Obsidian can be almost anything you want it to be. Try searching out some videos from folks who use Obsidian for journalling.

If it’s publicly accessible, it’s going to be exploited for LLMs 🤷🏻‍♀️

We’ve used a couple of different Pis and a couple of different Odroids. The Odroids have been excellent and trouble free, the Pis not so much. Initially we got a Pi because we thought with the bigger community and better software support it would be easier to troubleshoot issues. Except that they have been regular problems that we haven’t always been able to work around or fix. One of them got relegated to a retro game ‘console’ because it was more trouble than it was worth. We’ve had little issues with the Odroids that wasn’t easily sorted.

That sucks to hear. Back when I migrated to the Fediverse, I chose Kbin just simply because the interface suited me better. Frustrating when aholes ruin a good thing.

I might just be really tired and feeling dense this morning, but what do you mean about kbin.social?

Calibre Content Server
https://manual.calibre-ebook.com/server.html

Or Calibre-Web
https://github.com/janeczku/calibre-web

I’ve have never once had my credit card details stolen or lost money because I hd an account ‘hacked’ or whatever. And yet, my family and in laws regularly have the card details stolen. They’re completely oblivious to the link between their lack of privacy considerations and getting their data stolen. So even significant real world impact still doesn’t change some people’s behaviour 🤦🏻‍♀️

Just be aware that 23andMe citizenship extraction renders your birth certification and citizenship null and void. If you accept this, extend your arm through the indicators and bite down on the sanitized bit. It may sting a little.

Also tell Kiera I said hi if you see her in the future.

https://customercare.23andme.com/hc/en-us/articles/212170688-Requesting-23andMe-Account-Closure

It’s been years and I have Memory Impairment so I’m not sure but I think part of the issue with syncing was that we had a ‘family’ database which made for multiple devices and several people needing to sync that while frustrating at times was OK, until we had an episode of data loss that just killed it for us. Enpass had built in sync, a nicer UI, more features and jut more cohesive across devices.

But again, my memory is very fuzzy and it’s worth looking into again because as good as Enpass is, it’s not open source.

I used to use Keepass (thanks person who said keep ass, I can’t not see that now) for many years but started to get frustrated with stuff not syncing properly and a few other reasons I can’t remember anymore. But I think I’ll have to give it a go again. I’ve been using Enpass for a number of years and it’s been good but I’ve never liked that it’s closed source.

More reasons I’m glad we switched to Jellyfin

This is my issue too. Yes, there are some things that are absolutely dangerous and some things that are completely nuts. But not all conspiracy theories, for example, are crazy. Some are actual conspiracies. That aside it’s a dangerous precedent to set when someone is picking and choosing what to show or not show and removing the ability of others to decide for themselves.

Many governments, organisations, companies, etc. can be above board, but they don’t always stay that way. Others are dystopian in their obsession with power and control. Its not always obvious what’s what when censorship and curation of results are going on.

And frankly, sometimes the ‘facts’ turn out to be wrong. Our reality is that we live in a world where profit and greed drives information and trends, where late stage capitalism leads to more exploitation and all of this is helped by bias, fraud, science for sale and yes, censorship.

I cannot trust a company or organiation that censors search results because quite simply it means I can’t tell if they’re covering over anything else and what that anything else could be.

Much like the parable of the boy who cried wolf. You’re either 100% above board and trustworthy or you’re not.

I didn’t mean that every single Google product is a acquisition, just a LOT of them.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mergers_and_acquisitions_by_Alphabet

That website shows how much Google buys up and then shuts down, centralising it’s power even more.

This is true. But at least it’s still LESS data that Meta et al have which is still better than doing absolutely nothing.

It also helps increase awareness around viable alternatives - many people are resistent to trying new apps because they’re believe alternatives will be difficult (or whatever). By getting them to see first hand that the alternatives are just as usable, they my then go on to tell other people as such.

Not always. And I don’t see the key distinction you mean. Can you explain further.

Using the example of my city again, there’s no difference between the buses and taxis here in terms of contracted or not. The various bus companies are all privately owned. Some still have their own liveries. Some have the city council liveries. Some bus services don’t have regular contracts with the council/government at all and just run various private services. Sometimes the council will contract them for one off services. Regardless of how they look or the contract (or lack thereof), they’re all privately owned.

All the taxis are private owned. But the government/council contracts them for certain purposes. For example, if you are injured and unable to drive, ACC will pay for a taxi to take you to and from health services.

All of these companies are for-profita nd make profit from their contracts.

The profit made by some of the public services by private companies is a regular issue of contention in this country. As is the selling off by state owned public interest facilities (such as the rail system, power generation, communications, etc.).

In some countries the public transport is run by for-profit companies too. In my city, for example, ALL of the public transport are contracted private companies. They’re all liveried as public transport, but they’re still privately run.

This is less a problem about the actual scooters though and more of an issue with the people using them (or people setting them up) not giving a damn about where they’re left.

I have mobility issues and can’t use the footpath on Fridays because that’s rubbish collection day and people just leave their bins in the middle of the footpath. People in my area also park on the footpaths, across the foot paths and leave all sorts of crap from their property leaning out onto them. That’s despite it being illegal to do so.

If most people used the scooters responsibly (put their bins out responsibly, parked their cars on their property or road, etc. etc.) it would mostly be a non-issue.