It’s still there same as ever on every device I’ve used. It just points to internal storage instead of an actual sdcard. It’s just dumb naming.

I think you can just download the font file and put it into a special folder (is it /sdcard/fonts?) and it will show up on any Android system.

It’s possible this changed in more recent Android versions.

ActivityPub (which is the protocol used by Lemmy, Mastodon, PixelFed, and other fediverse platforms) doesn’t have a built-in system for account migrations. Accounts are tied to an instance. Any migration features are handled at the application level, like Mastodon’s, and will be limited by the protocol.

ATProto, which the protocol used by Bluesky, has a more complex account system which does allow for migration. I’m not intimately familiar with the details, but the gist is that your DID is not tied to your instance, and your data store can be independent as well. I don’t know how this works in practice, since the ATProto ecosystem is basically just Bluesky, and a few other things that piggyback on Bluesky accounts. It appears to be at least a little complicated: https://www.da.vidbuchanan.co.uk/blog/adversarial-pds-migration.html

Honestly, yes, this is a problem with the design. ActivityPub is not resilient against servers going offline or going rogue. It’s a lot like email. If you change email providers, that means a new identity, and all you can do is point people to it as best you can.

You’ll have to pay for that much cloud storage. How much depends on your specific needs.

Backblaze offers “unlimited” PC backup for $9/month: https://www.backblaze.com/cloud-backup/personal

If you want more control, you can save some money by using a tool that can work with a wide variety of cloud storage providers, and then pick a cheaper provider, instead of using an all-in-one service like Backblaze.

Borg Backup is a free tool that can work with lots of storage providers. This is a great option for more technical users, and there are also some GUI tools that make it easier to use like Vorta (Mac and Linux; I’m not personally familiar with any GUIs for Windows). Borg handles data de-duplication, compression, and encryption. It’s great for local backups as well as cloud backups. I’m not sure what the cheapest option is, but Hetzner supports Borg Backup in their storage boxes, which go for €3.20/month for 1TB.

rclone is similar, though it’s more of a sync tool than a backup tool. Depending on your setup, this distinction could be purely academic. It handles encryption, incremental syncing, and a lot of other advanced uses. Like Borg, you can choose from almost any cloud storage provider or use local drives.

Reform UK spokesperson Zia Yusuf wrote on X in response: "The government is handing out guides to illegal migrants, training them not to rape women, not to beat women, have sex with children or leave babies alone.

“The political class are knowingly enabling the assault of our women and girls at your expense.”

Shadow home secretary Chris Philp said: “Instead of trying to train these mainly young, male illegal immigrants to behave in a civilised way towards women, they should be deported.”

God damn these are some dumb takes. So instead of explaining the laws, you should just assume guilt right off the bat?

Did you know that in the UK, the “marital rape exemption” was only truck down in the 90s? These fucking conservatives think their 35-year-old laws and [purported] cultural values are universal and should therefore go without saying? And that explaining their laws is tantamount to “enabling” the violation of those laws?

As is so often the case with politicians, I have to wonder if they’re actually that stupid, or if they’re just preying on people who are.

Lots of options here but my favorite is to use an elevated metal grate, as used for steaming, at the bottom of a pot, then put the sandwich on the grate. Put a few drops of water in the pot, cover it, and put it on low heat for as long as it takes, usually 5-10 minutes.

The low heat and extended time gives you a thorough heating all the way to the middle. No direct connect to the pot, so the bread doesn’t get burned.

Adjust the “few drops” of water up or down if the bread gets too dry or too soggy.

Others have provided good advice. I’ll only add that you might also think about celiac / gluten sensitivity. There’s a wide range of possible symptoms there. You could just try cutting out gluten for a week or two and see if the situation improves, because it’s not always easy to diagnose.

But yes, do talk to a doctor, and be prepared to push back and advocate for yourself if they brush you off.

Depends on where you live, and what kind of social circles you’re in.

In some places, you might get a shrug.

In other places, you might get murdered.

Or anything in between.

Google Play Rewards sends you surveys and gives you like 10-20¢ per survey. Each one takes like 5 seconds to complete. I haven’t used it in a long time, but years ago most of the surveys were about shopping habits based on my location history, like “did you go to < store> in the past week? Did you pay with your credit card?” Or random things like “have you shopped for auto parts in the past week? Yes/no/prefer not to answer.”

Two main catalysts:

1. Seeing how dumb 99% of products are.

2. Seeing how dumb 99% of users are.

Call my naive, but I truly did not see it coming. I didn’t expect cognitive surrender. I didn’t expect the whole world to start continvoucly morging. I didn’t expect lawyers to submit fake case citations, again and again and again.

I didn’t expect society as a whole to just shrug their shoulders and decide that accuracy doesn’t matter.

I also didn’t expect how much or how rapidly the bubble would inflate. GPU prices were already crazy, but now RAM and even SSD prices have roughly doubled in the past year, with no end in sight, with all production toward data centers. This is a disaster. We’re seeing higher prices for downgraded machines, like Microsoft’s 8GB Surface.

Seeing as we’re all on Lemmy, I hope that I will not need to belabor the point that centralization is bad. The shift toward data centers and away from personal devices is a shift toward centralization. It’s a shift toward greater censorship and away from freedom.

It’s not coincidence that this is happening at the same time as fascism is rising all around the world, that online ID laws are passing all over the world, that privacy-protecting technology like VPNs and end-to-end encryption are under greater and greater attack, and that knowledge repositories like The Internet Archive and Wikipedia are under attack. The shift is toward governmental control of the Internet, of access to knowledge in general.

Now the US government gets the final say on who will have access to ChatGPT 5.6. Surprise, surprise.

