According to the actual Aluminum Association, only 43% of aluminum cans shipped within the United States are recycled.

Not only that, but unless you can guarantee that a significant portion users will recycle those aluminum cans, they are significantly more energy intensive to manufacture compared to single use plastic bottles.

We had a big ass satillite dish in the backyard when I was growing up, and I remember my dad needing to input these codes every so often to unlock a bunch of channels.

Oh, I hear you. I resisted for a very long time, but once I started using Windows 11, I upgraded all my Windows computers to it. It’s far more stable, in my opinion.

But… micro$oft has gone backwards as these iterations are pushed out. More ads, more spyware, more bloatware. Even if I want to keep using windows, they’ll force me out of it once my limit has been reached.

I was able to upgrade to Windows 11 on my dinosaur desktop (at least 10 years old) without any issues. Been able to keep it updated, too, for at least the last 2 years.

There are ways to bypass certain hardware restrictions, and I’m sure plenty of how-tos are still available.

No need to sweat it.

Was using the Voyager app. But now I use the Voyager PWA version through the Hermit app.

Borderlands 2 was amazing, and Borderlands 3 had amazing graphics. But I felt like there was no need to continue the franchise after that, and I’m actually surprised that they are.

Great list, but what the hell are these doing there?

Cloud Storage

• Dropbox - Syncs files across devices with version history.
• Google Drive - Enables real-time collaboration on Google Docs, Sheets and Slides.
• OneDrive - Integrates with Microsoft Office for document collaboration.

I’ll just share with you my experience:

I was also paying for a YouTube Premium family plan, but still got ads. What made me cancel was the fact that they’re still using trackers, so they were making money off me three times (subscription, ads, and selling my data)!

Coupled with the fact that “content creators” don’t really make content for the love of making it. It’s all created “for the algorithm”, especially the “watch to the end”, clickbait titles and thumbnails, “like and subscribe” begging, “only 15% of you are subscribers”, sponsored content disguised as education, etc… Videos today are nothing like they were 15 years ago, because it became solely about making money.

Google is one of the pioneers of the enshittification movement!

… And has made video content for billions of people unbearable to watch or enjoy.

Just got the update. Good timing, because over the last week, I’ve had DOZENS upon DOZENS of IP addresses auto-blocked.

Before that, the last blocked IP address was like in September, so someone/something is probing.

I bought two “Eightree” brand Zigbee-compatible plugs to see how they fare.

Did you need a Zigbee hub to get them working? I was gifted an Eighttree Zigbee plug with energy monitoring, but it seems to require using a hardware hub :(

As long as individuals are allowed to hoard hundreds of billions (soon, trillions) of dollars that they couldn’t possibly use in 1000 years, then this will never end.

We need to cap personal wealth, and it needs to be a number so low that any one person can’t take over a country like Nazi Musk is doing at this very moment.

There is absolutely no reason why we have homeless people, people who can’t afford medication, kids who are hungry, and students who have to choose between education and a roof over their head.

These problems exist because there are literal trillionsof dollars being hoarded by a few people, when it should have been distributed to everyone who actually earned it.

Not even Hitler would buy one. He’s got too much self-respect than to associate with Elon.

Maybe just like Facebook Market, simply ignore it? /s

Suing companies for not advertising on a platform For Nazis, By Nazis™. 🤡

For sure, if the need calls for it, that works well.

But looking for random things to install and maintain without an actual need creates so many issues.

100%. When it comes to self-hosting, or anything really, be a minimalist. For your sake, and for the sake of whoever might need to maintain things when you’ve leave this earth.

Deepseek’s massive efficiency improvement ought to improve profitability

Depends on if you’re the AI provider, or the user.

For institutions that had to pay massive fees to use cloud-based AI services, now they might be able to pull it off in house or with far less costs involved. It will save money.

For those selling AI, it’ll get very competitive, and they can’t charge hundreds or thousands of dollars anymore. It will be less profitable or not at all.

AI was already unprofitable

And the silver lining was that all those American companies wasted hundreds of millions, if not, billions on developing the tech. Good for them for wasting all that money.

And good for China for making Deepseek open source as an added “fuck you” to AI capitalists.

If something ceases to be profitable, it gets no attention from corporations.

Even something as simple as Deepseek replacing subscription services would tank these corporations who are banking on those fees.