Ugh, those hedgehog smileyfaces can fuck all the way off

High quality indie games are very affordable <3

Newest post from Cory Doctorow is about exactly this https://pluralistic.net/2026/01/06/1000x-liability/#graceful-failure-modes

my old laptop😅 and a bluetooth keyboard/touchpad. If it is not too noisy and performs well enough, I might make that a dedicated tv device (but then I will have to buy a new laptop lol, I’ve been drooling on framework for a while).

Alternatively one of the n150 options, like you say. In which case I can update this post

Great tip, thanks!

Cool, using this setup now.

Thinking of ways to make it more friendly for my SO and guests coming to visit or babysit etc, who are not used to linux (gnome). Any tips there?

Top of mind is auto open browser on startup with fixed tabs for relevant streaming services. But could also be a simple wrapper of some kind, with UI similar to kodi, plex, jellyfin etc - but for accessing content on web.

Thx for the tip!

Thanks for the tip! I actually have an old intel celeron running as a server in the basement, so the bare minimum for this is playing media from the network. But, being able to play simple games could also be fun, so have to think about that one for a bit!

Thx for the tip!

Never heard of the brand/model, thanks! Will definately consider the latter

Thx, will try with an old dell xps13 in the meantime!

Great article, thx

Don’t remember whose quote it was, maybe Hannah Arendt, that the real tragedy of tyranny is not when people self-censor what they say out loud, but when this leads them to filter out those thoughts from arising at all

I get that people who sell AI-services wants to promote it. That part is obvious.

What I don’t get is how gullible the rest of society at large is. Take the norwegian digitalization minister, who says that 80% of the public sector shall use AI. Whatever that means.

Or building a gigantic fuckoff openai data centre, instead of new industry https://openai.com/nb-NO/index/introducing-stargate-norway/

Jared Diamond had a great take on this in “Collapse”. That there a countless examples of societies making awful decisions - because the decisionmakers are insulated from the consequences. On the contrary, they get short term gains.

Got this response from one of the developers:

Looks like a routing issue, it works when navigated to from the index page without a full reload.

https://docs.pears.com/

If I was China, I would be thrilled to hear that the west are building data centres for LLMs, sucking power from the grid, and using all their attention and money on AI, rather than building better universities and industry. Just sit back and enjoy, while I can get ahead in these areas.

Also apps that don’t need servers. Switched to this for staying in touch with family p2p, works surprisingly well https://keet.io/

Dude, I decided to make a personal note with lots of similar links regarding privacy, so that I can provide the source when I discuss these matters with people. But yours in much more thorough - and public. Thanks for saving me a ton of work!

I have a few colleagues that are very skilled and likeable people, but have horrible digital etiquette (40-50 year olds).

Expecting people to read regurgitated gpt-summaries are the most obvious.

But another one that bugs me just as much, are sharing links with no annotation. Could be a small article or a long ass report or white paper with 140 pages. Like, you expect me to bother read it, but you can’t bother to say what’s relevant about it?

I genuinely think it’s well intentioned for the most part. They’re just clueless about what makes for good digital etiquette.