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freebee

@ freebee @sh.itjust.works

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  • What's your 'old person' trait?

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  • Electric scale because it's more accurate. Wooden utensils yes agreed, plastic from utensils does break down in your food especially while cooking, high temps. Electric stoves are a lot healthier than gas, for yourself in the kitchen and for the environment/climate. Electric stoves got soooo much better in the last 15 years. Other than nostalgia, I don't see a reason to prefer gas nowadays. Glass for storage is the best, agreed.

  • What's your 'old person' trait?

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  • It used to be pay per SMS (and not cheap either), that's why WhatsApp got so big in the first place, it was "free" anywhere with free WiFi. But since many years now, regular SMS became free / dirt cheap (especially within EU), so it's no longer as good as a reason to use WhatsApp now. Now it's because it has groups, media, history, is searchable, etc.

  • Linux phones are more important now than ever

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  • How cool would it be to out of nowhere see Valve come out with a SteamPhone based on Arch which does everything you ever hoped for and runs on high quality hardware including all the features that others took away (colour alert pixel, 3,5mm jack, replaceable battery), complete with dual boot or a containerised Android-mode for running apps that would never work like banking or eID. Would buy instantly.

  • Germany and France aim to transform the Arte television channel into a major European platform to better combat the spread of disinformation

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  • Interesting indeed. I was only talking about public TV and only streaming on their website. Thread you're talking about seems like it was a private channel situation? I thought this legal nonsense is one of the reasons the Tagesschau never shows soccer but only talks it, it's to complicated and then they gotta put up the geofencing restrictions too.

  • Germany and France aim to transform the Arte television channel into a major European platform to better combat the spread of disinformation

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  • To watch Flemish public TV news online, you have to login to your account (verified e mail address). Which is bad enough. If you want to watch it from abroad while not living in Belgium and using foreign IP, they ask you to login + "verify your identity" with your identity card or something like that. Goodbye VRT, I'll watch other regions' public news channels, stick yours up yours. Wankers. British, German, Dutch ... all offer the basic news shows to everyone without any hurdles.

  • Ukraine Pursues a Weapons Buildup More Potent Than Any Security Guarantee

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  • Some people are getting very very rich from the ongoing war. There are now definitely strong forces at play to keep it going as long as possible, without a victory for any side.

  • AI Generated 'Boring History' Videos Are Flooding YouTube and Drowning Out Real History

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  • The Quiet Revolution: GNU/Linux Crosses 6% Desktop Market Share—And It’s Just the Beginning

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  • Those are heavy LED bulbs you got there at 12W or more. Typically LED bulb is only like 3 - 5 W??

  • Paper and mobile train tickets to be replaced with GPS tracking in new travel trial

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  • The reason that works is the gates. I dunno in Britain, but in Germany the gates at stations are very uncommon, even for underground stations. Pretty much every station is freely accessible to anyone. Think at this point installing gates in so many places is more expensive than for example running a Tracking-Ticket system. It would also always still exclude busses, normal streetcars etc. Netherlands has the gates and you can just use your banking card as you say, but gates are only installed for the real trains, not trams or buses. While the ease of use of the tracking ticket for me is the super smooth integration of all forms of regional and local public transport.

  • Paper and mobile train tickets to be replaced with GPS tracking in new travel trial

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  • Publicly owned / run public transport often also has very complicated tariff structures. I'm in Germany. There are many different Verbunds (regions), they all have their own app, their own prices, their own logos, etc. With the fairtiq, using public transport becomes like the Deutschlandticket, but for once in a while users, while Deutschlandticket subscription is for regular users. It effectively takes away the headaches here for having to know/choose which tickets, navigating new apps or machines, because every region has different price structures and regions are divided in various zones etcetera. With fairtiq you can use a bus to a city Bahnhof, a regional train to another city and then a tram to your destination. That covers 3 companies, also when it's not privatised but publicly regionalised. Such a ticket really does make it less complicated for the end user to do such a travel when they don't do that often, and they will often be cheaper off than if they had purchased 3 separate tickets.

