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What he did, starting at age 50 (I think - He for sure was no young man), is just astounding.

And he had the presence to film enough of what he did so we have this record showing how much work it takes.

I'm a technophile, been in IT 30+ years now, wrote my first programs in Fortran on punched cards.

I had these same questions, and had to search the web for them, as none of the instances I found had this info up front. Just a generic "create an account page".

Lemmy suffers from the same issue lots if tech does - it's driven by tech people, and we are notorious for assuming other people know what we know, plus, we'll be damned if we're gonna write any more effing documentation.

Ya want more people, gotta at least explain this stuff on the sign up page, hell, explain it everywhere...always have a link to "What in the world is this Lemmy thing?"

Anything will work, what's most important is regular vacuuming, preventing dirt from working it's way down though the carpet.

In another life I did some reno work. You could tell who vacuumed regularly, and who didn't. This was long before vacuums became high-ticket items, they were all generic bag-based ones designed in the 60's and 70's.

Not to say some of the newer ones don't work a lot better, just that an infrequently used great one works worse than a regularly used average one.

Use something like NoScript, Ublock Origin, or an Adblocker and simply block the Google domain (could do it with hosts file too).

There's another, less sledgehammer way to do it, I just forget at the moment.

If you do a web search for it, there are numerous published ways.

https://techpp.com/2024/05/28/disable-sign-in-with-google-on-websites/

Self hosting an encrypted app (e.g. XMPP) on a VPS outside jurisdiction, in a country that just doesn't comply.

Also add a VPN to all devices to make discovery of such things that much more difficult.

Boy, that's hideous (I know many of you like this).

The "cassette futurism" part is fine, it's the car itself is part of the bad design from the era, and I really like the boxy car esthetic. This one's just not good, because it's from the transition era - it's not of the all-metal period (or mostly-metal at least), instead it's that terrible plastic bleeding to the bumpers. The front looks like a (terrible) 1980's Chrysler K Car. Shudder.

A slightly older car (perhaps 1-2 years) would've been better in general, but especially with the cassette futurism vibe, since the interior would be a juxtaposition to the exterior design. Or even the reverse, which CF does a lot - great exterior design around conventional internals (the Walkman, especially Sport versions, are peak example of this juxtaposition).

That interior though, wow, that's some snazzy design work. The dash just works, it fits with the era so well. Impressive.

It's on by default for newly installed apps.

It's one of the things I manually disable for pretty much all apps.

I also use Greenify and disable Shallow Hibernation/Background Free, because those don't make apps restore any faster (because current phones have sufficiently fast ram/cpu), but it does eventually slow my phone down because I switch apps heavily (I've done a LOT of testing with this) and it takes references in memory for page swapping type activities.

Buddy/part of, etc.

It's all the same bucket of power-hungry people, they'll accept any mechanism to increase their power/control.

That's called gaslighting sunshine.

Exact same photo.

Hot dogs in a hallway

Quite a modest proposal there, Mr. Swift!

I haven't used Keep for at least ten years. So many better solutions out there that don't require Google services.