I moved over to TabloTV about 8 or 9 years ago. I got tied of fixing stuff when I would update something and Tablo just worked on the Roku without much fuss.
I'm still happy with and love the Tablo, but it's no better than MythTV was, just easier to maintain.
I think the "everyone anyone your pronouns" thing in email, slack, whatever is dumb. But if I lived in SD, I'd start doing it right about now.
I started cooking, period. My wife used to cook, now I do. It's weird, but the pandemic totally flipped our roles.
2 years is too long IMHO. 1 year, forgiven in a prorated fashion seems far more palatable.
There are many ways around this, like using intermediary services like PayPal or a privacy.com credit card with ephemeral numbers.
Crypto, while one way, is not the only way.
Check out WeBoost brand repeaters. I live in what used to be a rural area and when we moved in the cell signal was trash inside the house but fine outside. Put an antenna outside on the roof, ran some coax cable to the kitchen and mounted a repeater there. No issues. Works for all major cell bands.
I can't stop laughing at this. Thank you!
XMPP was very popular. Google joined it, and with it, the power to give it's users on Gmail access to all the other chat products that all had more chat users by sharing the same XMPP space. Users were very happy to use the superior Gmail product and also let go of their old chat tools because they could still talk to everyone just fine!
Google waited until they had most of the users and simply started making non compatible changes to their chat until they finally defederated themselves and suddenly their users could no longer chat with anyone who wasn't also on Google.
People noticed, but most of the users were no longer willing to drop their now-familiar gchat client because they were now used to it. Users like me who wanted to use Pidgin still were suddenly unable to chat with 80% of their friends unless they gave in and opened up gchat too.
If Google never federated with the system, we might still likely have aim, msn, etc still around focusing on their chat users. But Google did their thing, stole the market and we're where we're at now. Ironically, most people I know now disable Google chat because Google has tried really hard to ruin something that was just fine. But no one is installing Pidgin again and have mostly moved to Discord and Slack (at least in my circles).
Using your link and a quick search about filial laws: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.dallasnews.com/sponsored/2022/08/28/the-parent-trap-filial-responsibility-laws-cause-financial-havoc-for-children/%3foutputType=amp
"Most of the 30 states that have filial laws do not enforce them"
I guess I was lucky that my father and I did not live in one of those states. But, 100% agreed that it's beyond up that it CAN be a thing in some states. Seriously, wtf.
I don't think so in this context. This is probably more like SSL cert trusting or some private/public key pair.
I'm over on programming.dev (https://programming.dev/communities) -- I really like the idea of servers and thus the sub /c's being centered around topics of interest. I think there's going to be a lot of "generic" lemmy servers still, but I sort of liked how "places" sort of picked lemmy.world, for example (though that's starting to fade with lemmy.world becoming more popular).
STV: Single Transferrable Vote
https://youtu.be/l8XOZJkozfI?feature=shared