This can for sure be me when setting stuff up. I'm currently playing around with self-hosting some stuff on my local network, you wouldn't believe the amount of tabs I have open on my desktop, plus on my phone, plus on the laptop I'm using as a server.
This definitely isn't me on a day to day basis though. For the most part, unless I'm actively tinkering, Linux just works.
On the headache-inducing side of things though, I'm currently trying to figure out why I can't run Wordpress over Docker on my laptop. It quickly uses up all resources and even then spits out a "error connecting to database" message when I try to access it.
I totally get that the couple of bucks a month is worth saving any headache from doing tech support for family members.
However, if you want to try switching them to pirated sources, Stremio + Torrentio add-on and a Real-Debrid sub (which is paid but much cheaper than a streaming service) is great for giving you a Netflix-like interface for pirated content. It's easy enough that I coached my dad on how to set it up via text.
Okay, and? Sorry if I have a bit of a snarky tone throughout this comment, but it frankly annoys me when people bring up stuff like this. Yes, richer people exist, and mathematically the Swift family net worth (pre-Taylor's career) was surely closer to a minimum wage family than to Jeff Bezos. I don't expect anyone would suggest Mr. and Ms. Swift to be first at the guillotine if the revolution comes. I don't even begrudge them using their wealth to help their daughter's career. I bet most would do the same if they had the resources. But...
Minimum wage earners have more in common with her parents than her parents did with the truly wealthy.
Being able to invest anything, let alone 120,000$ into something as unsure as a pop music career, is very foreign to me, a minimum wage earner. From my perspective, the Swift family had a heck of a lot more in common with the elite than with my peers. Sure, they didn't have "buy-private-islands-and-tickets-to-space-Musk-Bezos" type money, but they clearly had enough money to never need or even want anything.
Comparing this with minimum wage earners is pretty shortsighted, even if mathematically their finances are closer to minimum wage earners than to the 0.0000001% of ultra wealthy. The leap from "closer in net worth mathematically" to minimum wage earners than the ultra wealth to "have more in common" with minimum wage earners than the ultra wealthy is just plain wrong. The math doesn't represent the reality of these different financial situations. In reality, their lives were much closer to that of the elite than to the poor fucker buying their groceries in quarters at the Dollar Store.
The existence of people who have so much wealth the human mind can't even conceive of it doesn't negate the wealth the Swift family clearly had, and it certainly doesn't mean their economic and social lives are closer to that of minimum wage earners than to the ultra wealthy.
Drug prohibition is so silly. Getting mushrooms is super easy nowadays. They can be easily ordered online and shipped to your home. Heck, there's a dispensary on Main St in my city which sells psilocybin mushrooms (just a block away from the RCMP offices!)
The only part that isn't easy is doing so through a legal framework.
Just a minor note, you shouldn't call trans people "transgenders", gramatically it's the same as calling black people "blacks" and can come off as rude.
Installing an emulator (and an app on that emulator) for something you can achieve more easily either with a native app or a website is already convoluted.
Doing so on a PC when the UI of the emulated app is meant for a mobile phone with touch controls and a fraction of the screen size of a desktop computer? Very convoluted.
Body camera video equivalent of 25 million copies of "Barbie"
Is this a typical unit of measurement in journalism? Like what even is this? Crappy in-article advertising? Some weird SEO shit? An odd attempt to be cool and hip?
I don't self-host (...yet. I do have a couple of things I'd like to play around with eventually) but honestly, for my use case I don't feel any need to sync RSS. I mostly read articles on my phone, and if I'm on my PC I just remember which articles I've read. I can see how fetching RSS locally on each device might fall apart if one follows a large number of feeds, though.
Ah, my bad! I should have guessed by your username, which I assume is in reference to the now-defunct reddit app.
I can't personally vouch for it, but NetNewsWire might be a good option for iOS if you haven't tried it. It's also FOSS, updated as recently as June 2023, can read RSS feeds locally and has a reader view to fetch full articles. You'd have to test if it caches fetched articles though, but I don't see why it shouldn't.
Assuming you read RSS offline on mobile, Feeder has an option to fetch full articles and stores them for offline reading. It's FOSS and actively-maintained, having received an update just last week.
I've never encountered a site I wanted to follow that didn't have RSS, but I wholly agree it's often needlessly complicated to find the feed links.
Otherwise, this is the method I use to find RSS feeds from websites that don't have a link/button to their feed (copy/pasted from my other comment in this thread):
You can often find RSS feeds by checking the page’s source (on Firefox: right-click and “View Page Source”) and using Ctrl+F to search, there’s usually a URL somewhere. Keywords to search for: “feed”, “RSS”, “xml”, “atom”. For example, if I go to this community’s page on lemmy.world, I can Ctrl+F “feed” on the page source to find https://lemmy.world/feeds/c/technology.xml
I've recommended these a couple of times in this thread, but I use Fluent Reader on desktop (cross-platform) and Feeder on Android. Both are FOSS and load articles locally, so no account/subscription required.
IDK what all the kids are doing with all their faked-up pop music.
Hey, maybe it's not for you and that's fine, but there's definitely some great pop music being released nowadays. I'll list a couple of my favourite albums from the past year, feel free to check them out or not, this comment is mostly an excuse to browse through the music I've listened to recently :P
Charlotte Cardin - 99 Nights (Fav songs: How High and Looping)
Caroline Polachek - Desire, I Want To Turn Into You (Fav song: Bunny Is A Rider)
No one is saying that setting up NewPipe on Bluestacks is particularly difficult.
Everyone is just trying to tell you that it's a needlessly convoluted way of watching YouTube videos on desktop, and that there exists many better options to achieve the same end result. Do what works for you, I definitely have some weird workflows and hacky work-arounds too, but expect people to push back if you try to recommend it to others because it's a pretty bad recommendation.
I love old folk songs, this tune is actually kind of a mashup of two songs, it's the lyrics from Matty Grove (which dates back to the 17th century!) and the melody of Shady Grove, a traditional Appalachian folk song.
Since I'm already geeking out, my favourite version of Matty Groves is Doc Watson's cover, and my favourite version of Shady Grove is Jesse Stewart's "Shitty Groove".
Feeder is a FOSS local RSS client for Android, there's no options to create an account, so I don't know what you're on about.
If you're looking for a good desktop RSS client, I use Fluent Reader which is also local, FOSS, and doesn't need any accounts. It does use Electron, which I know ticks some people off but IMO an RSS client is a pretty acceptable use-case for it.
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This can for sure be me when setting stuff up. I'm currently playing around with self-hosting some stuff on my local network, you wouldn't believe the amount of tabs I have open on my desktop, plus on my phone, plus on the laptop I'm using as a server.
This definitely isn't me on a day to day basis though. For the most part, unless I'm actively tinkering, Linux just works.
On the headache-inducing side of things though, I'm currently trying to figure out why I can't run Wordpress over Docker on my laptop. It quickly uses up all resources and even then spits out a "error connecting to database" message when I try to access it.