I’m not anti-AI or anti-LLM per se. I am anti-corruption and anti-bullshit. I am pro-consumer, pro-privacy, pro-individuality. In practice, that means I am anti-AI. Or more generally (but less strongly), I am anti-cloud.

As for what I would do: well the real solutions are the same as the solutions to most of modern society’s problems. We need extensive economic reform. But barring that, we need to do whatever we can to shift the balance back toward personal, private computation. We don’t need more datacenters. We don’t need trillion-parameter models at all. The only thing they are good at is basic stuff you don’t need them for (unless you’re an idiot), and generating well-masked bullshit.

Edit: Oh, and I would also hold all the corporations accountable for their obviously-illegal behavior, like pirating all the copyrighted material in the world. We definitely need more transparency in terms of training data.

My experience, also in the US, has been the opposite: I get prescribed addictive painkillers “just in case”.

Last time I had surgery, they told me to take ibuprofen for pain, and they also gave me a prescription for vicodin if the pain was too great. I live in an area with a significant opioid abuse problem, and they’re handing it out like candy. They didn’t tell me “call back if it’s severe” or anything like that, they just gave me the prescription. I stuck with the ibuprofen, and realistically I could have done without even that.

I suspect your experience is largely due to sexism. I’ve heard so many stories like this, where doctors don’t even think of taking women seriously.

As others have said: they’re nasty. There are a myriad of health risks associated with roaches in your home. They definitely do us harm, albeit not as directly or obviously as, say, ticks or mosquitoes.

I consider my fear of roaches to be entirely rational. They directly carry diseases, and they produce allergens. They exacerbate or even cause Asthma. Also, it’s never good to have decaying corpses of any type inside your walls, which is where they will end up if you have an infestation.

They will eat anything. They will go anywhere. They will thrive anywhere. I’ve seen wallpaper come right off the wall because roaches ate all the goddamn glue. You cannot get rid of them without a whole lot of poison (if even), which is itself a health risk. If I see a roach, I go to DEFCON 2. (DEFCON 1 is reserved for bedbugs.)

That’s bad enough, but it can get so much worse. That can lead to an emergency room visit and permanent ear damage. It’s so fucking nasty that I won’t go into details, but a quick web search will tell you more if you have a strong stomach.

The WWDC presentation yesterday was hilarious. Almost everything they said about the UI could be boiled down to: “We’re undoing some of the incredibly bad decisions we made last year. Not all of them, but some of the big ones!”

They then went on to demo the new improved Siri, and as someone who doesn’t use Siri, all I could think was “wait…Siri couldn’t do this 10 years ago?!”

What a sad state of affairs.

It’s just crazy how many Bluetooth devices have broken (or completely absent) authentication and pairing security.

It’s very difficult to tell when they’re encrypted, too. Your Bluetooth keyboard and mouse could be broadcasting everything keystroke and click unencrypted to anyone within 100m or so.

And that’s just the accessories. There have been tons of exploits of phone and computer firmware over the years as well. Security is an afterthought at best with Bluetooth.

I don’t see anyone entering your home in this scenario.

If you broadcast your IP address in a torrent swarm, that’s now public information. Your ISP can match that IP and timestamp to a customer. None of this information resides in your home and there’s no wiretapping or anything like that.

Then revise it until you can read it without hating it.

And, uh, don’t get too caught up on that part.

Lots of artists never stop hating their own work. Art and neurosis — name a more iconic duo. At some point you just need to move on and let it be what it is. Perfectionism is a powerful thing, but it must be tamed.

This is especially true when you’re starting out, before you’ve developed an intuition for which paths are worth following. It’s easy to get stuck in a loop trying to “fix” something that’s never going to be what you want it to be. “Quality over quantity” is the more common refrain, but for a beginner it should be the opposite, because what you need more than anything at that point is just practice. Related: https://austinkleon.com/2020/12/10/quantity-leads-to-quality-the-origin-of-a-parable/

LOL no.

You are in no way morally obligated to go out of your way to protect some corporation’s exploitative business model.

“Descent”. As if they were not obviously and explicitly fascist from day 1. How dumb can you be?

Fuck these fuckers. I’ll forgive them when they start actively sabotaging every single thing they can from the inside.

It depends on what you want. I use Kagi but I have not sold it on my friends and family because for most of them, it doesn’t really make sense.

I’ve found it to be the best search engine, but I also think DuckDuckGo is generally fine. The $5/month plan with 300 searches per month is too limiting, IMO. I feel like anyone who searches that lightly will struggle to justify paying for Kagi over using DDG. For unlimited searches you need to step up to the $10/month plan.

When I started using Kagi, I did the free trial and every time I did a search, I’d do it in both Kagi and Google or DDG. It quickly became clear to me that Kagi was better, but I suspect this will vary a lot by your field, your tastes, and your personal search style. I mean, maybe there’s someone out there who actually wants to look at Pinterest results. I guess?!

If you ever considered paying for ChatGPT Pro or Claude Pro ($20/month), then Kagi’s Ultimate plan ($25/month) is probably a better value. It includes unlimited search, plus access to all the major premium models. On the other hand, ChatGPT Pro gives you access to image generation too, if you care about that.

Kagi’s research agent is legitimately great. It is nothing like the bullshit generator Google has. It will take a prompt, then run multiple web searches to get relevant info, recursively if needed, and then give a meaningful response with citations. It shows you the exact search queries it uses, along with the results it pulls from. I’ve used it to find accurate answers to problems that I realistically could not have found with traditional search engines; in one case the actual answer was something like 18 results deep in the 5th search it performed. I think most people would give up before digging that deep in search results.

This is what AI is good for: automating gruntwork. Not doing things I couldn’t do myself, but doing things I don’t fucking want to do myself because they are tedious and frustrating. 99% of AI applications are pure garbage. Kagi’s is part of the other 1%.