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Which is the most satisfying IO connector system, in your opinion?
  • This will be the comment that starts the war between Britain and Australasia. During the first wave we'll just drop millions of plugs pin upwards on your streets, there will be severe foot damage on a scale you cannot fathom

  • What's a big tech product that you actually find useful?
  • Agreed, and they help family life so much - "announcing" when meals are ready, using "drop in" as an intercom rather than shouting around the home, not to mention the stuff you've already mentioned.

  • do you guys shop on places like aliexpress/Temu and if you do what items have pleasantly surprised you?
  • The one that seems acceptable to them is to list one cheap part for the listing, along with variations of the full device. That way it looks like the lowest price in search results, but when you click it, the selected variation is the cheap part.

    This practice is so widespread on Ali that finding the best price/seller that is likely to get the item to you balance is ridiculously time consuming, a lot of the time the cheap item is something barely related to the item you're searching for. It also seems to be creeping into Amazon at the moment!

  • What usenet server do you use?
  • It's just you. I get easynews for $45 a year on their valentine's plan, includes unlimited nntp, unlimited web (which is really useful given the search) and a free VPN to boot. Bargain of the century

  • Those who tried Linux and went back to Windows, what caused you to go back to Windows?
  • It's really not a problem anymore. Look at a distro like Mint, compare the lightweight xfce version versus the full fat Gnome cinnamon. They both look the same on the surface using the same theme, all apps work, look and behave fine over all versions, yet you've got the option between "small and snappy" or "pretty and high end" which works much better than turning off the animations in Windows.

    I've been an on/off Linux desktop user for years and now is just a comfy time to be a Linux user. All websites work, most of my Steam/Epic and GOG library just works with no messing, the various software stacks we use day to day are there, mature and "just work".

  • What's a quote that has stuck with you for your whole life?
  • It takes a woman nine months to make a baby, nine women cannot make a baby in a month.

    Classic (and likely mangled by myself) computer science quote which I always enjoy encountering in the wild!

  • How do you enjoy listening to digital content? Speakers? Headphones? Earbuds?
  • Second this. I bought some after watching Dankpods rate them as a cheap way to get into IEMs. I liked them so much that I bought the Bluetooth dongle attachments (AZ15) which were more expensive than the monitors themselves(!) to turn them into wireless earbuds and they're great. The IEMs themselves provide a lot of natural sound isolation and aren't overly bassy so you can enjoy all of the music while being able to hear the lyrics/lighter instruments.

    The only thing I don't like is that they look fairly ridiculous to wear out and about. I have a conventional pair of Redmi Bud 3 for going places which are a lot more discreet, but don't sound half as good!

  • What is something you think leftists are not ready to hear but need to hear it?
  • I say this as someone who considers themselves a leftist....

    The lack of civility shown by left leaning people online is almost certainly pushing moderates into more extreme communities and the unhinged takes are perfect meme fodder for those with a bad agenda. Instead of channeling your anger at the person you're corresponding with through your keyboard, channel it at a lack of empathy and understanding in society as a whole and respond with kindness and disengage when the conversation is not honest.

    Repeat above for the use of "nazi". The use of the word has become devalued because people like to fling it at folks with milquetoast centrist opinions, save it for people who are legitimately evil.

  • If you suddenly had "fuck you" money what would be the first thing you did?
  • Buy a nice home, upgrade it to my liking (CAT6 to all parts of it, solar panels/energy storage/network cabinet/make it watertight and safe for the next 50 years), buy a shitty looking van with a petrol powered pressure washer and indemnity insurance and spend my spare time going around cleaning paths and monuments etc. in my local area.

  • Is this the place for help with setting up Sonarr/Radarr?
  • When you add a request you can select the target directory where you want the files to end up (Root Folder). If you follow the Linuxserver.io setup, you should have created a bind volume called /media for where you want your media to end up for the use of Jellyfin which you can use.

  • What's the problem with redhat not wanting to share their code with others?
  • and that those people in turn must be free to use and modify the code as they see fit as long as they also share it with whoever they give it to.

    And this is where it falls apart for redhat. They're allowing their clients to download and use the source, but then threatening them that if the source RPMs make it out into the wild then they are at liberty to cancel their agreements terminating their access to RHEL altogether.

  • Best/least expensive GPU for decent Plex transcoding?
  • A recent-ish Intel CPU. Even the mini pc's with a n5000/n95/n100 class CPU will make light work of transcoding nearly everything into x265 using the igpu. The most recent gen will do AV1 decode/transcode as well.

  • ISP not offering port forwarding anymore
  • When you say "no port forwarding", do you mean you aren't given a public routable IP address and you're behind Carrier Grade NAT? Does your router get an IP address starting with 100 or 10?

    If so just request a public IP, it might cost you extra but it's worth it, that should open up the port forwarding option on your router.

    I imagine you're with a new altnet provider in the UK, is it LilaConnect by any chance?

  • Four apps and counting, how is everyone else doing?
  • For me there's one massive flaw with the mobile web version of Lemmy - that when you go "back" after viewing a post the page scrolls near to the top of the page. If it weren't for that I'd happily give up the quest for an app.

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