I try to keep an eye out for repetitive tasks that might make good projects. I just started a python script that’s going to download all my google photos so i can free up my cloud storage.

Import Driving.Self

What do you use for hosting? I’m looking for a good host and highly budget conscious.

What makes hosting with PHP cheaper than with python?

Same, i thought it was about having a manic episode or something

Excuse me i think you mean ctrl+c:w

in order to use the “share nearby” feature between a phone and a PC, yes, as far as I can tell

edit: I should probably mention my phone is still googled.

the chat app?

i think syncthing is actually going to be a better solution for what i want to achieve (keep local music files on my phone on my PC too), but it’s good to know these things.

I’m just beginning my de-googling journey. However when I think about the potential loss of convenience this is what I tell myself: in exchange for convenience, particularly since the dawn of the smartphone era, we have lost a deeper understanding of how things work under the hood. And how much convenience have we really gained? I think it is more likely we have been led to believe our convenience has been increased when really the only convenience that matters is how convenient it is to advertise to us.

Who has read The Master Switch by Tim Wu? It’s a great book and that essentially argues every mass communication medium started off as a decentralized playground for hobbyists before consolidating into a centralized profit seeking (or profit-seeking-enabling) entity. It the ends with the question of whether the same destiny awaits the internet.

I remember hoping it didn’t, and that hope grows harder to maintain by the day. It’s so fucking sad.

I just hope that even if this standard is implemented, the protocol maintains enough of it’s flexibility for small enclaves of people who still believe in the technology’s original vision to “opt out” of it.

Wouldn’t that be 499 cases?

There’s plenty of flac on soulseek, I actually filter them out of my search results

Omg you’re amazing! I’ve been searching for an Android version of soulseek for ages, and somehow never got recommended Seeker. The only app I found was dead by the time I downloaded it.

I still use soulseek, been using it for nearly 20 years at this point

Let x = x

Make snake! See if you can get chat GPT to give you directions without giving you code to copy and paste. Feel in the blank spaces with googling and Ctrl+f in the docs.

I’m in a few beginner programmer discords and am a noob myself, having begun self teaching python in February. DM me and let’s connect on discord!

The child should have bought 3 bottles of milk.