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JCPhoenix @ JCPhoenix @beehaw.org Posts 30Comments 382Joined 2 yr. ago
JCPhoenix @ JCPhoenix @beehaw.org
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I've only gotten two strikes in my life, 7-8yrs ago. And I feel like this was because my brother was downloading then recent, popular movies (which I almost never do). But before that, never did, without a VPN, and I used to pirate a lot more. Even further back, used to have a roommate who would go on movie and show torrenting sprees. We never got strikes. And that was when commercial VPNs weren't really a thing yet, but copyright strikes were well known. I've known others who've never gotten strikes either.
So I'd say no, not 100% necessary at all. But it's free or cheap enough to mitigate the risk. So that's why I use one when I do pirate, which is rare these days.
Windscribe. Mainly because I scored a cheap lifetime deal many years ago. It works well enough. Got two ISP copyright strikes before using Windscribe. Have yet to get another since using Windscribe (knock on wood). But I also don't pirate as much as I used to.
I've done it before using Duet.
But it's not like that's the only "monitor." It's always been secondary (mainly because I've used it with an MBP).
Mastodon is great. Feels very much like the early days of Twitter and is a solid product so far. I have a PixelFed account, but I haven't played around with it that much yet. Seems pretty good., though we shall see. I have an account on a Matrix server, but I've only signed-in and used it once; Discord is still far more useful.
Lemmy is...Eh. Idk. Rome (or reddit) wasn't built in a day, I know. It can be difficult to find the content or discussion I want because people are so spread out. Usually when numbers are low, you don't want people spread out because it makes communities feel empty, further driving people away.
But more than all that, I find the platform itself so limited. Like the moderation tools are terrible. Can't even block a problematic domain. It seems like if you delete a comment in a thread, all the comments underneath it vanish. Makes it difficult to sometimes leave moderation comments. And Federation or Defederation seems way too binary to me; there should be shades of gray. Though I think the Fed/DeFed binary is true of all Fediverse services.
Like I enjoy spending time here. But I'm not yet convinced that Lemmy is the right platform. FWIW, I'm also trying Kbin on a separate account; in some ways seems better, but in other ways, just seems confusing.
Shh! You're gonna tempt the DNS demons!
Simple selling to BBVA was shit. Simple was never my main bank, but it was a nice, simple service. That was free. Then they moved to BBVA, which almost immediately got bought up by PNC, and then PNC started charging monthly fees. Closed my account before the first fees hit.
I still have a Varo account. Surprised that hasn't gotten vacuumed up yet by one of the traditional banks.
What happened to private businesses can do whatever they want? I thought Republicans like deregulation and businesses being allowed to treat their employees terribly, in the name of the free market. But now that some businesses want their employees (or profit-generating human machines) to be safe, that's not OK?
Do people still say this? This seems like one of those tired things that gets passed around the Internet in the name of "Boo Apple!"
I don't think I've heard any Apple products users of any tech background (or none at all) say since the early 2010s. Yet non-users keep parroting it.
Going slow, which isn't a bad thing.
Been playing at-work counselor, as a few co-workers have been involved in a monster of a project. Not because the project is crazy (putting on a ~120 person event); they've/we've done this many times before, even far larger events. But because the volunteers advising us on this event think they're fully in-charge of the event. They've been making insane and inane demands of my co-workers, yet don't want to put in any of the real work. The event is in 3 weeks, we're losing tons of money on this event, and it's been one of the most chaotic event preps I've seen, yet the volunteer committee continues to demand changes and additions.
Since I'm not attending this event, I've only been helping on a few smaller, behind-the-scenes things: logistics and event AV. Which means I don't interact with these volunteers. But my co-workers do and they're being driven to the brink. I wish I could help in some way, but unfortunately, it's not my place to smack the volunteers (as much as I wish I could). The best I can do is make sure my small parts come together and be someone they can vent to. It'll all come together as it always done, it's just that all this negative energy and even vitriol isn't necessary.
Financially, my brother and I found out that a place that we lived at literally 2 years ago sent a bill we supposedly owed, to collections! For 2 yrs, they never contacted us saying we still owed them some money. Even though they had our email addresses, phone numbers, and even new addresses! And it recently hit out credit reports. I don't think we owed them any money in the first place, so now I gotta get in touch with these asshat apartment managers (seriously, the place was so mismanaged -- like 6-7 property managers within 5yrs) and figure out wtf is going on. It's* super great* that this popped up now as I'm potentially looking for a new apartment in a couple months. Sigh.
