Whotf even used Apple Maps lol

Government hospitals over here are trash unless it is some top tier one in a Tier 1 city like AIMS in Delhi. The infrastructure is lacking in most if not all tier 2 and below cities, towns and villages. They are understaffed and overburdened with patients. Hygiene practices in these hospitals are questionable at best. Corruption is rampant as well.

Additionally, the government is promoting alternative medicinal practices like Ayurveda and Homeopathy by even allowing the practitioners to prescribe Modern Evidence Based Medicines and dedicating a special section in hospitals for these alternatives.

Anyone who has the financial capability will not visit a govt hospital in this country.

That doesn’t mean it is safe. Just because a pond is filled with garbage doesn’t mean we are supposed to throw more garbage in it.

In fact there is no known medically safe levels of lead intake, as even little can cause harm. So adding more lead in your system — however minuscule it is — is harmful.

All the food safety agencies just give a blanket estimate range for safe levels for how much is tolerable for a human body based on practicality, not on medical basis.

That is if you eat big animals regularly instead of smaller ones.

Vegans simply ignore the fact that humans are omnivores. One needs enough physical activity as well to reduce the risks for everything that you mentioned.

I know people who ate a lot of meat and did not workout and died early. I know people who are vegetarians who didn’t workout and died early as well. In both cases one might die earlier than the other. What matters is a balanced diet, physical activity and the rest of your lifestyle including sleep, sex life, stress and social life as well.

Lead literally makes people dumb lol

I’ve used Ubuntu Server, without any problems

If it works for you then great. But it doesn’t stand with your goal of Corporate Independence and Willingness to Learn — Given that it is slightly easier to setup than Vanilla Debian. But at the end of the day it is just Corporate Debian with more up-to date packages but overall less stable than Vanilla Debian.

upkeep and electricity costs of having your own hardware at home

It really won’t be much unless you’re gonna go for extremely beefy hardware like for Jellyfin hosting hundreds of newer codec 4k files with HDR and shit with dozens of users or some LLM — which anyways still would be cheaper than renting a VPS. Otherwise even a Raspberry Pi can do a decent job or even a mini pc (with something like Intel N100) which draws less power than a Mobile Phone charger. It also aligns with the idea of beginner friendly setup than using a VPS which half the people will even skip reading the Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policies. So hosting something like Immich or Nextcloud, which is not encrypted at rest, is pretty much available for the VPS provider at instant.

convenience of a public IP

You don’t need a public IP to self-host. A beginner should start with private at first, learn from there and gain and grow otherwise it can lead to security risks — e.g you have mentioned to self-host Immich which doesn’t have any native 2FA. The self-hoster then will have to know about SSO based logins to secure instances like these.

use a dynamic DNS provider to get around

You also have Cloudflare Tunnel, Tailscale. Or you can use a 5$/month VPS in this instance to self-host Pangolin with Crowdsec for public access and block malicious or suspicious IPs. All of these options will mask your real public IP.

The guide was focused on being as simple and convenient as possible, with the target audience being absolute beginners

Ok but this asks for a lot of upfront investment. You don’t need to buy a domain or a VPS as a beginner (or even a mini PC as I mentioned). Just start with a PC or a Laptop you already own. Host the service and access it via private IPs instead of handholding them to copy and paste commands, configs and compose files from the internet (although you do have mentioned official documentation so kudos for that) just for the convenience of public access. A lot of people don’t know the 3-2-1 backup rule. One error might wipe off their entire Immich Library, Password Vaults or important documents in Nextcloud.

freeing yourself from your dependance on big corporations

Setting up a VPS with Ubuntu Server

This shouldn’t exist in the same article lol. You will just end up paying in subscriptions anyways while at the same time maintaining all the stacks — that too on Ubuntu where some articles will become useless after a few updates. Even 10$ a month will result in $120 every year — which can buy you a half decent second hand PC or a new Mini PC. You won’t even own your data when you rent a VPS.

