Ah yes, the “Two minutes of hate” comment section of the day. 😏 (I’m in this comment section…)

Kind of crazy that Windows 10 still has 28% market share though.

Yeah, if get a few bad sectors suddenly you’re spending most of a day backing things up.

This isn’t the first time. And I’m reminded of scenes from 1984 where Wilson Winston is literally erasing history on behalf of “the party”.

I could’ve survived this annoying 100% CPU usage bug (which also affected Betterbird), but noticing that the client was also using ~200 MiB VRAM was what got me to move over to Evolution.

What’s “freedom of assembly” again?

Thanks for letting me know. There was some sketchiness with a dot com site being Cypriot, like maybe it was for tax purposes, rights or something, but I hadn’t investigated it too much.

I’m glad I caught this early, thanks for posting it.
Link to Quad9’s DNS services.

Besides Mullvad, which I’ve now changed to Quad9, I use Adguard.com (Cypriot company), LibreDNS.gr (Greek) and UncensoredDNS.org (Danish). They all support both DNS-over-TLS and DNS-over-HTTPS.
The guys that run UncensoredDNS.org (@tykling@mastodon.social) and LibreDNS.gr (@comzeradd@libretooth.gr) are both reachable through the fediverse which is neat.

Anyone got other European recommendations?

How time flies, happy 1st cake day :)

Yeeeah, about that…

Youtube premium rose by ~15% where I live as well.
I’d love it if my wage rose 15% multiple times a year.

Thanks, I didn’t know about Twitter Web Viewer. Found a userscript that auto-redirects X posts to it. Ironically it says in the description that the script was made using Grok 😭

I think most think of their phones or tablets as being “the internet” so that might be why the use WiFi as synonymous with it.

You didn’t give us much information to go on, but you should probably start by getting the most up to date version of yt-dlp. Also, I believe some time ago that it became a requirement to run another service in other to get youtube content… EJS it’s called.

Peertube is probably the most popular federated self-hosting video service available, although I’m not sure if it’s the best for you. Just a suggestion. It does have an app as well.

I’d seen some hiccups where reddit tried to convince me for a few ours at a time that I needed login to old.reddit.com, and then later on it’d work again, but today it seems to have stuck.
Then I tried a VPN with location set to USA and it worked again. So I dunno, but I’m going to treat it as dead from today.
I can’t believe they’re pulling a “Digg”. Ironic.
It’s also funny how close it coincides with Google forcing Chromium to stop supporting Manifest v2 here by the end of August 2026.

Vivaldi, which is Chromium based, is a hungry hungry hippo, but also running qBittorrent (2,7 GB), so I’m around 10 GB / 64 GB atm.
I’m on KDE btw.

My uncle was an electrical engineer back in the day and our family would get hand-me-down PC’s, and every DOS game I ever played as a kid was pirated. I’m guessing my uncle would get them on BBS or something it’s that far back. I was 10 in 1993, and I remember struggling with Leisure Suit Larry (which, because one needed to type in English taught me a great deal! Including the “prove-you’re-an-adult quiz” to even get into it). I also remember thinking how easy Civilization 1 was but it turns out I was playing with a “trainer” the whole time and could just pump out units at near 0 cost 😄. But as a kid I didn’t know any better.
In 1996 I bought my own PC, AMD K2 200mhz, 3 GB HDD and who knows how many ram, but only a measly Matrox 2D card to begin with, and yep, even then a lot of the games were pirated, and a few years later, probably 1998 I got my first CD-rom drive which just made piracy even easier. A friend from school had a dad who would get pirated games, almost like it was linux distributions. Most of these CD-rom’s would be repackaged games without cutscenes but with custom installers with music. It’s how I got into Blümchen at the peak age of 15.
Then in 1999 I began going to a local computer club which was mostly a way to play LAN games with friends and share pirated stuff and use a faster dedicated internet connection. Oh and lots of LAN parties were if course had from around 1998 and onwards into the mid 00s, which is how I was introduced to anime like Rurouni Kenshin (aka Samurai X for y’all yanks (why?!)). And then home internet got good enough that one could pirate at home and LAN’s began falling off after the mid-00s.

As for consoles, I never pirated. I went from Sega Master System to Sega Game Gear (gifted to my brother and I from a German family that my parents were friends with) to Sony Playstation. And funnily enough I never played any pirated games on any of these consoles, but that’s also why I stuck with PC from there on afterwards, with the exception of a PS3 in 2011 which I never really played on…

IRC is still there. I still use it from time to time just to feel a rush :)

I see you’re a fan of the classics.