You are paying for these services one way or another. But no one says you have to pay $10 for each service.

Yes, it shouldn’t be needed

My view is that is should be needed. Advertising is a bad business model, I’d much prefer paying for a service I used. I think we should all get more comfortable paying for the sites we use.

Oh nice!

For anyone else looking: https://lemmyverse.link/lemmy.nz/post/35319129

Which morning?

You mentioned not being able to find a good alternative not tied to a subscription. Seems like if you find a good alternative tied to a subscription she could use it!

But yes I understand that change is hard. I spent years working in Excel, hate the thing, but it’s so very hard to change to LibreOffice Calc.

So this morning I had to go to my mother’s house for IT support as one of her monitors wasn’t working. I plugged the power cable back in to the back of the monitor and the problem was solved.

I’m not sure the level of IT support I provide is high enough to get blamed for anything 😆

I’ve used Linux for years at this point, but I never really learnt much about running Windows programs except games, and they make that too easy.

But there’s a windows laptop right there 😆

I’m asking as a learning exercise rather than because I desperately need to get it working on my machine.

You can do something similar in Home Assistant.

Add an integration to a weather service (there might even be one out of the box).

Create an automation trigged by saying a sentence to your voice assistant.

Set the automation action to be a conversation response, and set that to whatever entity contains the part of the weather you want it to say (or a template if you want it to say multiple or other fancy things)

This is the specific example I was talking about: https://apps.nissan.navshop.com/en_gb/

I’m sure it could run in wine if I was snarter or kept at it, but I tried it, it didn’t work straight away, so I used the windows laptop because I wasn’t in the mood to spend hours troubleshooting when I had the choice.

I would be curious if it works for you and what your steps are as I do need to run it every 6 months or so to update maps. I use Nobara but also have Bazzite and Mint computers available if there’s some distro oddity.

Also if you know how to tell tomtom that my house in a quiet street that people crawl along isn’t an 80kph zone that would be great 😆

When you delete a post you might do it by accident. You can then undelete it, which requires the post still exists (a soft delete).

It appears Lemmy clears the content after 30 days to make it a hard delete (by federating an edit action to change the content to Deleted): https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/pull/3208

If you want to wipe right away, you can edit the post then delete it.

I think this is a very valid reason. I used to reinstall Windows every 6 months or so for various reasons, switching to Linux wasn’t any more work. But if you don’t enjoy researching, installing OSs, etc then it’s only ever going to feel like a chore.

Funny, I could never afford photoshop so I find GIMP much easier to get around in 😆. There used to be a GIMP plugin that changed everything to be like Photoshop, not sure if it still exists. But GIMP doesn’t have feature parity with Photoshop, one of these days we’ll be able to draw shapes.

Is InDesign not already a subscription service?

Someone answered about their wife so I will to. My wife hasn’t switched because her husband doesn’t encourage it because it’s the only computer (of many) left in the house with Windows on it, and occasionally there’s some Window’s only program you have to download to update the maps in your car or something like that, and it’s nice to still have one machine that can do it (rather than paying the dealer…).

I have many comments about your assumptions about Linux but I’ll hold my tongue.

I just generally try to avoid letting people know how technically savvy I am. I’d rather not do basic tech support for everyone I know.

I feel like this book needs a warning. It’s long, and I struggled to follow it. I had to look up the Wikipedia plot summary chapter by chapter to work it out through the middle part of the book.

Some people love it but it wasn’t my kind of book. Or maybe I juat didn’t follow the social commentary while I was trying to follow WTF was happening and who was using which name at which time.

Original admin went AWOL, other admin couldn’t access server. Second admin couldn’t get ahold of first admin, eventually server went down. Second admin started new NSFW instance.

Then they somehow got everything back (maybe original admin replied to messages), and so the old site went up again as an archive.

Personally I try to follow only fun stuff! Subscribed/Home feed for fun, All feed for doom and gloom.

2007? Not yet but next year it will meet the ask historians 20 ywar rule…

I’ve also seen claims that Google uses OSM to validate their map.

They don’t want to use it directly because they would have to give attribution, but they can use it in automated internal processes to identify where it differs from Google Maps (including which data source is more recent) and where there are significant differences they can get their team to look into it.