I mean, maybe google should stop shooting themselves in the foot when it comes to messaging. See: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/08/a-decade-and-a-half-of-instability-the-history-of-google-messaging-apps/

I read a great WaPo article on this recently. Basically on the left, no one can define healthy masculinity and it's really opened up a spot for the right wing to swoop in and define it for us.

I skipped the Agile2023 conference last month because they chose Florida for some reason.

Many restaurants charge a “split plate fee”. If you order something and want to share it with your partner they’ll bring you an extra plate but charge a fee. Have a link: https://frugalreality.com/split-plate-charge/

For sure, turn off wifi on the tv and also block it's MAC address at the router. Plug in your trusted streaming box of choice via HDMI and only use that (Nvidia Shield, AppleTV, Roku, AndroidTV, Homebuilt Plex box, etc).

I get the sentiment, but Flickr hasn’t been owned by Yahoo for a while. They were purchased by the folks that run SmugMug.

Have you ever seen that movie Don't Look up? It's a great watch. Even in the face of a planet destroying comet heading for earth, the conservative were all "You know what, I'm FOR all the jobs the comet will provide! Don't look up! Don't look up!"

If WinNuke rings a bell. You remember the fun :-)

Open a small program. Type in the IP address. Click Nuke. Target PC immediately shuts down. While it's rebooting you grab it's IP address as your own so it can't rejoin the network. Worked great in a building where every machine had a predictable fixed ip. Some good teenage mayhem.

It’s a bit dated now, but the NCAA even says sports are money losers. https://www.ncaa.org/news/2014/8/20/growth-in-division-i-athletics-expenses-outpaces-revenue-increases.aspx

Just to further clarify, MAGA was originally used by Ronald Reagan (and later Bill Clinton).... it's just another thing recycled by the orange guy who has no ideas of his own.

Since 1999 I'm only on my second Brother Laser printer. They are champs and 3rd party toner is inexpensive.

Come visit us over at !bbs@lemmy.sdf.org ! Would love to build up a community around this.

their perception of california is so unrealistic it may as well just be an alternate reality

As someone who works in Minneapolis. I totally feel this. We get this too. Apparently we're supposed to be a burnt out crater of a city where everyone is murdered.

If I had my little way, I'd eat peaches every day

The whole next week/two weeks thing is such a meme. Have a video.

Gopherspace, Gemini, and the smallweb/smolweb in general.

Wired has had a number of articles over the years on these terrible ships. Worth a read. One example: https://www.wired.com/2011/08/future-warship-ran-aground/

I guess that’s nice. I installed cloudflared myself and get the same results that way with my pinhole. But it was an extra step.

I though about that the first time I saw Requiem for a Dream, and then suddenly thought to myself. It's not actually mindblowing. It's just a formulaic, cookie cutter story of a bunch of people doing drugs, I kind of think it's really overrated from a critical standpoint now. But I did get an initial shock.

WaPo put together a list of the supposed reason for impeachment and who proposed the idea. They are all crazy pants:

Impeachment threats

President Biden: Afghanistan withdrawal (Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene, Lauren Boebert, others)

Biden: border security (Greene, Reps. Bob Gibbs, Bill Posey and Andrew Ogles)

Biden: Hunter Biden’s business dealings (Greene, Ogles, Reps. Jim Banks, Claudia Tenney, others)

Biden: covid-19 eviction moratorium (Greene, Gibbs)

Biden: selling oil from strategic reserve to foreign nations (Greene)

PiHole blocks by preventing certain domains from loading (the ones you specify on your blocklist). It's not examining any content. It simply sees a request for say examplespamdomain.com and blocks it when something on your network requests it. Youtube serves ads and videos from the same domain, so this approach doesn't work.

Knowing what a jerk Jack Dorsey is though, I'm steering clear.

Well, that's good to know. Thanks!

Family group chat and shared albums in iOS. Solve 90% of the needs.

something tech-centric.

Might I suggest SDF? They are a long running tech community that started as public UNIX access.

