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Not a direct answer to your question but the first step in replacing a lawn with a garden the nodig way is to cover the grass with something like cardboard and then cover the cardboard with as much as 12 inches of woodchips.

You can get the woodchips for free most of the time as arborists need places to dump. Try to be careful of the type of tree however as some trees have a higher activity than others.

This is interesting, but Obtainium exists and this won’t stop Google from preventing installing things outside of the play store.

Telegram is not private.

This seems like a bullshit article using old data. But let’s take it at face value for the sake of argument.

Perhaps we should prioritize water given to humans (which they require to live).

Data centers have contaminated local water supplies, and often have a priority for access to free water.

The question isn’t exactly the amount of water it takes to power “ai”. The real question is if we are actually aware of the cost for something which is not actually required to solve the problems of the world.

Doing evil can be fun I guess.

Anything dependent on Google (or any large corporate entity) is neither free or open.

I want to see the old hiding behind a newspaper gag replaced with this before its switched out with a qr code to download an app.

Soon it will be a qr code that leads you to a website that shows you ads, recommends new medication, and fingerprints your device to sell the data of how often you take etc medication to insurers and anyone else willing to pay.

There will be even more text stating about how you can’t sue them if you od and that you agreed to the terms by taking the medication.

Hmm, that’s too optimistic now that I think about it. The qr code will actually take you to an app store.

42441.67 powered on hours is really young for drive death, I normally don’t start seeing issues till 50k.

Is it making any audible sounds while running?

I haven’t read the smart data for Seagate in a while but the errors numbers look off and would like to see more details. Haveing errors in itself doesn’t mean much. Normally I look for Reallocated Sector Count, Seek Error Rate, and Uncorrectable Sector Count. But here it’s not telling the details like the types of errors.

Maybe try sudo smartctl -all /dev/sdd not sure if the -a you used is being interpreteded correctly?

I have kaldi auto updated with my preferred voice when ever there is a new release via obtainium.

I set kaldi as my tts engine, and I disabled the google TTS.

Then anytime I use TTS on my phone it uses kaldi.

Its been really great for my preferred eBook reader (Librera) so I can do chores and read at the same time.

Here is the repo for the piper I use, https://github.com/OHF-Voice/piper1-gpl

For my phone, I use this tts engine, https://k2-fsa.github.io/sherpa/onnx/tts/apk-engine.html

I’m of the idea of not buying new tech ever again, with some exceptions on use case and rarity.

Instead, i’m a proponent of only buying 2nd hand or business surplus.

These companies don’t deserve our money, and the average use case doesn’t require the latest and greatest.

Anything Meta touches should be considered suspicious. Especially when it comes to privacy.

Couldn’t that be confusing for the cat, saying we don’t do something that they are currently doing?

I bet they send that to all their old customers

So does FreeTube and ReVanced

I like FreeTube the most because its multiplatform.

I use FreeTube and NewPipe. But Google just broke them. Even yt-dlp needed to implement a JavaScript engine.

I’m using ReVanced in the meantime but I’m not enjoying it. It’s good as a backup I suppose as it’s better than using YouTube through a browser.

Here’s my guide for installing ReVanced via obtainium, just incase it can be useful for someone

• install the following in obtainium

  • https://github.com/ReVanced/revanced-manager/
  • https://github.com/ReVanced/GmsCore/

• download the suggested version of the official YouTube apk

  • https://youtube.en.uptodown.com/android/download/1102578123

• launch revanced manager, patch the YouTube apk, then install the patched apk.

• go to YouTube app info and select it to be able to open YouTube links by default

Edit: just used PipePipe for the first time. It works and seems like a better alternative than YouTube ReVanced to me.

I want Linux for Android devices, not Android for Linux devices.

I haven’t tested this, but Jellyfin does this with videos and ebooks so I’d be surprised if it didn’t also work this way for music.

Jellyfin is FOSS and entirely self hosted.