I’m not really the correct person to answer this, since I’m not struggling to the same degree as you are.

However I once heard a good tip on how to save money. Most people, when they receive their salary spent it first on the necessities (food, rent, etc) and then save the remainder (if anything is left). But instead you should first save a percentage of your pay before spending on any necessities. That way, your brain will try to make the best use the remaining money to survive the best it can

I don’t really mind nor care when someone is wrong about something as long as they’re not bothering/affecting other people.

For example:

Someone believes that flat earth is real. Fine, whatever, you’re not really going to cause any harm with this.

On the other hand, during the pandemic, when people refused to wear masks/take vaccines. Then it becomes a problem because they’re affecting other people (potentially putting them at risk)

Anything on the web that is accessible by you is accessible by web scrapers. So to answer your question, yes.

Unless Lemmy goes down the route of Twitter (I refuse to call it by its new name, it’s dumb) of blocking access unless you login. That’s just how things are.

I use OpenBoard, its based on GBoard I believe but without the Google dependencies and is open-source. Works pretty well, no complaints

Yeah it would be screen mirroring

Yeah, there is a software you can install on the Pi called scrcpy (which is a terminal utility), you can get a GUI for it with guiscrcpy

Here’s the link going over it: here

And for the GUI part here

I haven’t use it, so not sure how well it works. There could also be other software to support casting that I’m not aware of.

As far as I’m aware, the only way to get a private streaming box would be to use a RaspberryPi. You could use Google Chromecast but then you get Google, Nvidia have Nvidia Shield but that costs a lot and I’m not familiar enough with it to know if it has spyware.

With RaspberryPi, all you really need is to just install the Raspbian OS (they have detailed instructions on their website) and you basically have a mini PC with an Internet browser and all that. So you could just do that?

There is also this Chromium DRM compliant browser which supports Hulu, Amazon Prime, Netflix, etc. Which you can install on the Pi for streaming support. Here’s the link

Just stay away from Chinese made Android Boxes. Linus did a good video covering those here

Elon Musk: “No! You can scrape Twitter data for AI research!”

Also Elon Musk: “I’m gonna start scraping Internet data for my AI research”

Even then, I doubt some people will be able to correlate that to privacy infringing social media services. Some will, but a lot probably won’t.

You can use Lutris. But if you don’t want to go that way, you can simply use proton directly.

I have a script that I use on my linux machine that automatically detects an “exe” file in the same directory and runs it via proton. With that I’ve been able to play non-steam games easily enough.

There are plenty of tutorials online on how to run proton via CLI, here’s one

EDIT: As @nottheengineer@feddit.de said, you can also add exe files to Steam and have it run that way. Its probably the easier way compared to running it via terminal

The best model

You will later be able to delete your Threads account w/o losing Instagram

“Later” - such a nice word isn’t it? So vague and ambiguous

ChatGPT: I’m sorry, but as an AI language model I cannot “fuck your brains out” …

I’ve always been a lurker on Reddit. But with Lemmy I’m trying to be as active as I can, with both posts and comments

+1 for LibreWolf, great Firefox fork

Heard some people at work talking about it with such excitement and zeal. It really does baffle me how little people care about privacy as long as they get their fix of social media entertainment. It’s a little depressing, and I can only hope that Threads don’t ruin the Fediverse in the future.