Notices by ocdtrekkie (ocdtrekkie@mastodon.social), page 3

@lightspill The best place to get their books DRM-free is Humble Bundles, which they regularly participate in.

@ppatel @WarnerCrocker I mean moving a lot of sand is expensive, lot of labor and machinery and time. It was 14,000 tons of it.

But I have to ask if they could've spent less than 10% of that asking an expert if it would work.

@Hawk1291 I accept Rokus as "the least sucky way to watch a bunch of very proprietary apps". It's the best, and that's a very low bar, but generally if some TV has Roku on it, you'll get all the streaming services for a lot of years, and that's rarely the case with anything else.

@Hawk1291 If watching the usual Netflix/Disney+/Paramount+/Peacock/Hulu/HBO Max stuff is a primary need I think sucking up with proprietary platforms that are popular but single purpose is still best bet.

I haven't seen a compelling case that Kodi/Plex/etc. are a good option unless piracy is your primary source.

@ariadne @davidgerard There's this whole bit that really just cracks me up that the company literally has a trillion dollars and manages to sucker idiots into doing labor for them for free.

You want me to do data collection for Google Maps? *Pay me.* Want me to answer questions on your support forums? *Pay me.*

Absolutely hilarious. Never gets old.

@expert Not mad, just disappointed.

I'm a Christian. My faith doesn't require I dictate to people what gender they are or who they love. I get along on Mastodon servers just fine.

@SallyStrange It's so frustrating. We have a book that literally says the most important commandment is to love God, and the second is to *love your neighbor*, and some people are going to go dig for the line that validates their homophobia, and then act like that gives them a religious right to hate people.

@lightweight @donkeyblam The problem here *is* the Docker model of self-hosting. It's too complicated and it's too insecure.

Your blog post says "here's what I usually do" and then lists out over 20 magic incantation steps in the CLI. Just for one app! This is why people don't self-host.

@replyguy @ryanhoulihan I feel like there's a world where this bit would be funny, but I don't think we're in it right now.

@anarchopunk_girl @Rusty Yeah I've learned a fair bit more in the past few days. It's explained *much* better in the tweaking.thebad.space version of the site.

Also Ro appears to currently suspend .social, so I'm not sure how piecemeal the information I've tended to get is.

@Rusty My understanding is that it's a work in progress. (A lot of things are example content, the same for every server, or aren't present, like the "receipts".)

But it's also logically inconsistent: mastodon.social is listed as a suspend for federating with mstdn.io, but mstdn.io is on probation and only a silence.

It'd definitely be nice if it had a methodology posted, but I don't think defederating the domain would do anything, it's just a website.

@Rusty I have never heard the claim that it's AI-based before. Why do you suspect that's the case?

(Also, I don't think I've ever heard of someone importing The Bad Space's list, so I imagine the impact is fairly low.)

@clacke That sounds absolutely terrifying, in no small part because I spend a lot of time learning about home construction and electrical wiring and can't fathom what would even do that.

@Gargron I mean, I'll be getting one just because my 11's screen is starting to fail and the battery is starting to wear down pretty badly.

Nobody needs a phone anymore before their old phone starts failing.

@Gargron Corporations trying to be funny either goes really well, or really, really badly.

@JenWojcik It's always been pretty wild to me that there's been no real downside to companies trying to union bust. This finally makes it a bad idea.

@lunareclipse Ah the struggle between just appreciating this awesome point, and telling everyone how they are probably using the dishwasher wrong...

But yeah, there is a stunning amount of stuff we do as humans not because we have to but because society has pressured us to believe it's the right way to do it, and sometimes it's entirely fine to set that stuff aside.

I hate the waste, but paper plates and plastic forks if it is what gets you through the week.

@clacke I read a thing that basically said Anson Mount was like "I don't really sing", and that's not too surprising? But he did fine.

I wonder if Anthony Rapp feels like he got cast in the wrong Star Trek now. :D

@Polychrome @yuki2501 Perhaps technically, but not practically: Anyone who tried to make their old Blu-rays unplayable would get sued horribly. I don't believe it has ever happened.

@Polychrome @yuki2501 Intel removed support for 4K Blu-ray decoding (a feature called SGX) from newer Intel processors due to security vulnerabilities.

That being said, the keys to decrypt most Blu-rays are out there.