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smiletolerantly ,

Yeah. Boost itself is great though. Well worth the couple of bucks to get rid of the ads forever.

smiletolerantly OP ,

I'm able to resolve DNS requests from the device. But maybe I'm misunderstanding your question? 😅

smiletolerantly OP ,

Ah, alright. Yes, I've just double checked. The server end of the tunnel provides a dns server, and the client is configured to use that as its only dns server.

smiletolerantly OP ,

I don't have accounts on any other streaming services 😅
YouTube works, though

Do you have a suggestion how to eliminate this as a possibility?

smiletolerantly OP ,

Hi,

no, sorry :(

I really don't think it's DNS (famous last words, I know)

smiletolerantly ,

What use is Github / a Github clone to you without knowing git?

smiletolerantly ,

So what are you using it for? (Not criticizing, genuinely curious)

smiletolerantly ,

Oh, didn't even know you could do that, lol

smiletolerantly ,

I've been hosting a personal domain with an established-but-not-large hosting provider for around 6 years, without any troubles sending or receiving mail from that domain (via the provider's servers, of course).

Does that mean my domain is now well established enough to take email hosting to my own server?

smiletolerantly ,

Awesome. Thanks.

Amazon Mulls $5 to $10 monthly price tag for unprofitable Alexa service, AI revamp (www.reuters.com)

Amazon (AMZN.O) is planning a major revamp of its decade-old money-losing Alexa service to include a conversational generative AI with two tiers of service and has considered a monthly fee of around $5 to access the superior version, according to people with direct knowledge of the company's plans.

smiletolerantly ,

I've been wondering this. I have multiple of the older (non-Dot, the tall, cylindrical ones) Echoes. I hate using them. But I do like the form factor and sound quality.

It probably can't be too hard to gut everything but the speakers, microphone and DC port, then wire in a Pi / Pi Zero, right...?

smiletolerantly ,

Isn't the --remote-host missing here? (Since you're using --remote-sudo?)

smiletolerantly ,

If you're not using a standard DE (Gnome, KDE,...) but rather something like i3, Hyprland,... then I highly recommend starting with home-manager on whatever distro you're currently on. Once you're happy with that setup, it's really easy to add the "rest of the system" without risking a giant headache because your desktop still needs to be configured

smiletolerantly ,
  • Arch
  • Arch
  • Ubuntu Pro

what's your current linux distro?

wanting to hop into the world of linux on a dual boot method (one of my favorite games unfortunately cannot be run on linux at all, and it's a gacha. I don't want to gamble with my account being banned, so I'm keeping windows for it specifically.) this'll be my second go at it, I used Pop!_OS briefly but had some issues with...

smiletolerantly ,

NixOS on my Laptop, Desktop, Gaming Machine, and around 10 servers.

Still have two servers on Arch, waiting to be migrated, and I'm really itching to but NixOS on the Steam Deck as well.

smiletolerantly ,

...no?

I think what plays into this is also language. In English / to you, I presume it makes perfect sense to say "Pi is approximately three point one four".
In other languages (for me, German) the literal translation "Pi ist ungefähr drei Punkt eins vier" sounds awful and wrong. We say "Pi ist ungefähr drei Komma eins vier" ("Pi is approximately three comma one four") so we also write it like this 🤷🏼‍♀️

smiletolerantly ,

Sure, but if everyone said it differently, than that would also be part of the language. I don't disagree with you, I just think you've described language (in this context) 😄

smiletolerantly ,

They don't actually have to enforce that though. Rather, it's a neat trick: if you do use encrypted chats, well, you're purposefully doing something illegal! To hide information, no less! That surely means you have more to hide, and since you've already broken a law, let's investigate further!

To be clear: I'm not saying this is the intended effect. But it is a frighteningly possible one. Anyone who has reason to hide their communication (regime critical activists, opposition politicians, investigative journalists,...) either have to

  • accept that their communication will be scanned, making it trivial to spy on them and use that information (legally, no less!) to hinder/stop them, or
  • do something illegal, giving pretext for hindering/stopping them since they've now committed a crime
smiletolerantly ,

Oh, absolutely. In case it wasn't clear, I'm against chatcontrol.

smiletolerantly ,

Didn't know about this, but sounds like a good cause.

Is there any legal risk involved with this? Is it recommended to run behind a VPN?

smiletolerantly , (edited )

I FOUND A STACK OVERFLOW QUESTIONS RECENTLY THAT WAS LITERALLY THIS!

Nr. 1 accepted answer (lots of years ago): something something plenty of information available on Google, no need for this thread

Nr. 2 answer (way fewer years ago): seeing as this is now the first Google result for anything relating to this, here's how you do it.

(shame I can't remember what exactly the question was. Please still believe me? 🥺)

smiletolerantly ,

Oof yeah. Finding a reddit thread with your exact query as the title, getting excited to see a comment, aaaaand... It's "This comment was deleted by EliteUltraEraser Premium TM. I value my privacy,...."

(I do get it though. And who knows, maybe this will actually help in the long run and not just lead to increased usage of Discord communities so ask the same thing over and over and over again because they aren't fucking publicly searchable god I hate what Discord has done to the searchability of issues in the tech space?)

smiletolerantly ,

Oops, might have gone a little off topic there.

smiletolerantly ,

Ah, I think my edible just hit, that explains it

smiletolerantly ,

OK im gonna stop commenting now.

smiletolerantly ,

Just checking in to say: Cute dress!

smiletolerantly , (edited )

The only flagship phone I know that has all the features (3.5mm, SD card,...) is the Xperia 1 series, and those are kinda expensive, sadly.

smiletolerantly ,

(Not the person you responded to)

I'm curious, what exactly are your issues with the AI implementations the poster above you mentioned?

Because to me, they seem like very specific usecases where they actually offer benefits. It doesn't seem like someone just went "everyone is doing ai... Let's slap ai on Firefox so we stay one of the cool kids!".

Example: I live in a country where I don't speak the language. Instead of using a plugin for Firefox which translates e.g. government sites by sending them to Google translate, FF has been handling this locally for a couple of months now. Seems like a win to me.

Similarly, I imagine that vision impaired folks will receive a real benefit by not having to deal with the way-too-large number of websites not providing alt tags for images.

If (yes, I know, big IF) the models FF ships are indeed ethically trained and run fully locally... Then I kinda don't get the issue

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