[–] 5 points 2 days ago

I don’t have to give my money to Proton, or Microsoft, or Google. That’s a choice that I make, and that’s the free market.

Give too much money and power to people and they turn into megalomaniacs. It’s been proven again and again. It’s up to us as consumers to vote with our wallets when CEOs start getting chummy with fascists.

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  • [–] 24 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    Ugh. I just signed up for another year in July.

    I don’t need my email to be exciting or edgy or whatever CEOs think I should pay extra for. It’s fucking mail. You literally have ONE job, but apparently that’s not enough “growth” for high-energy tech bros.

    The stupid part is that I hardly use email anymore. It’s all signup and login confirmations daily notifications from my self-hosted server backups, unskippable Amazon purchase, shipping, and delivery notifications, and notifications from various banking and payment platforms. Probably 2% or less is actual correspondence. The vast majority of it gets deleted without ever opening it.

    Adding AI services and features is just an excuse to charge more money.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago

    This is basically Capitalism 101. As a capitalist, I want to collect ALL the profits and pay zero expenses.

    What these idiots don’t seem to understand is that with no workers, there will be no one to buy their goods and services, and their expenses will actually go up because AI tokens are a recurring expense, and if you don’t pay for the tokens, your whole business just stops.

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    Okay, I have NO IDEA how this is working, but I can AirPlay STEREO AUDIO from my Garuda KDE desktop to my STEREO PAIR of HomePod minis! 🤯

    I already have my HomePod minis in a stereo pair on either side of my bedroom TV that I use with an AppleTV.

    Pipewire-pulse sees each HomePod as an individual sink to send audio to, but oddly enough when I send audio, it only plays ONE channel on either HomePod - either left OR right.

    So I created a combined output with pactl (thank you, Claude) and now I get STEREO sound from my pair!

    I don’t get any lags or stuttering and I can control the HomePod volume from the Home app.

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