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Comment · 17 days ago
Just connect your Garmin to GadgetBridge as and have a small script upload your files to intervals.icu. Your data will never touch a Garmin server.

This works perfectly for me. Couldn't be happier.

Comment · 20 days ago
>Generally, how can society discover new products and services?

I'm surprised you can't imagine a society where the consumer would be the one recommending products and not the producer. Any entrepreneur can find one first consumer to test their new product. And that first consumer have access to a great communication network to recommend that products to their social network — it's called "the Internet". Social networks are a great platform for people to share interesting things to their friends, family, colleagues and also to people they don't actually know ("the Internet" can connect you to strangers). Such networks cost little to operate when the content is created by users, instead of producers and their intermediaries (people favors short, insightful written text instead of catchy commercial once detoxed).

Being born in the 1990s, I did experience that "Internet", when advertising networks didn't exist and when people intentionally interacted to make connections and actively look for information. They were happy to tell about things they discovered, with little to expect in return ("influencer", aka mercenary, wasn't a job yet).

Comment · 21 days ago
Are they physically forced to vote for Putin? And how widespread is the electoral fraud?
Comment · 25 days ago
>Humanity isn't perfect but it's pretty awesome, and may ultimately be the only reason that the species that exist on this planet are able to continue to exist.

For now, the contrary seems most probable. It's humanity that's threatening most species on Earth right now.

Comment · 28 days ago
>I doubt we'll see nationalizations because that's not America's style (thank goodness!)

Laughing in a TGV

Comment · 1 month ago
>The most sensible thing the EU could do right now is make peace with Russia

Let Russia leave Ukraine and have your peace.

Comment · 1 month ago
I'm browsing from a Pixel 9 phone running GraphenOS phone, plugged into a 4K monitor, and paired with a bluetooth Logitech MX Vertical mouse and a MX Keys Mini keyboard. Works prefect. I don't miss my Macbook Air M5 much.
Comment · 1 month ago
I get no high from my phone/apps since there are no ads and no perverse incentives. I'm not the product of the services I pay for.

I'm happy Fastmail (made by a small company) is much better and faster than Gmail (made by a advertising behemoth). Idem with GrapheneOS vs Pixel OS. The less friction, the shortest time spent using the phone, the most time to enjoy spending time outside and with friends.

Comment · 1 month ago
Not true. I'm a customer of 3 top French online banks and of two top global brokerage cie and the apps work great. I have no issue whatsoever except with one health insurance app but their Web app is better anyway.

Only thing missing is contactless payment but there are European banks that support GrapheneOS without Google Pay so alternatives exist. And I can use Garmin pay with my watch (and offline and without Garmin Connect thanks to the FOSS GadgetBridge appp) if that was necessary.

Comment · 1 month ago
Get GrapheneOS. Install FOSS apps whenever possible, via Obtainium. Signal if need be. A RSS reader. No social networks. Get a Kagi subscription to ensure no ads and bias.

Voilà

Comment · 1 month ago
It won't stop but it will slow down to a crawl.

Eating too much fruits has never been healthy, but gorging oneself on raw sugar is worse. Perfect is the enemy of the good.

Comment · 1 month ago
Fentanyl: what's the pressing issue? Coffee has been around for centuries.

If you really want to blame something, it really all comes down to one word: substance use disorder.

Comment · 1 month ago
No, because the US are the slowest to electrify their grid and transportation.
Comment · 1 month ago
>Most people

Did you mean fat people?

I'm curious to know if the evolution of the average car size tracks obesity.

Comment · 1 month ago
Everything uses energy. AI is uniquely bad due to its scale. Comparing AI inference and training with posting a one-line comment on a website is like comparing wildfires with candles because they both produce heat. It's true but useless as an argument.

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