Yes, it was pretty quiet, but I feel the quality was always pretty good, even from the beginning.

Congrats! This is definitely a better place than reddit.

4 years over here for me, when lemmy.ml was pretty much the only option.

That would be awesome, but I’m pretty sure the Chief Justice would preside over that trial

Sounds like a job for Triangle Man

Funny, how just when you think life can’t possibly get any worse it suddenly does.

Tubesync is pretty great

Let’s say that I’ve never had a Facebook account, but Facebook still has a lot of data it has collected about me from multiple sources, including other Facebook users, who might post photos that I am in, or share information about me in posts, neither of which i gave consent to anyone to share.

Is it fair that my only option to protect my private information is to CREATE a Facebook account and pay them to STOP collecting and selling my private information?

Not seeing ads for GEICO on your car’s dashboard doesn’t mean that Toyota isn’t gathering as much data as they can about you via the platform they built and then selling that information to GEICO.

As well as information about who you are, Toyota can also collect your “driving behavior.” This includes information such as your “acceleration and speed, steering, and braking functionality, and travel direction.” It may also gather your in-vehicle preferences, favorite locations saved on its systems, and images gathered by external cameras or sensors.

Some models of Toyota can also scan your face for face recognition when you enter one of its vehicles.

Source

You may also want to freeze Lexis Nexis and Innovis as well - they buy and sell your data as well

Darktable (or the fork Ansel) or Rawtherapee and Digikam should get you where you need to be.

Mmmm…hjertevafler

Or tragideh if you’re Canadian

He’s very good

Pouring one out for the homies without affordable health care

Not if you’re serving content to a device that can do the decoding, like a Shield. My Jellyfin server runs in a Proxmox VM with no GPU passed though, and transcoding disabled for all accounts.

Gitlab is pretty great!

I wonder how many fucking numbers and letters they will keep adding over the fucking years.

Numbers and letters over the years:

“You shall love your neighbor as yourself”

Galations 5:14

“Be genial, sweet and kind towards your companions.”

Mino-ī-Kherad, II.7

“For my people are foolish; they know me not; they are stupid children; they have no understanding. They are ‘wise’—in doing evil! But how to do good they know not.”

Jeremiah 4:22

You may want to give it another shot. They’ve been working pretty hard to move away from config files - much more is done via the GUI these days to make things more user-friendly.

The devs have also really been focusing on voice this year as well - it’s been really interesting to see what they come up with. A few releases back, they released an update that allows you to give voice commands to HA via a landline phone hooked up to a $30 VoIP box. There is also support now for Espressif’s new “S3-Box” devices, which have small screens, a speaker and a few microphones for under $50 - this does require messing with yaml files at this point, but I should be able to finally ditch my Echos soon!

You can easily have a smart home without any data leaving your home network.

You need three things:

• Home Assistant software (free and open source)
• ZigBee (also free and open source) smart devices made by companies that comply with the ZigBee protocol
• Most importantly, a ZigBee controller.

There are several options available (Deconz Conbee II, etc), and this device gets plugged into the same machine Home Assistant is on, and it allows HA to control your ZigBee devices directly. No “hub” sending your data to a cloud server, everything is done on your local network. If the devices comply with the protocol, you don’t need their hub, even if they say it’s required.

I use Hue bulbs, but have no Hue hub. I use many Aqara devices, but don’t have an Aqara hub. It’s pretty great and works very well!

crushed by a herd of elephants

OG Hannibal style