finestnothing @ finestnothing @lemmy.world

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My MIL isn't addicted to Facebook, but fell deep into vegan/plant-based stuff lately and says the same thing about doing her own research and not blindly believing stuff. I already knew a lot of the stuff she has been pushing on us was complete BS but the kicker was when she said meat and dairy cause autism

My MIL went full plant based (vegan but also only raw or minimally processed foods, doesn't even eat tofu or olive oil if she can avoid it) after watching some documentary on Netflix and it is her entire personality now, including trying to force it on my wife I who already eat vegetarian 95% of the time (everything at home is vegetarian, occasionally eat meat out if none of the vegetarian options sound good) primarily for environmental and health reasons. Every time we visit her she makes some snide and not even veiled remarks about us still occasionally eating meat and still eating dairy, her favorite is referring to any sort of cheese as "congealed cow puss".

She also 100% believes it can cure diabetes, Alzheimers, dementia, and cancer in a matter of months and that meat and dairy cause autism.

I tried doing this but I could never visualize the fight or what something looked like... Turns out I have aphantasia and had no idea for 24 years because I just assumed no one else actually "saw" images when told to imagine something either and it was just a phrase

She has currently donated over $15 billion since the divorce (started with $38 billion in amazon shares, now is worth about $40 billion despite stock price doubling in the 5 years since then), none of it with strings attached or being future promises like most billionaires. She doesn't need tax cuts since she just gets taxed on what she actually spends from capital gains tax (or whatever, I'm not an accountant), she doesn't stay in media spotlights except for when her donations go out, her donation org website does semi-yearly updates so its not trying to be a source of info or drama, etc.

She hasn't lost money because she amazon stock price keeps going up, she's just not gaining as much as she could be if she hoarded her wealth, but she knows she has more money than she could ever hope to or want to spend in her lifetime, her kids lifetimes, or however many generations $40 billion can support even assuming the amazon stock prices get tanked (very unlikely).

She just is a good human being with a good heart. It's rare that people like that have this kind of money to give away for purely charitable reasons, but here we are

Free: closed source, Dev can make it non-free any time they want, add monetization, ads, collect and sell data, change licensing, etc at any time and you just have to deal with it or switch software

Foss/open source: if the Dev tries to monetize, add ads, go private, collect/sell data, people will just fork a non shitty version and maintain that

And have to be bullied out or fired to prevent that, making the police department lose their expensive investment.

There are good cops - they just end up getting bullied out or fired for trying to do the right (and legal) thing

Didn't even know it was out yet tbh

I think Plex is better for newbies, less setup and most will want to watch outside of their network easily with little setup. That said, Plex is getting a bit enshittified so I've been eyeing the switch to jellyfin just in case (I'm not a newbie, k simply was when I started using Plex and don't want to deal with the change if I don't have to)

The religious marriage to rule them all: doom Emacs (or other packages that do similar things). All the excellent text editing of vi/vi/vi/vim, the ecosystem and all the features of emacs.

For anyone who hasn't heard of doom Emacs, it's emacs with a lot of customizations baked into it, one of the biggest selling points is that everything uses vim keybinds now (where it makes sense). You get the amazing ecosystem of emacs with the ease of movement and editing of vim, plus a lot of other QOL features. It's also just vanilla emacs with pre-made (and easy to edit) config files and helper functions so you can move over existing stuff if you want, and you don't have to worry since all the emacs packages will still work, since it's still emacs

So far I really haven't had musicbrainz be missing any artists or songs, idk if its different if you listen to indie or niche music though

You should check out last.fm (or musicbrainz, which I prefer since its open source). You connect your apps to it (Plex, tidal, Spotify, etc), they send over songs as you listen to them, you can rank them as love or hate (and some other stuff) and they curate playlists and artists that they think you'll like based on your listening habits

There are some really awful captchas out there. I miss the days of just typing out some stretched and tilted numbers and letters.

I always use i because I'm too lazy to type out iterator when I'm making my garbage spaghetti code that will support infrastructure for years

Same here, idc about some of my containers going through VPN (tandoor, gitea, Plex, etc) but my whole arr suite, qbittorrent, and sabnzbd are routed through a gluetun container that uses my protonvpn credentials. Never have to worry about turning my VPN off for gaming or something since the... totally legal research papager aquirerer apps... are all routes through the VPN which changes it's connection every 4 hours (changes my public IP but also just to make sure none of the containers run into any issues that they can't figure out without a restart)

It seems like a phishing email, idk if the sender is the correct one or not since it was cropped but the Twitter logo is on it despite that being phased out. My bet is that the reset password is a bogus page that has you enter your current password to reset it, that or someone at Twitter missed updating a logo in just this email template

Fresh eggs at room temp will stay good for 2 - 4 weeks at room temperature, 3-6 months refrigerated. If you need to refrigerate fresh eggs, you have too many chickens

Oh I definitely agree - and highly recommend checking out doom emacs to solve that. It's emacs configured to use vim keybinds instead (and other QOL features). It adds a bit less than 200 add-ons by default, but they're only loaded as needed so startup time is still <1 second

Doom emacs is superior

Sounds like a radio station where there community submits songs

It's a flat $15 for the state filing regardless of state or income, it's the main way they make money to be able to run (their optional support options are the other way they make money). I prefer the transparency of $0 federal $15 state to some ambiguous amount between $169 and $359 federal and $39-$64 state for TurboTax