ThePowerOfGeek

I gave up Reddit after the great API fiasco. Once in a while I check out Bluesky, about the same frequency as I look at Mastodon. But about 98% of my social media time is spent on Lemmy.

Especially that punisher skull motif with the Trump hair. That takes the cringe to a new level.

Cybertruck drivers.

ETA: Regular Tesla drivers I give the benefit of the doubt to, because they might have bought their car before they realized Musk is a Nazi dickhead man-child. But cybertruck drivers basically knew and didn’t care (or still fanboi’d over him).

Showing my age here, but the first time I remember using the web was in the mid-90s when there were only a girl’s of hundred web sites. Almost all of them were universities. But I remember going to playboy.com as a joke and being amazed that there’s was actually a website for it. There was also a pizzahut.com website that pointed to a specific restaurant in San Jose CA.

Awesome, thanks for the tips!

I started down the Jellyfin path after they made that announcement. It’s super easy to install, and in many ways the UI is nicer than Plex. But I ran into challenges getting my server safely accessible for users outside my LAN. And I haven’t had the time to look into that further.

Would be great if there was a clean, easy way to set up the webserver portion so it’s as easy to share content entirely as Plex. But I get they are a volunteer project with a lot on their plate.

No, not really. Not for my own pleasure anyway. When I’m not working, helping my wife out keeping the house tidy and raising our kids, doing misc planning for the family, budgeting, and trying to just relax, I’m too tired to play games.

The only games I play are games with my kids, and even though it creates some fond memories, it kind of kills my enthusiasm for gaming in general. It’s sort of like when your job is your hobby, usually the shine of that hobby wears off and it largely becomes a grind.

Surprised nobody here has mentioned Mr Rogers Neighborhood yet.

As a parent I can confirm this is true. Lots of AI slop. But probably even more weird, random, quick-fire meme shorts. Although those two categories are rapidly bleeding together into one massive clusterfuck.

My oldest frequently says “gen alpha is so cooked!” due to all the meme and AI slop. Which considering he is gen alpha is both insightful and disturbing.

Kind of like that dirty-minded, emotionally unstable uncle many people seem to have. The one who struggles to hold down a job or a relationship because they are emotionally stunted, mildly narcissistic and prime to irrational anger fits.

Damn, I’ve been lucky. In my last three positions the vast majority of my coworkers (like 90+%) have been pleasant and easy to work with. And I like all the other developers I currently work with.

Orange soda is very different from pure orange.

Extra tip: use pulpy pure orange so you get little bits floating around in the brown drink. It adds extra texture. It looks absolutely disgusting, but it tastes great.

Half pure orange juice and half cola.

Some counter points:

• I’m not seeing a lot of mod abuse here. I’m sure some occurs, but generalizing it to all or most mods is a gross exaggeration. And aside from that, it happens on Reddit too, worse from what I’ve seen. So it’s still not as bad here.
• Again, I’m not seeing lemmy.world acting like a company (whatever that even means). You know what is a company, and one that sells it’s data and flagrantly shits on its users? Yeah, Reddit.
• Some instances block VPN and Tor? Okay. If you say so. That’s not a big concern of mine personally. At least Lenny instances didn’t go to war with their users, mods, or API developers.
• Federation doesn’t need to be perfect. It’s still better than a closed system in principle, even with its flaws.
• That’s a bold claim about no instances defending their users privacy. Where’s the proof? Either way, at least all or most of them don’t seem to be aggressively selling their users data to AI company as training material. So they are still better than reddit even if assuming they don’t defend user privacy.

Side note: reading the title of this post gave me a headache. But I know sometimes it’s easy to over-edit and have text get away from you. Or maybe English isn’t your primary language.

Man, that’s a blast from the past! I had completely forgotten about that until I saw this post!

I wouldn’t say I ‘stole’ them necessarily. But me and my buddies did used to take them out and hide them near the desks as a prank.

Some thoughts, as someone who has used ancestry.com in the past:

• Do NOT submit your DNA to them! If all your family wants is to trace your family back for several generations, in most cases you can do that with old-school research. Not providing DNA doesn’t usually prohibit that. And as others have said, these companies are not trustworthy when it comes to being keepers of genetic information.
• You are right, the free trial on ancestry.com is a hook in to get your subscription, with the hope on their end that you will forget about it and and up paying for months on end while not using their services. It’s basically like a gym membership, but for history information.
• That said, it’s not that difficult to cancel an ancestry.com subscription. They make you jump through several screens and try to persuade your to keep it going, but it’s not insurmountable, and I’ve cancelled and renewed and then cancelled my subscription with them a few times.
• They do have an exceptional amount of genealogical information on hand, at least for Western researchers. I’ve found some surprising things about my ancestors on there that I couldn’t find elsewhere.
• For libraries and subscription level, it depends on what your needs are. They bundle them into subscription packages. If you think your ancestors have been in America for several generations I would just go with the cheaper American subscription. If you have ancestors who came from Europe a few generations back then you might want to go with a broader subscription plan that covers European sources. If you want to trace ancestors back from Africa or Asia you are going to be SOL regardless, because genealogy sources from those areas are usually very bad.
• One thing to note, in case this is a problem for you: ancestry.com at least used to be owned by or managed by the LDS church (the Mormons). And they have a pretty sordid history when it comes to the exploitation of women and girls, and (like quite a few other religions) have done and continue to do some very sketchy stuff in general.

Hope this helps.

Like others here, there’s not much extra I can do. My job seems very stable, I have no auto loans, both the family cars are in okay condition, I have a fixed rate mortgage, health is okay, and aside from one small loan I am paying back the debts aren’t bad.

A bottle of things I need to revisit:

• I stocked up on non-perishable foods that my family will eat. But I need to do a bit more on this front.
• I’m trying to cut back on extra spending. This is the biggest problem I have right now. Mostly due to unexpected bills and death-by-a-thousand-cuts small purchases.

Daniel Day Lewis

His filmography is very limited because he was extremely picky about what he appeared in. But even still, I think all of his movies were good, even if done of them were uncomfortable to watch.

Innovis is a weird one. It’s much less well known to many people than the ‘big three’. But regardless, it’s used by some pretty big companies, and its origin stems from the likes of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. And some of their services/interface are comically outdated, which to me makes it potentially prone to abuse. And that alone warrants giving it some attention.

Your debit score is important because that’s what most financial institutions check against when you set up an account with them. They typically don’t use credit scores for account eligibility. So debit scores (which are almost exclusively controlled by FIS) can be susceptible to abuse from that angle and in that industry.

ETA: Yes, the response time for the credit bureaus is pretty fast. I recommend setting up a free account with each of Equifax, Experian, and Trans Union. They will try to trick you into the paid account during the account creation process, so watch where you click. But their free accounts are decent and get the job done. Plus they make it easier to freeze/unfreeze your credit score than using no account. Innovis’ process is easy too, and fairly quick, but it’s very old-school.

Yeah, it’s a bit annoying. But I think it’s worth it.

For anyone else who is interested, the four credit bureaus in the US are: Equifax, Experian, TransUnion, and Innovis.

You might also be able to freeze you debit score with FIS.

Edit: For credit scores I might be thinking of locking not freezing as being the free option.