I get emails from school, with a link that opens a 3rd party app, which only displays a link that opens in the default browser. I’ve asked the school to just send me direct links to the announcements, but they say they can’t. The site doesn’t require authentication, but the URLs have UUIDs so I can’t just guess what the link would be. The app is quite literally just a data exfiltration layer that does everything it can to make sure you can’t bypass it. Good luck getting any other parents to give a shit though.

…we cannot allow actions that deliberately cause harm

Seems like that’s about the only actions Reddit execs have taken over the last several years. Glad I left when I did.

What’s a lemon party? I should Google it.

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I’ve gotten some surprisingly long lasting gems there, but you can never be sure. Like you said, I’ve also gotten a number “single use” tools from Harbor Freight. Overall though, it’s almost always been worth it.

I find the Jellyfin UX to be unbearable. It frequently shows the metadata for completely different movies, despite perfect file naming. Nearly every time I use it I have to restart it due to some weird UI bug or another.

Anything important, I write on clay tablets.

I don’t even boil it. Just put it in a frying pan with some butter, put a lid on it, and cook it at a low temp for 20 minutes.

No thanks, I filled up on Dogecoin before dinner.

I too was married once.

Or both!

edit: My enthusiasm was well meant but misplaced. On further consideration, I don’t want government to control social media.

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Oregon joins the chat…

Grover Norquist fucks off forever

This is the world I want to live in.

For me, discovery is the entire reason to use streaming services. I have a ton of hard drive space, and know how to find anything I want to download. I have a fairly large music collection from before the days of streaming. But streaming services help me discover all kinds of things I’d likely never hear otherwise. They still suck, as in they’re greedy as hell and the quality is mid, but I don’t know what I’d do if I had to listen to the same stuff all the time.

I did too!

Tiiiiiight

There will likely be no benefit for the employees or the users. For the PE firm, the goal is usually to pump up the value and resell or reenter the market, at a massive profit, in a few years. To do that, they’ll have to make a lot of unpopular choices, such as layoffs and other cost cutting measures. If they’re privately held, those choices have far less impact on the value of the company, since the stock market is heavily swayed by public perception.

Sync. It seemed to have the closest feature set to RiF early on and I’ve just stuck with it since then. I try other apps occasionally. They all have their strengths but Sync feels the most polished.

edit: Sync has started the inserting ads into my feed. Maybe they always have and I just didn’t see them because I use DNS based ad blocking? They have an ad free version, but it’s too much at $20. Even worse, the “ultimate” edition uses a subscription model, or is $99. For a Lemmy app? Insane. Guess it’s time to change apps.

That’s what’s stopping me too. I’ve tried to convince them that Youtube Music (I’m a holdover from the Play Music days, RIP) is good enough but they won’t have it. I miss Songza.