What season was that? It scratched a bit of a Whedon/Chris Carter itch, but it wore out its charm eventually. When does it start getting good?

Can’t use soulseek fairly without opening a port; I’m exclusively on mobile internet with a VPN without port forwarding… I might pay for home wifi for one month out of the year to fill my drive…

Depending on how security is, you can plug a USB-c hub and connect it to a KBM and run it that way…

Ah, so you have friends and family! That is a blessing, and I know that from distant experience.

I guess I don’t understand why remote access is such a popular use case. Throw some shit on your phone, h/d, or thumbdrive and you’re good for a few hours. I crammed 4 full seasons of STNG on my phone recently.

I like to use the time filter and can listen in 5 languages; “oldies” in various genres, times, and places, isn’t that hard to research–plenty of free internet radio out there.

Sorry to the new bands out there.

Edit: Also I find the mindset of finding the exact best music is kind of unhealthy. Building a tolerance for meh actually helps me discover things that don’t immediately and instantly appeal to me, and I think that leads to more musical variety in the long run than the skip-happy attitude streaming encourages.

I got away from Microsoft two years ago, so my references are out of date.

Everybody is paying for some kind of music streaming service of some kind or another.

Count me out. I’m building a music library of my own with the help of my local library, thrift stores, and the internet. And, shit, I just got a record player, too.

How are they not getting blocked?

I’ve thought of mass scraping youtube for music, but it’s not worth ths risk of being banned by Google for life.

I haven’t noticed, but my grocery store recently limitted their cash back to $40, so you have to split your purchases into separate transactions until you have the cash you want.

And I guess that’s the opposite problem that for-profit products have, so desperate to maximize every marketing dollar that every fucking thing has the same name in it even if it’s a fundamentally different product.

Microsoft Outlook is the poster child of this in the software space.

The true comparison is someone getting into work at 7am to work on a project due for a meeting at 10am and two of those hours are waiting for a mandatory Windows update to install.

I think they got rid of the mandatory updates, tho, largely because the updates were breaking the OS…

but anyway, I think the meme might be pointing at the issue of consent.

I haven’t done this yet since it’s still an open question if I want to survive the apocalypse (just have a few extra bags of dried beans), but you probably want special food grade plastic with rubber gaskets, neither of which I think Home Depot offers.

Yup. If you’re extra paraoid, get some air-txght buckets, fill them with beans and don’t tell anyone you have them until you have a gun.

I’m saying they could corner the market on components they can manufacture by banning export of the raw resources they control. Threatening rare earth metal exports was how they got Trump to heel.

What if they decide to just keep their rare earth metals for themselves and control the entire market?

I was a terminal redditors for over a decade and that last year or two I was getting site-wide bans at an accelerating rate. I’m off there to avoid a permaban and I’ll only post there if I need a question answered no other way.

I’ve been on Lemmy for 19 days so far and feel like it scratches whatever pseudo-social itch Reddit scratched before; even though the communities aren’t as niche, the community and moderation isn’t so consistently obnoxious.

You know, god bless the bots because they’re probably soaking up at least some watts of surveillance.

Cell phones in Japan must have an audible shutter sound. Pretty sure turning down the volume isn’t enough to silence it.

I’m a simple man. If I see a custom ROM, I flash.