Originally, I was just planning on being mildly infuriated, but thank you for the in-depth explanation. Networking is my weakest nerd-stat and its truly interesting. I’ll try a few other servers and see if they are blocked. My VPN provider is known for privacy, so it wouldn’t surprise me if someone is doing sketchy things on there. Then again, it’s only a mild annoyance and an irony since Consumer Reports have reviewed the same provider I have been using.

Interesting. I know sometimes certain VPNs work with Netflix while others get flagged as VPNs. I wonder if your provider just has some fresh IPs that haven’t been added to whatever block lists these companies use.

That’s right, Chrome had the smiley before I deleted it from my phone. FF uses the infinity sign. Thanks for catching that.

That’s pretty good for me. Usually I have the smiley face and just mass delete my tabs every time I flash my device.

I knew this comment was coming. :) FF Crew Represent!

I’m guessing you’re not logged in. The landing page works, but the members area, where the full ratings are, will show the above screen when I’m on VPN.

Central/West US. I would say: The laptop is backordered. It is on backorder.

Bought an eeePC on WinXP that ran like trash and barely could handle simple tasks. Dropped numerous flavors of GNU/Linux on it in a few months. I remember thinking “wtf is this” because the settings and interface felt so bare without the WinXP clutter but things ran much better. Fell in love with the repository model of updating everything with a single command, found the UI was actually simple looking on the surface with a ton of depth available to me when my tinkering became more comfortable and experienced. Stayed because I don’t think everything in our lives needs to be stuffed full of micro transactions and ads.

When I left the church, I started directing what was my tithes to nonprofits of my choice including FOSS projects instead.

Here I am a decade and a half later and if I didn’t have Linux, I probably wouldn’t use computers except in the rarest of circumstances. Its just a high quality experience that commercial software can’t measure up to because they have different goals.

Fuckcars is a good Lemmy sub about better urban spaces. Mastodon has some good bicycling hashtags.

We know you have no money in your checking or savings account… and you’ve said no at least 50 times in the last month… BUT would you like to use this investment brokerage we’ve partnered with?

I hate the ones where I already rated it… and it keeps asking me even more. It’s infuriating.

Do you wish to subscribe to lsblk premium for only 19.99 to see all your storage devices? (Y/n)

So sick of all the feedback, rate us, try this feature, what’s new, turn on feature x, etc. that seems to be a part of everything nowadays, even Linux apps. Linux wasn’t this bad only a few years ago and mobile OSs cranked this up to 10.

• If I want to rate an app, I’ll look under feedback in the help menu.
• If I want to see what’s new, show me the changelog…once, right after I update.
• If I want to turn a feature on/off put descriptive toggles in the settings menu.

Everything that can be seen from the default view should 100% revolve around fulfilling the function of the app for the user. Human attention is a finite thing and we shouldn’t be wasting it on shit like this.

Yep, Sectograph, it has some annoyances, but generally very good. I never understood the flags and why it would use them instead of a pie piece for longer events. I wanted to get a big circular led display and make a sectograph wall clock, but the prices for circular led screens scared me off before I got started.

“People shouldn’t be getting fucked up on acid or mushrooms out in public, but people shouldn’t be on alcohol either.”

I’m on team decriminalization…and I think it’s going to be extra hard in the US because of our car addiction. I have never driven on psychedelics, nor do I ever intend to, but I’m concerned that someone will make a bad judgment call and drive to the convenience store (because that’s the only reasonable way to get places in most of the US) and it could end in tragedy. I see this as an extra hurdle we have to tackle, but it doesn’t change my stance on decriminalization.

We don’t have a lot of police in my area for the amount of people, so I would not count on them to recognize many drunk/drugged drivers. Traffic is largely unpatrolled and I have only been pulled over for anything twice in ~20 years.

I would be fascinated to hear about what driving on psychedelics is like from anyone who is willing to fess up to having done it (or has a story about a “friend”). Sounds like a bad idea, but I’m not an authority on the topic.

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My xps13 9370 is also still going strong. No major issues running Linux, even on weird distros. Bought the windows version because the highest spec didn’t come with preinstalled Ubuntu. I hear everything xps is soldered and unserviceable now. If that’s true, I will be looking at system76 and framework the next time around. The lack of USB A ports was never an issue and it was my biggest concern going in.

Somewhat, I’d estimate once every week or two. It’s my daily driver and I’ll usually update if a few conditions are met: the update icon let me know something is out there & I’m plugged into external power at home & I’m not going anywhere for a while.

I only have 2-3 AUR packages which is where the trouble seems to start for a lot of folks.

Now that I think about it, I did once end up with a mess where ceph was dropped from the repos and subsequently compiled itself from the AUR over the course of a few hours. Must have been a dependency for something.

No distro is perfect, but for me, Manjaro was a good fit. I’m moderately tech-y but with little formal training, but have used some form of GNU/Linux since at least Warty Warthog in ~2005.

I’ve used Manjaro for a few years now and it’s the longest I’ve gone without formatting and reinstalling. Then again, to each his own. Run what works for you!

I worked at a theater in high-school/college. I think it was Dark Knight, but at some point after going digital they brought back the film projector for certain shows and it was presented as a quality thing. I’m a super auditory person, so the thing that always stuck out to me in the IMAX was the sound. Those subs bump hard.

Conversely, one of my worst experiences, subjectively of course, was HFR (high frame rate) movies. I think it was a LotR film, but it looked so weird that I couldn’t get lost in the story.