I have come to a similar conclusion, I think managed self hosting for certain services gives you the most control and privacy while still giving you all the benefits of an always on web service, and then I’ll make a home server from my old laptop for anything that needs to mostly run locally for even more control and zero cost

I kinda assumed it already did, so I stopped using Google photos, now it’s time to exit google drive as well. The only transition I think might be hard for me is Gmail and maybe Keep, but I’ll figure something out

As good as this movie is, it still has that Star Warism about it that makes it lesser compared to the Andor tv show, Andor changed my opinion on what Star Wars could be, if it was left to competent writers and didn’t have Disney corpo suits calling the shots to sell merch and appeal to the 4 quadrants

US only has safety nets for the wealthy, gambled with large sums of other people’s money on stupid shit and lost it all and fucked up the stock market for everyone and started a recession, there there, here’s sone public tax money to pick yourself up

Is this a bot advertising AI translation apps

Only in America can super rich characters like Scrooge, Richie Rich, Batman be the protagonists we are supposed to cheer for

Did you take your highschool desks picture to the tattoo artist as a reference

I don’t understand what DST has to do with it?

There is a feature in Android called Adoptable storage that does what you described, but not all phone manufacturers support it directly, and it’s mostly been phased out over the years for a few reasons.

If you do this that SD card becomes permanently bound to your phone, if you remove it and attach it to a computer it cannot be read anymore, which means if your phone dies that data cannot be recovered,

also most SD cards even the high end ones are drastically slower than the phones built in memory, so if you make the phone treat the SD card as part of the overall system, it will bottleneck the performance of the phone and make it slow and stuttering,

And the way SD cards are made they aren’t designed for constant fast read and writes, as that will burn out the card and cause it to fail early

If you drop your phone the SD card might jiggle a little and get disconnected from the for a tiny bit, ordinarily it wouldn’t matter but in this Adopted storage mode it would crash your phone and make it reboot.

Some of these reasons is why a lot of app developers force their apps to only be installed on the internal storage and not the SD card. SD cards are best for storing large media and static data like music, movies, photos,

Isn’t the fact that I want to get off Google mean I know that already

Doesn’t matter if you don’t have a use for larger hot swappable storage, many others do, otherwise all these phone companies wouldn’t sell higher storage models for absurdly high markup

I’m not sure what you are trying to say, what difference does it make if the users of a product are profitable when the creator of said product isn’t, the users of AI make their money on a diversified portfolio of products, the AI companies are making no profits right now as the subscription prices they are charging are at a loss to gain market share, if they don’t find a sustainable profit margin over time they will have to shut down or increase the cost of the subscription so only a limited number of companies and individuals will be able to afford it. Either way the gushing AI inference taps will stop leaking so freely at some point.

It only feels slow when everyone is forced to use AI, none of these companies have proven to operate at a profit yet

Glad I hesitated moving over completely from Google to Proton services, time to purge them completely

lol what are you talking about considering Android is the only mobile OS that even lets you access the file system unlike apple

Especially when working for someone else. Your best is reserved for yourself and people who matter to you

I can live without the headphone jack, no micro SD card is the bigger sin, limiting you to your phones built in storage for no reason other than pure greed is infuriating

I hope all these companies that are flaunting rules to steal content to train their models get crushed by lawsuits after we kick the pedo crooks out of office and get a real government working again, so long as the new government isn’t filled with people that will look the other way if they get a boatload of money from lobbyists

Guy selling fruit says fruit is juicy more breaking news at 11

My experience with AI so far is that I have to waste more time fine tuning my prompt to get what I want and still end up with some obvious issues that I have to manually fix and the only way I would know about these issues is my prior experience which I will stop gaining if I start depending on AI too much, plus it creates unrealistic expectations from employers on execution time, it’s the worst thing that has happened to the tech industry, I hate my career now and just want to switch to any boring but stable low paying job if I don’t have to worry about going through months for a job hunt