Welcome! :D It’s like a breath of fresh air, huh?

I cannot wait for the bubble to burst. Good god it’s so fucking infuriating to open every single app and get greeted with “Try our new garage door opener AI, Laurence!” or “Get the newest features for your coffee maker with Stanley, the coffee maker AI!” I just want to make some damn coffee and get my car out of the garage! I don’t need two fake friends to help me with that!

Seriously, look at this god damned bullshit:

I know what a fucking beef enchilada is! You don’t need to make RAM $400 a stick just to teach me about Mexican food!

I think the reason so many AI bros are conservative is that conservatives have historically had really bad taste in art/media, so they see the drivel AI creates and think, “oh wow, it looks just like what the artists make,” not realizing that they don’t have the eye to see what it’s missing.

I like OwlFiles. I use it for the WebDAV support. It’s free, but has a paid version with more features, so it’s not 100% free.

You might have one installed in UEFI mode and one installed in BIOS mode. That happened to me, and windows never played nice because of it.

also that’s for like somereallybadlongname.com

- @bad_news@lemmy.billiam.net

At the moment I’m typing this, these great domain names are available:

• trickythicky.com
• junkgoose.com
• picklecream.com
• lonelyrv.com
• quiffit.com
• reospacewagon.com
• scumple.com
• triangulous.com
• openmymouth.com
• 8raccoons.com and eightraccoons.com
• flightytighty.com
• myotheremailisapostbox.com
• thewringler.com
• smashmytv.com
• noooooon.com (that’s 6 Os)
• whycomenot.com
• icantforgiveyou.com
• extrabigsmall.com

Oh and if you want spicy ones that are expensive:

• eata.horse (icould@eata.horse)
• bodywa.sh (faceand@bodywa.sh)
• thatrad.io (donttouch@thatrad.io)

A .com is like $9 a year.

Usually the provider will provide a step by step guide to set up the entries in DNS for DKIM and DMARC, so you shouldn’t need to understand what they are, but it definitely helps. :)

(Also, if a provider doesn’t support DKIM or walk you through setting it up, I would not recommend them.)

I made a video for it. :) It shows how to set up Port87, but the process should be pretty similar for other providers.

https://youtu.be/C1FSFhF-1F4

Yep. :) All you have to do is change some DNS entries, and the new provider will start receiving mail for the same address.

Proton, Gmail, Outlook (or Copilot, they’re probably calling it by now), my own email service Port87, all offer custom domain support. I definitely would recommend against whatever you get offered in the checkout process of your domain name, cause it’s usually very low quality hosting.

It pays in the long run to have your own domain for your email. Most providers can host your domain for a (usually) small fee, then you will never lose your addresses, even if your provider disappears.

My friends all drive Porsches. I must make amends.

Yeah, that closes a number of the tracking pathways. It’s configured for a lot of privacy by default. The lack of JavaScript breaks most sites, but if you turn it back on, you can be tracked, so it’s a tradeoff.

I’m not sure what you’d be trying to find to need that level of privacy, but I hope it’s ethical.

Every time you install Linux, Linus clips a penguin’s wings.

Think of the penguins. Stop using Linux.

Not really. It’ll hide your IP address, and that’s it. So, if you’re logged in or using a browser that supports cookies (all of them, afaik), they can track you. If you clear your entire cache and get a new IP from your VPN, you’ll look like a similar user, but not necessarily the same.

There are other ways than cookies to track you as well, like etags, favicons, localstorage, and fingerprinting, just to name a few. So essentially, no, a VPN does not, by itself, prevent services from tracking you. It is only one single step in the right direction, but there are so many more you would need to take.

That’s not true; there’s also work. Although sometimes that fits under depression.

Very cool. I’m consistently impressed by the KDE devs.