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If you want lemmy to work well, speak with /u/sunaurus@lemm.ee, he’ll sort you out. Dude is a legend and runs the best instance, IMO, but is always willing to help other instances.

I mean, a jellyfin server is typically full of copyright protected material. I also wouldn’t expect them to notify you in advance, however they should still send some notice when they stop providing the service you’ve paid for.

Can it play Crysis?

That’s my go to, FOSS app that rivals the major apps.

There are other podcast apps on F-Droid also.

Dammit, I thought this would be really easy to dox, but it turns out Lego have a bunch of “town centre” models lol.

Turns out BrickLive is on at a few cities in the UK right now: https://www.bricklivegroup.com/what-s-on/

Toll roads are for profit. Roads shouldn’t be for profit.

Yeah I mean I downgrade new computers to Windows 10 Enterprise and patch authenticate with MAS. I tried using Windows 11, but the taskbar pissed me off too much - I want separate tabs starting from the left, not combined, and everything always showing in the notification area. I was going to put up with the tab thing but having to manually set every single notification icon to not hide itself away was just a dealbreaker. I want to know what’s running, so I know to kill it.

Upon installation, Wi-Fi drivers don’t exist, so you cannot use the internet while installing if you’re on Wi-Fi.

This is a good thing with modern Windows. You don’t want it online while it’s installing, you want to install, lock things down a bit and then connect.

Nah they’ve been accused of biases.

Privacy Guides has a bit of a sordid history of their own diva behaviour.

Pure wild speculation if I’m honest, however I’d be more surprised if I was completely wrong. It’s always seemed sketchy the way Google have basically said “Use our phone, it’s more secure!” with their Nexus and Pixel phones - this was long after the time Google stopped not being evil. At best, the security problems have simply changed manufacturer. Also, Google have a history of undermining development of circumvention, eg hiring the developer of MicroG and forcing him to stop development as a term in his contract.

The diva part is widely known, GrapheneOS developers don’t play nice with the rest of the custom development community. So, while I can’t substantiate any actual deal between them and Google, it’s the perfect recipe.

GrapheneOS is made by diva developers who frankly should not be trusted. “We only allow Google phones to run our OS!” as if they don’t have a backroom deal with Google.

Even worse still: many online banking services require you to connect to Google, basically through the back end captcha system. You never have to solve the puzzle or click on traffic lights, but they do still associate you and your web browser with having an account with that bank.

However also, you can often use root with banking apps, you just have to set it up right. Configure Magisk to operate in the Zygisk domain with a deny list, and add the apps to that.

I really wish Jitsi had taken off during lockdowns. MS Teams I can understand, businesses all use Microsoft, but Zoom is just vile shite.

At least 3 backups, 2 different media, 1 offsite location.

Nice one!

Florida is the only place so far where I’ve seen a literal halo around the moon at night. It was as if the sun’s rays reflected off the moon had cleared the atmosphere around it.

Probably to do with the recent spam wave.

It’s not just their blackbox drivers, though, it’s the way they entice businesses to work with them and use their software for their products such that no other players can perform in the market.

I’m not familiar enough to confirm, but it would be entirely unsurprising to me if NVidia cards only work well with LLM’s because LLM’s have been designed with NVidia cards and with support from NVidia. On the one hand, it’s nice that the manufacturer is supporting developers, on the other the way NVidia historically does this drastically limits consumer choice.

I need to be able to use my Nvidia 3080 ti for local LLM

Well there’s your problem. You’ve been blindly loyal to a brand that has shown no loyalty towards consumers.