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sonofearth

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  • Affinity Studio is now free

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  • Still no Linux support.

    I will stick with FOSS stuff and when needed, Black Flag Adobe in Windows VM.

  • These are the types of Whatsapp Channels Indians get recommended

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  • Honestly... I don't even know. Looking at the quality of images most of them seem fake channels — the original images seem to have been scraped from personal FB/Insta or some malicious app on someone's phone that has full gallery access or maybe ex-boyfriends making their lives a hell. But some of them... yes, they seem Onyfanish type accounts who later start promoting some small brands to make a buck. Most of these channels seem to come from small towns and tier 2 cities.

  • Immich v2.2.0 adds OCR

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  • My library of 12.5k images took about 7 hours on my N100.

  • She is making a GREAT point

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  • Just use condoms and don't hookup with random people. No pills needed for any gender. They are harmful.

  • Nightmare fuel

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  • Nope we don't know how to be creative or make art... BHUUUUTTT instead of paying artists to make something that can hold value for years and help them pay off their bills and debts, we will tell a chatbot to make some slop for us by burning shit ton of electricity that comes from burning coal which will accelerate cimate change 🤡

  • Nothing’s new bloatware includes Facebook services that can’t be uninstalled

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  • Privacy, user control and consent means nothing to these companies.

  • Apple is reportedly getting ready to introduce ads to its Maps app

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  • Honestly I wouldn't care about the stuttering and sluggishness.

    As much as I hate Google, I will have to admit that Google Maps is one of the best pieces of software ever to exist. I try to use Organic Maps and OSMand but Google Maps is just much upto date, has reviews, has real time traffic updates along with road closures. OSM based maps and Apple Maps is way way way way way behind — atleast in my country.

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  • No point in arguing with extremists at either end. None of them have a life.

  • Apple is reportedly getting ready to introduce ads to its Maps app

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  • Whotf even used Apple Maps lol

  • Researchers took 44 men and gave either plant-protein or animal-protein supplements for 12 weeks while strength training. There was no statistical difference in muscle strength or mass between groups

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  • That doesn't mean it is safe. Just because a pond is filled with garbage doesn't mean we are supposed to throw more garbage in it.

    In fact there is no known medically safe levels of lead intake, as even little can cause harm. So adding more lead in your system — however minuscule it is — is harmful.

    All the food safety agencies just give a blanket estimate range for safe levels for how much is tolerable for a human body based on practicality, not on medical basis.

  • Researchers took 44 men and gave either plant-protein or animal-protein supplements for 12 weeks while strength training. There was no statistical difference in muscle strength or mass between groups

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  • That is if you eat big animals regularly instead of smaller ones.

    Vegans simply ignore the fact that humans are omnivores. One needs enough physical activity as well to reduce the risks for everything that you mentioned.

    I know people who ate a lot of meat and did not workout and died early. I know people who are vegetarians who didn't workout and died early as well. In both cases one might die earlier than the other. What matters is a balanced diet, physical activity and the rest of your lifestyle including sleep, sex life, stress and social life as well.

  • Researchers took 44 men and gave either plant-protein or animal-protein supplements for 12 weeks while strength training. There was no statistical difference in muscle strength or mass between groups

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  • Lead literally makes people dumb lol

  • A Beginners Guide To Selfhosting Part 1

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  • I’ve used Ubuntu Server, without any problems

    If it works for you then great. But it doesn’t stand with your goal of Corporate Independence and Willingness to Learn — Given that it is slightly easier to setup than Vanilla Debian. But at the end of the day it is just Corporate Debian with more up-to date packages but overall less stable than Vanilla Debian.

    upkeep and electricity costs of having your own hardware at home

    It really won’t be much unless you’re gonna go for extremely beefy hardware like for Jellyfin hosting hundreds of newer codec 4k files with HDR and shit with dozens of users or some LLM — which anyways still would be cheaper than renting a VPS. Otherwise even a Raspberry Pi can do a decent job or even a mini pc (with something like Intel N100) which draws less power than a Mobile Phone charger. It also aligns with the idea of beginner friendly setup than using a VPS which half the people will even skip reading the Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policies. So hosting something like Immich or Nextcloud, which is not encrypted at rest, is pretty much available for the VPS provider at instant.

    convenience of a public IP

    You don’t need a public IP to self-host. A beginner should start with private at first, learn from there and gain and grow otherwise it can lead to security risks — e.g you have mentioned to self-host Immich which doesn’t have any native 2FA. The self-hoster then will have to know about SSO based logins to secure instances like these.

    use a dynamic DNS provider to get around

    You also have Cloudflare Tunnel, Tailscale. Or you can use a 5$/month VPS in this instance to self-host Pangolin with Crowdsec for public access and block malicious or suspicious IPs. All of these options will mask your real public IP.

