I like the reliable simplicity of my machine but also the gadgety, mechanical, ritual of the thing. It’s an active procedure with parts that have to be loaded, locket together and there’s knobs and buttons and it makes all kinds of fun noises. Sure it’s probably superfluous to the method of creating a tasty caffeine vehicle. But I enjoy the process of making it work.

I am an Ubuntu user and have one of the cheaper espresso machines out there. I feel very confused, but I’m also new.

You keep using that word ‘enshitification’ I do not think it means what you think it means…

At least, not with a 100% hit rate.

yall are fuckin heartless idiots

He’s not wrong that it is a fucked up thing that happened that genuinely is the result of shitty people being shitty.

https://apnews.com/article/new-york-pet-squirrel-seized-peanut-pnut-c2baa345d9e76416e0ca6d6e947ee272

He is wrong that it is a Pandora’s box moment as the result of leftist extremist policies.

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Hey, believe in yourself, that semicolon belongs there if you believe it belongs there.

Kathy Geiss jump scare

Hanlon’s razor: never attribute to malice what could just as easily be attributed to incompetence.

People are more likely to be morons than they are assholes.

Nebula is a streaming service created by creators as an alternative to YouTube and is absolutely worth supporting. We’re not just talking about products here, we’re talking about the creators that make those products viable.

So the alternative is to manage a subscription for every single creator I watch? Currently I sub to Nebula and YT premium. For ~$20 a month. If I were to go through and sub to every creator I watch’s lowest patreon tier, we’d be talking about dozens of individual subs totaling probably more than double what I pay now.

So your suggestion is to manage 15 subscriptions instead of one? Not every creator has a patreon or means of direct support. Not to mention some of these creators only upload once a year. And what happens when I want to watch someone new? Do I have to drop another creator to give this new person money

If you’re watching youtube and signed into an account you said goodbye to that level of privacy so long ago that an ad blocker isn’t going to do much.

And you have the agency and ability to either pay for the service or investigate other means of avoiding them. Complaining about them is just annoying.

Or suck it up and pay for the service if you can afford it.

Just out of curiosity, what do yall expect to happen when the only response to an ad supported free tier of something, is to block the ads? I know YouTube/google aren’t great companies, but when you run an ad blocker you also deprive the creators you love watching any revenue from your view. So you hurt the creators. If you can afford it, just sub to premium and stop acting like you’re entitled to everything for free. I despise ads just as much if not more than the next dipshit, but complaining about them, when there’s myriad ways of avoiding them, just makes you sound like a dingus.

Obligatory shout out to Nebula as a cheaper alternative for non-fiction/edutainment content.

This is gonna sound silly but check here:

https://haveibeenpwned.com/

Might have some info if you’ve had creds leak or get exposed somewhere.

Nvm, just re-read your post and saw you already did. Leaving this up for the link for others. Sorry to bother!

There’s a Pirate Software clip where he talks about the amount of kids who don’t even recognize a controller as an input and go straight to assuming all screens are touch screens

https://media3.giphy.com/media/l0MYKBx3N6VCrFwaI/giphy.gif?cid=6c09b952r03ccdog3rk9dlr1waovk18p1w3fzhe98264atfo&ep=v1_internal_gif_by_id&rid=giphy.gif&ct=g

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Good tea. Nice house.