The op of trying to not get your entire family’s conversations sold to the lowest bidder to be exploited for scams, insurance price gouging, “dynamic pricing”, etc… I guess.

Nowadays just get an Intel Arc A380 for 150€ and you can use it for a lot more than only Frigate. That thing is a little beast for my server.

Belgium here.

Doctor is 5€ or so, but your general doctor can’t do almost anything but prescribe things or refer you, which is enough for most general sicknesses.

Then you have to go to the hospital for a scan or follow up, usually within the same week, or you can go to the emergency room for something like a break and they will see you immediately (of course, like in the US, you will often have to wait an hour or 3 depending on the time of day). Then for all the tests and everything it is usually <100€, for me I have never had more than 50€ but I haven’t had a break where I had to get immediate care.

Specialists take a long time to see otherwise, often months, but from what I hear from friends in the US, the wait time is usually longer there.

My mother in law got me essentially the bible of DIY gardens for the Flemish region. I learned that there are differences just in tool styles an hour drive away from eachother already.

I could read that for a years and still learn things!

That is only the very first level. Afterwards it switches to gates.

One project I am doing at work (engineering and administrative departments run on spreadsheets) not being a programmer at all is automating technical sales generation. We make custom things but we have a few products that have a bunch of standard things to configure.

Using VBA to do a few small calculations (it sucks at large data which is why python in excel is amazing) and taking in a bunch of configuration fields to output a price, then generating a word document from a template with the quote including the relevant configuration details.

Sadly the apple watch sensor + algorithm is the singular best PPG optical heart rate tracker on the market.

Not enough to put myself in danger of the Israeli Pegasus sending me one text to inject spyware but still…

And an electronics guy’s smart home if there is no wireless at all and all KNX and Ethernet wired lol.

Thank kindle unlimited exclusivity bullshit for that…

I mean, they did invade Tibet with ground forces and eventually bomb the shit out of them, kidnapped tons of children and killed their parents. Between 10k in the first three days (the tiny tiny tibet army was very overwhelmed) and their government estimates 1.2million tibetens were killed then and during the 220k Chinese soldier occupation, but the actual number is likely more around 87k to 150k, with the remaining number being imprisoned in slave labor camps and the children kidnapped to grow up as “real Chinese” children. Like the indeginous schools in the US and Canada. Things got so bad that according to the PRC’s own reports, over 70% of rural PRC members defected and fought for the rebels. Skeletons clogged the Yellow River one year apparently. But as typical with all imperialism whether western or eastern, the winners try to explain the deaths away as famine when the soldiers steal all of the crops and shoot out the legs of the people, but they “technically” die of starvation or disease.

Then they came and cut all of their old growth lumber (maybe the real end goal?) with massive deforestation and resource harvesting.

But it is no question that China’s current imperialism is economic for 90% of it. It is also by far the lesser of the evils and much much less violent and physically harmful nowadays after 1970 or so.

I wonder if it was even able to compile. I am a shitty hobby coder who just does it to make my embedded hardware projects function.

I have yet to get compilable code out of any of the AI bots I have tried. Gemini, mistral, and chatGPT. I am not making an account lol.

I have gotten some compilable python and VBA code for data analysis stuff at work, so I wonder if it is because embedded stuff uses specific SDKs that it can’t handle.

Either way I have given up on it for anything besides bouncing ideas off of or debugging where electromagnetics issues could lie (though it has been completely wrong about that also even though it is using the wrong concepts, it just reminds me of concepts that I might have overlooked)

KiCAD for 10 years now. Leaps and bounds better than then!

Steam 15 years or so

VLC since windows XP

Firefox since then also

Arduino for quick things for 12 years about

Discord since 2016 (and now looking to change)

Amazon was toxic from day one, anticompetitive, borderline illegal, definitely corrupt as hell. It is what Epic Games Store would have been if it had been long before steam lol. The amount of shit that they bankrupted into the ground with cheap Chinese copies off the backs of VC funds while making tons of loss and then removing their storefronts…

But as soon as GabeN dies, steam will become shit probably as the vultures close in.

Wait wait wait, but trump (and magats) said everyone at the US 2020 insurrection that the only people there were Fed agent provocateurs and paid Antifa™™ actors.

Well and then Trump pardoned them but that was just forgotten about and definitely unrelated.

Glad I bought 305M of S/UTP Cat6a 8 months ago for our renovation

I would bet literally any amount of money that the button doesn’t stop the AI from training on your data.

This is the biggest bait ever hahaha.

Android below red hat in corporate/authoritarian and equal to Ubuntu 😂 the OS that is trying to take away installing apps not from them and trying to fully track app developers while not giving a damn about malware that effects the user because it doesn’t effect their bottom line?

SUSE released a set of completely open source sans serif font for targeted at os-level fonts. It is a pretty good font and I started using it on many of my systems.

I mean, that won’t really work. It dampens the signal, not eliminates it, and in order to block communications, you need a net width small enough to block 1/4 wavelength which is 5cm/4, so <1 cm holes with a material thick enough for the damping.

That would be a net that weighs like 20kg lol and it would essentially be a solid cage at that point

Not to mention that it would have to fully encompass them.

Better to just use a signal jammer like they do for drones.

I would suggest first doing the basics first before diving in and trying to run cracked games. I had trouble and had to go through multiple troubleshooting steps to get DODI repacks working on windows even. the difference is there are a ton of resources of people spending hours and hours fixing broken cracked games on windows (dodi Hogwarts legacy has like 100+ threads on reddit with fixes) where Linux just isn’t popular enough yet to have a big community find fixes for your cracked games for you already and the fixes from windows often don’t work.

First try browsers, steam games, streamimg, and light use while dual booting, you can still keep windows for the games that don’t work on Linux.

It doesn’t have to be all or nothing. Just take it one step at a time. You are trying to reduce tracking. That is going to be 90% internet browsing, so if you already switch to Linux for that, you are much of the way there.