functionality to do it. I just hope they can keep their free for life promise until then.

Free™ with the purchase of a second item of equal or greater value. Free™ iPhone when you sign up for a 2 year contract… Unlimited™ data. Free™ tax prep.

Nothing is truly free and someone needs to buy these corporations a dictionary. Maybe a couple of government agencies could look at those dark patterns and offer some Free™ rides to a correctional facility for these marketing teams?

If Jesus had wanted us to use prime numbers why did he turn the water into wine and not numbers? Checkmate atheists. /s

You have more knowledge on this than I did. I enjoyed reading about Freenet and Ceph. I have dealt with cloud stuff, but not as much on a technical-underpinnings level. My first freenet impression from reading some articles gives me 90s internet vibes based on the common use cases they listed.

I remember ceph because I ended up building it from the AUR once on my weak little personal laptop because it got dropped from some repository or whatever but was still flagged to stay installed. I could have saved myself an hours long build if I had read the release notes.

Yeah, the projects I’ve heard about that have done something like this broke it into multiples.

For example, 1000GB could be broken into forty 25GB torrents and within that, you can tell the client to only download some of the files.

At scale, a webpage can show the seed/leach numbers and averages foe each torrent over a time period to give an idea of what is well mirrored and what people can shore up. You could also change which torrent is shown as the top download when people go to the contributor page and say they want to help host it ensuring a better distribution.

I love the old simple powerful websites at companies I’ve worked for. It’s when they add a bunch of whitespace and a chatbot that they really start to go to hell.

Yep, that seems like the ideal decentralized solution. If all the info can be distributed via torrent, anyone with spare disk space can help back up the data and anyone with spare bandwidth can help serve it.