DEUS VULT!

I am too - every single day. If I didn’t know better, I’d think I’m stupid.

This, but with DAVx⁵ as a CardDAV client app on Android.

WDYM by “browsing through”? As in, you get different search results? Or a different start page with suggested videos?

Maybe I’m weird, but I never use that. Either I have a specific need (an instruction video, a specific song or video episode). Then I use the search. Or I want to see what’s new. Then I check the channels of creators I like.

If you use the platform like that (which is basically like Lemmy), it’s a lot harder to algorithmically lock you in. (I only use third-party clients like FreeTube and Newpipe though, which block most types of tracking and don’t require a Google account).

Personally, I don’t.

But not everyone is able to (for lack of awareness to alternatives, technical skills, software constraints, work requirements, vendor lock-in, …). Are those people unworthy of being protected from an evil company’s wrongdoing just because they’re using the “wrong” OS?

You’re basically arguing that corporations can do whatever they please “on their own turf”. That’s not true as far as user rights, consumer protection and anti-trust laws are concerned. And it shouldn’t be.

“You’re on my property, I’m allowed to shoot you here.”

While these “ethics” do exist, they’re extremely niche. So don’t pretend yours aren’t.

I doubt he will. If you wandered that deep into crazyland, chances are you belong there. I suspect he still wants crazyland - just a different brand from what the clown-in-chief is creating. That’s fine by me if it creates a civil war among the crazies.

I’m torn on this one. Yes, it’s a bad look, particularly on the side of the Atlantic where words still have meaning. But Rutte isn’t stupid. He knows Europe still needs the Americans for a while until it’s finished scaling up its military capabilities, and Ukraine still needs their weapons and the Russia sanctions in place. So he might be playing the game of telling the demented grandpa “yes, you’re right”, just so he won’t throw a fit - and then wink to the other family members and do the right thing regardless.

If by “people sorting” you mean “facial recognition” - well, it should “just work”. You may, in the admin backend, go to the jobs section and manually force it to start another scan for missing faces.

That said, it will currently only do facial recognition on the faces in the photos your account owns. If you’re using partner sharing (e.g. with your spouse), then you will have separate facial recognition data (only done on your photos) and your spouse will have their own facial recognition data (done on the photos owned by them). Bottom line: facial recognition data is not “shared”. If your spouse “owns” all the family photos in your immich, this is why you only see the coworker meme faces and not your family.

The same is true for memories.

The situation is unsatisfactory at the moment, but I’ve talked to the devs and it’s on their roadmap, so this will be addressed in an upcoming release.

The phone’s manufacturer (Google in my case) may stop pushing firmware updates, allowing vulnerabilities to remain unfixed and exploitable.

The custom ROM’s maintainers may lose interest in the project, or the project may stop supporting the phone in question, again allowing vulnerabilities (this time in Android’s source code) to remain open.

Music isn’t expensive to self-host; 1 min of music cost you roughly 1MB of space, which means your playlist of 7k tracks (assumed average length: 5 mins) clocks in at around 35 GB of storage space. So just start collecting.

As for your other request. I’m not too familiar with Spotify, but a net search yielded this. I cannot speak to the legality if any of the solutions recommended there, and if they still work (the thread is 2 years old).

@removed[email protected] was faster than me (thanks!). Yes, as of now, firmware updates for existing models are only allowed for yet another year and must be discontinued after. As always in this administration, the reasons given for these measures (Chinese attacks on US infrastructure) are built on lies and misinformation (none of the attacks targeted consumer routers). Hence, this is likely just another shakedown: “pay us a bribe or we’ll damage your opportunities to do business in the US.” Depending on whether foreign router vendors opt to go this route and give in to the orange grifter’s demands, things may be different in a years’ time.

Could you in theory demand a refund from the government if you were willing to switch to their backdoor US hardware now?

From a government of the Epstein class, by the Epstein class, for the Epstein class? No. You most certainly cannot.

Old or new, doesn’t matter. They stopped allowing you to download books licensed (“sold”) through the kindle shop in order to prevent you from putting them onto your device via cable.

…which makes “cunt behaviour” even more accurate. ;)

No misunderstanding, that’s precisely what I meant and linked to.

I prefer the term “Swasticar”, as coined by this amazing British campaign:

R.I.P. Irony (100,00 BCE - 2025)

So, they had to ban uh, checks notes, apparently all routers, basically.

And ban firmware updates for existing models.

Meanwhile, Russian state hackers use vulnerabilities in old routers to poison DNS and steal credentials through MITM attacks. Agent Krasnow just keeps delivering.

Just another day in the life of an enshittificator.

Corporations like Amazon are a scourge. Switch to free and open formats, software and hardware. Ditch what you can. Hack and pirate what you must. Starve big tech.

At least for the kindle platform, they’ve stopped offering a USB option a while ago, precisely to keep people from circumventing their planned obsolescence.

“We’ve been trying to resolve this for over a month, and getting nowhere. Support is non-existent,” Windscribe said in its post. “Anyone know a human with a brain that still works at Microsoft and can help?”

Microslop. The word is Microslop, for reasons you have just experienced first-hand.