MrSilkworm

The Shawshank Redemption

Visualy, I’m as average it gets. White straight male, average height, common composition. But

• I’ m Agnostic.

• Believe people are not defined by their occupation and how much they make.

• I m all for worker rights and fight for them

• Into politics and trying to have as an objective ipinion as possible. Also try to talk about politics

• My academic credentials are on the top 10% tier

• I care about my RL and digital privacy

• I use FOSS

• I look after my health as well as my weight

• Not a fan of Football

• I make efforts to own my data and software

• Travel a lot to other countries

• have my own Jellyfin server

• host a locally run smart home

• Run a separate Batocera machine with a lot of games from a lot of legacy systems

• Don’t really care about where other people come from, or what is their religion, or gender, or sexual preference, or politics

OpenBoard. 100% foss. You can find it in F-Droid

Thankfully I could use my Plex “streaming service” to have all the Pokémon seasons in one place

yes.

source: can speak Greek.

Also the first two letters of the Greek alphabet are άλφα (alpha) and βήτα (beta)

this ☝️. Those of us who remember what happened then, understand the potential dangers of federating with a juggernaut like META.

We should tread lightly!

If I may ask, how did you do the automations with Home assistant?

I completely agree on giving UBI to everyone, Imagine a world without artists. Without movies, TV shows, theaters, musicals, museums, books, music, sculpture, paintings, architecture.

Imagine how dull everything would be, without the creativity and imagination of these people out to use. But nowaday people just say Y0u_sH0uLd_sTuDy_SoMeThInG_t0_hAvE_iNc0mE, ignoring the consequences of the absence of arts

Because this way, the Tories will definitely take the struggling middle class on their side during the next elections.

I have bought a lot of Sonoff products myself. The temperature/humidity sensors work excellent and on the spot. On the contrary the door sensors (2 out of 3 )tend to disconnect. The same goes for the motion sensors.

I ll try my luck with the aqara sensors.

Once there was Vanced and now there is Re-Vanced. (if you’re on Android)

Your family is not eccentric. It’s exceptional. There is a big difference. Unfortunately people are afraid of that,that seems different to what they are accustomed. When they cannot do something the other can, they ridicule it. Being bullied feels like shit. Be there for your daughter and help her steam out all the feelings she has. Help her make alliances with other kids in the school. let her choose to do sports or art she likes. teachers may take her side, but don’t imagine that they’ll do something, no mater how much you complain. I hope my response has some meaning for you

Thank you for the very informative post. Your professional way of handling the issue, puts corporate professionals, “cough” Reddit “cough”, look like the amateurs they really are

they have an insane amount of gun and gun related deaths They don’t have Universal Healthcare they don’t have a federal payed leave law they don’t have a maternal/paternal leave law they don’t have tuition free universities they don’t have decent mass transportation The use of the imperial system

It just doesn’t make sense and baffles my mind for the richest country in the world to treat it’s citizens like this

Our societies have a tendancy to be more authoritarian, autocratic and consumption driven. The way the corporations are using anyone’s data is not transparent and there is no accountability for it. There is also no monetary reward for the use of my data.

Therefore, I prefer to use open source apps and federated SM.

So to answer your question, I would like transparency and accountability about my data usage, as well as compensation. And no I would not like more ads. Since I realise that my preferences are impossible, I try to make the switch I referred above

jellyfin goes arrrrrr

If you are referring to corporate “free” products such as email, cloud and media consumption, I use them until I’m able not to and switch to open source. ex. Gmail -> protonmail Google Drive, photos, contacts -> Next Cloud YouTube -> Jellyfin etc. If you’re referring to corporate Social Media, I just refrain from using them, except FB at the minimum due to contact with old relatives. For other Social Media consumption, I ditched Tweeter (or X or whatever) and Reddit, never used Instagram and TikTok. Switched to Federated SM like Lemmy (Duh!!!) and Mastodon.

TLDR. I value my data,but I draw the line in accordance with my ability to afford it

Microsoft Excel

that’s possibly the best explanation of the difference between a corporate social or other media and a decentralised open source one.

You should concentrate your efforts to live, not just survive.