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Any simple way to archive an online database, think imdb, but for other interests?

Just because they could, doesn't mean anyone would bother having the AI agents do so.

Buy something used that was manufactured before ca 2018. Or get a projector that doesn't have any smart stuff built in.

With TV makers having recently destroyed trust and there not being a good way for consumers to force trust it makes little difference whether they are doing it or not.

If you can't tell whether your disconnected TV is spying on you but you know that you cannot trust it, it's better to treat it as compromised.

Ethernet to USB-C adapter. Any USB-C docking station will work, too.

I'm excited for CLI/TUI since 2016. It's just easier to use and automate. Other than a web browser, all the software I spend significant time in are CLI/TUIs. This includes most image editing.

I was only addressing what "overeducated" refers to. Politicians of western democracies I know of have the problem that each leader is afraid to surround himself with people more capable than themselves, for the people around him are competitors for his position.

Unfortunately, eventually one of the people selected for being less capable get to be at the top and continue the whole play again, getting rid of anyone that is not less capable than themselves.

This is one disadvantage democracies have over monarchies, for a king can surround himself with more capable people all he wants as they are not direct competitors.

Think about when the term was invented. It wasn't in the days of IRC, ICQ and forums. It wasn't even the launch of facebook (2004). It only came up after people used their real identities and got algorithmically addicted to spend more of their time on a given platform.

If you want to retroactively attribute the term to things, you'd also have to add it to newspapers featuring reader's letters. But that's not what social media is.

There are converters for Ethernet to USB-C. Every modern phone can do this. The only downside (or upside given recent developments) is that Android is unwilling to download updates via Ethernet.

I have cellular and wi-fi permanently disabled on my phone since the beginning of smartphones. I only use it with Ethernet. Works really well. If it's important, call. If it's not I can get to it next time I connect an Ethernet cable.

We made all of this work before phones even existed. Getting your attention siphoned away by your phone isn't a convenience, it's an unhealthy dependence.

> Digital Minimalism

Sounds great.

> But it's just using social media less, not using the Internet on your phone and using the CLI more

Never used social media, my phone only gets internet via a cable connection and I only use GUI where the CLI isn't capable enough, like a web browser.

Not sure what I was expecting. It's great advice, but kinda preaching to the choir.

A Jack of all trades is a master of none, but better than a master of one because he has broad, intersectional knowledge. Academia is designed for specialization and the more you specialize in something the more you lose the forest for the trees.

Everything looks like a nail if you are a hammer and all that.

https://www.oglaf.com/labyrinth/

The trades also have the difficulty of pricing themselves out of the market, while AI can come in and help normal folks to do all that stuff themselves.

Hopefully all these unpredictable side effects include bringing down the cost of living.

Five years ago pretty much all of this was science fiction. It might not be that grim right now, but what about in another five years?

If you aren't paid and you are not having fun, why "provide value"?

How would you even notice without being chronically online? I visit these places and see users complaining about questions repeating, but never notice myself, since I don't read that kinda stuff every day.

My schedule isn't particularly weird and I've got plenty of colleagues working even later than me.

The sun won't be affected by what you set your clock to. If you want to optimize your schedule for sun exposure, you can do so. You can even travel twice a year near the poles to get sun all day everyday. Or no sun ever, if that's your jam.

A vote was held and a conclusion reached. Voting is not mandatory, but generally the outcome of a vote should be followed.

I voted to permanently abolish daylight saving time/summer time and am very unhappy that it isn't gone already.

You can go to sleep with the sun still up. Getting up in the dark is a lot harder than going to sleep when there's light.

Not sure what the position of the sun has to do with when people work. If you schedule a meeting with me before 11am, I probably won't make it, since I'm still sleeping. You can schedule a meeting with me at 11pm if you want, though.

Or, we could skip the meeting. I won't mind.

They're not equal. Summer time is awful in summer and it would be even worse in winter. We as a species need daylight in the morning and darkness in the evening. Not the other way around.

> or doctors willing to take my blood exam at 22

There used to be a system in my country where there were large doctor offices and you didn't really have your doctor, as you had your clinic. (I'm not talking hospital, but doctor's office.)

It was staffed around the day. Each doctor had a work life balance and you could come in whenever. I'm pretty sure this approach works for most service professions.

School can be transitioned to be purely online. Watch video lectures when you want and take online tests regularly. There is really no point to lock all kids up at school for hours each day if the goal is merely to teach them. People leave school illiterate these days, so it's not like it could get any worse.

For work it doesn't really matter. If your company is large enough you'll have offices around the world and have to deal with some colleagues not being available during your working hours. Just keep all communication asynchronous.

Why do we all need to have the same time? And if we do, we should just use UTC around the globe.

Just go to sleep with the sun. Whatever we do to your clocks won't affect the sun.

I hate daylight saving time or summer time or whatever. Can't we all just have normal time all around the year?

I'm with them for over two decades already, but then I do not abuse their return policy, either.

Do you have some graphs for that?

Search engines no longer surfacing useful results didn't help the web in general. Outside of a handful of sites everyone knows the Internet seems to have become a ghost town over the past decade.

> never managed to get back on Reddit because Reddit is using some very invasive and persistent banned user detection techniques.

The trick is to delete your browser cache (not just things related to reddit, everything), then wait a week to a month before creating the next account.