I read somewhere they'd be releasing the list of witnesses on July 20th

DiWhy?

Grilled cheese - American cheese is the only way i enjoy a grilled cheese. Also, Black Forest ham and American cheese sandwich with lettuce tomato and mayo on a baguette or other real tasting bread.

I have always lurked Reddit, I have never made an account. With Lemmy, I contribute instead of lurk as I feel I have a part to play in it's early growth for it to succeed. But that being said, I occasionally check the front page and a few specific subreddits but not quite as frequently since I joined Lemmy.

Oh, and when I do, I use LibReddit to view reddit, so nothing even official.

I contribute where I can, nothing significant.

However, nothing beats Apple maps IMO. I have an iPhone which I hotspot data to and basically only use it as a GPS when driving. I can't use my Android device as I prefer using Apple CarPlay and GrapheneOS does not support Android Auto.

I use Magic Earth or OSMand when I don't have my iPhone with me.

I can only wish the Big Tech maps could use OSM as a standard protocol, with sharing live traffic data, hazards, etc, between map apps. It would be for the greater good and would make using an open source alternative a lot more useful...

Favorite? Hm... I would have to say Codeigniter (PHP framework) but I love these projects as well: Linux/GNU, VLC, LibreOffice, qBittorrent, VSCodium, Filezilla, GIMP, Firefox, Wireguard, GrapheneOS, Matrix, F-Droid, Piped/Invidious.

If I won the lottery I'd donate to these projects or their respective foundations.

Great, more bots... Did they fix the horrible bot problem? I haven't played in 6+ months due to this.

There's a reason big tech companies are worth hundreds of billions of dollars yet most of their users have not paid a dime. So yes, data is valuable.

Data is very valuable. Google shows advertisements like they're listening to people's conversations, except they aren't. Their data profiles and predictions are so good they know what you want to buy before you even know you want to buy it.

Search the Cambridge Analytica scandal.. I am not grossly over estimating anything.

AI training and data mining. The value of data has surpassed the value of oil long ago. The world's most valuable resource is no longer oil.

I believe there will always be a way to watch these videos ad-free. I can't imagine they will restructure the video serving infrastructure to force ads in a way that can't be blocked as there is so many devices and official YouTube clients (gaming consoles, Smart TVs, etc) that would have to be updated. However, I do think they might make it more difficult.

youtube-dl is the way to go. One thing you could do is keep a text file containing video IDs that you have already downloaded and before downloading a new video and append the new video ID to the list. Another way is you could also set the file name to the video ID to and check if it exists before downloading as well.

Check out rocket.chat

It is what my company uses. It is free and open source. Same features as Discord. Not too difficult to setup.

Really? I sure hope that's customizable...

Oh man, now it works. Lol. I swear I was jusy getting a 404 error on that exact URL. Thanks.

Hm, maybe that's it. Either way, I hope a more seamless blending of servers is on Lemmy's roadmap.

I tried that too. Are you able to search it?

That is exactly why I choose to use FOSS including Linux. As much as I want to standby this principle, I have come to a breaking point after dealing with its issues, issues we have all experienced. I believe it is hands down the best choice for server use, but for work and productivity, I need something more matured that is going to work out of the box. I am glad that the community here took this criticism well but I think it's important to discuss and understand that there are still some strides to be made. But at the end of the day, I'm just some guy ranting and who knows, maybe I'll be installing a Linux distro after a month of using Mac OS.

I'm trying to get to hackintosh@lemmy.world but it I am getting 404 error when manually inputting it to URL nd its not showing up on the search. How do I create a post there? I'm confused now Lol..

The episode is called "The entire history of you"

a father was recording his kids in 3D through his Vision Pro

Didn't Black Mirror have an episode on this? Having the tech being used in day to day seems a little dystopian to me.

I will never stop using Linux, special place in my heart. But for my primary work machine and daily driver, I need something that is just going to work.

Sounds like this is the way I'm going to go. I'll try the hackintosh route to test the waters before shelling out on a Mac if I decide so.

I am using a Thinkpad with Ubuntu LTS. From the few bugs I did research, they're reported but seem pretty stale.

Yeah the telemetry in M$ Windows is what is stopping me. I have no need for Windows, I don't play many games. I do agree with the Apple hardware argument, I am thinking of doing a hackintosh to test the waters.

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Ah, that makes sense now. Thanks for the explanation.

I think the idea is awesome. The only main issue I see is user growth. I guess with time the user base could grow, but if it stays stagnant, there will be a lot of abandoned communities and users will continue to come and then go.