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  • Is the car market in Canada that bad right now? In 2021 I got my 2011 Nissan versa with around 60k miles for about 4k (USD). You just have to be willing to pass up some luxury features and find the right deal instead of buying from a dealership.

  • Calling people who are trying to protect children pure evil is unhelpful rhetoric. Disagreeing with their opinion is helpful. Sharing an anecdote against their proposals is helpful. Personal attacks are unhelpful and do more harm than good for the conversation. I will admit that they set the stage in bad faith by calling their stance 'inarguable'.

  • I've done a lot of this research recently. I'm out of town rn, but if you want to DM me sometime next week when I have access to my computer I'd be happy to put together a summary of my findings.

  • I was fortunate enough to get invited to a ballroom dancing class in high school and fell in love with it. It's exercise and a social experience all in one fairly affordable package. Where I live an hour long group class is $10 a head. I wouldn't do private lessons for these purposes. And if you like it, there are so many subcultures! There are entire groups dedicated to certain dances like West Coast swing and Argentine tango. Regular social dances on the weekends in addition to classes. YMMV based on where you live, but dancing with the stars has brought ballroom into the mainstream and there are quality studios in most decent sized US cities as far as I know.

  • Everything starts as a luxury until the working class bands together and demands it. 40 hour workweeks, overtime, sick days. These are workplace examples, but the concept holds true everywhere. In a capitalist society things like privacy aren't considered until someone starts exploiting them for profit, at which point people start to get serious about protecting it. And this rule applies 5x in any tech realm, as governments are notoriously slow to build legal protections in new and fast moving sectors.

    All that was to address your title, which is only tangentially connected to the rest of your post. Regarding the body, companies have absolutely started to equate VPN with bad actors. Still worth having. I just whitelist the services I have to.

  • Evolve stage 2! Very fun and very unique game. Their battle pass monetization scheme fizzled out and they took down the servers. There may be some community run servers going, but getting onto them for a small player base that's going to beat my ass just doesn't seem worth.

  • I use the tiller extension in Google sheets. With the community savings budget template to allow for 0 based or "envelope" budgeting. One of the few things in my life so far ahead of every other option I couldn't bring myself to ditch it and selfhost.

  • I converted an old laptop into a home theater PC. My friend bought spare components for cheap and built a desktop for the same purpose. Not for everyone, but a great solution for some use cases. And can potentially fill other roles, like being your jellyfin host.

    While shopping I suggest you find a spreadsheet with the capabilities of every device you're considering. A lot don't support certain formats, which can limit the kind of files and content you can stream. Last I checked shield and the Google TV stick thing were trouncing the competition.

  • Definitely need remote access, and tunneling in every time I want to sync my notes app is way too much work. I've containerized these services as a security layer and you need user creds to access anything without an exploit. I'm comfortable with that level of risk.

    Dynamic DNS is a very cool thing I didn't know exists. I'll definitely look into it further! But for the time being I still need a fix for my problem.

  • Selfhosted @lemmy.world

    Help fixing invalid origin with memos

  • 100% this. I've gotten to where when people try and rope me into their new million dollar app idea I tell them that there are fantastic resources online to teach yourself to do everything they need. I offer to help them find those resources and even help when they get stuck. I've probably done this dozens of times by now. No bites yet. All those millions wasted...

  • It's definitely higher quality, I'm just not sure about paying $25 a steak at my current income level. I was hoping to find the point of diminishing returns. Most every product category you can get 85% quality at 50% cost by finding that line.

  • Cooking @lemmy.world

    Where are we getting the best value steaks in the US?

    Selfhosted @lemmy.world

    Day One alternative? (FOSS preferred)

    Lemdroid @lemdro.id

    Bug report and federation question

    techsupport @lemmy.world

    How to fix sleep issues OR protect my monitors?

    Do It Yourself @beehaw.org

    Is it worth trying to fix a home printer?

    KDE @lemmy.kde.social

    How to grant KDE connect access to videos on samsung?

    Home Organization @lemmy.world

    2 liter storage?

    KDE @lemmy.kde.social

    How to expand the information dolphin shows in properties?

    Tea @lemmy.zip

    Suggestions for the best southern sweet tea?

    Tea @sh.itjust.works

    Suggestions for the best southern sweet tea?

    Joplin @sopuli.xyz

    Notebooks don't sync to Linux (KDE Neon)?

    Cooking @lemmy.world

    RIP to my favorite yum-yum recipe, and my take on it

    Buy it for Life @slrpnk.net

    My new-ish rain jacket just started disentegrating in my hair. BIFL rain jackets?

    BuyItForLife @sh.itjust.works

    My new-ish rain jacket just started disentegrating in my hair. BIFL rain jackets?

    Joplin @sopuli.xyz

    Bulleted list keyboard shortcut not working?

    Plex @lemmy.ml

    Best android audiobook app to connect to my media server?

    Open Source @lemmy.ml

    Android audiobook player for Plex?

    Lemdroid @lemdro.id

    Inaccessible instances

    Lemdroid @lemdro.id

    lemmy.studio not populating?