Audiobookshelf for Audiobooks. Metube or old-fashioned CD rips to obtain freely available media.

I’ve gone even further back, having mine painted on Greek pottery

Thanks, I hate it!

None that I’m aware of. Feel free to broaden my horizons, though!

I’ve been running NoScript for ages, so for me, any JS source not explicitly whitelisted is disabled by default. I have yet to encounter a single modern paywall that can be circumvented by this. Care to share where this still works?

You’re right about the scaling issues with mobile.

Good work, citizen! The tech bros need you to believe that their dumb digital parrots will eventually, magically metamorphose into AGI. It’s the only thing that keeps that sweet VC money flowing and the AI bubble from popping.

uBlock blocks ads. It does not make visible what isn’t transferred.

This, however, does (the article, stripped of its paywall)

Not the Onion?

To be fair, pissing on it was their only remedy after they had lit it on fire. All the water is reserved for putting out the dumpster fire that used to be the White House.

I can’t help but wonder if the empowerment LLMs may have to an individual is terrifying leaders into an authoritarian mindset

LLMs are here to enrich the rich, not to “empower the individual”. They require ridiculously expensive computing power, which makes them impractical or even impossible to self-host (with data centers buying up the market, the required hardware becomes unaffordable to the individual). Now you’re at the mercy of renting out the compute from the oligarchs and their companies, and you’re also relying on their censored and biased models (see Grok and his “Mecha-Hitler” antics if you want a taste of the future). Please don’t expect that to empower you, or anyone else. It can’t, and even if it could, it wouldn’t be available to you.

Unless we democratise LLMs, they’ll just become yet another tool of enslavement in the clutches of the Epstein class.

I’ve started several attempts to migrate to it, and they’ve all failed. The workflow just doesn’t work for me. It’s extremely click-heavy and (subjectively) unintuitive. (I want to delete a file. Why TF can’t I just use Del to do that?)

Lightroom is the single Windows application that I still haven’t successfully replaced with a FOSS alternative. It’s confined to a Windows VM with no internet access. That’s fine for now.

“Had its backdoor opened” rather. It’s the Epstein class we’re dealing with here.

“Corruption” is the word you were looking for.

This does, however, mean, you’re running all of your emails through an oligarch-owned company and is hardly “self-hosted”, right?

To be fair, I don’t trust European companies with it either. As the saying goes: “Where there’s a trough, there will be pigs.” Want to keep your data safe? Keep it.

I am too - every single day. If I didn’t know better, I’d think I’m stupid.

This, but with DAVx⁵ as a CardDAV client app on Android.

Personally, I don’t.

But not everyone is able to (for lack of awareness to alternatives, technical skills, software constraints, work requirements, vendor lock-in, …). Are those people unworthy of being protected from an evil company’s wrongdoing just because they’re using the “wrong” OS?

You’re basically arguing that corporations can do whatever they please “on their own turf”. That’s not true as far as user rights, consumer protection and anti-trust laws are concerned. And it shouldn’t be.

“You’re on my property, I’m allowed to shoot you here.”

While these “ethics” do exist, they’re extremely niche. So don’t pretend yours aren’t.

If by “people sorting” you mean “facial recognition” - well, it should “just work”. You may, in the admin backend, go to the jobs section and manually force it to start another scan for missing faces.

That said, it will currently only do facial recognition on the faces in the photos your account owns. If you’re using partner sharing (e.g. with your spouse), then you will have separate facial recognition data (only done on your photos) and your spouse will have their own facial recognition data (done on the photos owned by them). Bottom line: facial recognition data is not “shared”. If your spouse “owns” all the family photos in your immich, this is why you only see the coworker meme faces and not your family.

The same is true for memories.

The situation is unsatisfactory at the moment, but I’ve talked to the devs and it’s on their roadmap, so this will be addressed in an upcoming release.