Everyone is suggesting Immich, which is the answer if you want to self-host. But you say you are not very tech savvy, so you might want a service you don’t need to self-host, and in that case take a look at Ente Photos.
You get end to end encrypted photos and don’t need to do anything. They have guides on how to move your photos from Google Photos as well.
Ente can also be self-hosted, so you can compare what you like more.
I’m not religious, but sometimes I wish Christianity was real because it would be so funny for these “Christians” to be judged by their god.
On your first experience that sounds like an extreme reaction by any chance do you remember what you said specifically?
It was many years ago now, but your explanation of the firewall makes much sense to me. Not sure why wouldn’t they just said something similar.
Also it’s CPC not CCP. CCP is the acronym pushed by the US
I knew both acronyms are in use, but good to know CPC is preferred, I will keep that in mind.
On your closing paragraph I think 3 anecdotes really doesn’t give a good view of a society of 1.4 billion people
I completely agree, but I assume any media is biased, so it’s hard to know what to trust without ultimately only relying on personal experiences, even if these are obviously not representative.
Thank you for the response, I appreciate the time.
I was on mobile data, who knows where the mobile network gets their connection from
I didn’t join Lemmy for politics so I usually read these discussions from the sidelines, but there are some points that maybe you guys can help me with.
As someone against US’s imperialism and capitalism, I seem to be a prime candidate to support the Chinese worldviews, but it’s really difficult for me to get past my concerns. First of all I always see these rebuttals to criticism about China that compare it to the US or say that “westerners” are in no position to criticise. Which from my Eastern European point of view is just annoying because I’m far more critical of these anyway and the whataboutism doesn’t actually address anything.
I had 3 “personal experiences” with Chinese people. One back when I was at university and was studying with a Chinese exchange student. We were talking about university stuff for days being all buddies, when I was helping him with some app not working on his phone, which turned out to be due to the lack of Google services. Being relevant to the topic, I asked about the Chinese firewall. I expected anything between “It’s not a problem, we use Chinese services anyway”, or “It’s not a problem, it’s easy to work around”, or “I think it’s good, it protects against X and Y” or even “I prefer not to talk about it”. But instead he looked at me as if I just insulted his grandma, left, and never interacted with me again.
A few years later I was talking with a Chinese acquietance at a bar, there were some local political news on the TV and he cracked a joke about the politician shown, I joked back about the CCP. He looked insulted and stopped talking to me. Come on you started and it’s all in good heart… Maybe these 2 people were just weirdos and not representative, but that’s my experience.
Then there was a Chinese person making science videos online, posted on BiliBili and YouTube that I watched for a long time. One time they made a different video about how they are disillusioned about life in China and it was critical of some aspects of Chinese politics. After years of making content, it was their last video and all their social media were deleted shortly after. I’m not saying it’s government intervention, maybe they did want to just randomly stop making content without saying a word, everything is possible.
But all these experiences tell me Chinese society is not accepting of even apparent criticism, which does not look like a free society to me. Someone else under this post says all criticism, even if constructive and in good faith, serves western propaganda interests. Which… Sure I don’t disagree, but how can anyone buy in to an idea if they are not allowed to question it? I personally never got into these communities because I know I’m more likely to be accused of being US-paid bot or whatever than to get a good faith answer to my questions.
I don’t know where I’m going with this. I guess I’m just telling you lot that you could be more approachable because I think you are pushing back on would-be allies.
It got the country wrong for me. I didn’t use a VPN or anything. So that’s good I guess.
I used to attend an event that happened every March. They sold calendars that went from March to the next March, when you presumably attend again and buy the next one. No reason really for a calendar to start with January.
Then they should be happy with same sex marriages. A miracle might occur with them just as well.
WhatsApp is extremely popular, even among people who don’t use any other Meta services.
There is none. VR is a fools errand on Linux. You can maybe get something to technically run, but with missing features, worse performance, and even then only some VR will even attempt to launch to that broken state.
I have a Windows VM for VR gaming. Dual boot also works. For all non-VR gaming, Linux is pretty much flawless nowadays.
Which Distro? Pick one that has existed for at least 10 years, with the desktop environment your like the look and feel of most, and most popular and well supported from that.
Not that it matters, but it’s not anime style, it’s a “western” style cartoon character. Compare it to e.g. the original Disney princesses, the proportions and style look like that, not like anime characters.
I am not required to disclose medical information, and will not be discussing this matter any further.
Why the combative/legalese tone though? Why not just say “It was for medical reasons, I don’t want to go into it” like a normal person? The interviewer would go “Oh ok fair enough” instead of thinking “What’s wrong with this guy, did he get out bed with his left foot today?”
“Ok, so you are potentially coming back to your previous employer soon. I guess we shouldn’t hire your then.”
If a candidate shows me police proof they weren’t in jail, I would be very suspicious: why did they do that? I would never even consider they were in jail, but now that they bring it up…
I am pretty sure it’s just anti-privacy actors trying to sow discord and generate infighting in privacy communities, and the person your are replying to is either one of them or ate the propaganda.
Any cursory look at the Proton guy reveals he’s a progressive who keeps donating to left-wing causes, girls education, pro-LGBT, pro-consumer. To try to paint him as MAGA for being glad about an objectively good thing the Trump admin once surprisingly did is just ridiculous, and obviously not done in good faith.
Yeah, the answer to “Is Framework ethical?” is simple, no they aren’t. The answer to “Is Framework more ethical than all the Big Tech laptop manufacturers?” is a resounding yes though. Which is a sad state of affairs
Yeah, it is very different with a team member / known long time contributor. I am taking about random people opening a PR.
I have a similar attitude to PRs on my projects even though I don’t use LLMs. Doing something myself is just simply faster that reviewing someone else’s code, it’s potential to be malicious, wasting time on the back and forth, contributors not following the project standards.
LLM’s may be a piece of the puzzle for this guy, but I have the same opinion without them.
They didn’t bother making a non-USB C iPhone for the US because it was easier to have one model. Could easily be the same. Plus the it’s hard to argue they couldn’t do it when they have done it in the EU.
It’s hard to balance. I used to work on an open source project with UI that grew organically with added features, with no plan. At some point it was just a disorganised mess of things added on top of other things.
So we remade the UI from scratch and the result, I think, was much better, intuitive, and approachable to new users. But of course some existing users were unhappy, because however bad the existing UI was, it was one they were already used to.