New York’s 18th District Rep. Pat Ryan (D-NY) called the action an “absolute disgrace” and said it was antisemitic because New York City has a large Jewish population.
ah yes, the Democratic Classic: conflating the government of Israel with all Jews
as others in this thread have mentioned, Linux Mint or Pop OS are the best for someone coming from Windows. both work really well out of the box. Linux Mint has a very Windows-like desktop, so it's often recommended to people coming from Windows; but if you want a more unique experience Pop OS is the way to go
ugh yeah. especially the SEO war thing, the new website doesn't even register on DuckDuckGo yet. at least there's this extension called Indie Wiki Buddy which will hide Fandom results from search engines and redirect you to an independent wiki if you end up on Fandom anyway
answering your questions as best I can (I'm a straight male too) in order:
if he/him seems right to you, then your pronouns are he/him. if other pronouns seem right to you, then your pronouns are those pronouns. pronouns don't have to match up with your gender or presentation, go with whatever you vibe with
when meeting new people, I give my name and pronouns. "hi, my name is salarua and my pronouns are he/him." of course, it's nice to give your pronouns when asked, but other than that it's up to you
just including your pronouns in your profile is good. some people put them in their nicks, some in their bio or about me. if you have a Mastodon, Akkoma, Misskey, or Firefish account you can put your pronouns in your custom fields
you can try and figure out other people's pronouns from how other people refer to them. many people will also give their pronouns if you introduce yourself with your pronouns. it's not a faux pas to not know someone's pronouns beforehand, although I admit I don't know a non-awkward way to ask someone their pronouns
a good bet is to refer to people whose pronouns you don't know as they/them. if you mispronoun someone by mistake, quietly correct yourself and continue with whatever you're saying. "so after arriving at the office, he- sorry, they went to go see their supervisor about the presentation..." as long as it's not done out of malice, people don't mind being mispronouned if you acknowledge the slip-up and move on
I haven't met anyone irl with neopronouns either. presumably people with neopronouns would go by them if they were among people they felt safe with. unfortunately most of the world isn't safe :(
i'll have to look more into that. the obvious answer is "keep it off site", but that only applies if you're doing backups. if it's a NAS with several different purposes like the one i want, i'm not actually sure. i'll keep reading about it
my dream is to build my own NAS. it would handle everything i need: it would be a Nextcloud, media server, website host, Matrix server, Minecraft server, and when i'm not doing anything with it at the moment i'll have it donate its time to seeding and relaying
i don't have one on hand, but it's a physical letter sent through the mail which basically says "delete the copyrighted data we think you downloaded or we're shutting off your internet"
i live in the US. seeding and torrenting in general is relatively safe here, although sometimes you'll get a nastygram from your ISP because a copyright industry plant on one of the torrents told on you. the easiest way by far to prevent that is by getting a VPN. go with something paid (free ones do shady stuff) and with a no-logging policy. i use NordVPN because i know someone who pays for it and is letting me use it, but another great option is Mullvad
for every person who leeches on mobile data and can't afford to seed, there's someone who has a freakishly powerful rig that seeds like 17 different torrents 24 hours a day. if you can't afford to seed, don't worry about it, because people who can afford to seed often do. things balance out in the end
believe it or not, that wasn't the original purpose of copyright. copyright was invented as a form of censorship. in 1556, the Charter of the Stationers' Company was given the exclusive right to control the operation of printing presses in England, up to and including the ability to seize offending books and burn the printing presses that made them (L. Ray Patterson, Copyright and "the Exclusive Right" of Authors, p. 9)
when it comes to playing music, i use Amberol. it just queues up songs and plays them, it's minimal but gets the job done. as for browsing my music collection, i just use my file manager (in my case, Nautilus). editing my tags is a bit trickier. Ear Tag does almost everything i need, but i still have to keep Ex Falso around for track number generation (i'm certain there's a way to do it in Ear Tag, but i haven't found it)
on my laptop, i access the Lemmy web frontend through Tangram. on mobile, i currently just access it through Firefox, but i'd like to switch to an app once i find one i like
salarua @ salarua @sopuli.xyz Posts 58Comments 114Joined 4 yr. ago
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