Glad you enjoyed Chicago! It get a lot of bad press, sometimes not without reason, but it's a great city.
I saw this article from WaPo the other day quoting her. It's gift link, so should work for all.
Do Egypt and Jordan not already have Palestinian refugees? I know Jordan definitely does. And it's not small number; it's hundreds of thousands, maybe even a million or more. Though according to Wikipedia, at least Jordan has given most Jordanian citizenship.
With regards to Egypt, can they handle that number of refugees? 2 million Gazans? That's a lot of people. And it's not like Egypt is some super wealthy country. And the Sinai isn't exactly a great place to host 2million peolpe.
I don't think there's a single country that can readily accept that many refugees in short order, while properly feeding and housing them, and integrating them, without experiencing massive issues for both citizens and refugees.
That's not to say that it's right for Egypt to snipe at the EU, especially with a comment like that. But it's not like either country can realistically deal with additional refugees. That's part of what makes this whole thing a shitshow. There are few good options. And the few options that are good or better, people or governments refuse.
That would require at least a couple things:
- The ability to think about anything beyond Trump.
- Thinking that the brand is worth a damn. Seems like most of them, especially the Trumpist-types, only care enough to use it to get on ballots.
That's not to say those who think Trump had damaged the party don't exist; they do. But they've been cast out to the fringes, or even to the Democrats. Like Liz Cheney, Mitt Romney, the Lincoln Project people, and others.
Has anyone heard of state governments getting involved in rescuing or evacuating Americans overseas? Typically seems like that's something the federal government, via the State Department does.
Not saying doesn't happen, but just never heard of it before. Maybe this is why.
Gotcha, yeah that checks out. I guess I never made that connection, even though I use TOR and torrent here and there. Probably also because I'm more concerned about download speeds over privacy when torrenting. And regular web traffic over TOR is often insanely slow compared to the clearnet.
Ever since getting a copyright strike several years ago, I've switched to using a commercial VPN while torrenting. I don't know if that's the all-in-one solution for hiding from my ISP, but it seems to work. But I also rarely torrent these days, too, so not as many opportunities for them to catch me, I suppose.
I didn't think people torrented over TOR. Aside from the security issues (which I didn't know about in the first place), I would think it's gotta be insanely slow. Is it not?
Probably not sit around on Lemmy 😉
But hell, 4hrs left? On a Friday? I think you know the real answer. There's always tomorrow...in two weeks, anyway. Enjoy the vacation!
Online Gaming, really.
Actually an interesting place where I've started to get to know people online (wouldn't call them friends...yet) is on Mastodon. I joined a smaller instance kinda on a whim and it's been nice. Think there are <300 users, and only maybe 50 are active commenters? It reminds me of the early days of Twitter when it was fun to talk with complete strangers. My instance is somewhat politics-based, but we all post and talk about our personal lives and interests, too. For example, we have some trans users who talk about their struggles. Others of us talk about gaming. Jobs, travel, and tech comes up too. It's not just politics. But there is a lot of memeing and joking around. It really does feel like a little community.
Getting people that you want to talk to -- friends, family, etc -- onto is a new platform is so difficult. No one wants to have 10 different communications apps, plus associated accounts*, just so they can talk to one or two people on each. It's the network effect. It also doesn't help that some of these platforms just aren't as convenient or easy to use, especially for non-tech people.
But yeah, so many of these communities make no sense on Discord (or live chat period; IRC suffered from this too). I think troubleshooting is the worst, especially in larger, active communities. You have different conversations going on, so it's easy to miss questions or answers. Plus, Discord's search isn't great, IMO. Better than reddit, but that's not saying much. So someone probably asked the same question some time ago; good luck finding it, and even if you do, you still have to sift through the adjacent chat history to see if others responded and track that conversation.
Larger Discords remind me of the chats of large Twitch streamers, where the chat is going a million miles per hour. What's even the point?
At least with a forum, it's much slowed down, and there are clear divisions between topics, that give people the space to discuss those topics.
Websites are so easy to make these days, too. No coding experience even needed. I'm not saying Discord is worthless; it's not and I use it plenty everyday. But it has its place. People need to use the right tools for the job.
*In many ways, websites suffer this issue, too. I have to make an account on this standalone separate website, just for my one question, and then after it gets answered, I'll probably never go back to it? That's why reddit (and Lemmy to a lesser extent) is so popular.