Love it, thanks!

Check out Big Blue Button - https://demo.bigbluebutton.org/

Their website talks all about using it for teaching students but it’s really just like Jitsi with more features.

The things I paid attention to was

USB3 - you need this otherwise connecting external drives will be a joke Motherboard needs to accept up to 32 GB of RAM. Mine currently has only 8 but knowing I can upgrade is nice.
Quiet - must be silent when idle.
CPUs of less than 8th? gen will suck at video transcoding due to lacking certain capabilities. Important if running jellyfin, etc.

The beauty of self hosting is it’s all about your individual circumstances so you priorities and acceptable tradeoffs will differ.

If you don’t want to see it, you’re not going to.

See this https://piefed.social/search?q=censorship+musk

I remember when MS made the perfect control panel in Win 2k and XP then spent the next 20 years making it worse and worse just because.

And here we are.

Lol, rip

You’re going to have to prioritise.

Find changes that:

Save a decent amount of money Are low risk Don’t take too long to do Can be easily backed-out of

There are probably a variety of mindsets that will do it.

For me, I think it was just really wanting to get away from being under the boot. Get away from the walled gardens. Like that feeling after using LinkedIn, except for the OS. Hearing the call of freedom, authenticity and humanity.

Increasing amounts of code running on my computer and in the online services I use will be written by generative AI.

Emphasis added by me.

Thing is, it’s not black and white most of the time - usually a developer is using Gen AI as an assistant in some capacity. There are a wide range of ways to do that with really big differences in how firmly their hand remains on the wheel of where things are going. Only in the most extreme “vibe coding” scenario would it be fair to characterize the code as “written by AI”.

There reaches a point somewhere on the spectrum of dependency on AI where quality would suffer and developer capacity-building would be stunted. Where that point is, is a more productive question than a binary Yes or No to all AI.

Cool, but now SSH into a remote server and then try to open nano. It doesn’t.

After using it for 3 weeks I concluded that as Kitty breaks the fundamentals all the nice shiny isn’t worth it.

Even teenage girls?

You seem to be saying that teenage girls should have known FB was manipulating them and just closed the app.

Have you tried it with gunicorn?

Maybe reduced demand in USA will lower prices everywhere else…

Google has put a lot of effort into detecting and blocking stuff like this. They call it “click fraud”, if you want to look it up.

It’ll just mean they start ignoring clicks from you.

3.9

Dunking on noobs is not cool.

I tried to run it but it wouldn’t on the version of python I have.

If you could bring yourself to use if … elif … etc instead of match then it could run it on much older versions of python.

That’s very cool.

It’ll be interesting to see how it goes in a year’s time, maybe they’ll have raised their expectations and tightened the deadlines by then.

As well as the algorithm, there are also structural things.

For example tweets limited to 160 characters favor simplistic solutions, which the far right provide. An endless stream of random unrelated nuggets of ideas create a fugue of confusion, perfect for injecting disinformation. Ruined attention spans can only grasp simplistic solutions. Video-based media means surface appearance matters more than substance. And so on.