Why do you have ads? There are many apps for browsing Lemmy that are free and have no ads.

I use https://github.com/trganda/obsidian-attachment-management to automatically rename and move screenshots, in conjunction with https://github.com/Mara-Li/obsidian-explorer-hider to hide them. It makes pasting screenshots organized, yet completely transparent.

Neat!

Use Rufus, skip online account and automatically opt out of telemetry.

Avoiding MS account and many manual parts of the installation (opting out of shit) is like two clicks in Rufus before installation. Everyone should do it.

The best source I know: https://betterexplained.com/

Also plenty of youtube channels, like Numberphile (many of the featured hosts have their own channels), 3Blue1Brown, Mathologer, Wrath of Math and many more. They have vast libraries covering pretty much any topic imaginable. It’s all top tier presentation, so intersting they made me study math for fun - I’d rather watch Numberphile than Netflix.

I wonder if it’ll have turrets to fend off the Biters.

You realize the models you’re running locally had to be trained the same way as the proprietary ones, right?

There are only a few mouse models that fulfill my requirements and software support for them is bad even on windows. I’m currently on Razer and Roccat, the software is slow, heavy and convoluted, but it’s the only way to use the devices to their full potential. There’s no way to get the drivers for Linux and that’s a deal breaker for me.

I switched from Fusion to Onshape and it’s been a treat. The option to use it on an Android tablet is a great bonus.

What would be the impact on everyday life if a nuclear EMP destroyed all electronics in our lives instantly? First there are a lot of dead from car / plane crashes, then most patients in hospitals, then many due to running out of water and food. And what’s left of the society then collapses into barbarism, violence and fighting for resources.

It’s possible something like this would happen should the nuclear weapons of today be used. The book is hard to stomach, but everyone should be aware of the possibility and be at least knowledgeable in survival without modern technology (if not outright stocked up in a doomsday vault).

One Second After - W. R. Forstchen

Please everyone, read this book. It’s sad, disgusting and heavy, but it’s probably a documentary for events that may happen one day. It’s very well researched and the plausibility and realism make it even scarier. It hasn’t turned me into a prepper, but in part motivated me to make our house as self-sufficient as possible. Also it made me aware of small useful things in my surroundings that I used to be blind to.

Standing desk (electric, not crank operated) + tiny under-desk stationary bike. Sitting the whole day working/gaming and still getting to do some physical activity is great.

3D printer (I’ve got Prusa MK4+MMU3). It’s an amazing versatile utility, great skill to have, and a fun hobby. Don’t buy cheap chinese clones, it’s not worth the hassle.

Oh but it is

SAO / Matrix level immersive VR

It will have an addon that binds it to your household. It comes in a form of a gold ring and costs half your money.

Always check Twitter, Fox News, and ask ChatGPT. Am I doing this right?

I’m a developer, so that’s a bonus for me. However, it’s just ChatGPT with access to search, you can use it for anything, not just code. I tends to produce scripts rather than guides when you ask how to do something, but if you get used to it, it’s just a matter of phrasing your query the right way. I don’t know of any other similar service - other than Bing - that can search on web and crunch the results for you. And I find Phind to be much more reliable than Bing.

I’m using Phind. It’s presumably using Google search, but it skips all the bloat and ads, skips clicking through the links one by one, and rummaging through articles full of more ads and annoying popups. Then it summarizes everything with sources, if I ever need to go to the page directly (which I mostly don’t need to). And it supports bangs for Google and DDG, if you need to go old-school.

They don’t want you to see the tiny people doing all the hard work licking.