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John List, a professor at the University of Chicago, recruited 6,000 participants for a study. With permission, he installed tracking software on their phones. And then he made them an offer: for every hour that the participant did not use Facebook or Instagram, he would pay them $4. (Participants only had to give up one app; the Facebook holdout group was allowed to use Instagram and vice versa.)

Initial results:

~~Facebook~~ → YouTube, Instagram, TikTok
~~Instagram~~ → YouTube, Facebook, TikTok

Corrected for time spent on platforms:

~~Facebook~~ → Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, Snapchat
~~Instagram~~ → TikTok, YouTube, Facebook, Snapchat

GL.iNet also has a KVM now.

Or a better SD card. I've used my various Raspberrys with SD cards for years without any issues. The only single incident I've had was a card turning read-only. Which I've only noticed because system updates were gone after a reboot. But all the main data was still there and accessible. And a simple clone to a new card followed by fsck restored full functionality in the Pi again.

But what do you do with your Passkey in your password manager if you have to login on another device (you don't own)?

That old laptop’s CPU and TPM are “not supported” by Win11. And also, Win10 already didn’t run that smoothly on it - so, I didn’t even try to hack Win11 onto it.

Read my text again. This is my only Windows laptop - and it needs to be actual Windows for all the obscure firmware update tools of some devices I have flying around.

Everything else in my household is either Linux or MacOS.

I took the opportunity to "downgrade" to Windows 7. My old HP laptop (which is specifically for a few specialty Windows-only apps) feels double as fast now compared to Windows 10 before. And with the help of LegacyUpdates.net and VxKex-NEXT (provides the very few Windows 10 API calls so you can even run most Win10-only apps on Win7) you get a pretty nice and lean system.

I’m running a local SearXNG which still provides usable results. I don’t see the point in paying for what’s basically a smart phone book. If everything fails, I’m going full #oldweb and use #webrings or some of those retro lists.

Even better: YouTube still provides RSS feeds. You can "subscribe" to your favourite channels by adding them to your RSS reader.

And for desktop, there's also FreeTube.

Just finished Powerwash Simulator 2. Now trying to get my The Outer Worlds savegame from the Switch working on the Steam Deck to play the few DLC missions I skipped back then.