Who?

The word “lifetime”, when talking about permanent subscriptions, always refers to the lifetime of the service (or provider), rather than the lifetime of the subscriber.

A single folder synced between all of them, or a separate folder for each, syncing everything to a single device?

WAF? Wow and flutter?

Batteries not included.

Is it really? I’d say an alternative is generally just “another option that has (more or less) the same features”. Better isn’t really implied, as that’s someone’s subjective opinion.

Sounds like a pretty interesting collection to me!

In Germany the government now fines you for piracy, using a common VPN isn’t enough anymore.

Why isn’t a common zero-logs VPN enough? How would the government know? Encrypted VPN traffic can’t be decrypted, at least until we have quantum computers, right?

Thank you for thoroughly explaining this. Your explanations make good sense to me.

I assume we’re talking about software testing? I’d like to know more about:

• The meaning of negative and positive tests in this context

• Good examples of badly done negative tests by LLMs

Droid-ify and Neo-Store are alternative clients for the F-Droid repository (and other repos), that you may like better than the official client. But yeah, Obtainium is indeed simple and it’s powerful if you already know exactly which app you want to install (rather than searching for relevant options in some repositories).

deploy a raspberry to project services into their local network

This piqued my interest!

What’s a good way of doing it? What services, besides the VPN, would run on that RPi (or some other SBC or other tiny device…) to make Jellyfin accessible on the local network?

Very much related:

LLaMA-Mesh by nv-tlabs on Github | Unifying 3D Mesh Generation with Language Models. Create 3D meshes by chatting.

meshgen by huggingface on Github | A blender addon for generating meshes with AI. This initial release contains a minimal integration of LLaMA-Mesh in Blender.

Are you buying ebooks in a physical store? How does that work?

There’s also a more lightweight alternative for recording tracks called OpenTracks. It can export the data in KMZ, KML, GPX or CSV format.

I’m curious - how would they just “have phones switch”, and if that’s actually possible, to which “open non Google platform”?

Yes, you can cast from the official YouTube app (or Revanced). You need to generate a code for connection in the SmartTube settings, then connect your phone through the cast menu. The option in the cast menu on the phone is called something like “Connect with code” IIRC.

Checked my second GOS user profile with google services, just to make sure – nothing to be seen.

Why not paperless? I’ve thought of trying out paperless-ngx but would like to hear about your experiences with it or other thoughts about it.

In my experience, I always get much better Searx results by changing the language to the relevant one (and disable SafeSearch). However, between instances, it varies which search sources they include (Google, Bing, DDG etc.). After trying multiple, I’ve found a few instances that generally get me the results I’m looking for.

E.g. if searching for, let’s say, something German, my URL would contain this:

/search?q=cannabis+legal&language=de&safesearch=0