    Creating a one big catch-all public transport company for an entire country (public or privately run, doesn't matter much in this case) creates a whole lot of different problems everywhere. Try getting a local tiny thingy fixed in Sheffield if the decision to do so first has to go to London for 3 approval stamps and an allocated tiny budget.

    The problem you're having, I think, is that they seem to want to replace all existing ticket options by this tracking one. That's a very bad idea indeed, for one you're luckily still not obligated to carry a phone with you at all times. The paper alternative should stay possible, but the fairtiq style ticket does have benefits both for users and for public transport companies.

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  • I'm not saying it's better from a privacy point of view. It's clearly not. And it is more complicated behind the scenes to track 3.000.000 people than to print little pieces of paper. But, they aren't lying when saying it is indeed less complicated to the end user, Instead of figuring out ticketing systems and pricing scales from various companies, regions, with different regulations about exceptions on prices or how many people are a "group", etc to find the ticket / price that is the best deal for you, you just "activate" when getting on a vehicle and "deactivate" when done traveling. I've used it, it's called Fairtiq here and it really is waaaay less complicated to use for average end user than any other ticketing system like counters, machines, websites. They track you, the data is hopefully also used for optimising public transport towards measured demand, and in return for tracking they promise you'll always get the best possible price for whatever route you travelled. It's not the worst way to use tracking technologies.

  • 'Greenland is not for sale': French foreign minister visits Arctic territory in show of solidarity

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  • Just tell him it will all be good, while you slip his pills in his snack during bingo night and tuck him in to bed; in the elderly home where he belongs.

  • Alternative to NordVPN Meshnet?

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  • Yeah sad they're stopping it. I used it to easily access all services when not home... Jellyfin, audio bookshelf, dashboards, nextcloud... All worked rather well on it with very little effort (just had to turn the meshnet feature off and on again on phone once in a while). I don't think there is any other company offering anything as simple as this was...

  • how to start with self-hosting?

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  • I don't know about yunohost, but dietpi doesn't feel restrictive. You can use the dietpi software manager, but you can also install whatever else you want next it using apt, docker, etc, adjust systemd, Cron, rsync etc outside of it. They just don't guarantee they might sometimes break a thing you run outside of what they offer when you run dietpi updates?

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    What are some good neutral albums?

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  • Not super common I guess, but I find temperature describing a valid way of describing how music feels to you... Closely related to matching colours to music, which seems more generally accepted as being a 'real' thing

    https://www.thesynesthesiatree.com/2021/03/music-and-temperature.html?m=1

    _Cold: high-pitched, clear, dry, minimalistic sounds. Metal, ice, brittle materials breaking. Abrupt changes. Sharp sounds, with reverberation. Clear, precise, correct, sterile. Digital, technological. Lack of emotion.

    Hot: Pleasant, immersive sounds, without abrupt changes. Muffled sounds, as if heard through a warm blanket. Warmth = wellbeing. Rich, deep, low sounds. The sound of soft materials melting. Human, analogue, non-digital. Love, closeness, emotion._

    And also for example how a high quality vinyl record playing on old school decent stereo can really feel very different (warmer) from all other ways of listening to the same music... In general imo society did lose audio quality (warmth) when moving away from vinyl and big stereos to digital and pc speakers, Bluetooth speakers, earplugs... it's still the pinnacle listening experience for albums.

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  • To me that isn't neutral music at all tho, it always sounds very warm for me... Like the evening cooldown after a very hot day. And I like that about it.

    The actual "genre" that comes closest imo is Bossa Nova, think Girl from Ipanema.

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  • Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week?

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  • Started playing Pikmin

  • Single board computer for selfhosting

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  • +1 Dietpi on an old SFF office computer runs extremely smooth. Fiddled with Rpi too first... The few Watts lower energy use aren't worth the hassle, old SFF's offer so many (future) options while still getting really low idle power usage