I landed on digital ocean. Fair prices for a vpc and a reliable name

Yikes. Good luck to you, noble goals, but there are real consequences for even unknowingly hosting that content.

Good intentions, but I would be wary of anything not official like foldingathome or boinc (both great projects I recommend)

The reason is other people are horrible, and while your intentions are good, it’s significant risk. Lemmy had a csam attack a while ago and I immediately moved my instance to the cloud because I learned that if I even accidentally hosted anything it means immediate seizure, self hosting it means they plow through my door and yank the servers.

Tor nodes, peertube, you open yourself up to that risk

That guy is the woooorst

I think a good chunk of them are just confused by going to join-lemmy and not be given a sign up in their face. Sure, we know that about 5 seconds of reading comprehension skill would get them where they want to go, but the vast majority of users don’t have that. Look how many people will walk up to a cash register/till with a sign on it that says “credit card only” and then be confused that they don’t take cash. Most people don’t read anymore.

Idk, I’ve heard things about HooliChat… Didn’t their stream go down in the middle of a big title fight?

Maybe, but I believe in Occam’s razer. The simplest solution is probably correct.

The average user is incredibly lazy. Insanely lazy. Reddit has taught them that they should be just spoonfed content constantly with no assistance. People aren’t used to going out to find communities anymore. To them even these basic concepts are then “frustrating” and “complex”. It’s unfortunate, but that’s really how lazy they are.

They can’t go to the search bar, type in television, and hit subscribe, it’s literally too much for them.

So they have rounds of layoffs, staff feel less secure in their role, and they’re surprised that knowledgeable and easily employable experts are leaving for more stable roles?

I run Bazzite, primarily gaming for everything, added jellyfin as a non steam app. Works pretty well. Wish jellyfin had a slightly better interface but overall decent.

Most everything works with the controller, and for anything that doesn’t steam will emulate a keyboard and mouse for, but I keep a keyboard next to it just in case

Well, yes, but also McDonald’s did it to themselves too. About 20 years ago when I worked there (holy shit I just realized it was 20 years ago), they had the Angus 1/3 pounders. They flopped hard. Exact same reasoning, both from their corporate offices and me anecdotally, people are fucking stupid. They really thought they were getting ripped off because the quarter pounder was more meat than the 1/3 pound Angus burger according to them. I, tiny teenage me tried explaining it to them, to no avail. Fucking morons.

You want to lose hope for the human race, work in a service industry

Agreed, these are two different things meant for two different purposes. At this point nothing beats audiobookshelf

This is another great example of pidgeonholing a decent idea into the wrong tech. Lemmy is federated, but is meant to be an open messageboard style of communication. This would be better suited for an actual chat/audio protocol, like Matrix or XMPP.

Yup, it’s the same people that come here, say horribly offensive stuff, and then get offended when people tell them to shut the hell up and ban them. They’re all for “free speech” but are not so great with the whole “free to not be forced to listen to them” bit.

However, my answer is always the same to them. We’re federated. If you don’t like it, to set up your own instance and allow whatever you want, and I can maintain my freedom to defederate from said instance. The one kudos to this guy is he did take that on, and is willing to risk hosting that content. Good for them. I’ll be banning the url from my instance

Agree with the other commenter. If she ever pulls that line with you again make sure you throw it right back at her. “You’re right, family first. That’s my kids and my spouse.” Maybe she’ll start to realize the family shifts as you age.

I’ve experience this first hand, and watched it from the other side. My mother is extremely “Christian”, and that’s one of her phrases there. To her, people helping her became an expectation, not an act of kindness. She was a single mom, and so people around town would help her out. Like our local appliance guy, he’d give her a deal on a new dishwasher - and then she would push her luck and ask him to install it. And then start calling him directly when the slightest thing might be wrong with it. And then for other appliances. And then for random handiman stuff. She of course never repaid him for everything he did.

Because he’s a Christian, and so was she. So of course he was “happy” to do it for her. A few people eventually did tell her no, and she would immediately convince herself that they were bad people and that she “had to cut them out of her life” because of the negativity.

The vehicle size arms race. Large cars force other cars to become larger just to match their mass in an accident. Still doesn’t mean if you buy a large vehicle that you’re not making the problem worse

The perfect character to put ina parody of LA. When you take the entire game asa satire, then Trevor is one of the most logical choices

From the forum post:

Just because he works at Plex doesn’t necessarily make his review fake.

Yikes the copium here. Reviews are meant for users of the app, this is so incredibly biased and in bad taste. I have had my shittiest companies ask us to leave positive reviews on Glassdoor. The shittiest ones.

Maybe their big redesign that no one asked for isn’t doing well, and this is a self preservation thing, to get more people to download it. Maybe CEO asked them to. Maybe they’re just over eager. All are excuses and not valid reasons to give a rating on your own company’s product

Best way to stop passive aggressive behavior is to pull it out into the open. The back channeling cuts down once people are aware of what’s going on. But for you, even if you’re lying to yourself, just assume it didn’t happen, I know I conflate things way worse than what they are. You aren’t doing this regularly, you’ve taken steps to prevent it. We’re human, humans have issues. For a manager they just want to know that it’s taken care of so they have an answer for their boss if it comes up

It’s a difficult one. Personally I’d get out ahead of it a bit, maybe talk to your direct supervisor. They’ll go to bat for you if you give them the ability to. Ask for a 1-1 with them and simply tell them you’re sorry about it, but that you’re grateful that you have the flexibility to do so, and that just so they know “I had a temporary flare up, but thanks to the quick action of my doctor I’m medicated and shouldn’t be an issue moving forward”.

Personally I’m the same way, and worry everyone is thinking about me all the time. I usually end up bringing this up with my boss, and let him know that I’m always a bit anxious, but I trust that if something is a problem that he’ll bring it up with me, and that I’ll just keep going unless he tells me not to. Usually this clears the air a bit, shows that I’m definitely open to feedback, but that I’m not going to spiral anymore either. Once they did bring something up, but every other time it’s been “Don’t worry, you’re doing great, I’ll let you know if that changes”.

Let’s put it this way, if you find out that you overstepped in some way in a meeting where they’re firing you, they failed you. Firing should be the absolute last option after a long line of chats, one on ones, and finally a PIP or something similar. If a firing is a surprise, your direct manager failed you.