The debrid services do the torrenting, you only download from cache. So debrid services are safe in Germany. I’d still look into Usenet though. It costs more but is super fast and very safe.

I was in a mood yesterday. Didn’t mean to be rude to anyone. Just venting some steam.

It literally says “cameras for AI”. You don’t see how that becomes a problem?

AirPods are earbuds, whereas the ones with tips that go into the ear channel are IEMs. The latter are better in every way in my opinion, but that doesn’t help if they hurt. I use foam tips, they give the best seal and comfort in my opinion.

What speaks against headphones? Like on-ear or over-ear headphones.

Re bubble: look at Lemmy.ml… just criticize China and you’ll be banned. They just keep telling each other that China is the best country on earth and no one will challenge that anymore, as everyone gets banned. It’s an extreme example but a pretty good one.

Re sickness: we’re a social species. That means interacting in real life. In real life you won’t have that many peers communicating with you all at once and you can gauge what your peers think by watching their body language. Online communication is all over the place and unfiltered. Humans haven’t evolved to process all of that information while still critically evaluating said Information. This leads to mental burnout, depression etc.

For the record, I am capable of limiting my exposure to this, because I grew up and witnessed the evolution of tech (born in 82). I’m also somewhat intelligent. I hold a Master’s in engineering, which requires a bit of intelligence. Many people only ever get basic education, if even that (not trying to sound condescending. Education is a privilege!). These people can’t handle this type of communication. That’s also the reason why they’re so easily manipulated by the right extremists.

Phones distract, phones nowadays have no headphone jack (fuck Bluetooth), Laptop isn’t very portable. I love having a dedicated device for music.

Edit: oh, and no fucking Touch Screen bullshit. I can just reach into my pocket and blindly operate the thing.

It’s social media. You’re putting yourself in a bubble. Humans never evolved for this kind of communication and it’s making us all sick.

Germany has the “Recht am eigenen Bild”, which is why street photography sucks balls here. But it’s a good law. Not sure if this covers “AI” related shit.

Don’t forget Hooly

Gaming is better than ever, what are you talking about? So many good Indie games. If you have a mid range desktop pc from the past decade, there’s a whole world of games to play. You’ll never be able to play them all! Just forget about the AAA games. Fuck those.

It’s not as scary as it seems.

What happened to people? I used to try out a new launcher every other week. Did it not long ago until I settled for Niagara. Might try out Octopi some day.

People are generally hesitant on installing apps. I know so many people, even (or especially) young ones, that buy a 1000€+ device and only ever use the pre-installed apps.

There were many good options. Now it’s just Niagara Launcher that doesn’t suck.

Edit: I see Octopi getting mentioned a lot. Might have to check that one out.

The workflow to set up some basic calculations with ranges formatted as tables is just much quicker. I believe that’s why Excel keeps winning unfortunately. I just tried doing some basic things in LibreCalc and it was very cumbersome unfortunately. At home I don’t mind this, but at work I’d be pissed if I’d lose that functionality. It would seriously hold me back.

A table in Excel will have a name that can be referenced. It will also automatically grow larger when you type in the row under the last row. You can have multiple tables within a sheet. It comes with extensive filters. In LibreCalc you can only set filters but everything else remains static. It’s literally the most used thing in Excel.

The fact that you can’t make real tables renders the software completely unusable. Tables are used in pretty much every spreadsheet.

I’m fairly often in Japan for work. They won’t touch those screens.

Pretty much everyone?

Edit: D’oh, I thought this was about Google maps. My bad.

Navidrome is even better

They’re not as rich as him. If you have shit tons of money you can be a braindead moron and still fail upwards.

Same here. It’s cool for drafting up a concept and I can imagine that it can help if you’re stuck somehow, but that’s about it.