Kirk

joined 2 years ago
[–] Kirk@startrek.website 3 points 2 months ago

Getting a local security camera setup is kind of a pain but do able. Look into the self hosted software Frigate and go with their recommended brands.

[–] Kirk@startrek.website 6 points 2 months ago

In the US they use Chromebooks, not really any better but they do have Linux under the hood.

[–] Kirk@startrek.website 3 points 2 months ago

Not really, it's still encrypted. If you're not a political dissident and just using Signal to chat with friends then it is helpful to make yourself available to said friends.

[–] Kirk@startrek.website 12 points 2 months ago (3 children)

I have notifications on when someone joins and maybe 75% of the time after I see the notification their account is "deleted" because they changed the privacy settings.

It's not the end of the world but I do wish more people wouldn't automatically pick the maximum privacy setting so that we could actually, yknow use it

[–] Kirk@startrek.website 4 points 2 months ago

Foolish for sure but not as bad as trusting random unsourced claims on Lemmy!

[–] Kirk@startrek.website 3 points 2 months ago

You're backing up 4tb for $6/mo? I looked into B2 for a 2tb drive and it was double that.

[–] Kirk@startrek.website 10 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Yeah, and a lot of the screenshotted comments don't even read like bots, they read like someone in a developing country that doesn't speak english as a primary language.

[–] Kirk@startrek.website 11 points 2 months ago

No need for an alternative, it can be self hosted and (for now) the original repo is still up: https://github.com/zedeus/nitter

[–] Kirk@startrek.website 2 points 2 months ago

Honestly the entire notion of caring about "ratings" at all is stupid unless you are trying to sell ads. Reviews are great and reviewing art is an art form of it's own. But taking a bunch of reviews and smoothing them together and averaging them out in order to pretend you've reached some sort of objective truth about how "good" a piece of media is is a stupid thing to care about and will only bring you sorrow and a more shallow life.

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