    The guide was focused on being as simple and convenient as possible, with the target audience being absolute beginners

    Ok but this asks for a lot of upfront investment. You don’t need to buy a domain or a VPS as a beginner (or even a mini PC as I mentioned). Just start with a PC or a Laptop you already own. Host the service and access it via private IPs instead of handholding them to copy and paste commands, configs and compose files from the internet (although you do have mentioned official documentation so kudos for that) just for the convenience of public access. A lot of people don’t know the 3-2-1 backup rule. One error might wipe off their entire Immich Library, Password Vaults or important documents in Nextcloud.

  • A Beginners Guide To Selfhosting Part 1

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  • freeing yourself from your dependance on big corporations

    Setting up a VPS with Ubuntu Server

    This shouldn’t exist in the same article lol. You will just end up paying in subscriptions anyways while at the same time maintaining all the stacks — that too on Ubuntu where some articles will become useless after a few updates. Even 10$ a month will result in $120 every year — which can buy you a half decent second hand PC or a new Mini PC. You won’t even own your data when you rent a VPS.

    You will end up saving a lot more by self hosting on your own hardware with vanilla Debian and be more independent at the same time. You will only need a VPS if you want to self-host your own reverse tunnel like Pangolin or FRP.

  • As Microsoft Forces Users to Ditch Windows 10, It Announces That It’s Also Turning Windows 11 into an AI-Controlled Monstrosity

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  • Once Adobe apps and new versions of Microsoft office start working reliably on Linux, 50% of corporate PCs are out of Windows’ market share.

  • As Microsoft Forces Users to Ditch Windows 10, It Announces That It’s Also Turning Windows 11 into an AI-Controlled Monstrosity

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  • What else do you expect everyone to do? Please enlighten us if you have something more to offer than switching to Linux — which seemingly is the best option currently.

  • Hindus announcing to the world that their festival is here with firecrackers while disregarding the fact that they are literally killing people

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  • We don’t have any implementation of the on-paper regulations. Too put it lightly — we don’t know what we are even breathing during this peek period.

  • Hindus announcing to the world that their festival is here with firecrackers while disregarding the fact that they are literally killing people

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  • Diwali is for a week where the effects are at their peak. But firecrackers are used pretty much for any event in this country. And given the fact this industry is unregulated, you don’t even know what you’re breathing. If you’re from a western city — where AQIs are below 50, you would be too privileged to say “quit whining”

  • Hindus announcing to the world that their festival is here with firecrackers while disregarding the fact that they are literally killing people

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  • You're absolutely right that most year-round pollution comes from industrial activity and vehicles — and that companies have deflected responsibility by promoting ideas like carbon offsets, shifting the burden onto consumers.

    But in India, the situation is more layered. Our cities already average AQI levels between 60–80 annually, which is poor by all global standards. During Diwali, even relatively cleaner cities see AQI levels spike above 200 — sometimes overnight. That kind of surge can't be explained just by traffic and factories. it shows that firecrackers, while seasonal, are not a minor factor by any sense.

    What makes things worse is that regulation around firecrackers is weak, and there's little transparency about what chemicals are actually being burned. Plus, the political economy plays a big role: many local leaders have financial ties to the firecracker industry and thus banning fireworks is resisted by the industry under the pretext of protecting jobs.

    In contrast to Western countries, where corporations spend billions on lobbying, in India, political power and business are often directly entangled. Corruption isn’t just top-down but it operates at every level, from bureaucrats to local politicians. So blaming the corporations is just pointing fingers to the creamy layer of the country’s corruption problems while ignoring the fact that the entire tree is rotten.