Thanks for the context, appreciate it.

Isn’t it the case though that no matter what is set up, no matter where it is set up,and no matter what by, that it will eventually become polluted by fools? Broadly speaking.

This is why posts like this raise the spirits a bit.

💚

Honestly, people like you are keeping my faith/interest in being online alive. It’s dying at pace and things like this, that you do, help to keep it alive a bit longer.

This has genuinely made my day better and will make every day I go online just a little bit better.

Thank you genuinely.

Thank you for being great. Ireland appreciates you.

Utterly pointless thread. Drivel. Change your power settings so that you can close the screen and have the machine “do nothing”.

Is this the level of content that is deemed worthy these days? Literally a non-story.

I’m using Proton Mail and use an alias to sign up for each service. Works well and if you start getting spam you can pinpoint who leaked your data due to to the unique aliases.

This is what I use: https://www.seeedstudio.com/XIAO-7-5-ePaper-Panel-p-6416.html

Using ESP Home Builder in Home Assistant I can push updates to it.

It works, but for me its far too much work for what it is. Updates are a pain in the hole, and come fairly frequently.

I’ve just ditched it now to be honest.

I was using it to display the weather where my wife worked each morning so she could dress accordingly. It did what it was supposed to do but was too much work. Wireless firmware updates seldom worked and it needed to be connected to a computer to reliably update.

For me personally the convenience isn’t there. Compare it to a similar sized tablet that I can run Fully Kiosk in to display a Home Assistant dashboard that updates effortlessly, and its a non-runner.

May be absolutely fine for other use cases but for me it was prohibitive. Battery life is a few months based on waking up each morning to refresh and going back to sleep until the next morning, but, you can’t monitor the battery level, a known issue with these. That simply is bananas!

Did anyone really think they were actually private at any time ever ever?

This sounds like a storyline for the next Honey I Shrunk the Kids movie?

And shouldn’t it be…em…the Grass Verge?

I’ll get my coat.

Hear hear. 📢

Thank you for the excellent suggestion. Worked perfectly. Managed to uninstall about 50 pieces of bloatware from my phone, starting with Chrome.

Props to you @zerozaku

This is very alarming. My eyes have never been opened so widely as they are in the last two months since I started ungoogling and FOSSing. This post has veritably split my eyelids.

Edit: Since reading this thread I have installed Shizuku + Canta and removed Chr9me and about 50 other pieces of bloatware from my phone.

Props to @zerozaku for the suggestion.

Thank you for the explanation. Its a pretty shit situation from an artists point of view it seems.

I’m guessing there was never any way for artists to fight this model when it developed. It was made so attractive for consumers like me to have music available on tap, that it would have been impossible for artists to fight against that level of convenience and demand.

I didn’t realise the figures were that bad to be honest. I suppose I assumed that because it was a way to get music to more people really quickly, that it would benefit artists.

Appreciate the explanation. 🙏🏼

Fair point. Admittedly, I wasn’t thinking about my response from a musician’s point of view.

Can you expand on your comment so I can understand the context a bit? I’m assuming from what you said that paid streaming services are not a positive thing for artists (or maybe smaller artists), and that it would be preferable if people were buying albums and singles outright? I’d like to understand it better.

This person just needs to manage their notifications and phone control better.

Also, while streaming (in my case Spotify) subs may seem expensive, it would be horrendously expensive to use an iPod and buy the amount of music I listen to (and three family members for that matter) instead. Considering the monthly sub, its fantastic value.

Personally, and without having made much effort, the issues mentioned in the article are a non-issue for me. And did I read that the HD and battery need to be modded?

Seems like a classic case of finding a problem for a solution.

I think it’s still very early in development. From what I have seen/tried, it’s not fit for regular Joe consumption yet, and in fairness they are clear about that themselves. I love the concept though, I hope it becomes more mainstream.

Big deal. I did something like that once with no AI whatsoever.

I guess when you pay with a credit card, theres limited information being shared. Taking things at face value, you are paying for a service that wont track you, see your data, give away your data etc.

Looking at it in terms of privacy vs. anon is a good way to look at it. If you want anonymity, you won’t be using a credit card I assume, unless it’s a throwaway you can top up. I imagine people who want full anonymity would be using stuff that’s more specialised and niche than the likes of Proton etc., likely FOSS stuff, home servers, services without login/registration.

Privacy is like a step away from anonymity in that regard I think.

It’s not FOSS though I think? Free and paid tier. Website doesn’t say much about privacy etc. I actually have Lawnchair running silently and almost configured to mirror my Nova home screen but there doesn’t seem to be folders in the app drawer which is a pain, unless I have totally missed it.

Edit: Indeed, I totally missed it, in the settings. FFS.

Excellent. Lawnchair it is then.