I’m currently fighting off some invasive stink bugs and I was sick of slowly killing them with poison/alcohol.

So I shopped for a bug-a-salt Pumpgun, but this is probably having not enough power for cockroaches.

But just recently I saw the successor and that could be helpful
https://www.bugasalt.com/products/shred-er-starter-kit

Linux smartphones are coming, although very slowly

There is also Jolla with Sailfish OS, but the hardware is not really attractive

The capitalized H is for ‘HELP’

Yeah, small town shops dying is really sad

Building large shopping centers and online retailers seem to have killed most small shops in smaller towns around here too…

COVID pretty much was the death nail, as you said

Buy, when there is blood on street - or something like that was the saying
So obviously, people with money can exploit times, when everyone loses money/has no income and gets desperate

But triggering a global epidemic, would be more than overkill - imho, maybe in the heads of billionaires it makes sense

Weiß zufällig wer, ob das in Österreich ähnlich ist?

Was ist mit Fahrrädern, die ich dort abstelle (neben dem Auto)?

We didn’t need COVID for that

Give it a few years and those shops would be dead anyway - sadly

Small towns here tend to build large shopping centers near town border, which just hungers out local businesses

No need for COVID to accomplish that

Edit: and it’s not just about America, but about the whole world.
Wanna tell me, that Walmart planned a coup, just for US centric sellings and the also the rest of the world stood still?

Yeah, especially the COVID conspiracies are mostly brain dead stuff

The whole world pretty much stopped, which helps absolutely no one, but somehow those guys think, that a dark force is trying to kill the economy for…profit?

Also all the scientists and doctors are together in bed and just want people to stay indoors, because… I have absolutely know clue

It just didn’t make sense from the start.

Although I do get scepticism against new vaccine methods, but when someone tries to “explain” to me, that mRNA somehow overwrites my DNA and I should drink bleach instead…I usually don’t even know where to start to correct them

Care to explain why?
For clarification, the GrapheneOS part

Yeah, FreeBSD OS absolutely awesome
Have nothing more to add…

Well, maybe: I wanted to setup my work server with FreeBSD and I really had trouble getting Linux VMs up and running
Still don’t know, what I did wrong, but I went the other way round and setup a Linux server, with a FreeBSD VM as “Gate-keeper” (my Wireguard every point), and so it secures my other stuff behind

But I really liked how nice it is to work with. Sadly I was too stupid to set it up right, with multiple services/containers/VMs I needed …

What data do you record, if I may ask, that’s not tracked with such apps?

I had a neighbour, who left the windows open and seemed to play this porn over his 5.1 surround sound equipment.

Those oh’s and ah’s filled up the whole neighborhood ;⁠-⁠)

You’re losing anonymity, when you log into your VPN through TOR

TOR gives you anonymity, but if you connect through TOR to your VPN, which you probably registered with some of your data (or maybe your real IP), all the hops through TOR are useless, because your VPN connection is associated with you.

It really depends on who you want to hide from.
If it’s your ISP, then connecting over VPN to TOR could make sense, when your ISP is restrictive regarding TOR. But that’s pretty much the only usecase I can come up with at the moment

Yeah, stupidly checked after posting…

Although it shows up to be compiled for an earlier Android version and might not be compatible

Well, at least an option more… ;⁠-⁠)

FlashDim on F-Droid can do this as well, if you look for an open source option (don’t know Torchie, maybe it’s OSS as well, then I at least brought up another option)

Linux from scratch is atheist?

Doing pretty much exactly the same thing, to not wear the battery down

As far as I know having them permanently on 100% is bad

Mine is awesome

Battery life was shit at the start, but now it’s pretty reasonable. Can’t tell for sure what the difference is. I’m just starting to investigate again, after all the pre Christmas stress is over

I’m not exactly sure, but I don’t think, that you’d get rashes, besides having an allergy to that specific molecule, but as they are not really easily broken up, they are also not very reactive friendly - at least that’s my interpretation

So, having them block up some stuff is some reasonable concern and we never really know what happens with them inside our body, but I would guess that your rashes come more from the humidity under the wristband and the constant friction of it - at least my arm doesn’t really like that, but to have a heart monitor on my wrist, I need to wear it quite tight.

And could also be an allergy to something else in the wristband

Edit: I’m too tired and should stop writing…

As this isn’t based on AI, interpretation of existing scenes could be…hard?

But you could try to build a process chain, where AI sets the parameters for infinigen, after analysing an existing model, and then it should probably be able to fine tune and compare or something

But I’m not to deep in AI development to really speak here