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Related, but the amount of tech and/or privacy adjacent youtubers I have seen complain about ads, about what they’re doing to be less susceptible, how this or that change is TOO much, and so on if baffling. JUST USE AN ADBLOCKER. There’s always one comment pointing that out, with a derailed conversation below, but most of the comments will be “actually, if you repeatedly close then reopen a YouTube video for 10-15 times, it will not show the ad on the next open!” with a million “don’t tell, now Google is gonna patch!” replies. I wish I was joking. If you don’t use an Adblocker, get one, NOW. It takes 30s. If you think “it’s not that bad”, install it anyways and give it a try for a week. Disable it. See if it’s really “not that bad”, lmao. Install them on your parents’ devices. Your grandparents’. Siblings. Friends.

I had never heard of the artist before, and if you haven’t either, I cannot recommend giving her website a visit enough. Insanely talented and really unique style.

I’m very happy with a Hetzner auction server. Though I’ve lots of different things running on it, might he overkill for “just” WordPress. They offer cheapish VPSs though. And they’re in Europe and have excellent technical support. Not an ad, I just like them

I bought a Brother HL-L2375DW a couple of years back specifically for Linux compatibility, and it did NOT disappoint.

• haven't had a single error
• has not refused to print a single time
• super quick, good quality, duplex
• using cheap 3rd party toner without complaint
• works perfectly from Linux

I don't usually like to recommend brands/products, but this is the exception. If you need a printer, and black and white is all you need, go for this one.

We really, really do. I miss r/PettyRevenge and cousins, plus r/TalesFromTechSupport.

Yeah, not having ads in the phone app, the TV app, the music app on the phone or in the browser is really nice, I love it. Also got that for all my friends and family. Never paid YouTube a dime though :)

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The argument conflates privacy with secrecy. What we want is not to be allowed to "scheme nefariously in secret" but to enjoy ourselves without being watched, in private. Also: just knowing that you *could* be watched *does* change your behavior, even if you have absolutely nothing to hide.

Same. But also, I'll never forget the adrenaline when I actually legitimately fucked up once. Was a sweaty 2 hours of recovery.

Thanks :) Ah, you mean this one?

I built that last year specifically for our paprika (capsicum? never sure what the English word is. Web search says "pointed peppers"? Not hot though).

The previous years, every time around August the twigs would be full of large, heavy, but unripe fruit. Inevitably, we'd get windy weather and a third of the twigs would break off. The soil in those pots is not very deep (15cm, ca), so the trellis needed to be able to stand on its own. I really like the outcome, no breakage last year :)

The original idea came from here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wFWNV1V0x3o adapted for our situation. The twigs end up kind of laying atop the supports.

Oh, and throwing a plastic foil over it in February/March also worked quite nicely to create a make-shift coldframe!

Wait, so the printer chose you?

It always feels like YouTube is double dipping though. Not with what the post is about; that's either/or, obviously. But Google makes a nice profit collecting user data and behavior, and then selling that to advertising companies. That happens regardless of using an adblocker, and I'd be shocked if it doesn't also happen regardless of YT premium. But at the same time, Google also IS an advertising company; they use their user data collection platform to also show ads to users, getting paid again. So personally, even if YT *wasn't* owned and operated by a shitstain of a capitalist eldritch horror company, I'd *still* have zero qualms blocking all their ads: they're making money off of me regardless.

Very nice! Yeah I think you can do a lot with limited space. Ours also for sure isn't as full as it could technically be. Have you upgraded to a "proper" garden then, I take it? 😄

Don’t forget the almighty: journalctl -fu And yes, I am always reading that as “fuck you, service”.

Well then.. compliments to your sister for the choice.

Oh, yeah. Wasn't actually worried of the mails themselves (multiple devices which have all of them, plus a daily borgbackup offsite), it was just knowing that I NEED to fix this, now, because email is unfortunately kinda important. Fun conundrum: had my personal mail as the only contact at my server provider. Requested a KVM for rescue. "Thank you for your request! We'll email you the link to your KVM access!" Gahhh.

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Shouldn't it be the other way round? If I'm a guest at someones house, IMO I should go out of my way to do as the host does.

