I am a guy from southern germany. I like scouting, trains and computers. Politically, I would consider myself as a democratic socialist.
(For anyone wondering, yes this is from the same guy, as !DeckPacker@piefed.blahaj.zone)

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Cake day: April 5th, 2026
  • DeckPacker@piefed.socialtoTechnology@beehaw.org•The AI Backlash Could Get Very UglyEnglish
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    11 hours ago

    Steve Bannon says this? Sorry for being cynical, but I don’t by anything that Trump’s goons say.

    What most people need to understand is that a lot of politicians don’t believe in anything, except serving the interests of their donors.

    Just like they didn’t do anything about the “deep state” or the prices of eggs, they will never even consider doing anything that threatens Nvidia or OpenAI.

    It’s nice that the political discourse is shifting, but don’t expect anyone who is currently in power to help you in this fight

  • DeckPacker@piefed.socialtoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world•What brought you to the Fediverse?English
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    3 days ago

    I am a huge believer in free software and researched a bit if there was any open source social media.

    I found out the Fediverse was a pretty successful attempt at this and now I am active mostly on piefed and Mastodon.

    Contrary to most people here, I don’t have a huge gripe with Reddit, that I wouldn’t have with any other corporate owned social media. I am here mostly because I believe in this project and want to see it evolve. I don’t simply see it as a Reddit / Twitter alternative.

  • DeckPacker@piefed.socialtoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world•I need a new computer - which would you recommend?English
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    10 days ago

    I have a used ThinkPad T460, I found a really nice deal for on eBay (90€).

    It serverves me pretty well I mostly watch videos on it (works pretty well up to 1080p on Youtube), but it’s fine for most things, web browsing, editing documents and even coding.

    I used it during a game jam with my friends, we were making a 2d game in Godot and it was good enough for that. I am running Linux Mint on it, it is a miracle what Linux can do for your old machines.

    Other than that, old surface pros are pretty good nowadays and the 5th/ 6th generation can be found for 150€ if you are lucky. They also have excellent Linux support if you get the right kernel patches .

    But I would probably recommend you try out Linux on your existing Laptop and see how it works for you. M2 support is pretty good nowadays for Asahi Linux. Maybe get an external drive for that money.

  • DeckPacker@piefed.socialtoSelfhosted@lemmy.world•Degoog - 0.15.0 Stable BetaEnglish
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    12 days ago

    Oh, that worked, thank you!

    Maybe you could implement the search suggestions URL into the OpenSearch (because at least when I added it via right click add search engine, it only added the search URL), but that could be an error on my part.

    Also, I am just curious, where do you get the search suggestions from? Do you just query one of the engines?

  • DeckPacker@piefed.socialtoSelfhosted@lemmy.world•Degoog - 0.15.0 Stable BetaEnglish
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    12 days ago

    I’ve installed this on my home server and I must say, I am quite impressed!

    It just feels so much snappier than SearXNG, I think the loading “animation” helps with that a lot. I also love the whole plugin system, there is already a lot available, maybe in the future, if I have a good idea, I will make one myself.
    I was a bit skeptical about the AI thing at first, but at least you are transparent about it and your stance seems to be reasonable.

    If you want some suggestions on what to work on in the future, it would be cool, if there was a search suggestion api URL, I could add to Firefox to have search suggestions in my address bar. Also maybe bangs to only search with a certain engine, like in SearXNG.

    Thank you for all the work you already put into this, looking forward to future updates!