Jeremy [Iowa]

Suddenly, I miss the old days of Android. I suppose it’s back to CyanogenMod or whatever it is these days

Sure there is… stop using Facebook.

Regulatory capture seems about on par for Google these days. I suppose I’ll be switching back to OnePlus for Android devices; that’ll be about it for Google stuff in my home.

“Most” seems to be doing some incredibly generous work here.

Yarr intensifies

I’ll have to look into it - thanks for the suggestion.

Poor Splunk - such a useful tool does not deserve the upcoming enshittification.

Hikvision has a decent line of chinesium local-only PoE cameras. I’ve used a few of them with Frigate and Home Assistant with great success.

an EV charged from fossil electricity saves only 33% on emissions compared to a fossil car

Or, stated more honestly, an EV deriving electricity from even fossil-based grid-scale generation uses roughly half the raw combustables as an ICE with the added benefit of emission scrubbing.

if i am paying 40k$ for an EV i am expecting my purchase to act as a contribution to safeguard the environement

We are fortunate, then, that this is already the case.

EVs are a pass for me for now but thats my opinion.

I’m not sure how you’ve determined they should be a pass - if you’re comparing like to like and comparing to new ICE vehicles of similar capability, there’s no reason not to go EV for most people.

But sure, it is a matter of preference.

You are aware that internal combustion engines also use non-renewables at a much lower efficiency than grid-scale use of non-renewables, right?

Were you aware that only ~1/3 the energy from combustion is harnessed for propulsion in a traditional ICE?

The lack of Google/Microsoft enshittification is a huge draw.

In the software side of IT, this is usually when you start seeing layoffs and a mass replacement of talented developers with bottom-of-the-barrel offshore contractors. Beware the following fail cascade.

I wonder if they realize the extent to which this disincentivizes upgrades to any newer form of Unity - and the newer license - even outside the rest of the recent drama.

It would take amazing changes to even consider giving this up - and at that point, it’s a hop and a skip to a platform shift.

Isn’t paying to remove ads a fair deal?

If the price were reasonable, community practices especially regarding monetization and moderation were acceptable, telemetry-tracking javascript minimal, etc. then sure.

But… we’re not there.

No. PiHole is effectively ad-blocking via DNS; the name is a play on black hole and Raspberry Pi.

Well, this certainly explains my difficulty with YouTube over the last few days. Ironically, the piped instances still seem to be fine…

This might just be enough to push me primarily over to Rumble. There are fewer and fewer reasons to use YouTube and more and more reasons not to.