Maintain security by changing passwords every day. Easy.

One of my favorite purchases in terms of usefulness, cost, and fun (relative) was these frigging ceiling fan pull chains. I saw them on some "things you didn't know you needed" list or something. But for less than $10, they have made my life infinitely easier and they do give me a little joy every time I pull on them.

I want to upvote, but just can't do it.

It actually WAS Community for me. I tried it a few years back and it just didn't click. I think because Joel and Pierce especially are such shitty people. Tried it again last year and loved it.

Same thing happened with The Orville. I didn't even make it through the first episode the first time I tried it. Loved it the next time.

Sometimes it's all about the timing in our lives or the experiences we've had.

I know not everyone will agree, but I think YouTube premium is the better bang-for-buck service. $3 more per month than Spotify and includes YouTube Music premium and YouTube Premium. So all the music and ad-free YouTube.

If the option is Spotify or pirating, you're really not hurting indie artists. They don't make shit from streaming.

I guess on the general topic of monetizing podcasts... How Did This Get Made was in town last night for a live show. Thought I might bring my son who's a movie buff.

The cheapest seats (ass-end back of the balcony) were $55. Priciest seats I saw were $125. Before fees. That was a REAL fast nope for me.

I absolutely want people to get paid for what they do. I'll sub to Patreons, I'll buy (also overpriced) merch, I'll deal with ad and sponsor breaks... But I will be fucked if I'm going to spend $70+ per person to see a live recording of a podcast.

That's way more thorough than I would have expected!

Just a few thoughts...

• Lemmy isn't ready for primetime. It isn't meant to be at this point. It's very much a work in progress and for a lot of us, seeing the progress is part of the fun in being here.

• Yeah, lemmy.world had some issues, but things have been pretty stable for me for a few weeks now.

• I'm on Eternity, and no issues so far. But I'll keep an eye out when lemmy.world updates to 0.18.5. Again, this is part of the progress. Sometimes shit breaks. If that's a deal breaker for you, it's totally understandable.

• I guess ultimately, it's just about what you're comfortable with. If you aren't interested in dealing with the issues that come along with early adoption, just move on. It's okay. For me, I've been breaking and fixing computers for almost 40 years. It can be a bummer when something doesn't work, but there are so many people freely giving their time and efforts to fix things that I can't really be mad about it. I know how it goes and that things will get fixed.

I swear to God, in all my life I feel like it's only worked fewer than 5 times.

We've let Apple buy its way into our school systems. Of course kids are going to gravitate toward iPhones. Part of their schooling every day from Kindergarten is using iOS.

Alternatively, it could be a precondition that makes pornography consumption more rewarding.

It could change your brain. Or it could not. They're just theorizing.