I have some ducks living in my garage, they don’t pay rent, they poop everywhere, and contrary to the meme, they do not enjoy being lifted off the ground.

They do, however, eat vegetables out of my hands, and if I sit on the ground near them the will nibble my hands and feet.

They are incredible and much like dogs we truly don’t deserve them.

All my recipes are lgpl.

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Four days later?

Imagine the stewing and seething.

How could you let someone else control so much of your life?

What a whiny little bitch.

I feel like if you’re gonna have a Bacchus statue, you need to expect his worshippers to come around.

The main reason I prefer Mastodon/Fediverse over Bluesky is ActivityPub. They make some good points about profile portability I suppose, but also I don’t think “identity” is as important in the Fediverse as it seems to be in other networks.

If it is something really important to you then you can stand up an ActivityPub compliant instance of whatever with really strict profile creation rules, as in someone manually verifying identities if that’s your concern. Hell, I came over to Lemmy from KBin, and I was still following some stuff on Mastodon through that.

I just don’t like that they looked at the spreading existing standard and said “nah, we can do it better” instead of contributing and making what we already have better.

I know it’s more complicated than just that, but it’s also kinda not.

Alt headline: “Boomers Ruin Economy via Exploitation and Wealth Extraction, Retire to Areas They Haven’t Ruined Yet”

Pull quote: “It just feels like there’s too much clean air and hopeful youth. I’d really love to be able to relax in my old age, but I just don’t feel like I can rest when there’s so much we haven’t destroyed.”

The only thing chuds like eating more than leftists is each other.

We should be lauding Elon Musk for dispelling the notion that the wealthy have any inherent superiority to anyone else. He keeps proving it over and over and over.

Thank you Elon, for being yourself and proving, once and for all, that anyone can be a billionaire, all you have to do is benefit from the exploitation of apartheid.

As far as the local control goes, you can keep it from phoning home and it will still work. I don’t believe that the Shelly firmware is open source, but they allow you to upload custom firmware that is.

Because you can cut them off from the outside world I don’t believe it is doing the same kind of data collection externally unless you allow it to.

The new “mini” versions of their gear is harder to customize apparently but still possible, they still sell the larger versions though too that are easy to modify.