You will end up saving a lot more by self hosting on your own hardware with vanilla Debian and be more independent at the same time. You will only need a VPS if you want to self-host your own reverse tunnel like Pangolin or FRP.

Once Adobe apps and new versions of Microsoft office start working reliably on Linux, 50% of corporate PCs are out of Windows’ market share.

What else do you expect everyone to do? Please enlighten us if you have something more to offer than switching to Linux — which seemingly is the best option currently.

We don’t have any implementation of the on-paper regulations. Too put it lightly — we don’t know what we are even breathing during this peek period.

You’re absolutely right that most year-round pollution comes from industrial activity and vehicles — and that companies have deflected responsibility by promoting ideas like carbon offsets, shifting the burden onto consumers.

But in India, the situation is more layered. Our cities already average AQI levels between 60–80 annually, which is poor by all global standards. During Diwali, even relatively cleaner cities see AQI levels spike above 200 — sometimes overnight. That kind of surge can’t be explained just by traffic and factories. it shows that firecrackers, while seasonal, are not a minor factor by any sense.

What makes things worse is that regulation around firecrackers is weak, and there’s little transparency about what chemicals are actually being burned. Plus, the political economy plays a big role: many local leaders have financial ties to the firecracker industry and thus banning fireworks is resisted by the industry under the pretext of protecting jobs.

In contrast to Western countries, where corporations spend billions on lobbying, in India, political power and business are often directly entangled. Corruption isn’t just top-down but it operates at every level, from bureaucrats to local politicians. So blaming the corporations is just pointing fingers to the creamy layer of the country’s corruption problems while ignoring the fact that the entire tree is rotten.

In India it is pretty much a daily affair: Won a cricket match? Burst a few crackers. MLA/MP got elected? Burst crackers. A toddler’s first birthday? Burst Crackers. Bhai’s (some random popular goon) Birthday? Burst crackers. A military operation against an enemy nation? Burst Crackers. Cleared an Exam? Burst Crackers. Got a government job? Burst Crackers. The list is endless.

Diwali takes it to a whole another level where literally every corner of human settlement in the country is bursting crackers.

I don’t really bother with email — It is terrible for privacy no matter which provider you use if the person sending you uses Gmail, Outlook, Yahoo or whatever w/o PGP — which is most of the corporate world and normies.

I use Tuta for personal and it has the same problems (offline still works better than Proton I think). But my primary reasons for using Tuta are

1. I think they are more transparent about what they do than Proton
2. The alias email seems better, and
3. I don’t want to go in another corporate walled garden of office/email/calendar suite — I use Proton VPN

I have to use Google Workspace for work anyways so all my work email have offline access on Thunderbird.

dragging people from peaceful nonexistence into existence without their consent

The male body gave consent to copy itself before ejaculating and the female body also consented to copy itself. Both copies agreed to merge and create a new copy —the child. So technically, we did consent to being born. (Except when the mother has been raped, or throughout the pregnancy was denied abortion because of some stupid law — a timeframe allowed for one party to withdraw that consent).

His fingers look unnaturally long. Unless the white board is new, there are no signs of previous smudges. White boards are smooth surfaces, so we should also see reflections in there. The bridge as — pointed out in the thread — looks super wonky. There should be taller buildings as well as seen in the image below.

Lol mine is 20 GB. And iOS takes 12.5GB. Thankfully I got the 256GB model, use Immich to backup images and videos, use Paperless-ngx for storing my docs and know how to use and manage a filesystem (however shitty it is on iOS) unlike most normies who would just let everything pile up and get confused on why there is no C: drive on iOS (real story lol).

Would have definitely tried it, but today it completely died. Won’t even turn on. Replacing the motherboard would be very expensive for a phone this old if the parts are even available. Will do a teardown tonight as last rites just to have a look at the insides, reassemble and then give it to an e-waste processing foundation.

Please tell what did you guys do so I can ask if my woman would be interested in doing it 👉👈

c/fuckai

Seems too risky to keep it plugged then ig as other person in the comments seems to have had a similar issue. Maybe will just use it as an extremely dumb secondary phone.