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[–] misk@lemm.ee 11 points 1 year ago

They're A-D masquerading because it has some plausible deniability.

[–] misk@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

If you're at the extreme bottom there's little chance to move upwards in capitalism but it's comforting to have some undesirables who have it even worse than you.

[–] misk@lemm.ee 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Religion is not the goal of conservatives, it's a tool to preserve hierarchy in the society. Capitalism is another tool that achieves that.

The people that aren't wealthy but are conservative benefit from hierarchy enforced by religion. It ensures that they're not on the bottom of society - that place is intended for various minorities.

[–] misk@lemm.ee 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Look into OpenCore Legacy Patcher. I updated my GFs 2012 Air to Ventura and it's running okay. A bit clunky around MacOS updates since you have to specifically run patcher again to get graphics acceleration again but otherwise fine. It's definitely worth it for security updates.

https://dortania.github.io/OpenCore-Legacy-Patcher/

[–] misk@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Medical marijuana is legal in Germany. If OP needs it for health reasons he could go through legitimate process.

[–] misk@lemm.ee 19 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

THC will cause anxiety and paranoia if your tolerance is low or you use particularly stimulating cannabis strain. This is where CBD is very useful because it decreases psychedelic effect. You can use either a balanced strain (equal or similar THC / CBD content) or supplement CBD in other form.

[–] misk@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Huh? You can Airplay those. Not sure what do you want to stream there that would be a better experience than downloading it outright from Usenet or torrents.

Chromecast is fine for what it is and a very good value but it does not compete with Apple TV or Nvidia Shield.

[–] misk@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Whoa, this looks awesome and I do have always on server for Usenet/Plex and Homebridge.

Thanks!

[edit] Installed and working great but I had to change os.exit() to sys.exit() in one of the files, looks like it's not compatible with recent Python versions out of the box. Converted into system.d daemon, now working 24/7.

[–] misk@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That part is annoying but I generally don't subscribe to channels that overdo it. My remote has a button to skip 10s forward so I keep pressing it until I see sponsored segment is over.

I'd love to be able to use sponsorblock on ATV but I don't see how it could be reasoned that it makes morally ok to not pay Google and content creators for the service they provide (with cash, ad views or otherwise). Video hosting ain't cheap.

[–] misk@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (15 children)

You can also use Apple TV which is hands down best streaming box, use ATV remote on your couch without faffing with computers and pay for good service that YouTube and content creators on YouTube provide.

It's easy to avoid paying but the experience is just worse.

And if you're really short on cash, subscribe from Argentina or India and pay ~$2.

[–] misk@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Can't reply to kbin accounts due to language bug so I'll reply to myself:

  • Netflix 4k is 60 PLN / mo
  • HBO is 30 (but you could lock in 20 if you subscribed early on, which I did)
  • Dinsey+ is 29 / mo (24 / mo if yearly, which I did)
  • Prime is 49 / year (4 / mo), Amazon tries to fight local competitor on free delivery and for some reason they include streaming with that
  • Apple TV+ I'm getting as part of Apple One family sub (45 / mo but that's Apple Music, TV+, Arcade and iCloud for my whole household)
[–] misk@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

As a person in charge of shared Netflix subscription for my friends I noped out the moment they started password sharing crackdown. Yeah, they added "small" charge to add more users to subscription but the writing was on the wall and I realized I was the frog being boiled.

2 of my friends went for basic plan separately. The cost of 2 basic subscriptions is about the same as 4k / 4 screens one we were using before. So yeah, subscriber count up, now Netflix needs to do a rug pull on basic plan (which they already do in US and UK).

I don't even see a need to pirate stuff from Netflix these days, barely anything worth watching. I still pay for HBO, Disney+, Apple TV+ (part of family Apple One) and Prime - which in the country I live in cost together about they same as Netflix did lol.

 

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But fediverse isn’t ready to take over yet

But the fediverse isn’t ready. Not by a long shot. The growth that Mastodon has seen thanks to a Twitter exodus has only exposed how hard it is to join the platform, and more importantly how hard it is to find anyone and anything else once you’re there. Lemmy, the go-to decentralized Reddit alternative, has been around since 2019 but has some big gaps in its feature offering and its privacy policies — the platform is absolutely not ready for an influx of angry Redditors. Neither is Kbin, which doesn’t even have mobile apps and cautions new users that it is “very early beta” software. Flipboard and Mozilla and Tumblr are all working on interesting stuff in this space, but without much to show so far. The upcoming Threads app from Instagram should immediately be the biggest and most powerful thing in this space, but I’m not exactly confident in Meta’s long-term interest in building a better social platform.

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