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  • Easy. Raspberry Pi. Made in UK, doesn’t come with bloatware, Windows, or even any OS (unless you buy the kit that comes with Raspberian pre-installed).

    It’s also upgradable (or at least expandable) through its many available connections.

    Not feasible as a daily driver but it meets the specified requirements.

    It will have components made in China but it will be hard to avoid that for pretty much anything made of more than a few different materials.

    Alternative answer is the Framework laptop, made in Taiwan, can also be ordered without an OS or even without a hard drive (DIY version that you assemble yourself). You can then be picky about the other parts you buy, it’s possible to buy RAM, SSD, etc not made in China.


  • I also use Kagi. Just start with the trial, upgrade to the $5 starter tier when you run out, then upgrade to the pro $10 tier if you hit the limit. It appropriately apportions things if you’ve only used half your month.

    I’m on the $10 pro tier as I use over the 300 searches a month in the $5 starter tier ($10 is unlimited).

    Kagi has AI on request. If you put a question mark on the end of your search query, you get an AI response. No question mark, no AI.

    I think Kagi is worth trying for other reasons, but probably only for people who $10 a month is not a significant cost. It’s not better than food, but it does let me block all Pinterest results so I never see them.













  • I guess the point is that it shows the correlation between processed food and cancer is statistically significant. As in there is definitely a link, and this meta analysis shows good evidence this link exists. Even if the impact is small.

    As for the day to day impact of this study, I’m not sure there is one. Processed food is already on WHOs list of things that definitely cause cancer.

    Getting a colorectal cancer probability in a lifetime is about 0.04, eating hotdog adds 8% to it or ~0.003.

    Depending on the average amount of processed meats eaten, it could also show not eating a hot dog every day will reduce your risk of cancer by about that much. It’s probably only important in the cumulative though. When we have studies like this for many foods, you could put together a diet that reduces your chance of cancer by 20 or 30%, say. But one food’s impact like this is probably only important to scientists.

    So getting back to your original question:

    Like… is it written to excite anxiety?

    Yes. Anxiety drives clicks which drives revenue.



  • Yeah it’s a maybe, uLogger seems to let you choose which track you want to see. I presume the app lets you log to a specific track so you can have one for each person.

    It might depend on what specific experience you’re looking for. For example, I log to Nextcloud and can view it there, but this is more of a “find my phone” plus tracking where I’ve been for myself (similar to Google Location History). While I’m sure I can set it up so others can see, it’s not really designed for it. It would also be a bit awkward as you’d have to log in to Nextcloud in a browser to see the locations (seems it’s possibly the same for uLogger).

    I also run Home Assistant for home automation. I trigger automations off of my wife and my locations, but either of us can open the app and see at a glance where the other is (with pre-defined locations, such as “Home”, “School”, “@Dave’s Work”, etc, plus the ability to tap and see the exact location on a map).

    That Home Assistant setup is much more useful for either of us seeing where the other is than I think the more dedicated tracking apps are, since they aren’t designed around sharing your location with others and that’s more of a side-function.