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Cake day: June 22nd, 2023

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  • I was willing to overlook:

    • The bed costs $2,000
    • It won’t function if the internet goes down
    • Basic features are behind an additional $19/mo subscription
    • The bed’s only controls are via mobile app

    My man would have been willing to overlook having Jeff bezos himself sleep in his bed with him before realizing what was happening.




  • Install windows 11, installer takes 11 hours, run windows update for another 11 hours, restart, install drivers one by one from various websites for an hour, run windows update, restart, uninstall bloatware, restart, disable telemetry in 100s of menus, run windows update, restart, disable telemetry again after windows update re-enabled them, go to various websites to download your preferred applications, install them one by one, restart.

    Vs

    Install Linux Mint, installer takes 20 minutes, all drivers already there, no bloatware, open software manager, install all your applications from there, they can all be queued, no need to restart, done.







  • It is the norm right now already.

    The only way out is specifically buying only products that don’t do this shit, or ones that have been jailbroken and run open source software.

    But the very best way to stop it all for good is to kill online advertisement. Online advertisement is the number one reason companies want your data to begin with. Go to your grandma’s house, install adblock origin and sponsorblock.

    When you have kids. Disable the google play store and install fdroid, and install an adblocker on their chromium of gecko browser. Replace all default apps with the fdroid alternatives.

    Get the oldest raspberry pi device and install Pihole, then make it your DNS service so all lan and WiFi data runs through your adblocker.

    Donate to open source projects, brag to your friends how your apps have no ads and no tracking.

    Fight for right to privacy and right to repair. Stop using google, Microsoft, Apple, Amazon, Meta.

    Use Linux instead of Windows. If you need windows, run it in a virtual machine without internet access.

    Use grapheneOS, LineageOS, CalyxOS instead of basic Android.

    As for home systems like security cameras, I suggest following the ultimate open source guide by Louis Rossmann.






    1. I use them not that often, but more often than convenience stores.

    2. Usually I the one closest to my house that has the drink I want.

    3. Coke, coffee or icecream.

    4. Supermarket. They’re way cheaper there and the supermarket is a 5 minute walk away.

    5. They’re the most convenient out of all options. No human interactions, and there is usually one on the way where you’re going. If you’re at work, they usually have vending machines inside the building so you don’t even need to put on your jacket.

    Vending machines sell drinks at almost double the price of the ones at super markets and around 150% of the ones at convenience stores, so it all comes down to how quicker it is to buy one from the vending machines vs stores. But when it comes to canned drinks, convenience stores tend not to have the canned ones and only sell PET bottles, and as everyone knows, PET bottles are bad for the environment, and the drinks don’t taste as good as the canned versions.