Where would you recommend donating instead?

Nah. I have an ev and love it, but it’s not a Tesla.

Zero. My phone is portable. I could lose it at any moments notice. I can and have unlocked it to apps that I forgot were open, and with the borders now they can search it for any reason. So zero.

After convincing them that EVs were trash no less.

Second this. Macro level things are… not great. At home, our neighborhoods though, we can and do make a difference. Your friend group, your family, your close relations, those groups are the same as they were a year ago, and are worth being around. Yeah things are kind of shit right now. You can still go have a pint with your friends though. Or enjoy your favorite video game. Work on that hobby you’ve put off. We’ve been trained that buying is happiness - but you don’t need to spend a lot of money to be content. There is nothing wrong with enjoying what you have and improving your own neighborhood.

People will tell us to hate, and to divide, and I just refuse to. I’ve been going out on walks, saying hello to the neighbors, going to the local coffee shop and bar. Communities are worth building.

Thanks for your insights in gdpr. Jwts though I know can be invalidated, but it’s a few extra steps, and I’m not surprised when companies don’t go the extra mile. It’s usually such a niche case where someone logs in, has a jwt, and the server needs to invalidate it, but it happens.

Using temporary emails is great for this, especially with places that you know you don’t care about, then just break the link. Granted for very nefarious things there will probably still be a link back to you via the provider.

Hate to tell you but 95% of companies do this. It’s common practice. You’re “deleted” account? There’s a column called “DeletedDate” and it’s marked to whenever you hit delete. Their query then just says “Select Account where DeletedDate is null” and yours just doesn’t return until that date is cleared.

Is it asshole design? No. And it’s not for privacy reasons. it’s because the vast majority of people who hit delete will call the next day and yell and scream saying “But I didn’t know it would delete everything”. That’s why Meta keeps it, and Youtube, and Google, and everyone.

Not to mention legal reasons. If someone uses your platform for illegal purposes and the feds come knocking you bet your ass you need that data or your company is liable. That is different in the EU I grant you, but that’s the exception, not the common practice. Over there they can point to GDPR and say “That’s why we don’t have it”. Anywhere else you’re pretty screwed.

So. Not asshole design. The session staying open is bad security though. Everything else is just knowing your userbase and knowing that people will be pissed and need something. If you want privacy stop giving your data to companies in the first place.

Yup, seeing that too. They’re all proud of the work they didn’t do, but the second there’s a syntax error they panic.

Oh well that’s good!

Was playing around with it. It’s neat tech. It’s interesting all the side projects I can spin up now. It absolutely cannot replace an engineer with a brain.

I’ve caught so many little things I’ve had to fix, change. It’s an amazing way to kick off a project, but I can’t ever trust blindly what it’s doing. It can get the first 80% of a small project off the ground, and then you’re going to spend 7x as long on that last 20% prompt engineering it to get it right. At which point I’m usually like “I could have just done it by now”.

I see kids now blindly trusting what it’s doing, and man are they going to fall face first in the corporate world. I honestly see a place for vibe coding in the corporate world. However I also see you still needing a brain to stitch it all together too.

All of these are possible and very configurable. I chose synapse for my home server and it’s set up like this

Tbh I’ve just given up with him as an engineer. He goes and does side projects while his core base waits for updates, even while earning actual funding to improve said projects. For that much you could actually hire an engineer or two to build out Pixelfed more if you didn’t want to anymore.

Dear God how shitty is that. “We never said it was ten gig you stupid moron”. We just took a fairly standard industry term and flipped it around.

You can but it’s finicky as hell. Definitely more than what the vast majority of users can do, and if they cared they would make an official easy way to do it. But they don’t want you to, they want you to buy a new computer

Oh course, it’s just treating others with respect, and teaching them manners. Just parenting

Good luck on your journey! It can be frustrating at times, but please feel free to make posts asking for help if you can’t find it online!

Wine will probably run it fine. Try posting to the linc gaming community though

Just think of how few user metrics they get out of Windows 10 though!

Thank you for thinking about others, you are the sort of parent I respect.