It’s not even Rosh Hashanah yet.

Yeah, I vote on almost everything, too. I bet you don’t downvote over 99.5% of the posts you see lol

Yes, there are a couple import tools for Google Takeout, and you should absolutely use one. I don’t recall if I used this particular tool, but it is strictly necessary to get a clean import.

Other examples:

Google Photos Takeout Helper - Readme includes detailed step by step instructions.

Takeout Helper Neo - a fork of the above with additional features

Photo Migrator - designed to work with multiple services

Sure, this small and mid-size services are just fine for backing up your data, and should surely be used as such. But using “cloud services” is nonsense. Too bad it has such good marketing.

I’m increasingly convinced that “The Cloud” is just a scam. Just keep your own files.

The word Soccer comes from England, too. It’s a Britishized version of “association football” with a typical R appended.

That’s the browser I use for exactly that

I got a Boox reader and I love it. I chose it specifically because it runs Android and can install normal apps.

Yes, exactly. Several photo gallery apps do this.

Once the technology exists, we need clanker laws.

Make it illegal to generate ML output without a positive watermark.

I believe that religion, at its best, gives us the vocabulary to express experiences that are beyond words. They spill over into music, song, art, poetry, and ritual. At the largest moments of our lives, we can feel disoriented by experiences for which we have no context; extreme loss or love, the birth of a child or the shock of illness. Religion can give us a connection to countless generations who have shared those experiences. It can give us a connection to something larger, outside ourselves.

Religious institutions can offer a social fabric that is often missing in modern life. There is no other place I can think of where you find a single room filled with families, children, elderly, across ways of life, incomes, and all sharing equal parts in one purpose.

Projectivity is another great option, especially if you want a few more options without anything you don’t want.

Not what you asked, but if your email client is showing you ads, just get a new email client.

Even the font got skinnier!

Why do either?

Wikipedia is suspect now too. They’ve sold the site to AI search. Hard to say that they had much of a choice, but the sure did it swiftly and gleefully.

Still better than ghosting I usually get.

Meta’s “financial model is to reward content creators who get engagement, and as we know, the best way of getting engagement is to produce rage bait, extremist material, aggravating material: anything that will get people upset and arguing is the best way to get engagement.”

That tracks.

Software organizes the library into artist/album folders automatically. Then I organize every track into playlists based on mood/genre. I’ll generally pick a certain playlist to listen to and put it on shuffle.

Surely the perfect body would have some extra legs. And some kind of armored skin. And eyes that can see in multiple directions. Maybe some kind of powerful claw and a… wait a second I’m a crab aren’t I?