Interesting, I will try to read a book for my wife. She has read some classical fairytales for me before, since I didn’t grow up with them. I did enjoy it, but I think a regular book would be better 🤔

I don’t think PeerTube will take a significant market share or become a lot more popular until it gets some sort of monetization scheme in place. Maybe if bandwidth for 1080p is basically free in 10-20 years.

Just a friendly headsup about Odysee. You are probably aware already and are selecting content carefully based on this, but Odysee hosts a lot of content that is considered disinformation, hate speech, far-right etc.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odysee -> Moderation.

Consider using Grayjay, you can combine creators from various sources to one app. Including YouTube, Peertube, Dailymotion, Odysee and lots of others.

I subscribe to some people on PeerTube and Dailymotion (only news orgs) alongside my Youtube subs, so that I am not only relying on YouTube

I agree in principle, society is demonizing nudity and sex. This has got to change. Society needs to change in order to fix this and many other issues related to sex and nudity.

As long as it affects a persons reputation and their standing, this is a problem. Any person can harm someone with this technology, and as a society we can not accept that.

Most people could not make a decent fake sex tape with any person in the world with low effort before. Now they can.

Should creating deepfakes for personal consumption be legal/illegal? Distribution is the real problem. The rest is fantasizing with tools more or less. Some people will understandably not like it if they find out other people fantasize about them, but that is close to thought crime. What is acceptable? Is a stickdrawing with names too much? What if I am really good at realistic drawings? What if I draw many images in a book and make a physical animation of ouf it? Is the limit anything outside my head? What if I draw a politician fellating another one and distribute it as art/satire?

The short term solution is to ban deepfakes, the long term is probably something else, but I am not sure what. There is not inherently any actual abuse in deepfakes, there is no actual sex either. So it’s a reputational/honor and disgust thing. These things still matter a lot in societies, so we can’t ignore it either.

I really like the concept of “better tech” as in better in multiple ways. Not only that it is european.

Better ways of handling tech related stuff.

The domain is already good imo.

Thanks, this kinda makes Linux phones a tough sell for me.

We already have this large ecosystem of FOSS and proprietary android apps with a strict security model and permissions.

Smartphones have to much personal data, a lot more than a regular computer, at least in my case.

I do appreciate having an option of something else though, or of course if using older phones where there are no more android / security updates

Does PostmarketOS and similar Linux smartphone OSes have the same security/permission model as Android?

Norwegian/🇳🇴

“Kjøp europeisk”

Kjøp = buy European = europeisk

“Buy European” becomes “Kjøp europeisk”

I wouldn’t mind microtransactions, gacha games and gacha mechanics if there were sane upper limits to spend.

I was trying to learn how different gacha games work and monetization in f2p games in general, especially obes for smartphones.

I was surprised about how similar all the methods across games are. Some were a lot worse than others though.

I think the monetization method is sometimes viewed as acceptable by some, because the games often have a lot of content and can be a lot of fun to play. The thing I really dislike is that it’s unfairly monetized. Some people pay the majority of the income, they are also known as whales. There are of course some people that spend small sums, but the whales is where it is at.

After Arcade games went out of fashion we had a nice long period in which players paid about the same for a game, and got the same experience.

Now vulnerable people are paying more than they can afford to finance the game for everyone, and still everone gets a limited experience.

Some of the games I enjoyed the most had terrible gacha mechanics. One of them had items and mounts with 1/500 chance per pull. Of course it is designed so that it appears as 1/10, but it is really 1/500. To justify this they had the PITY system. Yes, thats the actual name of it. The pity system makes it so that after buying 500 pulls ypu are guaranteed the mount.

The price for 500 pulls? 500$

After the free pulls you could play to get, about 480$.

So I actually can’t get the entire game for even 500$…

That was just one of many such instances. I could probably spend more than 10 000$ and still not unlock absolutely everything.

Was it purely cosmetic? Nope. It gave an advantage too.

Legislation that effectively adds an upper limit to unlock the entire game with a sensible maximum monthly cost for new content, is needed in my opinion.

Yes, thanks for fixing it 😄

Nevermind, it appears that the links follow the color of the section. Seeing that purple is hardcoded in my head as :visited 😅

The colors for the links on several of the pages still have too little contrast in my opinion.

Browser is the chromium based Vivaldi

I like it. Keeping it simple, with sensible opinionated defaults. I don’t necessarily agree with everything, but the choices is in no way bad.

Can I recommend that you make it FOSS, so that there can be discussions on what to add, why something was added/removed etc? Privacyguides have a good system for this 😊

Also the links that are :visited are dark purple and not very visible anymore. Consider a brighter colour

Fantastic game, recommend all their Metro games.

Some of us really want to. Hopefully some politicians put it on the agenda, so the discussions of a new vote can begin.

I do however think it’s good to have a little period for people to consider and publicly discuss it first, I think the majority is still negative or unsure. So it might be a couple of years

Yep, I have the 2.4ghz dongle ones with hall effect sensors and charging stand. Its just better and cheaper. The dongle is so that I don’t have to sync, I kinda like the whole plug in and it just works.

I am not advocating for anything specific here. Well… Maybe a bit using european clouds instead.

Cloud is probably the way to go in most cases. It’s more secure, more reliable, often cheaper, and less work.

Everything I do is cloud native and has been for a while

As a dev I have had this workflow at a previous employer:

I start my Windows 11 work laptop. I write emails to my coworkers on Outlook, I take notes in OneNote, I make presentations in PowerPoint. We have remote meetings on Teams.

I use GitHub and GitHub Actions. I host packages on npm. I write my TypeScript code with VSCode with help from GitHub Copilot, the C# .NET Core code with Visual Studio.

I login in to everything usingusing Single Sign On with Active Directory.

And everything we make is of course run on Microsoft Azure.

Yes, everything mentioned here is owned or maintained by Microsoft.

Qobuz is a great French alternative

Just came across https://d-shoot.net/kagi.html . Seems like there are more good reasons to avoid it besides it also using Yandex as an index.