I know a lot of younger folks will be angry at this, but I personally think this is a good thing. Cell phones were taking off when I was just getting through high school and the difference was palpable socially. Immediately conversations stopped happening in person, people started cyber bullying, there was less actual in person communication.

School is the only time in your life you will have friends in close proximity. I desperately miss the ability to go find my friends in the same building, to get off school and go hang out afterwards. Having friends as an adult is just hard, life gets busy, everyone moves away, you don’t have that daily thing that gets you together with them. You have work, but as soon as work is over the last thing you want to do is hang out with friends.

So yeah, I’m all for it. Tiktok, social media, messaging will all be there for you after school is over for the day, but while you’re there you’re experiencing something you never will get to again. Maybe I don’t like the pouches, but I’m all for actualizing where you are

So they have rounds of layoffs, staff feel less secure in their role, and they’re surprised that knowledgeable and easily employable experts are leaving for more stable roles?

I’ve learned to never hope for the best when it comes to consumers. They have been trained to happily hand over their money and time for worse experiences. They is no breaking point that they’ll come across where they finally stop paying, even if they surpass the ability to even afford it.

It doesn’t matter if Netflix is shitty. They’ll pay for it, because how would they go on without it? They’ll pay more for more ads, and it’ll just be accepted. We here are the minority.

I run Bazzite, primarily gaming for everything, added jellyfin as a non steam app. Works pretty well. Wish jellyfin had a slightly better interface but overall decent.

Most everything works with the controller, and for anything that doesn’t steam will emulate a keyboard and mouse for, but I keep a keyboard next to it just in case

Seasons 1 - Battle of the Bastards was some of the best television I’ve seen in my life. Truly masterpiece, all the way through. I’ve never seen that level of excitement either from fans, we had watch parties every year. That’s what made the ending sting so badly, was because of how good it was.

It’s how Hulu started too, it was a magical time. Watch 1 30 second ad before each episode.

I’m glad physical media is starting to make a comeback. I know people who kept Netflix for well over 5 years just for friends “so they could watch it whenever they wanted”. Never thought about buying the discs. “They’re so expensive”.

120 for all the seasons forever, or (at the time) 14 a month for 5 years, which is $840. I’m sure there were other things to watch time to time, but shit adds up folks. Just go buy the blurays of TNG

Agreed, these are two different things meant for two different purposes. At this point nothing beats audiobookshelf

This is another great example of pidgeonholing a decent idea into the wrong tech. Lemmy is federated, but is meant to be an open messageboard style of communication. This would be better suited for an actual chat/audio protocol, like Matrix or XMPP.

Yup, it’s the same people that come here, say horribly offensive stuff, and then get offended when people tell them to shut the hell up and ban them. They’re all for “free speech” but are not so great with the whole “free to not be forced to listen to them” bit.

However, my answer is always the same to them. We’re federated. If you don’t like it, to set up your own instance and allow whatever you want, and I can maintain my freedom to defederate from said instance. The one kudos to this guy is he did take that on, and is willing to risk hosting that content. Good for them. I’ll be banning the url from my instance

Check out the owncast communities instead. Self hosted federated streaming, mostly us Linux nerds

When I lived in rural America I lauded the local politicians for being happy data centers were coming. They told the old farmers it was because they were up and coming, they were going to become the next tech capital! Plus think of the jobs!

Of course us actually in the tech industry know why. It’s cheap. The land is cheap, the power and water are cheap, and the people who would notice are few because they’re… Farmers. The politics are red so they’re happy to ease any red tape to get it passed. As for jobs, its pretty well known that the data center jobs are minimal compared to the corporate HQ, and even then those who would work there would more than likely move there.

It’s all around a bad idea for small communities. The only ones who benefit are the politicians who green light it

So, it’s happening because they’re government mandated it. So, wouldn’t the best approach be to stay federated, so that any of our external content gets federated to them and they see it anyway? Isn’t federation a good thing in this case?

Why would we help them in this case, it would be on them to defederate from us.

Unfortunately shows that even if you are rich, it doesn’t mean you know how to manage money well. I’ve always been conflicted about Britney for the conservatorship. Looking at this shows why. Her family were not acting in her best interests, but she also (still) does not know how to manage that fortune either. Most of these (let’s admit) kids who are suddenly wealthy do not understand how money works.

Even with a failed your, he should have enough money to recover and live very comfortably the rest of his life without ever dreaming of selling his catalogue. But, spending as he did, well, here we are

Real men don’t need to level themselves as anything. Real men are just themselves and don’t worry about what other people think of them.

K, that’s your opinion. I think it’s fun asking my assistant do things.

Home assistant does have voice, and they’re trying out their own in home devices. It has an app for android and you can map your primary assistant to it

Well if there’s anyone who knows when it will be done, it’s high level management

Agree with the other commenter. If she ever pulls that line with you again make sure you throw it right back at her. “You’re right, family first. That’s my kids and my spouse.” Maybe she’ll start to realize the family shifts as you age.

I’ve experience this first hand, and watched it from the other side. My mother is extremely “Christian”, and that’s one of her phrases there. To her, people helping her became an expectation, not an act of kindness. She was a single mom, and so people around town would help her out. Like our local appliance guy, he’d give her a deal on a new dishwasher - and then she would push her luck and ask him to install it. And then start calling him directly when the slightest thing might be wrong with it. And then for other appliances. And then for random handiman stuff. She of course never repaid him for everything he did.

Because he’s a Christian, and so was she. So of course he was “happy” to do it for her. A few people eventually did tell her no, and she would immediately convince herself that they were bad people and that she “had to cut them out of her life” because of the negativity.