Visualy, I’m as average it gets. White straight male, average height, common composition. But

• I’ m Agnostic.

• Believe people are not defined by their occupation and how much they make.

• I m all for worker rights and fight for them

• Into politics and trying to have as an objective ipinion as possible. Also try to talk about politics

• My academic credentials are on the top 10% tier

• I care about my RL and digital privacy

• I use FOSS

• I look after my health as well as my weight

• Not a fan of Football

• I make efforts to own my data and software

• Travel a lot to other countries

• have my own Jellyfin server

• host a locally run smart home

• Run a separate Batocera machine with a lot of games from a lot of legacy systems

• Don’t really care about where other people come from, or what is their religion, or gender, or sexual preference, or politics

OpenBoard. 100% foss. You can find it in F-Droid

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

If I may ask, how did you do the automations with Home assistant?

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.

Because this way, the Tories will definitely take the struggling middle class on their side during the next elections.

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.

I have an idiotic request. Since I’m not familiar with the subject, could we be directed to a kind of wiki or megathread on how to actually encrypt our communications?

Once there was Vanced and now there is Re-Vanced. (if you’re on Android)

I think this issue is mostly a USA one, considering that most communications there have caps (data, phone time, SMS etc.) Paradoxically, the market there doesn’t work very well and prices are relatively high. Big corporations take advantage of it to lock people to their ecosystems. There is a high probability that this issue, will be regulated by the EU, since US policy makers are unable to solve much more important problems. For them this is not an issue. The market has solved it.

That would be good, considered the user could actually have a choose to opt out the telemetry. Windows don’t ask you about gathering data for telemetry or “other” reasons.

Your family is not eccentric. It’s exceptional. There is a big difference. Unfortunately people are afraid of that,that seems different to what they are accustomed. When they cannot do something the other can, they ridicule it. Being bullied feels like shit. Be there for your daughter and help her steam out all the feelings she has. Help her make alliances with other kids in the school. let her choose to do sports or art she likes. teachers may take her side, but don’t imagine that they’ll do something, no mater how much you complain. I hope my response has some meaning for you

No bubble burst. One cannot know everything. I hate wasting time in things that cannot be done. I’ll try to use smart Tube for YT on my smart TVs. Thanks for your feedback .

I’m trying to setup an ADGUARD Add On through Home Assistant, but I’m having difficulties to set it up. Once I’m done all the local network will be Ad free, so it includes all the smart TVs and their apps

On mobile Revanced On desktop Firefox with the appropriate addons

Thank you for the very informative post. Your professional way of handling the issue, puts corporate professionals, “cough” Reddit “cough”, look like the amateurs they really are

The excuse was the 3rd party API shenanigans on Reddit. The real reason occured, as I expanded my stay here, and realised that without Federated Social Media and Open Source Software, humanity will turn into a neo-feudal barbaric age of cruelty sooner than later

they have an insane amount of gun and gun related deaths They don’t have Universal Healthcare they don’t have a federal payed leave law they don’t have a maternal/paternal leave law they don’t have tuition free universities they don’t have decent mass transportation The use of the imperial system

It just doesn’t make sense and baffles my mind for the richest country in the world to treat it’s citizens like this

Our societies have a tendancy to be more authoritarian, autocratic and consumption driven. The way the corporations are using anyone’s data is not transparent and there is no accountability for it. There is also no monetary reward for the use of my data.

Therefore, I prefer to use open source apps and federated SM.

So to answer your question, I would like transparency and accountability about my data usage, as well as compensation. And no I would not like more ads. Since I realise that my preferences are impossible, I try to make the switch I referred above

jellyfin goes arrrrrr