cerebralhawks

Kinda, sorta, not really.

So on Reddit, the people who run the iPhone subs have iPhone 17, iPhone 18, iPhone 19, and so on registered and they're squatting on them until they become useful. Or Fallout 3, Fallout 4, Fallout 5, Fallout 6... Now what some people have done is add a word. Like you have the "Cyberpunk" sub and "Low Sodium Cyberpunk." That works. Or like you have Atheism, and you have RealAtheism. So you can put a word on it, or something like that. But you'll never be able to be the "original" because a small group of people control those.

Now with Lemmy, those same people will just make those communities on the biggest Lemmy instance, but they won't do it on all of them. I use Divisions by Zero, which leans a little further left than some of the others, it's more of a fringe instance I guess? They're probably not gonna target that. So if someone made a community and tried to divert views to their videos for profit like I said in my example, I could make a community with the exact same name on this instance. The other community probably wouldn't let me advertise it there. I could do it once and get banned and maybe get a couple people to join both, at least, but I could promote it on neutral ground, and people could decide who they want to support. Because of federation, even if you aren't on db0, you can still subscribe to a community hosted on it. Like this community is on lemmy.world and I'm subscribed to it and freely commenting on it (at least until/if lemmy.world decides to defederate the instance I'm on — they have that right and ability. But I could make an account on their instance or one that is federated with them. And that's kosher as far as I know, as long as I myself am following the rules of the instances I post on.

macOS is "certified UNIX," whatever that means. And I think Linux is a spinoff/knockoff of UNIX? I'm not clear on the history. I could find out if I were too concerned. But with as closely related as they are (Windows is the odd one out here, pretty much everything else out there is *nix), there's a lot of stuff one does that the other doesn't. Like Proton on Linux for running Windows games.

But yeah, the Jellyfin server works fine on macOS, but the apps are kinda hard to get working. Like it doesn't auto detect your server and it's not immediately clear what you need to put in to connect them. And the server app doesn't just volunteer this information freely. So it's not the kind of thing you can help people set up and share with them. Plex... is. Like seriously, I can say "just register for Plex and give me your account name or email." I add you to my shared users. Bam, you got all my content. It's that easy, and moving forward, anything put up as an alternative to Plex should be at least that easy.

Try? Had the record, the tape, and the CD three times (kept breaking it). Love that song.

Tried to get into The Wire. First season was okay. Second season with the desk being shipped all around was amusing, but I don't get the hype. There are much better shows out there. Maybe it was just ground breaking at the time? But some people act like it's the best show ever and I just have to wonder how many shows they've seen.

Of course, this begs the question of "okay what's better than The Wire?" Well, I could name a fantasy series but that's apples to oranges. You can still compare them but it's really not fair. So as far as cops and crime go, I'd say Breaking Bad is better, and The Shield is better still. (Breaking Bad is another one that's overrated, but at least I finished that one and enjoyed it.) And The Shield is pretty old too. Also, The Shield spawned Sons of Anarchy (staff writer Kurt Sutter created it and it references characters/events from Shield), and that spawned the Mayans MC show (which I didn't get into). I don't recall The Wire spawning anything. Heck, I might even say Oz is better (older than Wire, and also an HBO show) and Oz was bullshit top to bottom. But it was amusing and entertaining. But as far as real-life dramas (zero fantasy/supernatural element), I'd say nothing beats Six Feet Under. Especially that ending. Like holy shit I could not believe they did that.

Reddit will tell you why you were banned. It generates a PM with the reason and a link to the offending post.

For example, I was banned for inciting violence towards a protected group of people… in reference to saying child predators should face stiffer legal penalties. Someone took it the wrong (or maybe right) way because their president is in the Epstein files. Honestly I wasn’t even thinking of him but if the prison jumpsuit fits… anyway, it was not a mystery to me.

I did appeal in case AI flagged me but a human upheld it.

But as to why Lemmy is better in that regard… more open platform trying to improve upon the formula of those that came before. Also run by people not corporations. And not operated by the GOP.

Glad to see the show get more recognition. The first season was better, but I'm glad we got the second season for the "removed mittens" quote/exchange and for the Isha arc.

I don't play the game (League of Legends). I've looked into it. Not my kind of game. I do like some of the character designs and I hope more of them get series like Arcane. I think there was a market for people who like the League stories but don't want to play the game. I think that's true of any show or film based on a game. Cyberpunk Edgerunners, the Sonic movies, the Mario movies — these characters and worlds have audiences outside of gaming.

I'm okay with this.

I'm not okay with AI potentially replacing artists/actors and putting them out of work.

But we're talking about recreating lost footage from the back half of the last century. Everyone involved is dead and gone. There's no compensating them. As for their descendants, they are free to make their own money — but by the same token, the AI shouldn't claim it's their ancestors acting when it's generating the stuff. And in fact, it should change it up so it doesn't resemble any real person.

Honestly the audience for something this old will be quite niche anyway.

Joined. I cook. I was raised on bad spaghetti and I learned how to make it well (along with other pastas). Then I got bariatric surgery and I really can't eat traditional spaghetti anymore, but I still do from time to time. I think I'd make a valuable, or at the very least interesting addition to your community.

Can I say, in that community, that spaghetti (the pasta type) is not the best pasta type for spaghetti (the dish)? Because it isn't. And I think I could convince someone, not so much across the Internet, but if they sat at my table and ate my spaghetti (the dish). I would not expect them to swear off spaghetti (the pasta), but I would expect them to accept that other pasta shapes have their uses (and, more importantly, to think about which pasta shape to use and for what — my personal favorite being penne).

Just trying to keep my head above water for the most part.

Trying to pass along kindness hoping it continues to be passed along.

And voting for the good guys in every election.

And avoiding the worst privacy offenders in tech where I can because I care about that too.

Plex is still fine for me. I have Apple stuff (Mac, iPhone, Apple TV) so my options are basically Plex and Infuse, and Infuse is fine, but expensive to own. Or you pay $10 a year which is more than fair, I suppose. But Infuse can't be used outside your network, and it doesn't sync show progress with Plex. Used entirely on its own without Plex is how it's meant to be used (as a server and client as opposed to client to a Plex server, though that way works too, albeit with weird limitations). But Infuse still can't be streamed outside your network.

Jellyfin exists on Apple stuff but it's not very good. The server seems fine, but the client takes a lot more to set up and it's not as straightforward as Plex. And you have to jump through more hoops to use it outside your network.

Because people who kill generally don't get released. Murder one or "Murder in the first degree" means premeditated and typically carries life/death sentences. Murder two is more like heat of the moment, you come home and find your wife in bed with another man... those carry sentences of a decade or more. Below that you're in manslaughter territory which is more like accident/extenuating circumstances and those people get years too.

Child predators get time, too, but they never get rehabilitated because there's no cure for it. They're always going to want to ruin some child's life, and they're going to want to do it a lot, to ruin several kids' lives. So there's a registry for them, and they can't live near schools, churches (ironically), day care centers, and such.

As for those asking what the term means, please do the community a favor and downvote people giving wrong answers trying to be funny. Chomo is street slang for child molester, and the word is derived from "homo." So the word "homo" makes sense, it's just short for homosexual. Put a C on it and the first sound is "Ch" like child. So it's someone who targets children. Never thought I'd see the term up here though. Guess Lemmy is getting popular.

Because they want to stop people from using ad blockers.