I should probably thank Netflix for helping me save money. Their shenanigans pissed me off enough that I've entirely withdrawn from all paid streaming - I have a media server and a VPN now. Total media cost, $70 /year or ~$5.83 /month. For that, I have:

• Access to any movie or t.v. show any streaming service has ever provided
• No ads
• Shows/films don't get removed from from the platform without warning.

My god. Find something important to be angry about.

No. I have about a thousand things I'd rather do than work.

I've been a lurker on reddit for the most part and it seems easier to talk on Lemmy. I guess because it's a smaller community, or because your instance feels a little more private.

I've heard that they're hard line communists. Tankies, as the kids say these days.

Oh God. Prepare yourself for a confusing alien nightmare. The acting isn't so much bad as surreal.

If you find out, let me know

I imagine if Lemmy/the fediverse get big enough, corps will make accounts. It's a small step from there to making their own instances, then modifying those instances so that they can see out, but you have to be registered locally to see in. I'm not sure how difficult that would be to implement.

NTA. She pushed it too far with someone who was in a relationship, and a hurtful comment is about the least she should have expected.

Link to a store? I'd like one.

My girlfriend and I are watching From, and enjoying it. We were/are worried that there's a lack of direction and they're just generating mysteries without any intention of solving them. The last few episodes revealed a few things, though, and I'm slightly more confident that they do have some sort of endgame.

I'm willing to see what it looks like, but I'd support defederation.

Seems reasonable.

Yeah, fuck this. I want full access to all the capabilities of my vehicle. I'll keep maintaining my 2006 truck, thanks.

I'm not really concerned that any particular instance is really going to impact my usage of the fediverse, but thanks for the info. It's good to be aware that a particular instance may be biased.

Might seem naive, but I actually have a hard time imagining this. There's just not a lot to make one instance more desirable than another, which seems like a bad thing, but I don't think it is. I decided against signing up on lemmy.ml because it was laggy, so I went with a smaller instance- all the same content, but without the lag. If a lot of content gets created on one instance, there's no pressure to pile in, because you can view, comment and interact from a different, smaller instance.

I've got a NordVPN subscription and use Transmission to download torrents.

That's interesting. I wonder how they deal with false positives? Conceivably, you could have an AI generate intermediate "partially complete" digital art and then argue that you have evidence that the finished work was created by hand with screenshots etc.

Reporting from southern US. Haven't noticed anything exceptional. It's been raining here for a bit, and it's always pretty hot when it's not raining, in the summer.

Jesus. I think all the code I've written in the last decade could fit in two of those binders lol