This doesn't make a call to government servers. The app (or desktop application BTW, incl. Linux) reads your national ID's NFC tag, once. When you need to prove your age, the app locally computes a zkp that only tells the site "at least 18yo yes/no". Note that every EU country has a form of national ID, and the digital capabilities of these IDs are already used for a bunch of stuff (e.g. taxes, bank account creation,...). This doesn't worsen the privacy situation for EU citizens, but instead ensures that no privacy-unfriendly solutions emerge.

Ah, sorry. https://repology.org/repositories/graphs

Sure thing!

For the barrels, they were simply sold with the bases. Didn't see a reason not to use them, and also allowed me to drill the hole for the hose connector as close to the bottom as possible (used both for filling water in and for leveling between the two barrels, since the pump is only in one of the barrels, see last picture). I don't remember what the barrels cost exactly, but it wasn't too much and I'm happy with the sturdiness.

For the compost bin, we could have gone a bit more expensive tbh. This one was <25€, and as you can see, it's not exactly shaping up to be a paragon of longevity. It sits on some slabs that were already in that corner, and I though it might help drain excess water...? Not sure though, I don't think it does anything. The compost bin is also too small (and unsturdy) to go in with a shovel from the top and dig the compost over, which would really be beneficial. But still worth it. We put all our kitchen scraps in, almost completely eliminating residual waste bad usage for us, and I pull about 70l of compost out of it each spring.

If you have a place where you can place the bin in the garden rather than on the deck, dot it, I'd say. Take a look around youtube or something, there's some really cool composting systems.

Good luck! Hope the pictures help. Sorry for being so slow to respond.

No worries. Same here. Eh, it's not really that sturdy when I e.g. move it around, but it's enough for the peppers 🤷🏼‍♀️ Please share here when you end up building something similar! :D Good season to you too!!

Yeah it's probably not very accurate 😄 Though to be fair.... Weather has been amazing. *So far.*

Thank you, I appreciate the explanation! Have never had in lain out like that before. This actually explains the source of my confusion as well: In German, there is a strict separation between what is meant by "Paprika" and "Chilli". Above, you said you have lots of pepper varieties in stores, and then listed both things like bell peppers, which are Paprika here, and lots of Chilli varieties. In German, it would just be wrong to call e.g. a habanero fruit "Paprika", or a bell pepper "Chilli", and I think that's were my hesitation comes from: I always feel like I'd be misunderstood if I just say "pepper" 😄 So, just for clarification: everything in the trellised beds are sweet, non-hot peppers.

Maybe this is a case if "the grass is always greener on the other side", but I'm definitely a but jealous in return, haha. Raised beds with room to expand sounds like a dream. Sorry to hear about the troubles with the deer and raspberries, but I guess such is nature 😄

AccuWeather has a monthly view on the website. I'm sure it's flawed. But good enough to make me gamble!

Thank you kind stranger 🙂

Oh no... Well, you're certainly more careful than myself. I meant it in the title, it's a gamble. Last year I also could have planted out in April, but was cautious and waited for mid May. This year... Well. Let's hope climate change is for once good for *something* /s

Nice, that one seems really similar. How do you like Laser compared to Inkjet?

Called their support. They were super nice, and then told me that if I still had access to my 2fa, I could simply add a second mail in my account without needing access to the first one. Made total sense when stopping to think about it for a second 😄

Not sure. You mean something like r/NuclearRevenge and Co?

Or just configure all the machines to auto-update from the flake at the repo. Doing this for my VMs. I have a CI machine that builds my pinned flake from the repo tip, and about 30 other VMs check nightly if the repo tip has moved, and if so, rebuild from the new tip; which, thanks to the CI machine, means just downloading and activating a new generation, nothing compute heavy.

Now THAT is a changelog. Really excited about the query performance improvements, and the improvements to subtitle handling.

Fleet Commander 🚀 Fleet: 6–10 devices · 11–20 TB Motivation: Privacy & data ownership, Independence from Big Tech & subscriptions, Learning & experimenting My MVPs: Jellyfin, Home Assistant, Immich, Proxmox VE, nixos-mailserver

Finally. Been saying for years, NixOS is the obvious choice for a gov distro.