I also don’t expect him to settle. Louis has principles and a DGAF - get it done attitude and an extreme allergy to bullshit. Truly a hero for the people. All he asks is that we participate and speak out on these issues. My next guys poker night (or equivalent) might include a group email writing session. I know several people who I would not have expected to get involved who have written their reps regarding right to repair and other consumer advocacy and freedom issues.
Same but with haircuts. My mom used to get 4 for $40 cards around the holidays. She was very astute when it came to finding actually good deals.
No users. Pffft, we’ll just make more AI users! That definitely won’t kill the earth. /s
I broke the ice with a lot more of my IRL friends in the last few months and most lean anti-AI with a few exceptions, for example, when your end goal is actually to get slop.
It’s probably the friend group you hang with. Based on your lack of capitalization, I’m guessing you are younger than me (Perhaps I’m wrong). A lot of young folks don’t see it because the worst AI shit was targeted at them and poisoning their development with AI dependence. They also lack some context for how things were before the tech bros started going hard with web 2.0 and beyond. I see this a lot more with people 18-30 who, on average, use their phones more anyway. At least that’s what I see where I live.
I do have someone close to be who loves AI, but I think they’ll come around when they see the US start paying for its AI missteps. Taking shortcuts only matters because quality and thoroughness isn’t valued. A good email should take at least a few minutes to write and a pro can weave in the appropriate details, requests, confirmations way better than a clanker.
I’ve been inefficiently and lazily looking for something that can automatically turn the mobile network on and off again once per hour (or other period of time, potentially even randomized times).
I have been turning my phone off every time I go to the grocer because I firsthand verified that they have BLE beacons in use.
We could break things back. If we truly united, our combined power could almost stop the rotation of the earth. It could certainly grind the global financial system to a halt.
Is there organizing happening up there? I’ve been disappointed at the amount of my friends and neighbors here in the US who understand it, contacted their congressperson, and then hung up their hat like the job was done.
Thanks, this looks like a good backup for me when I finally cut the Google cord completely. Unlike my preferred solution, they offer downloads outside of the play ecosystem and that means something, especially in today’s times. I miss the old days when you sent a dev $10 and got a code you plugged into the app itself and would work on that build for the rest of time.
Ah, so I just misunderstood the terminology. That’s great. Much appreciated.
May I ask what you use for a file browser? I really, REALLY,like X-plore and have communicated with the developer on a few occasions and bought and rebought whatever licenses or bonus features he offers. I haven’t found anything that works as well on either the FOSS or proprietary side. It does SMB, FTB, local files, Nextcloud and WebDav, etc. You can set up automated tasks to clone folders to a destination or move files (like photos) on a schedule. It does zip and archive files and has 2 panes making it easy to copy things around.
We should all simultaneously delete their apps off of our phones and cut those data streams. Uninstall Day.
Every year I go through my apps on a big spreadsheet and look at licenses, perceived sketchiness, alternatives, breaches, etc. This has helped me move further and further from the worst offenders and this year I may actually have more FOSS than proprietary apps. I’m gonna share this year’s sheet somewhere on Lemmy when it’s done.
Yes, also, it should be criminal for home internet providers and phone service providers to conflate, directly or by implication, the “G” in 5G (fifth generation) and the “G” in 10G (ten gigabit).
I saw a commercial one day that went something like “Our competitors only have 1G; we have 5G. Don’t you want to have the most Gs? We have the best Gs, no one has Gs like us. Don’t settle for inferior Gs, call today!”
I remember commenting on the switch from 3g to 4g back around 2009 or so and they were already being deceptive in a lot of ways back then. Telecommunications has been a cesspool for decades.
My car should not be connected to the internet. The Australian government has made some wild laws in the past that I wholeheartedly disagree with, but this seems like a reasonable enshitification concern. If they regulate and the industry resists apart from one or two companies, those companies will cash in big on market share even if they lose out on some private data.
Does Altmann have a rage cartoon now? Those guy’s goofy faces are almost a perfect representation.
Protip, if you think about what you post before you post it, you don’t have to scrub the record after the fact. :D
If we could only stop the flow, we might stop the problem.
Thanks for the reply. I have Vikjuna running and it’s honestly pretty similar to TickTick.
The mobile site works great as a PWA and I grabbed the app just to see what they where working on. PWA is great, app is still very much WIP, but not a deal-breaker at all.
I do have one workflow that seems to clash. Perhaps you folks can help me logic something together:
I have a family member who is very list-adverse. They get upset and stressed out with due dates, and missed deadlines, and competing priorities. I still need them to help with chores. I was wondering if there was a way to have tasks in a project regenerate themselves when they are marked complete with a start date x days into the future. The basic idea is that instead of seeing “You didn’t clean the toilet on 1-June-2026.” they would see something like “Clean toilet, task created 10 days ago (with no due date).” Planka showed the number of days since a card was created in the bottom right of the card but didn’t support recurrence (and didn’t appear to be fully FOSS despite being self-hosted). Ideally, someone could go to look at the tasks and instead of seeing “You should have cleaned the sink on 2-JUNE you failure,” they could instead just see all the chores on cards with a number showing how long they’ve been sitting without being done. Know anything like that?
I use Obsidian in other contexts (e.g. long-term goal setting, journaling, knowledge recall). I tried to use it for tasks, but quickly over-complicated things. I have a lot of tasks and it can be hard to wrangle everything without a bunch of smart lists and tags and such. I may give it another try. I’m making a list of solutions I want to try for a week or two each. This is the core of my daily routine (along with my calendar), so it feels reasonable to over analyze the choice.
Thanks for the suggestion. I’m about to sound like a grumpy old man: I’m mildly frustrated with Nextcloud, though I’ve used it for a few years and the calendar sync and file features are pretty good. I’m annoyed not because they did anything that really deserves my annoyance, but for years they resisted the call to be able to select ISO 8601 date and time (e.g. YYYY-MM-DD). Instead I was pushed into the MM-DD-YYYY that’s commonly used here in the States, and only after cobbling together a horrific combo of language and regional formats did I get a Monday-starting week with 24h time and a YYYY-MM-DD date format. despite the days being in a weird language or something. No other piece of software I used tied date and time options so immutably to a single local and then gets defensive in the comments when a bunch of people don’t fit that mold. Most just have a dropdown for each format so you can tailor it to what you use. They also love to put so much whitespace between elements I’m worried I’ll be able ts see only 5 tasks or so without scrolling (common web 2.0 design failure). I’m sure Nextcloud is awesome. I’ve experienced that, but I’m waiting for it to mature a bit more before I dump a bigger workload onto it. Using NC does have one big advantage for me as my NC box is the only one accessible on he web without VPNing into my network.
I also REALLY like that the old Astrid app ties in with tasks.org
jtxboard I’ve heard of, but don’t remember. I’m gonna poke around and see if that one does it for me. Thanks again!
I admire his level of pettiness. When it comes to pettiness, Louis comes second only to the hungry hustler, OG Afroman. The way he was dropping diss tracks all up and through the trial and had the court of public opinion massively on his side was legendary.