Brewchin @ Brewchin @lemmy.world

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The whole full circle thing aside, I’m delighted we’re still able to do this 🖕🏻 with the current protocols.

My choices > your shareholders.

Same with me on the water. I grew up Australia.

Since moving to the UK, I'm still trying to get used to medieval bollocks. Gimme analogies, because Stones used to be 1 Stone of wheat was a different weight to 1 Stone of, say, actual stones. Mental.

I definitely admire the integrity and the effort.

But, economically speaking, you get what you incentivise for: if you can game the system and get the click/eyeball ratio, then they're going to do that.

Nice. But as a BitWarden user, it's useless to me. I've never put all my eggs in one account basket.

Passwords on one service, MFA on another, email on yet another, etc.

Saw that in the cinema and went into real (medical) physical shock at the kerb-stomping scene. I'd never thought of or seen that before. Holy crap, it shook me for hours after as I warmed up again, etc.

TIL this is a thing. I started doing that over 30 years ago with SLS and Slackware when that was the only choice.

This was pre-PnP (also pre-JPEG!), so you had to know all the addresses, IRQs, DMA info, etc, of your hardware or you'd get... unexpected results. make it and they will come...

After countless distros and flavours over the years, I still use Debian for servers and now use EndeavourOS for desktop/laptops.

To be fair: if anyone's going to intuitively know the weight of 800 hamburgers, Americans are it. :)

Also, I'm not entirely opposed to using "every day" analogies for stuff like this.

I think you've got the right approach, FWIW.

Not sure that big business favouritism is the intent, but it's definitely more lucrative for them. Especially with Vimeo and other alternatives out there.

I remember when streaming took off in a big way - some on YT and others on justin.tv (later Twitch and now Amazon's Twitch) - and I thought you'd have to be objectively bonkers to rely upon an opaque and ever-changing algorithm for your financial future. Some have gamed it well, but it's pretty easy to see how they've survived - fake shock/reaction content, alt-light or worse content, polarising opinion, thinly-veiled advertorials, and so on.

This is, sadly, accurate. Telling someone to use an OS/platform that isn't connected with a brand they recognise seems to send many people into a tailspin.

I'll refrain from the obvious "They Live" cynicism...

I had a girlfriend who was born without this connective tissue between her brain hemispheres.

Other than being weird, for reasons that could be explained myriad other ways, she was able to control each eye independently when she wanted.

Watching her watch TV and me while I walked past was... odd.

Road Runner, Tom & Jerry, Wacky Races... I'll still watch them if I stumble upon them.

Meep meep beats Acme Inc every time.

When I'm outside my home network, I rely on Tracker Control (installed via F-Droid) for most traffic. And the usual uBlock Origin and such for my mobile Firefox browser.

I'm from Australia, but now live in England.

Cereal? I've not really eaten it since I was a kid. But I always preferred something plain - without sugar or such. Weet(a)bix, porridge, or - if I had no other choice - Special K.

I've always hated sugary stuff before noon. Don't ask me why. Meanwhile, my friends would pile tablespoons of sugar on their sugary super-sugar sugar puffs.

These days, I have a single slice of toast with butter. With a cup of tea (milk, no sugar). Perfection.

There were a couple for me:

I was young when Alien came out, but my grandfather had it on VHS soon after. Ermagherd. Still one of my favourites films.

Xtro.

But there's one I'll never forget. A woman on a boat, with a metal bucket tied to her belly, with a heat source underneath it, that contained a rat. The rat would do anything to escape the heat... and the film showed the process. I was probably 10 at the time, and it's an image/predicament I'll never forget. No idea what the film was called.

Exactly. This kind of thing is just a tax they have to pay, unless they can convince a court otherwise. Unlike normal tax.