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[–] quack@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 hours ago

Been looking for a Plexamp alternative for a minute, I’ll check this out. Appreciate the recommendation.

[–] quack@lemmy.zip 23 points 3 hours ago

Can’t say I have a huge issue with this - Plex isn’t FOSS and the infrastructure to make this happen isn’t free. Other options are available if you don’t want to pay the fee.

[–] quack@lemmy.zip 8 points 4 hours ago

And at one point it was pretty close to that in many parts of the West. For as much as American conservatives want to go back to the 50s socially, they don’t seem keen on bringing back the fiscal policies of the time…

[–] quack@lemmy.zip 1 points 5 hours ago

Not for phones though.

[–] quack@lemmy.zip 9 points 5 hours ago

The modern internet is literally unusable without ad blockers.

[–] quack@lemmy.zip 11 points 6 hours ago

This reads more like a threat coming from him.

[–] quack@lemmy.zip 32 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

There is nothing wrong with it other than it makes me feel ancient and I don’t like it.

[–] quack@lemmy.zip 4 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

I’m genuinely not trying to be a dick here, but citing the Bible as proof of the existence of Jesus is kind of like citing a comic as proof of the existence of Batman. No non-Christian is going to accept that evidence.

[–] quack@lemmy.zip 2 points 17 hours ago

I wonder how many sons have been left behind as a result of their fathers having their insurance claims denied.

[–] quack@lemmy.zip 15 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

I don’t know about Reddit as a whole but the subreddit for my country has not only been flooded with far right content, there has been a hostile takeover of the mod team. All of the sensible and balanced mods were forced out and replaced by fascist lunatics.

[–] quack@lemmy.zip 9 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

I think you’re looking at this the wrong way. They’re in a death cult. They want this. They want anyone who is opposed to them to suffer as much as possible even if it means destroying their country in the process. This is what “owning the libs” is about, and it’s all they have left because their pathetic ideology can only make things worse for the working class.

[–] quack@lemmy.zip 11 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (3 children)

I do agree that life is a learning experience, but I might say that you're overestimating what "basic experience on computers" means, and I tend to find that this is fairly typical of people who have more advanced skills because this stuff is basic to us. But we can sometimes lack perspective in that regard.

Basic experience on computers for most people means "can use Office apps, can send emails, can more or less use the internet". Essentially, they can use the computer for their work or for some light entertainment. It certainly doesn't mean that they know how to or that they even can configure the BIOS to boot from a USB, or for that matter what the BIOS is or that it exists. It doesn't mean that they can use the terminal, or use WINE to run their favourite Windows applications or troubleshoot an operating system that is entirely alien to them. I'd even go as far as to say that most people don't even know what an operating system is - to them, Windows is the computer and they don't know or care about anything different. This is the kind of person I'm talking about. Everything you said might as well be Ancient Greek to that person.

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