The only 2 tasks that have been worth automating for me on my phone is time-based volume/vibration switching and VPN turn-on and off when I am on home internet or away.

No need to steal people’s water to do it.

Yes, but 90% of ISP supplied modems around the world are modem + router + WiFi access point with a unified firmware.

You also can’t take the antennas off of those and they are required in order to receive internet.

Yes you can use your own router (I have a Unifi cloud gateway ultra myself and one access point in the middle of the house), but that doesn’t mean that disabling the WiFi on the ISP web-software bullshit actually disables the WiFi and doesn’t just hide the SSID and make it un-connectable and still use it for this kind of thing and identifying nearby devices.

It also doesn’t mean that all the routers themselves like my Unifi aren’t using the access points to do the exact same thing (or will in the future). The only way you can actually control that is with openwrt or similar.

Do you think every country has its own router hardware manufacturer and commodity chip manufacturer? 😂

The 2 giants that make 95% of consumer routers around the world and the few companies that design the chips for them are both in heavy surveillance states.

That is just the normally enshittifcation process. Many enshittified companies started as genuinely innovative or decent companies. I mean, they went into ads quite early on and tacking, but other than that…

They definitely haven’t unenshittified.

Hell, I find the easiest workflow for me is literally on one computer:

• scan with skanpage
• save
• drag/upload via web UI to paperless server

Then you automatically have a 2 location backup (and 3 with 1 off site if you have a backup server implemented) and it is very simple for family to pick up.

VPNs are to protect you against your ISP, that is about it. I guess sailing the high seas also since fingerprinting doesn’t apply as much. Also getting around authoritarian government blocks.

It is a small piece of the puzzle.

Wanted to setup opencloud but it doesn’t work without 3-4 additional containers and CNAMEs on the domain.

I simply wanted to spin it up locally and test it out, but it doesn’t accept any admin credentials whatsoever and wiping every file to completely restart leads to the same behavior.

If the simplest bit of startup flow local first time login doesn’t work, then why would the rest and why would I trust it? Also it isn’t a certificate error with not setting up SSL or something because I also tried it on my domain with all the correct certificates and got the exact same behavior. It doesn’t even allow you to try a different admin password when it claims that the last is wrong. You get one try and otherwise have to wipe the entire volume.

There are issues on github for it and workarounds with very YMMV results, for me none of it worked.

Yeah but I would honestly think that a revolution of the people is worth some plagiarism if that is what tipped everything over the edge.

How big are these projects? It sounds like a nightmare to maintain or even finish!

They need about 30-50% more space that Lithium Ion, yes. Of course, people love to compare this even though lithium ion isn’t used anyway for the same application because it only lasts for 500 charge cycles where first gen sodium already lasted for 3000.

But in a country where data centers the size of major cities are being put everywhere, space is literally a non-issue.

But that is comparing them to lithium ion and LiPo. They have a ton of advantages over lithium ion.

They are really competing against lithium iron phosphate which are EV and grid storage batteries. There, the very first gen still has like 20% less density than them but 2nd gen batteries are looking at exactly thr same density as lithium iron phospate. Now they are both fire-safe (sodium even better) and the difference is essentially cost (big sodium win), temperature performance (big sodium win, and discharge rate (LiFePO win over first gen) because they both have very high battery life.

The only reason sodium ion wasn’t picking up (and I mean the only) is because lithium prices crashed and 90% of the companies developing it were startups, so of course the venture capitalist parasites rug pulled the funding because they are so incredibly short sighted that they can’t stand not having immediate maximum profit (even though lithium prices will go back up eventually at a much, much, much faster rate than sodium and is significantly more harmful to mine)

Roblox has A LOT of pedophiles and child predators/abusers that groom kids. Like a lot, one of the worst on the internet. It has been brought to the company’s attention thousands of times and they outright say they don’t care.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5pK1OGOENw

Not only that, roblox doubled down on supporting pedophiles and actively bans “vigilantes” that try to unmask them or report them to authorities. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5PTomkX1gU

Isn’t this how us kids in the 1990’s and 2000s grew up? (Minus the phone because we didn’t have them, or just a flip phone)

Calling it draconian to not be able to stay up all night on the internet sounds kind of like an iPad kid as a teenager lol

There is a difference between a planned child with a support system behind them helping and an unplanned teen pregnancy where the mother and father are unfit to take care of a human child and the grandparents have to take on a parent role almost full time while the teens finish school (as an example).

Just a reminder you can get iiyama 4k computer monitors up to 43" for under 600€ that do not even try to connect to the internet. People who get the series have reported that while they aren’t ultra high end, they last for a very very long time.

ProLite series.

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.