If you’re on Android (not sure if iOS has an equivalent app), one of the easiest things you can do is download Street Complete and take 15 minutes a day to use it in order to fill in information about your neighborhood.

If media companies make it impossible to buy and own content, then pirating is not unethical.

God I wish they could get rid of web extensions and go back to XUL.

So it’s less a Siri upgrade and more just a getting rid of Siri and putting in Gemini slop.

Weird how many billionaires are just openly pro paedophia.

Wait’ll you find out that over half the states in the US have age gating laws on the internet.

Don’t praise Cloudflare or Italy; both are part of the problem.

You could always just install Linux Mint and then install the Mint XP theme. No Microsoft Account required.

There is an opt-out. It’s called deleting your account. An people should do it.

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2026 shouldn’t be the year of any one specific thing; 2026 should be the year of teaching the less inclined how to be conscious with their data and go over methods for taking back their data from whatever service they might use.

Oh, gosh. Our first family PC was a Tandy Sensation and Winmate which had “In Touch”, the phone center and 11 year old me was fascinated with the idea of having different inboxes for all the family members with personalised greetings.

It never worked since we never actually hooked it up but I still pretended.

http://toastytech.com/guis/winmate2.html

I remember the day my gram got one. By today’s standards, it might not be pretty great but when it first came out I thought it was super cool tech.

To Torvalds, Chromebooks “are the path toward the desktop.”

Please don’t associate Linux with a close-source proprietary neutered web browser owned by an ad company.

Thanks! That seems wild, I never knew that existed.

What is a GeForce Now Subscription and why would you want a subscription to your graphic card? 🤔

The early 2000s music sharing software company LimeWire — now resurrected as a crypto company by new owners — won rights to the infamous Fyre Festival in an auction that was held on eBay, reportedly beating out Ryan Reynolds’ company for the rights.

Just get it on archive.org; it’s probably a lot safer.

Going to Toys R Us and bringing the paper slip for Goldeneye, bringing it to the checkout, and waiting for them to get the game was the best experience.

Tiktok US deal; this is just for the US users. Tiktok global doesn’t change.

Essentially the US just siloed all the US users together and cut them off from the rest of the world and they’re about to find out just how little of the US were on Tiktok.

I don’t understand why they need GenAI for placeholders; part of the fun of the creative process is coming up with fun, crude drawings that are clear placeholders.