That’s kind of the way the whole category works. People are playing cat and mouse with a billion dollar company and are fighting a uphill battle against Googles countermeasures, app store policies and lawsuits. So there is really no perfect app that will work for all time.

I really do not understand what you want to say with your comment. The user here asked for a better alternative than Brave for watching YouTube and PipePipe/NewPipe is exactly what they asked for. They are also not that complicated to install as you seem to suggest, you can simply install them with one touch from an App Store. So what do you want to say here?

Yes, watched a few videos yesterday with PipePipe

Dude, just use NewPipe or PipePipe from Fdroid. They are much better than using the Youtube mobile website.

I wanted to see it and did take a look into your profile: That was one user and he was rightfully criticized and downvoted for that stupid post. It’s not great that this happened, but I’m not sure if it is fair to judge all of us here based on that

Bitcoin. A technology trying to circumvent our highly regulated financial system? Which is mostly used to sell drugs online and evade sanctions? Where we knew at the start that it would need more energy than whole countries if it was successful? And then there are those 51% attacks? Yeah, that’s stupid. I really would have expected governments to crack down harsh on everything bitcoin and cryptocoin and would have expected that owning or using them would be as illegal as owning child porn.

There is another battle: There is a fight to open up app installation on phones. The EU recently forced Apple to allow other app stores on iOS and Apple is fighting this as hard as you would expect. Apple & Google are taking 30% of each sale in their stores and are making bank. One of the arguments they are pushing is “safety”. Only apps on their vetted app stores are safe, every other store is unsafe and so on. If they allow a child porn app in their store, all of their arguments in this debate are invalid. And that is also an important fact for that debate.

Does it? It was possible a while ago, but in the last years, we saw train tickets going to apps. There is no ticket machine at my local stop. There are areas where you can only park your car with an app. I need 2FA to get into my accounts. Restaurants have QR code menus. So going to protests or just living your life without a phone is getting harder

You can do most of that without any fancy AI or machine learning: Since you already have your own domain, setup some mail redirects and filter all mails going into them into subfolders. I have a redirect for onlineshopping where all those order confirmation and delivery informations and unwanted newsletters go. I have another I use for creating accounts - all 2FA etc. are going there. And then I have the main mail for actual communication and another redirect for all those interesting substack newsletters and so on.

Each community has its own culture and each Mastodon poster has his own style - there are communities on Lemmy where a typical Mastodon toot will fit perfectly and there are communities where it will not fit. So try to fit in with your posts into the community you are posting to and everything will be fine

If they don’t want you to form a union and go to such lenghts to prevent unions from forming, you know that unions are a good thing for workers and a bad thing for bosses and owners. You might want to think about joining your union.

No, it doesn’t. But that is totally something that should run locally on your own devices.

I kind of makes sense to produce computers that are able to run local AI. People here hate AI, but there are a lot of tasks that make a lot of sense even on a laptop. It’s great to produce tags and descriptions for your images. Google Photo has this - search for “horse” and you will get back all pictures of horses you have taken. And it totally makes sense to run stuff like this locally on your own computer without sending every picture you’ve taken to Trumpland.

But I really do not trust Microsoft to build something like that. That would totally go against everything they have been doing for the last decade and would also devalue their billions they’ve put into OpenAI

A lollipop with electronic waste. Truly a feat of engineering!

I wonder how many staff members of that hotel decided to quit suddenly

That might be your only option depending on your citizen status. You really do not want to be deported by ICE and ICE will totally deport that latin looking maid.

That’s full psychopathic behaviour

It makes sense from a usability POV - if you increase the size of the continents, you can place your armies better. Esp. as half of the planet is just the pacific ocean, which has no function in Risk as far as I remember

Yeah - people and countries are trying to get out of their dependency on the US, but they are trying to do so kind of stealthy to not get in confrontations with Trump (who is totally one to escalate stuff if he notices) and also in a way to minimize their losses.

You might not like it, but AI can totally give you a recommendation of similar bands.

I remember getting my first MP3s at a LAN party and it was revolutionary. You could just copy over music to your computer from other computers and they had quite the selection? Awesome! I totally filled my (tiny) hard disk to the brim and then listened the shit out of them with Winamp. I learned a while later that you could also rip CDs and that was also revolutionary. Then Napster, the first Discmens with MP3 support and so on - MP3s are awesome!