minisome - The miniature social media that doesn't sell your data!

4 months ago

Just under three weeks on Artix had a few issues with compatibility with games and apps that rely on systemd but nothing that wasn't fixable today however it completely shit the bed never seen anything like it, swapped to CachyOS lol I figured for an Nvidia gaming PC Cachy is the practical choice I just wanna play games. Still running a non systemd OS on my laptop however, Void Linux it is a great OS.

witcherJ

4 months ago

” Manuli: I still haven't advertised this site anywhere. In the near future I think I'll put up flyers around my school so maybe some local people will join.”

Sounds like a good idea, it would be cool for more people to join. Maybe also put an ad on 4chan or something. I found this site from a /g/ thread.

Manuli

4 months ago

I still haven't advertised this site anywhere. In the near future I think I'll put up flyers around my school so maybe some local people will join.

1 month ago -

4 replies

Just take my money.

4 months ago -

3 replies

We're already nearing a point in time where tech companies like Microsoft, Google, meta etc. could take total control of humanity. They have so much money and influence that they're basically politicians that weren't elected democratically.
And we let this happen.

witcherJ

4 months ago

” test: I miss the times when technological innovations didn't exist to abuse the user. People say the smartphone and AI are "just tools" but I don't remember a hammer ever sharing my private data with the government.”

There are a lot of psychos in charge of tech nowadays half of these large companies are basically just fronts for intelligence agencies it is like a tyrants dream but again the general populace are not guilt free they have all the information to know what is bad and what is good and they choose the evil tech for it's convenience.

test

4 months ago

” witcherJ: It is only happening because most people will sacrifice all for convenience even if they do not realise they are doing so. Not all tech is dystopian only tech for the masses and it is both the "elites" and the masses fault.”

I miss the times when technological innovations didn't exist to abuse the user. People say the smartphone and AI are "just tools" but I don't remember a hammer ever sharing my private data with the government.

witcherJ

4 months ago

It is only happening because most people will sacrifice all for convenience even if they do not realise they are doing so. Not all tech is dystopian only tech for the masses and it is both the "elites" and the masses fault.

1 year ago -

2 replies

Post 'em.

10 months ago -

1 replies

People mistakenly treat electric vehicles as a godsend, when in fact they're just a capitalist ruse.

Try to remember what has happened to every battery-operated device you've owned. Not only are they always out of juice, but once the battery no longer holds charge, you throw it in the trash. This is exactly the case with electric cars. A new battery pack can cost as much as a brand new car, making electric cars effectively single-use. How sustainable is that? Meanwhile my 90s Toyota is still running strong.

2 months ago -

1 replies

Do you know how Foucault's pendulum works? Did you know that it can be used to prove that the Earth rotates?

Manuli

2 months ago

You let the pendulum swing back and forth, and in 24 hours it completes a full circle. But the pendulum itself does not rotate, as there is no sideways force that would affects its linear swinging motion. So it must be the ground beneath the pendulum that rotates. The pendulum is fixed to the ceiling with a nearly frictionless ball joint that allows the pendulum to swing unaffected even when the building itself around the pendulum is slowly rotating. I think this is super cool.

1 year ago -

0 replies

Today, once again, I went to the store to buy more RAM so I could keep using the Internet. For 20 years I've been using the Innerneh to do the same thing: write text and look at 50kb jpg files. But this same task is requiring more and more processing power from my computer, and a faster connection. Nobody else is noticing this. "RAM is dirt cheap, just buy more lol." I need to upgrade my PC because sites are full of bloat. They want to track your mouse and use timers to count the milliseconds you spend hovering over a pic. I don't want that. They do. Yet I need to pay up if I want to keep my meme and social addiction. I'm basically paying for my own surveillance and being blackmailed.