Icky, Steve Mould, and Swell Entertainment? 10/10 Youtube feed

I’ve been leaning more and more towards using fdroid just to find apps and then using Obtainium to install them directly from source.

Over time I’ve curated the list of creators I watch, so my recommendations are pretty good at feeding me what I like, though I do usually have to scroll through a lot of junk. And when the recommendations aren’t doing it, I’ll just manually go to a channel I like and find something and the algorithm will quickly adjust.

Patreon takes a cut of your money and gives the rest to the creator. Youtube does the same thing with Premium, plus creators receive a higher rpm from Premium viewers than they do from ads. And people left Reddit because they stopped supporting 3rd party apps. Youtube never supported 3rd party apps, plus there’s no suitable alternative to leave Youtube for.

Also, I’m not completely fine with Youtube Premium, but the pros outweigh the cons enough for me to justify paying for it.

Do I hate giving money to Google? Yes. Do I watch 6+ hours of Youtube a day? Also yes. I almost always have something playing in the background throughout my day, so it’s the one service I’m ok paying for and I don’t have to worry about it breaking like I would with other frontends.

I used to find stuff like this fascinating. Like if collecting my data can help me, why not? But technology has gotten to a point that it’s just straight up creepy how our every single waking moment can be tracked and collected, even if it’s me collecting it. It’s like watching every dystopian sci-fi story come to life in real time.

Can we stop making everything digital? I can’t see a single benefit of turning my license plate into a screen

Rectum? Barely knew 'em

KOSA is the one thing that the “both sides bad” group have going for them. The Democrats true colors really shine with their support of it. I’m well and truly shocked it’s the Republicans who killed it, though I suspect that’s because it wasn’t “rules for thee, not for me” enough for them.

Using AI to detect AI is completely useless. It’s been a big issue in academics, where a professor will plug your essay into an AI detector and then you get dinged for plagiarism because your entirely handwritten essay gets marked as AI. It’s just glorified pattern matching, it has no concept of real or fake.

I have a family member who works for AT&T. Run far far away and consider yourself lucky you couldn’t get an interview.

• We’re fucked
• We’ve always been fucked
• Everyone’s always been fucked
• Everyone is close to being really fucked

That’s just not true. It’s transphobic to make it a big issue. Normally when you don’t want to sleep with someone, you don’t go out of your way to tell them and cry about it. You just… don’t sleep with them.

Defacing art is a historical form of protest. The Suffragettes vandalized multiple paintings which are now memorialized for it.

https://womensarttours.com/slashing-venus-suffragettes-and-vandalism/

The Local Calendar integration stores the calendar on the server running Home Assistant, so as long as you can access the server remotely, you should be able to access it through the Home Assistant app. If you want it stored offline on a mobile device, there’s also an integration for calendars stored in a .ics file which you could sync with something like syncthing.

Home Assistant. I wouldn’t use it just for calendars, but I already had it set up for home automation and calendars are a built in feature.

Home Assistant actually has its own voice control now. You can even set it up to trigger on the wake word “Alexa”

I’m running mine off an SSD using an M.2 to USB adapter

But my daughter felt it was worth the experience.

That’s exactly it. I’ve been to the Sugar Factory before and everything was pretty good, not great. You’re 100% paying for the experience.

Well now I want to try this with my septum piercing and find out