Their products require their app, would this effectively turn their devices useless when the servers die?

I know it supports a single button to start cleaning, but I wonder if that will work properly without being able to call home.

Might be time for people to look for alternatives.

Banning people in games is extremely difficult, annoyingly so.

Hopefully our AI overlord will be benevolent

I stayed away from Chrome alternatives, as it had the best Canvas/HTML5 performance (Which oddly enough, was quite important for most of my browsing needs). However, this news means I will have to switch. Installed Firefox for my primary browsing needs, and a few Chromium-based ones to try out for specifically the aforementioned use case.

I LOVE that description, and I completely agree. What I’ve noticed though, with people that do not enjoy the game, that they’ve all labeled it as a walking simulator.

So I do get their ‘feeling’

It’s an exceptional game, IF you can stomach the gameplay loop. Some might describe it as a walking simulator, a beautiful one, but a walking simulator nonetheless.

It also has some great story telling, but the gameplay loop won’t change, so if you find that too boring, it might not be a game for you.

Why you may be right, it’s irrelevant if you say it with such a tone. Additionally, it’s quite clear OP means predatory forms of algorithms.

“Save 100% with this simple trick!”

I agree, but that doesn’t make me less excited lol. Hideo Kojima is a lil insane but his games have all been a real experience.

2026 will definitely be my year

Not a home owner yet, but I just purchased a home and waiting on the handover.

This post has been really helpful! Certainly in writing some stuff down to remember 😅

I do not entirely agree.

While what you said might be true for content that we post, things like view history and tracking in itself is much more difficult. That meta data does help with tagging content.

Something like DigitalOcean or Hetzner will set you back a max of 10 euros a month. But that does require some technical know how with a terminal.

Would that suffice, or are you looking for something more ‘UI Based’ that will manage it for you?

Don’t really have a recommendation about which, but I do about how.

For repositories that I deem important, either for practical or nostalgia reasons, I use Gitea to keep an up to date clone. I believe most self hosted Git solutions offer a similar functionality, like Gitlab has one too that I’m aware of.

I thought after s2 of Discovery, something exactly like that was already a thing?

Or am I misremembering, it’s been a while.

That’s a very good shout, I wasn’t aware there are pre existing lists. That’s a great step, and definitely one I will look to add to my own instance.

My worry is that these social media alternatives might get scraped by these AI companies as well.

Sure, a company handing it over is much easier (i.e. Reddit). But with the decentralized nature, everyone needs to protect their instances themselves, which I’m not sure how well everyone will be capable of doing that.

Definitely much more difficult, so it’s a step in the right direction.

This is the primary reason I’ve not given agents more power than something extremely controlled (I.e. only a function to turn on/off the lights). As I was always concerned that these generational models might accidentally do something dumb or annoying, let alone something that might be illegal or harmful.

I don’t really see how anyone would ask AI to complete something completely autonomously at this stage, without oversight.

First of all: take a breath!

Pihole is a great start, and an awesome piece of software. As self-hosting is quite broad, there are quite a few options, so I have two suggestions that should still be relatively simple to continue with, and that I thoroughly enjoyed when getting started.

1. Webservers: Something like Caddy, NGINX or Apache (Caddy being likely the simplest choice here), will allow you host your own website! If you open a port on your router, this website can also be accessed remotely (be careful! Without SSL, you should not expose any forms, to avoid those being leaked). A bit outside the realm of “self-hosting” — but Cloudflare allows you to setup SSL with relative ease and also allows you to link a domain your website.
2. Game Servers: Many options in this space, so take a pick for a game you like! I am an avid minecraft enjoyer, and regularly setup modded servers to play with my friends. You can find some more info here on how to get started with a Minecraft server implementation called “Fabric”

Have fun! And if there is something more specific you’re curious about, feel free to ask 😀