Luke Juntunen

Finally got around to backing up my google photos library elsewhere so I can remove all my photos from their cloud and degoogle and divest from big tech just a LITTLE bit more.

I feel like now is a great time while everyone is fired up about Nexstar to remind people that our local Rochester station voted to unionize ages ago and the management is still refusing to bargain with them.

I liked (most of) the people I worked with there but the company, policies, pay structure, and basically everything else are rotten to the top starting just past ground level even.

Union fight at WROC prompts state delegation to boycott interviews All of the Democratic state representatives in Monroe County, plus several local elected officials, will no longer do one-on-one interviews with WROC/Channel 8 until its parent company recognizes its ...

Not a coincidence that the only coverage this received was from nonprofit news outlets. WROC workers have been struggling for some time - Nexstar’s behavior is shameful and I support this effort.

By the time I left I was making $18/hour (more than most people over there) but also I had switched positions twice and never once did they bother to replace me in those roles and just had me doing double/triple duty through the pandemic. Jumped ship and got an instant 20k/yr raise in a new job.

Not me, side-eying my 900+ titles deep steam library, my switch backlog, and my retro game emulation handheld. Indie titles (from studios that aren't going to be using this sort of thing anyway) have been eating Triple-A gaming's lunch for years now anyway (except Nintendo).

Promo image that says no ice in california. itch charity bundle. over 500 games for $10 donation. There is a QR code that goes to the charity bundle itch page

The No ICE in California Charity Bundle has officially LAUNCHED!

There are 560 games to discover for a $10+ donation supporting @raicestexas.bsky.social and @immdef.bsky.social

Support the bundle here: itch.io/b/3110/no-ic...

Not me peeping through the comments and noting the suggestions because we have 2 windows that are original to our house that need replacing

Alright, Hekki Allmo, rolled credits about 5 minutes ago. I think I stumbled into the "good ending"?

@seth.bet Update: finally got around to it, just hit chapter 7, will report back when I roll credits

(I should note that over the years I have swapped my HDD to a solid state, added ram, replaced the battery and hard drive cable so I HAVE had to do SOME work to keep it alive)

Shout out to OpenCore Legacy Patcher for letting me install the MacOS Sequoia on my mid-2012 macbook pro, the laptop that refuses to die.

Pictures of the six ROCDSA Endorsed Candidates for 2025.

The ROCDSA Endorsed Candidates for 2025

Vote for them on JUNE 24

#rochester #rochesterny #dsa #rocdsa

They See Your PhotosEnte Upload a photo to find out how much an AI sees.

This is spooky (and also a great ad weaponizing google's api against itself) theyseeyourphotos.com

Same, and with all-seasons on too!

A screenshot of the navigation pane in the mini Cooper app showing the gulf of Mexico labeled in the way agreed upon by actually sane countries.

At least the mini cooper app is safe (and probably any map product using OSM data)?

I moved over to StartMail in the end. Privact focused, built-in, easy, encryption, great aliasing support, custom domain options and it has IMAP support so I can use it with Tunderbird on my phone.

Wordpress is a free install if you have hosting and I think people generally like Ghost as an OSS solution for this type of thing that is fairly cheap, the issue being that Medium is likely gonna have better SEO and it's in a system people already know/use.

Yeah, that's the deal, I now know more than I should need to about DNS management in cloudflare (where I have my domains purchased) after needing to change records three times while trying out different services and only getting that seamless experience on the last one.

Spam free inbox is one of the reasons I chose the mail provider I eventually did. It has GREAT aliasing tools including a setting for burner aliases that stop working after an hour.

I'm thinking of actually eating the $0.99/mo myself and throwing another of the domains I own on it as a backup service.

You absolutely can as long as you're paying for at least the basic tier of iCloud+ (which is, I think $0.99)! I just also wanted some of the other features this mail service had and am also trying to avoid big tech in general as I move things around.

Apple has generally better default security and privacy (and is not trying to sell you quite as many ads generally speaking). I just switched off of Gmail within the last couple months and after trying a ton of shit, I ended up using my web domain to make a custom address with a paid email service.

The downside is that they do not have a free option available like tuta.

Every time I was opening tuta on android, it was disconnecting and then I'd have to manual refresh, that on top of the other UI issues had me looking around some more. Depending on your needs, startmail has IMAP support, custom domain options, and great email alias and encryption options built-in.

(I'm using a custom domain setup so that's why I'm trying paid options). I ended up over at startmail which has none of the annoyances of the previous two attempts so far and has much better UX design to boot!

Just to update you, I'm still using all of the above except Tuta (now just using the free version as a backup instead of the paid version) because I was having serious annoyances with the android app. Jumped over to mailbox .org and had some strange issues with DNS settings and non-delivery... (1/2)

After trying SEVERAL options now, I've think I've finally found an email setup that works best for my needs and I am so excited to just go back to not thinking about changing email settings again.

I'm watching anime right now and not the game, but go birds?

As you start reorganizing your life such that you don't monetarily support companies propping up a fascist coup of our country (which you're doing, right?), don't forget to support small local independent businesses.