Exactly, I doubt the person or persons who developed ICEBlock are getting tons of income from the project compared how much it costs to host and run the project, but the project is immediately creating a positive impact in society.

and as far as I’m aware, I would probably be unable to buy a PC or console ever again.

I don’t have any suggestions but I am so, so sorry and I really hope things turn around for you for the better.

I know you’re out there somewhere Nicole

lmao, The Fediverse Chick!

But you can’t self-host it??? Blaspheme! /s

Just kidding, nice to know there’s something out there.

There’s also Duolicious which is similarly free and without ads but there was literally no one within a hundred miles of me and most of the people using it were about half my age so it felt fruitless to pursue.

EDIT: same with Alovoa… nobody within 100 miles…

You’re welcome, I’ve just actually been waiting on an opportunity to share this info lmao

Plentyoffish mostly stinks but still has a free tier where you can message one person a day.

Also, on the page where you look at people who have viewed/liked you, the photos are blurred but if you use the Web Developer Inspection Tool you can see the unblurred photo:

Right click on one of the images of who you want to see and in the dropdown menu click “Inspect”:

The Web Developer tools will pop up and should auto-locate you to the image in question. In Firefox you can just hover over the image location and view a preview of the image. You can also right click on the image location and “Open Link in New Tab” to view it.

From here, you can usually find them in your list of potential matches, in your “meet me” swipes, or in the recently online list. This way, if someone swipes right on you, you can find them without paying and can decide to match or message.

Cheers and good luck!

despite risk to Trump relations

This is where we are at, not risk to US relations, a risk to relations with Emperor Trump.

We are fully cooked, well-done so to speak.

I remember the days of high quality fansubs by people who were just doing it for free because they loved it.

Those still exist and still give you a better consumer experience than these fucking dogshit streaming services.

tar -xvzf blahaj.tar.gz
cd blahaj/
./configure
make
sudo make install

Now enjoy your Blahaj. (although depending on your system you may need to install dependencies after configuration. Blahaj is dependent on love, kindess, and affection.)

But seriously this is tragic as hell for all the people losing their jobs and seeing all the work they did on the game go up in a puff of smoke.

It’s rooted in all that “American Exceptionalism” propaganda crap, for sure.

I mean I always stay home because I’m an introvert, but yeah, mirroring what other’s have already said in this thread, I haven’t had much to feel patriotic about since at least the Dubya Bush years. So probably more than 20 years of not feeling it.

Its always Cruz.

Ha, that’s pretty optimistic to think after all this that democracy and voting will still be part of the picture.

You look like you could use some… Surgery…

It looked like from comments that’s why he made the Ollama integration optional, because some people were concerned since Ollama was built by Meta. It can run without Ollama, it seems.

EDIT: Doing more research on Ollama itself, I’m unconvinced that it’s sharing any data, despite being built by Meta.

https://github.com/Jeffser/Alpaca

This will probably help anyone unfamiliar with it, since the first search result for Alpaca AI is another online paid AI service which does something entirely different than this. It’s used for AI image generation.

The main question I have is since Ollama is optional… If you optionally use it, is it still sharing data with Facebook Meta?

or that people that are always scowling and frowning

Black women and misogynoir have entered the chat.

Maybe sometimes people have valid injustices they face in their lives that make them not likely to be all sunshine and roses and smiling all the time.

Are they “evil” because they are not ready to smile and laugh with you?

The “angry black woman” stereotype has literally been used to belittle black women and paint them as “evil” and an “unstable group” for generations.

Reduced to using imgur because catbox is getting a bad gateway error, bah humbug.

The co-evolution of control and resistance.