I like the idea in general with framework. But I don't even upgrade my desktop gaming pc that I built anymore. I feel like we're past the days when there would be an amazing rate of progress leaving everything you have completely obsolete after a few years. I've had a Ryzen 5 3600 build running since the week they came out and I have no desire to upgrade any piece of it. I finally just in the last 2 months traded up from a 2012 MBP to a 2017 MBP (I found used on ebay) and I don't feel like there's anything I'm missing out on. You get such longevity out of devices these days that I just don't personally see the appeal of a thicker clunkier laptop that looks kind of cheap but offers upgradability. Buy something, use it for 5-7 years then sell it on ebay and buy something newer-ish.

This was the original premise of app.net - a social service from years back. They built a “social backbone”. They offered you a single place where your identity and friends were housed. Other people could build apps on top of the backbone.

So you would join say a clone of Instagram and all your friends were still there. And your account still worked. Or they had a Twitter clone. Same deal. It was a single sign-on social account/identity/social graph that was separate from the apps. So things could just plug in.

Worked great. But it was a paid service. And came out right at peak Facebook so it died off.

Those plus Tropico. The first one. Scratches the same itch as RCT for me.

Sponsorblock for YouTube was a game changer for me. Highly recommend it to everyone.

I bought at the same time as you. Waited it out. for me, it was pretty true to the pen and paper game - which I enjoyed. And I loved the story. 10/10 for me.I rarely stick with games. I'm not much of a gamer. The only games I've played through start to finish are Super Mario 64, Neverwinter Nights (PC), CP2077, and Hogwarts Legacy. I tend to play sports or shooters, so it takes a lot for me to stick something out to completion.

Anything involving crypto needs to be nuked from orbit, just to be sure.

I took a peek, and it looks great!

I'm using https://browse.feddit.de to find them. The search box has been getting a workout from me. Copy the link of the community, paste it in the search box, and then you can join it even if it lives somewhere else.

This whole "paying their fair share" is sort of a red herring too. I remember when Trump was talking about this and saying NATO was ripping us off. That's not how this works. In 2014 NATO countries agreed to spend 2% of their budget on defense. This was so the countries would have a military deterrence and wouldn't just be relying on the USA on other countries to step in if they got in trouble.

If the other countries don't spend that much, no one is "owed" any money. No one got ripped off. The USA didn't suddenly incur a bill or spend money to make up that shortfall. Those countries simply don't have as large of a defense program as NATO would like.

For some reason my first thought was that Simpson’s episode with Itchy and Scratchy money.

I'm using the ivory app on iOS to interact with Mastodon so I can't say for sure. But performance has been great for me. I even pay for extra SDF services.

Old Gods of Appalachia (the only one I actually pay for/support on patreon)

2 Bears, 1 Cave

The black tapes

The bright sessions

Crypto Critics corner

darknet diaries

538 Politics

Mik + One

Small town horror Video palace

the white vault

tech won't save us

Witch house media

I mean, RCS is garbage, And googles messaging woes are entirely of their own design, see: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/08/a-decade-and-a-half-of-instability-the-history-of-google-messaging-apps/

I'm also late to the party. But I've been on SDF for ages so I always try out everything they offer.

Well for one thing Apple rather famously slows down its old phones and lost a lawsuit over it. Apple has plenty of merits but longevity is definitely not one of them.

This is so false, and has been debunked so many times that anyone still repeating it is simply a liar.

Batteries are consumable items. A great analogy anyone can relate to is car batteries. Anyone with a car knows the battery goes bad. Batteries wear out. A car battery that works fine in the summer may have a lot of trouble cranking over in the winter under the conditions and extra load of a cold engine full of sludgy oil.

The phone battery is no different. Overtime it starts to go bad. What Apple did, was determine through software when a phone battery could no longer support a phone running at full blast. They INCREASED LONGEVITY of the device, by throttling the speed. By making it run slower, it was less demanding and still would work - where it otherwise would have been prone to random shutdowns and crashes because of the degraded battery. This was a much better user experience. They could have skipped this altogether, and people would have just bought a new device. Instead this software throttling made the device last even longer. In fact, laptops have been doing this for decades. Should Apple have told folks? Sure. But anyone presenting this as a profit motive or forced obsolescence is deluded.