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Weird, did they not enforce the use of a VPN if you want to SSH outside the network or was this done by someone on campus?

Damn they’re making todo lists a subscription service now??

To answer the question: anything that provides a CALDAV backend (e.g. Nextcloud, Etesync, Radicale). Some are free with limited storage, but some are subscription based, but you get calendar, storage, other stuff too. You can additionally self-host a CALDAV server or Nextcloud to use these services gratuit. For a more minimal implentation, try plain text, markdown, orgmode, etc., and use Syncthing to sync between devices.

“We’re rich!”

Nice, the Defect is my favourite

There’s also this one if you like it lightweight.

Self-hosted Miniflux with News for Android.

Slay the Spire comes to mind.

Install Gentoo

Tech involves objective facts, scientific reasoning, and logic

Maybe the making of tech is, but its application and relevance in modern society is, at the end of the day, a sociological phenomenon.

Not specifically about podcasts, but I think there’s a minority (?) of privacy/security enthusiasts who are pretty overtly right-wing libertarians, often because those technologies are anti-establishment. Think Luke Smith. I’ve also met people in the tech sphere (both on the I love Big Tech as well as FOSS side) who have very traditionalist, borderline right-wing opinions.

Typical Verge headline…“A terrific notes app [for the Apple ecosystem]”. FTFY.

Also, I wouldn’t call it simple. A simple notes “app” is a plain text or markdown editor.

Salò

I’m with you on this one. Personally, there are a myriad of issues with replacing search engines with AI-generated answers:

1. the accuracy. Without going into what is truth or falsehood, can you trust AI generated answers? I use Brave Search occasionally, and it has an AI summary text at the top. A lot of the time it strings multiple conflicting answers together into a paragraph and the result is laughably bad.

When I look something up that isn’t trivial, I typically use multiple search results and make the call myself. This step is removed if you use AI, unless one explicitly ask it to iterate all the top conflicting answers (along with sources) so the user can decide for themselves. However, as far as I know, its amalgamated answer is being treated as a source of truth, even if the content has nuanced conflicts a human can easily spot. This alone deters me from AI search in general.

2. I feel like doing this will degenerate my reading/skimming comprehension and research skills, and can lead to blindly trusting direct and easy to access answers.

3. In the context of technical searches like programming or whatnot, I’m not that pressed for time to take shortcuts. I don’t mind working stuff out from online forums and documentation, purely because I enjoy it and it’s part of the process.

4. Sometimes, looking things up yourself means you also can discover great blogs and personal wikis from niche communities, and related content that you can save and look back later.

5. Centralizing information makes the internet bland, boring and potentially exploitative. If it becomes normalized to pay a visit to one or two Big AI search engines instead of actually clicking on human-made sources then the information-providing part of the internet will become lost to time.

There’s also problems with biases, alignment, training AI on AI-generated content, etc., make of that what you will but that sounds worse than spending a couple of minutes selecting sources for yourself. Top results are already full of generic, AI generated stuff. The internet, made by us, for us, must prevail.

Anecdotally, I’ve used ChatGPT once or twice when I was really pressed for time with something I couldn’t find anywhere, and because my university professor wasn’t replying to my email regarding the topic. I was somewhat impressed at its performance, but this was after 6 or 7 prompts, not a single search away.

Maybe the next generation of AI search users who’s never looked a thing up manually will grimace at the thought of pre-AI search engines.

Interesting, I’m waiting for Sync for Lemmy, is this one open source?

Calibre to manage your library, and Calibre content server to essentially make it available for other devices.

For web browsing and reading, one can use Calibre-web.

For Android, Librera reader is suitable, IIRC, on the Pro version, which you can download for free from Github, you can use Calibre as an OPDS and download books from your Calibre directly on the app.

How do you make this a selectable theme in Lemmy-ui settings?

Love your username

Pixelated graphics hit the right spot for me. The Binding of Isaac Rebirth, Stardew Valley, Enter the Gungeon, Dwarf Fortress, Dead Cells, Terraria, FTL, some emulated games. I got pretty addicted to Vampire Survivors at one point too.

Hosting my own Whoogle and LibreX, they work decently well for my purpose.

Don’t get me wrong, it can get stressful at times, but I’m on my fourth playthrough and this time, I suddenly stopped caring so much about the story, I just like doing the tasks. Fishing is trance-like, I love that mini game so much.