This is what I do. I keep the old ones around for a while, and every time I realize that I’m not missing anything, and delete them.

Worst case, I’ll have to root around in my backups. But it has never happened wrt browser bookmarks.

testing

Does that mean if viewing numbers plummet they won’t roll it out? wink wink, nudge nudge!

I have yet to see my first ad on any youtube video.

🤷 https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/releases

You mean like desktop backgrounds IRL? 🤯

☝️ And it works, I can confirm.

Leave it at home.

I can understand the wish to film things; I recommend buying a cheap camera, maybe one to strap on your forehead (starting at $20) or an old compact digital camera. Something without any sort of connectivity. Something you can leave behind if the going gets rough.

One reason is that IP’s can be more granular as another user pointed out. OTOH that doesn’t always work so well, either - I often get pinpointed to a location some 100km from where I actually am.

Another reason could be to circumvent people’s privacy settings, which are becoming more popular even without using a VPN. Essentially a sort of “we don’t trust you with the data you give us about yourself”.

And since others brought up search engines etc., there’s a third reason: I always use English on my computer UI, but I am not in England and English is not my first language. Sometimes it’s nice to still get localised results (DDG has a drop-down to change this on the fly though).

Oh, and while trying to find a site that tells me where it thinks my IP is located right now I noticed that the top search results all ask location permissions and show me nothing without them. And “Location” is a combo of IP, cell tower and GPS. It might come down to IP only on a laptop, but soon maybe not anymore.

using Google Translate on the backend to transparently translate the website on the fly.

This is what they call “modern cloud-based solutions”. Except, now it’s “modern AI-based solutions” - same shit with a different label.

I am now trying to imagine how that works. Every time a client calls the website with an unseen (and IP-based of course) language? Do they at least cache whatever google returns?

Storing translations and switching between them at a technical level isn’t really hard.

Esp. as you yourself pointed out, the internet has been multilingual for decades now.

I’m the opposite: I find it increasingly harder to distinguish car makers just from looking at the car (without seeing the logo of course). They all look snazzy.

I just know that when I see a fancy car, and check the make, it’s BMW or something high end, and when I see a pygmy hippo lookin’ motherfucker, it’s made by one of those “buy one, get one free” type manufacturers that appeal to meth head soccer moms.

First of all, car manufacturers invest A LOT of resources into evoking that specific reaction in (potential) customers.

And I don’t like your attitude towards people who have less money than you.

You absolutely can slap a Lambo body on anything (provided it fits) and there is a literal cottage industry that exists around doing so. It’s not popular because, let’s be honest, it’s pretty silly, and everyone involved acknowledges its pretty much just for fun and entertainment.

There used to be one or two pretty popular versions of this though; not an exact copy but just a sporty chassis on top of a ubiquitous and cheap model, like the Karmann-Ghia on top of the VW Beetle.

https://web.archive.org/web/20210422014523/https://www.gnu.org/education/how-i-fought-to-graduate-without-using-non-free-software.html

Other Nordic here, and I think these ages are too low. From what I see around me, personally, but also as a professional.

They might be too old for that approach though.

Something I thought of when reading OP. Why now? He’s 15. This question would have made way more sense if he was many years younger.

[It might be the teenager himself asking here, but hey, that’s OK]

I hope you mean supportive of your son.

If so, I see this dynamic play out in some families (I work with kids) and I don’t like it. Dad metes out rules/punishment, mom’s role is to be nurturing instead. It teaches kids to play their parents out against each other. To go to another authority figure if the first one said no. To become incomplete.

As for your question: this is over the top for a 15yo. And that’s not how you help kids to learn self-regulation. It’s also kinda dismissive of puberty. OTOH it’s important to get enough sleep, esp. if you go to school, and he might need constant reminding of that. Yep, raising kids is never straightforward.

oh alright. I get that. I was going through http error codes just prior to reading it so I was primed to have something to say about it-

Damn, I like your reply.

Most of your question can be answered by the fact that I was high when I wrote the post and am just tired of using my filter in real life and I feel safe here on Lemmy.

And that’s valid; but it might reveal things about your sub/halfconscious that other people will point out to you, and will mistake for conviction. But if you’re OK with that…

And thanks for yet another insight into the certainly not boring but terrifying world of the US education “system”.

I am running things locally.

Sorry, I missed that. It invalidates part of my comment.

I cannot get an ssl cert for my local network stuff

You can make a self-signed cert. If your mobile app does not have an option to accept it (“ignore SSL errors”) then it won’t work, maybe there’s an alternative?

caldav does not support recurring stuff on the todo … It seems that they all internally juggle how recurring stuff happens

CalDAV is a protocol, which remains the same. The server has little to do with how apps handle things. I have no experience with tasks, but under the hood it’s just another calendar and does not treat recurring events differently. I’m guessing these limitations/inconsistencies are app specific.

So your server is running NextCloud? I hope you have it locked down tight, with all it’s web ui access points.

I started out with by doing my own calendar.

Wasn’t the first thing for me, but the most consistent over time. Calendar and Contacts, synced between phone and laptop. I used first DaviCal, now Radicale.

The next move I did was to bring my todo list over.

AFAIK these are just CalDAV calendars labeled todo; all you need is a different client app, the server software is the same.

Only downsides is that it is a bit more strict (particularly on the mobile app) about an ssl cert.

Can you explain? Doing things encrypted by default is extremely important.

But then the AI just looks up the definition of 13, and the definition of 7, and should be able to answer anyhow. I mean, this is how computers work. Are you sure that’s what the other commenter was refering to?

Any type of “who’s the best” question is unlikely to succeed. Even if you have sports competitions to back you up. But with such a vaguely defined topic? Sorry.