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  • No amount of acclimation will stop an ulcer from reacting badly to spicy food. There are plenty of people who love spicy hot food but physically can't eat it, unfortunately.

  • Bernie wasn't on the ballot though, because he got fucked out of the opportunity. Of course the people who were incredibly motivated to vote for him didn't show up when they were denied the opportunity to vote for him. That's not a failure of Bernie's message, that's a failure of the establishment to embrace a message that motivates young and disaffected voters.

  • My doctor's weird video chat doesn't work in Firefox (and even in Chrome it's barely functional probably because it hasn't been updated since before the pandemic), but other than that singular example, everything else works fine. I think most people parroting complaints about Firefox just haven't used it recently enough to realize that it's fine in 99.9% of cases.

  • KDE Connect (FREE, open source) is definitely a gem. I love using my phone as a remote mouse and keyboard for my HTPC, and syncing clipboard, files, links, and notifications with the other devices I've paired with. (BTW, despite the name, you don't need KDE - or Linux even - to use it. It works on Windows and Android too.)

    URLCheck (FREE, open source) is fantastic. It's a little pop-up that appears when you click a link, showing you the full URL and letting you modify it before you open with your browser/associated app (e.g., to remove tracking parameters):

    URLCheck acts as an amazingly customizable and powerful intermediary when opening url links, allowing, among other things: to remove trackers, affiliate links, unnecessary elements, check Hosts, facilitating link holding and sharing, protecting against certain phishing techniques and many more...

  • Awesome, it looks as though 1.0.153 has fixed the problem!

  • It is massively naive to think that zero of the people who are students right now will ever do sex work at some point in the future. Some of them definitely will. Even if you don't agree that sex work is valid and honorable work (which you clearly don't agree with) there's no way to stop people from doing it despite how vilified or illegal it is in any society.

    Given that reality, a course teaching people how to avoid the dangerous elements of a job that some of those people will eventually do, sounds like a great course. Having a sex worker who knows WTF she's talking about teach it? That's fucking amazing.

  • The person who called your suggestion "trash" was definitely being needlessly antagonistic, I'm with you there. There's no reason why you making a helpful suggestion that isn't 100% perfect deserves responses like that. At least you're trying to help, they're just being an ass.

    people are acting like GrayJay is somehow worse than completely closed-source software that they use every day

    I think it's more that people think of it in terms of what kind of software do they want to add to their daily habits? Regardless of whatever apps they use already that are privacy nightmares, the goal is probably to try only adding new apps that are great for privacy. It's not necessarily hypocritical to not have replaced everything yet, and still refuse to install new privacy concerns, even if they are less concerning than existing apps.

  • I mean, this is a privacy community. The best way to ensure privacy is to be able (in theory) to inspect and modify without restriction the source of everything you are using. Seems natural and unsurprising that people who care about privacy would overwhelmingly prefer FOSS.

  • I'm using Connect which has the feature to block instances. It shows comments from all users on a blocked instance collapsed behind a spoiler of sorts that can be clicked to reveal if desired.

  • Hexbear in particular has been annoying in the past with nonsense comments from users there, and so many unhelpful replies that are just a tiny animated image and nothing else. I'm not even sure they actually are leftist as much as just trolls a lot of times, so I've blocked the instance in general so that serious leftist conversations aren't being drowned out by that nonsense.

    If it looks like someone from hexbear (such as yourself here) is making a real contribution then I'll reveal that comment and engage. It's a shame there are so many goofballs on that instance, apparently. Maybe their moderation has improved though?

  • The game series Thief is the defining experience of satisfying gameplay for me, and there are not enough games like that. Stealth as a core mechanic, with the expectation and ability to entirely avoid combat and detection, a first person perspective for immersion, and a fascinating fantasy setting and story.

    The closest to a spiritual successor is the Styx series, but it's been a while since the last one was released, so I wish for another game like that.

  • I honestly do not understand when people complain about Lemmy being too empty. That's not my experience at all, not even close! My subscribed feed is pretty tame (intentionally), but if I switch to all, I can scroll and scroll until I'm like "maybe I should take a break" and I'm still only seeing posts from like 3h back. There is so much going on here, how are people going around saying it's dead?

  • Followed closely by ~/snap

  • I've been using Mailspring for both personal and business email, it seems like a decent UI so far, and it functions as you'd expect: runs at login, sits in the tray, notifies when new email comes in, etc. It's open source and free, unless you need their "pro" features.

    Possibly some people will be annoyed that it's an Electron app, but it launches and runs more responsively than Thunderbird ever has on my machines, so I don't find that to be a problem. I would rather a Gnome native app, but I'm not aware of any that function well, as OP laments.

  • Connect has instance filters, which you can use to block entire servers like you mentioned. I have actually used it to block hexbear, myself.

  • FYI, bots and crawlers can simply ignore your robots.txt entirely. This is probably common knowledge around these parts, but I've run into clients at work who thought it was a law or something.

    I do like the idea of intentionally polluting the data robots will see, as suggested by this comment. There's no reliable way to block them without also blocking humans, so making the crawled data as useless as possible is a good option.

    Just be careful not to also confuse screen readers with that tactic, so that accessibility is maintained for humans. It should be easy enough if you keep your aria attributes filled out appropriately, I imagine.

  • Isn't that kind of the nature of open source though? Waiting until something is "finished" before making it open source would cut off a lot of innovation and contribution possibilities. Some software would never be seen because the original author didn't get to "finish" it and nobody else could pick it up.

    Unfinished open source software releases are a good thing.

  • Peanuts are gross, I avoid them. I'm not allergic, but they are just so mealy and dry, cloying in scent and taste, overpowering everything they are in. I'd rather remain hungry than eat any peanuts.

    Pistachios are amazing though, maybe the best tasting nuts/seeds I've encountered. Almonds are also quite good, and sunflower seeds by the handful are so tasty.

  • Self hosting Gitlab or Gitea is always an option. Dead simple to do with docker (which the HA devs obviously are very comfortable using).

  • All those apps work fine for me, but I live in a heavily populated urban area, so I imagine the quality of data is probably pretty high here. Magic Earth is by far the best experience, IMO, but I like the extreme customizability of OSMAnd+ (no idea what the + is for though, is there another version that is not as extra?)

    I wonder, if you're having issues with map quality, you might be able to help yourself and everyone else around your area by using the StreetComplete app and/or the OSM website to submit corrections. The changes you make should take effect almost immediately in any app you prefer.