So far it’s a glorified search engine, which it is mildly competent at. It just speeds up collecting the information I would anyways and then I can get to sorting useful from useless faster.

That said, I’ve seen emails from people that were written with AI and it instantly makes me less likely to take it seriously. Just tell me what the end goal is and we can discuss how to best get there instead is regurgitating some slop that wouldn’t get is there in the first place!

Hey mate, I think someone swapped your space and return keys.

Every towel I have ever used has a tag on it, that’s the crotch end, dry your face with the other end.

Cutting toxicity out if my life in general.

I’ve blocked, unsubscribe, and filtered most email. I’ve completely reduced my physical mail to nothing because I don’t need spam every day. I’ve cut out ads on my devices, I don’t need to be constantly manipulated by companies. Speaking of, I left Windows like 2 years ago and it’s been great. I also filtered most news out of my life because it enrages me and I don’t need that stress.

Apple. There’s no windows.

Removes from cart

Good tip!

Where I am from local governments have disposal policies for surplus items. This can be seized property, vehicles, office supplies, and computers. Or may be worth researching how your local area handles disposal because I’ve seen pallets of computers go cheap.

Fun fact: there are only 14 calendar variations in the Gregorian calendar system. Stand-up Maths by Matt Parker

So, Big Calendar has literally been selling you the same 14 things year after year.

No, but social media is happy to use him.

You beautiful fucking genius! I’ve been looking at trying to get a Lemmy patch embroidered, but it was going to be like $200 for the first and it got cheaper the more I bought. Instead of doing that I can just print one out on my brothers printer instead!

Pieus

Oh, no, corporate just realized that could get four times as much viewership of their ads if they replace a human with four robots. Sure, it may be more costly overall, but their advertisement partners have seen significant increases in analytics and they really like that.

I run AdGuard as an addon to Home Assistant. If you want to stick to AdGuard you can go to Settings > Client Settings and set a per-client filtering rule. There is a tab in the client settings that can be used to filter specific services with a click. Setting an IP reservation for your child’s device in the DHCP settings of Unifi or your router will help ensure the IP address stays consistent.

For the PiHole option, you don’t actually have to let the PiHole handle DHCP. You just need to tell your DHCP server what DNS server to use. For example, my router is .1 and my Raspberry PI is .2. The DHCP server, my router, tells all devices .1 is the gateway and .2 is the DNS server. You may also need to set these settings on the individual devices to prevent them from ignoring your DNS settings, but that can be done from the network settings. Avast had some safe networking “feature” that would force my DNS settings to be ignored, same with my Android phone.

Of course, the downside to all of this is that any different device, different IP, device from a friend, or mobile data could bypass these restrictions. You may soon be in an arms race with your child and chances are they can get more clever that you can in a shorter time frame.

Folk music?

Of course they will! First you make a copy, then you delete the copy. Contractual terms satisfied.

• Laundry
• Sewing and garment repair
• Simple hand tools
• Troubleshooting and repair of frequently used devices (cars, computers, bicycles, etc.)
• Cooking, eating healthy, and packing a lunch
• Basic medicine (symptom identification, when do you need to seek immediate help, first-responder training)
• Self defense and de-escalation
• Consent and how to be clear with your desires and intentions
• Communication and being understood
• Emotional health and understanding your own feelings and how to handle then in a healthy way
• Addiction, negative feedback loops, obsession and how to avoid becoming a victim of them
• How to exercise and maintain a healthy body
• Dishes
• Learning how your own mind works and how to work with it. (Rewards, pitfalls, living with ADHD, etc.)

I love the idea and it’s something I thought about doing too, so I’m super interested in this thread.

For me, I thought it would be interesting to remove the existing stereo and mount everything it the double-DIN hole left behind. That would give you access to power, ignition, and speaker wires easily. You would need to do some rewiring between cars, but it would be the most practical spot.

From working on some fleet vehicles before, I’ve seen interesting systems where all of the accessories were on their own battery that only charged when the car was running or off an external charging cord that could be connected if it was going to sit for a while.

The benefit of a separate power system was that the equipment didn’t need to boot up every time you started the car. Maybe the display and anything else could be powered only when running, but if the main computer was always powered that would save time. It could also get a signal from a battery maintainer that the accessory battery is low and perform a graceful shutdown.

And after the 90 days they can also let you go for no reason.

Well, except for the few things which are legally protected such as your race in which case they have to make up a different reason to write down first before kicking your ass to the curb.

Represent those you want to support with the best examples and those you want to oppose with the worst examples. Ignore that every group is made of people and people come in many distinct, unique varieties because it doesn’t fit your narrative.

Filters; opt-out of negativity. I switched to Voyager from Boost because it supports filters and I can just blacklist topics that cause me stress. Anywhere I can just stop a topic from ever entering my perception, the better. A single bad headline may ruin my mood for hours from just a glance, better to never get the chance.

Subscriptions; opt-in to the topics and news you care about. Find a good source that offers curated feeds instead of a firehouse of everything. You can only care so much, so use that attention sparingly on things that deserve it.

Avoid algorithms. They are designed to keep your attention on them and outage is good at that. Save your health, find it yourself.

Community. Find people, groups, or organizations that have a similar mindset and share good content with them. If they share good content in kind, you all can improve your state of mind.