search for information when Google intentionally lies to you and hides results to keep you on their site looking at ads longer …

along those same lines, used Chromebooks – Google ends support after only a couple years so school districts all over the place are generally stuck with palettes of e-waste

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(don’t know how amenable they are to individuals versus corporations (or just affordability in general), but a recent news article mentions Ukraine is looking at Govsatcom, Eutelsat, and Iris2)

(one of the older tropes in Linux-land is giving new life to old hardware just by replacing Windows with Linux)

(one advantage of Flatpaks over AppImage is Flatpaks bundle their libraries – most AppImages won’t run on musl libc systems)

(there’s also an older, but still working, protocol called packet radio – does require a bit more technical expertise though)

an extreme option could be something like the Varvara / Uxn virtual machine by the Hundred Rabbits collective (created after having to deal with Adobe updates and Xcode updates over a barely functioning cell connection) – emulators are available for all sorts of hardware

blog: Weathering Software Winter | youtube: Weathering Software Winter

also !selfhosted@lemmy.world (most active) and !selfhosting@slrpnk.net (less active)

with the majority here, I just use distro default / automatic setup in installer

LONG ago, I did the whole hand-crafted thing, obsessing over exactly how large each partition had to be, but with increasing speed and lowering prices of storage, this attention to detail now seems pretty irrelevant:

• hda split into /boot, /tmp, (swap), /, /opt, /usr, /var
• hdb split into (swap) and /home

✅ I have not said mean things about Erdoğan

The Latin American Los Angeles gang crisis is real.

• international: Russia (and their puppet, Trump)
• domestic: we have enough racist, fascist domestic terrorists (ex. Proud Boys, Patriot Front, etc., etc.) that pose far more of a threat to the US than MS-13

or save yourself the effort and just run ELIZA

he tarriffed penguins, so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

and then the looming dread of wondering if they’re going to allow you back into the country

“Traveling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comfort of home and friends. You are constantly off balance. Nothing is yours except the essential things – air, sleep, dreams, sea, the sky – all things tending towards the eternal or what we imagine of it.”

—Cesare Pavese

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You get a Bhopal! And you get a Bhopal! Everyone gets a Bhopal!

environmental effects

Fortune article last year just talked about water and power in just the chip sector: The chip industry’s dirty little secret: It’s very dirty

“At Intel’s Arizona campus, where the new facilities are still unfinished, the company already emits about two tons of hazardous air pollutants quarterly.”