Semperverus

I wasn’t trolling, but okay. I probably should stop arguing with a bot designed to astro turf for big corporate data ownership.

Getting a little touchy are we? Try deep breaths, it helps with the anger issues 😉

Ahh there it is, I knew you’d do that.

I abide by my own lectures, I am actively putting effort into it and am 99% of the way there, which is 100% more than you.

Been slowly chipping away at those for the last decade (could have gone way faster but I’m lazy), and I’m almost completely google-free. I dont use any microsoft products at home (work forces me to), and Apple can eat my ass. My phone is a completely de-googled GrapheneOS device (I don’t have an issue relying on companies for hardware, just software), and hopefully in the future a Liberux or Pinephone linux phone.

I self-host my own movies, music, and cloud storage. I also host my own chat service for friends and family, built on top of XMPP. The services i do use are generally very privacy respecting like Signal for people outside of my social sphere, or freedom respecting like Lemmy (mostly weaned off of reddit).

Any time you rely on another company to handle your data, you are beholden to their whims, end of story. Don’t like what they’re doing? Too bad. Give up the convenience and host it yourself, or continue to be a slave to their corporate interests.

You can stream remotely via jellyfin if you expose your server to the internet. VPN is safer but not the only option.

Thats cool, but it doesn’t clear the onus of proof.

It doesnt really matter and they owe us nothing, but it sure would clear up a LOT of the kiwi farms drama if they did. At present, kiwi farms has better evidence than you do.

That’s definitely a picture of a laptop.

Gyatt damn is my latest favorite. It sounds close enough but is absolutely absurd when you think about it. “Thick-ass damn!”

Yea this sounds like a normal ass hash mix to me. I personally hate mushrooms (wish I didn’t), but its not weird to mix those together.

Oh no you don’t. You don’t get to rewrite a legend.

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Chocolate bar dipped in nacho cheese.

Like that episode of South Park

Don’t reject connections to port 22, honeypot it and ban on connection attempt.

while(true){💩}

There is a process called “learning how to learn.”

Essentially its a series of questions or question-templates you ask to gain deeper understanding of something beyond what the source material you are learning from provides.

The basic versions of them include “how” and “why”, where the “who”, “what”, and “when” matter less in most cases (and if they matter more, it will be extremely apparent).

Then, listing out every answer to each of those questions you can possibly think of and testing them against logic and evidence.

“How do apples fall to the ground?”

• Warping of spacetime?

• flat disc that we stand on accelerating through space?

• The pull of the aether?

You would then test each of these ideas by gathering evidence and eliminating others. Eventually in the example through rigorous testing, logic (including mathematics), you’d come to the correct conclusion of the warping of spacetime.

Then, if you are trying to come up with new ideas, you apply this method of thinking to the unknown and reverse it a little. Take facts and evidence that exist, and ask the same questions against the unknown. For example, if you’re writing a story, the who and the what become important in the reversal, but the how and the why stay relevant.

“What would the main character do after they realize they were betrayed by the grand duke of blahshire?”

• Who+Why: what are the main characters beliefs and convictions? What drives them?

• How: What kinds of actions has the main character taken in the past? Have they grown since then?

• What is the current sociopolitical climate that the story is taking place in? What kinds of behavior is expected of the main character and those around them? Are things like revenge frowned upon, or is not exacting revenge considered weakness? Maybe both depending on who you ask?

You can also apply this to general ideas, making yourself or a project/concept/etc. the main subject.

This kind of thinking is a muscle you have to exercise until it becomes natural. Eventually you start doing it without realizing.

I don’t think people prefer it, I think they’re culture shocked when the algorithms stop telling them what to think. It’s an uncanny feeling at first and can be uncomfortable for some.

A lot of modern proprietary interfaces have started spamming people with ads about “the latest stuff” in the notification menu, the app launcher menu, and a few other places.

Or go back to the good old days and download/rip what you like to .mp3, .ogg, or .flac depending on your peference.

I have several thousand songs on my phone that I can listen to without the need for an internet connection, subscription fees, accounts, or anything.

There are tons of good FOSS local music player apps out there that you should check out. I use Auxio from the F-Droid store but have used others in the past.

On desktop, I use Elisa.

You can make sure your library is always up to date with your desktop by using syncthing.