Honestly don’t remember why I signed up. I like it though. Kind of similar vibe to when I used Reddit except much better. It’s got some nice small-ish (but not too small) communities for FOSS stuff.

Not really “secretly” bad for you, but all the plastic in our lives. I wonder how we’ll ever replace it cause everything you buy at the supermarket (in developed countries) is wrapped in plastic.

Are you saying there’s no cats in heaven? Or hell, I’m sure they’re there too

Don’t say that on social media. If you’re gonna do that, just do it. Climate activists have done it before and it’s most certainly more effective than the majority of climate activism I see.

I think you have an extremely online view of “leftist political spaces” because I have never even heard this guy’s name mentioned in any real life context, and I’ve been a very politically active communist since I was a teenager.

I assume any Linux or *BSD distro will work, especially one with Docker (which is most/all of them?) so you don’t have to worry about things being packaged for your distro so long as there’s a docker image. My server is Alpine Linux.

Not their fault that other people are willing to pay millions for a banana stuck to a wall. If you can make money that way why not?

Most vegan hate is just reactionary and you should disregard it. It’s because vegans force omnivores to confront the reality of where their food comes from, to confront climate science, and to confront your own personal social responsibility. I think it’s very silly to be concerned with being a “good vegan”. If you don’t want to get into arguments then just eat your vegan food and move on. If people take issue with you deciding to eat the food you want to eat, and having boundaries around not wanting to eat certain foods, especially given that these decisions are based on your own moral compass, then they are complete dickheads you should not be around anyway.

I also don’t think there’s anything morally wrong with being a naggy/pushy vegan. I don’t try to convince anyone to go vegan just because I figure if they want to then they will, if there’s resistance then I have better ways to spend my time. If they’re vegan-curious they’re always welcome to ask me about it. I think whether or not you try to make other people go vegan is a personal choice, and a political choice about how to most effectively enact your politics.

I think trying to have a more progressive social circle will help you, because I have honest to god never experienced one of my friends taking issue with me being vegan, and several of my omnivorous friends have confessed to me unprompted that they feel bad about eating animal products and “should” eat more vegan food (I don’t ever even talk about veganism except for just mentioning that I’m vegan when we’re getting food together). Like I said, if they take issue with the food you choose to eat/food you refuse to eat for moral reasons, they are just plain dickheads and you should stop being friends with them.

Can someone give me a rundown (or link to a good one) of a comparison between subsonic, jellyfin, plex, and these other services that let you host your own streaming service?

Sometimes I laugh on purpose to indicate that I’m joking.

Ah right, my bad. Well I’ll check if Graphene has it when I have the time to look through my settings today

Thanks! I also have a Pixel but with Graphene not stock Pixel Android OS. I’ll see if I have that setting :)

Edit: That link seems to suggest it’s for Pixel 4 only, which is not my phone. Shame, but I’ll check later to see if I have the setting anyway

I imagine these online portals would cotton on quite quick and start rejecting zero byte files. But good idea while it works

For example, my phone will limit it’s charging speed at night when I have an alarm set, because it assumes I won’t need it until my alarm goes off

Is this a setting I can use in Android/Graphene?

Yeah it’s server-side with .ml. You can switch to a French instance, or I imagine many English-speaking instances don’t block that word. I guess you can try view that comment from different instances to check.

If you see a game you think you’d enjoy, go for it.

Personally I find that I’m not super into video games as an adult just because I don’t have the time, and I don’t find them very fun in short bursts. And when I do have the time I always think to myself I’d be better off spending it on a “productive” hobby like programming. That’s an entirely personal thing for me, but it may be something you want to consider, ie if you want to learn a hobby that’s also considered a real world skill so to speak, and one that could give you products of your hobby you can actually use and enjoy (eg programming, crochet, cooking, woodworking, etc—so creative hobbies).

Also, feel free to pirate a game if you don’t know if it’s worth the investment, especially since you won’t have a reference point of games you do enjoy. I have no ethical quandary with pirating any game, but if you do, you can just buy the game if you like it, and that way you won’t waste money on a game you only get 5% of the way through before getting bored.

It is legal but in any case why do you care. If it were illegal it’s not something that would be enforceable or something they’d be likely to “catch” you for, and it’s definitely not unethical. Everyone should be free to do whatever they want with published literature.

What communities are you subscribing to where you’re seeing all this political content? I hardly see any posts about politics and I’ve made no particular effort to filter it out of my feed. I just subscribe to tech communities. Just subscribe to communities about the topics you’re interested in and don’t subscribe to politics/news/current events communities?

Prefacing this by saying this is in no way directed towards you/meant to undermine your post, but IQ really is racist pseudoscience. “Low IQ” is always used as a cudgel against people who otherwise do not come across as unintelligent (such as yourself, imo) to discredit them. I’m thinking of a lot of instances of young Black people who have been subjected to the criminal justice system and their demands for autonomy being dismissed with BS “low IQ” claims (despite the fact that they come across perfectly eloquently in their writings).

I don’t have personal experience with addiction so I can’t give targeted advice there, but I know there is support out there to help people overcome addictions. If you’re worried about getting a job, definitely you can learn a trade, find an apprenticeship or something like that. I do also have a diagnosed learning disability btw, and didn’t finish high school because of it, and in my opinion the only ways that has held me back is through school systems refusing to accommodate for my learning style. I’ve had no problem self-teaching myself skills aligning with my interests like programming. I’m not saying that applies to all intellectually disabled people, but evaluating your intelligence by school performance is a really shit way to do so especially if you have any kind of learning disability or neurodiversity. Some years at school I would get Cs and Ds, some years at school I would get straight A*s; is it more likely that my intelligence wildly fluctuated between years, or more likely that there are so many circumstantial factors that affect academic performance far more than inherent intelligence?

You and I define “heavily left-wing” quite differently then. The far-left has always supported gun rights and armed struggle. It’s the political centre and parts of the right that are blanket anti-gun.