Prices must indicate what you’re going to pay. These hidden costs are scummy practices and very well regulated in the EU.

Not sure what you’re defending here buddy, you like paying more?

“Distributing sexual deepfakes”.

Yeah, that sounds a lot more serious than simply harassing people, yet it’s only mentioned for a single sentence here.

I took confusing as in “tourists to the US”, not Americans facing the scanning

If you see the line “Why it matters”, it’s very probably written by AI

We recently went to one in the Netherlands, pretty great, even though it was cloudy.

Meanwhile people in my fairly rural town cheer when they put up a new light, just because they feel a little bit safer.

I’d be wary of just plugging your phone in a random USB port.

With an API that just runs unauthenticated, I’m unsure what any of these suggestions is supposed to improve here.

Maybe actually learn to read what this applies too, the website is very clear on this.

Their own parts are open source, the rest are readily available components.

Not sure why you’re spouting complete bullshit and where your basing those statements on.

It pretty clearly states you’ll be able to 3D print parts yourself. It’s also using a Raspberry Pi inside, which I’m fairly sure you can buy wherever you want, so saying you can only get parts from them is complete bullshit.

Are you a shill for printer companies or something?

They need to stop calling it a UN alternative. It’s literally just a Trump Appreciation Club. It’s all about appeasing his ego, as made clear by his temper tantrums against anyone who doesn’t want to join

I’m paying about $22 on Porkbun, they’re pretty good

Isn’t France on of the top contenders? There’s absolutely a ton of money to be made by competing.

Simply location alone makes a great difference in the taste profile. And there’s plenty of other reasons.

It’s like saying all dogs are Chihuahuas because they all have a nose, a tail and ears.

Both Norway and Germany have pledged to send troops too

I mean, Trump stole the soccer Club World Cup trophy and put it in the Oval office, leaving the actual champions with a replica.

He doesn’t give a shit about the accomplishment, only about the prize.

I wouldn’t be surprised if he wants to rename it to Trumpland

Interestingly enough, with the data they provide, figuring out how much of it is AI slop wouldn’t be that hard I think

No they don’t.

Lemmy loves to assume criticism against stuff like this (and often out of misunderstanding as I read here), automatically means you hate women.

Just because you criticize something doesn’t mean you’re against it.

Weird, I’ve read the opposite. I’ve heard courts have ruled that data returned by servers is public, even if they’re obscured in the front end

Judging from your comments, you seem to be lacking some basic knowledge and skills to get started.

None of the comments here are useful without getting those up to speed.

You definitely might want to start of looking into networking: how do computers connect to each other and the internet.

Since you’re using Linux Mint, I do assume you have some basic knowledge of using the terminal and basic commands.

Next you might want to learn Docker, which is useful when learning self-hosting, as most solutions will have an option to use that.