MrSilkworm

The increase in energy consumption globally is still bigger than the increase of energy production from renewables. When this happens, hopefully soon, we will start seing reductions in fossil fuel, and especially oil, cosumption. The adoption of EVs will increase further as soon as bettery cosy falls further, wich is expected in the next few years due to increased supply of lithium and thecnologiasl breakthroughs in EV energy mangement

Lets cross our fingers

NextCloud and BitWarden. But that’s a project for later down the road. Local and Foss all the way

Thank you for the suggestion.

I’m planning on buying an AMD GPU later this year and then, I’m planning on installing Linux on my Desktop since Windows 10 will not be supported.

Thanks for the advice.

Already bought a VPN subscription with PIA and also setup a private DNS with cloud-flare on my android smartphone and tablet. Will look into the PC settings later.

I LL take a look into Mullvad later as well since I saw it’s a fork of Firefox which makes it a very interesting prospect.

That won’t be necessary, because I completely uninstalled it and it’s not connected to the network anymore

• Ditched Reddit for Lemmy

• Twitter for Mastodon

• Netflix, Apple+, Prime for Plex

• Gmail for Protonmail

• Outlook for Thunderbird

• partly Degoogled my android Smartphone

• switched from Vanced to Re-vanced

• Chrome for Firefox with add-ons

• Alexa for Home Assistant

• Partly switched off telemetry on Windows 10

• Got my first all unlimited contract on my smartphone

• Upgraded my ADSL to 200 Mbps

• Used FOSS quite more frequently

• Used Calibre for the first time

• Learned a lot about emulators on PC

Tbh, didn’t realised about all these things until I wrote them down

edit: formating

this is a video that everyone has to watch, and keep watching until it goes viral

I know that unfortunately it’s not going to happen.

I also know that there are numerous NGOS and less fortunate people who could really take advantage of using a pc and use it for a good cause or just enjoy it.

I also realise that there is a great number of students, even in the developed world, who could use a laptop for school and fun as well by running Linux.

instead of throwing the hardware away it could be repurposed.

Also i could use a couple of new old pcs to build a NAS for local cloud and jellyfish as well as a Batocera based emulation console for my living room.

Researchers warn that Windows 11 restrictions could send 240 million computers to landfills

Researchers warn Microsoft that Windows 11 restrictions could send 240 million computers to run Linux. FTFY

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

We should tread lightly!

“I hate so fucking much how little customer service companies are allowed to have”.

It’s not a mater of how much customer service they’re allowed, rather than how much they choose to have. In most cases they choose to have close to none because it’s more profitable for them, so its in the best short term interest of their share holders. And yes, in most corporations, long term is thex quarter

It’s not an apples to apples comparable situation. Pun intended!

Fear of cheap Chinese EVs spurs automaker dash for affordable cars

fear of competition spurs automakers to make competitive products. FTFY

if you’re using a desktop, try Firefox with the Ublock origin and SponsorBlock Addons. On Android either try the above or use Re Vanced.

proton mail is indeed very good

A bit of info about an “experiment” on the subject https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Popeye

I also use Nvidia GPUs on Windows. The thing is that They tend to have driver issues on Linux.

I’m also very disappointed with the closed architecture of their software, their recent price hiking in Europe and the fact that they stop supporting older GPUs

TL’DR. I don’t have a bad experience on Windows. At the same time it’s hard to switch to Linux, they dont have open source drivers and they don’t have long term support for their products by turning them obsolete through software

Hopefully by 2025 gaming in Linux will be greatly improved even more. Until then I’ll keep using Windows 10 and I’ll start saving for an AMD card

May I suggest the use of ZigBee protocol devices instead of WiFi or Tuya. You will need a ZigBee dongle in HA but it will work locally without cloud intervals.Zigbee also creates a mesh network , so it has less connectivity issues. It should be noted that not all kinds of sensors and devices use the ZigBee protocol.

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.