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James R Kirk

@ Kirk @startrek.website

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  • Another US state just signed a harsh new law requiring licenses, insurance for e-bikes

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  • The law mentioned in the article isn't doing what you are describing:

    effectively lumps everything with a motor and two wheels into a single category, scrapping the widely accepted three-class system for regulating street-legal electric bicycles. That means pedal-assist e-bikes, throttle bikes, and high-powered e-moto-style machines are now treated the same under state law.

    Most people support classifying electric motorcycles and gas-powered motorcycles the same, while keeping pedal assist in a category with regular pedal bicycles. But that's not what this law is doing.

  • Should I delete my existing bad social medias accounts or just let them die by stagnation?

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  • There is with Reddit! If you browse enough old posts you'll inevitably come across a profile who's history entirely consists of "I've quit and gone to Lemmy".

  • Should I delete my existing bad social medias accounts or just let them die by stagnation?

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  • Instagram - posts can still be checked in a browser without logging in. Imginn exists too if you want to browse a profile.

    Facebook - Anecdotal, but I have not had a Facebook account in 20 years and I can safely say I've never once had FOMO or trouble finding information on an event. If it's a private social gathering that's worth going to, someone will invite me.

  • Should I delete my existing bad social medias accounts or just let them die by stagnation?

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  • Instagram/Facebook I would just delete. Maybe make a final post explaining why you're deleting and say "find me on Pixelfed" just to help spread the word.

    For Reddit, I love when see people replace every comment they ever made with a link to Lemmy before deleting their account. Reddit shows comments from deleted accounts so they stay up. There are apps that will do this for you.

    For Gmail just hold onto and have it forward to your new address in case someone tries to contact you that way. But also back it up with Google takeout in case Google randomly decides to delete the account (rare but it happens).

  • Someone wants to spend money on a Reddit alternative

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  • Sounds like maybe they're looking to invest, and expect a return? But if not, they should just pay hosting costs for a Lemmy or Piefed instance.

    What I said is basically the same as the top comment on their post, so maybe they will!

  • Replacement for Roku?

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  • Not the guy to ask about that, sorry. I've seen it recommended elsewhere which is good enough for me. If you make a post about it I would definitely be interested. I'm not using it myself but I do keep an eye on the updates.

  • Replacement for Roku?

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  • From what I can gather KonstaKang is the guy who makes these Raspberry Pi-specific versions.

  • Replacement for Roku?

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  • Me too. The original devs abandoned it and it was picked back up by new devs in 2025

    The way I see it, if someone eventually makes a Bazzite-styled distro that "just works" with a Plasma-Bigscreen UI on a Raspi it will become the clear and obvious choice for anyone. But we're far from that still.

  • Replacement for Roku?

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  • Not quite, and believe me, I've been looking.

    Your best bet is probably LineageOS Android TV on a Raspi 5. From there you can install Kodi too. My issue here is that CEC does not work. Meaning you need a second remote.

    I probably don't recommend LibreELEC on a Raspi, because despite install being seamless, Kodi these days is essentially a real-debrid frontend (which might be what you're looking for if you want integral torrent downloads!). The normal streaming apps for Kodi are not maintained even PlexJellyfin don't work out of the box.

    Something else I'm keeping an eye on is Plasma Bigscreen but that's probably 2 years out minimum of being user friendly enough for someone not experienced.

    Lastly if you have a Samsung TV, Tizentube will get you YouTube without ads (and other perks).

  • Move Over, ChatGPT

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  • Ah yeah I'm with you. I actually think LLMs are a useful tool for that initial push- a search query, rough draft (or demo). But I'm not convinced they could ever move beyond that, since creating rigid, reliable structure isn't what they're designed to do.

  • They "cannot guarantee" the product description of the 1.3k dollar laptop theyre selling is accurate because they used chatgpt to write it

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  • Move Over, ChatGPT

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  • 🙌Hail all knowing Claude🙌

  • They "cannot guarantee" the product description of the 1.3k dollar laptop theyre selling is accurate because they used chatgpt to write it

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  • I recently tried asking Amazon's AI a simple question about a product that had hundreds of reviews. It was a cheap thing, and I admit I was too lazy to verify the info so I went with what the AI said and bought it, and guess what the AI was just completely wrong and now Amazon is paying for me to ship it back.

  • Move Over, ChatGPT

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  • This is interesting but I wonder how he verified the data it was spitting out if he doesn't know how to code?

  • Anyone else on here a "Reddit refugee"?

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  • Good point!

  • Anyone else on here a "Reddit refugee"?

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  • Changes nothing lol

  • Anyone else on here a "Reddit refugee"?

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  • Interesting take, isn't Lemmy less democratic since admins have total control?

  • Anyone else on here a "Reddit refugee"?

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  • Lemmy is 50% people who hate Reddit for giving the volunteer mods too much power to shape their communities, and 50% people who hate Reddit for not giving the volunteer mods enough power to shape their communities.

    And no they don't get along here either.

  • Smart glasses and socializing

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