Google the company doesn’t deserve to be a verb

Generally higher storage sizes too, right? So if you want the max storage, go with 3.5"

Yeah, I would prefer not to use Google, so I’m going to figure out how to use another authenticator. I wish Proton had the ability to be an authenticator, but I haven’t seen a way to do that yet.

But all my family has a Google account, so it just makes things easier.

https://github.com/immich-app/immich/discussions/8299

I just got this working today and can say it’s quite an elegant solution. It means anyone with a Google account (that I allow through Cloudflare settings) can take advantage of immich. I plan to be the storage server for my family so they can have automatic photo backups.

If you decide to go that route and have questions, hit me up. I spent a while troubleshooting issues caused by not creating a SaaS application in Cloudflare, so read the directions exactly.

I’ve been using Qwant as well and it’s actually really refreshing. No nonsense and I feel like I get better results than Kagi and Google and Bing.

I love it so far.

cough Sonos

I’m in the US and I’ve not seen any of it either.

Windows 11 kinda sucks, I don’t know why it’s so hard for them to design a consistent UI, but I’ve not seen this ad nonsense.

I am using adguard DNS across my network, so maybe that’s why?

I work in the government and I honestly don’t know when anyone does any real work. It’s meeting after meeting overlapping other meetings. All week.

How does stuff get done, seriously?

God, that website is unusable.

But that ad is so bad.

They’re basically conceding that the only thing they’ve done differently vs the old ones is that they made it thinner. Which… Who was asking for that?

Also, the new iPad Pros are actually thinner and lighter than the iPad Airs, because Apple is the king of confusion these days.

Here’s the document:

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/24088042-project-2025s-mandate-for-leadership-the-conservative-promise

AT LEAST READ THE FOREWARD. It very meticulously lays out their 4 goals:

1. Restore the family as the centerpiece of American life and protect our children.

2. Dismantle the administrative state and return self-governance to the American people.

3. Defend our nation’s sovereignty, borders, and bounty against global threats.

4. Secure our God-given individual rights to live freely—what our Constitution calls “the Blessings of Liberty

In plain language they want to:

1. Effectively make LGBTQ+ persons illegal, unable to marry, adopt, or even exist openly, nationally ban abortion, ban education about black history and systemic racism;
2. hamstring or eliminate a bunch of government agencies like the Department of Education, the EPA, the DOJ, Department of Homeland Security, and to eliminate many positions within the federal government or install loyal puppets;
3. close our borders completely, pull out of NATO and the UN, invest heavily in oil, coal, and natural gas while divesting in renewable energy and removing environmental regulations, and exert extreme control over tech companies and universities;
4. create school voucher programs which very much are to allow parents to segregate their children and use tax dollars to fund conservative, religious, private schools at k-12 levels, and eliminate social welfare programs. Also includes the contradiction of “champion the dynamic genius of free enterprise” and “include antitrust enforcement against corporate monopolies.”

The whole thing is full of conservative buzz words, “anti-woke” rhetoric, and contradictions about free enterprise while wanting to exert control over people and “big tech.”

But it’s also dangerous because they’re going to attempt to consolidate power to the next Republican president. There are complicated and far-reaching consequences to the things they’re proposing that would take an academic paper to get into. For example, Ron DeSantis just signed a bill making lab-grown meat illegal because of the “global elite.” It doesn’t make any sense, but it’s part of the reactionary, anti-leftist, culture war bullshit the Republicans are on right now.

That summary should be enough to show why this is so dangerous.

It’s so wild to me that the same people who espouse the second amendment to the constitution completely ignore the first part, where freedom of speech and freedom of assembly are.

If you love the constitution so much, why aren’t you supporting those who are actually exercising their rights?

Toyota Hilux: the middle-east terrorist’s truck of choice.

But seriously, those things are everywhere in the Middle East and Africa.

Fucking right? We’re at risk of a president declaring himself Emperor of the United States and he’s not dead yet?

We’re at the precipice of becoming Russia where “democracy” is nothing but a veneer, where the people don’t have a real choice in their leaders.

Don’t. It’s people that are out of the loop (people that work too much, don’t care, people with busy lives, etc) who are at risk of falling for Republican propaganda about how bad Biden is and how good Trump is.

An informed populace is always for the best. It’s why Republicans attack education and freedom of information so hard.

Be thankful to be informed and thankful you can actually act on it. For now.

They’re banning VPNs. I have no idea why, but reddit is unusable at this point.

That’s exactly why people love web programming so much. There’s always a challenge.

Ha, I swear, this must be sarcasm.

Great article nonetheless!

In medicine, finding out what doesn’t work is nearly as valuable as finding what does. Because finding out why it doesn’t work can lead to you the solution and perhaps even solutions for things you weren’t even looking for.

Oh awesome, thanks!

Welp, guess I’m going to get rid of Disney+. I already hate that they flooded it with Hulu content. I very much cannot let my kid browse through unattended anymore.

I mean, Poor Things is on there now and it has some of the most explicit sex scenes I’ve seen in a movie in a long time.

It’s fine for writing the President or your grandmother, but I’d avoid it for anything business-related.