The one on our right, is that a Sphinx? Usually they have no hair but the proportions seem right. Not a cat expert though. Just love critters.
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As an Apple guy, thank you for contributing to the platform I use. A lot of advanced networking stuff tends to favour Linux and even Windows. The former I understand... the latter, I grudgingly understand (it sucks but everyone uses it). And no one's really buying Apple for networking. It's not like it's the 90s and networking is stupid hard and AppleTalk makes things make sense. Now everyone's as good as AppleTalk was. I still think Macs are the best for networking. Wintel desktop, Wintel laptop, same WiFi network, couldn't see each other no matter what I do. Mac mini desktop, MacBook Air, both signed into the same iCloud, they show up in each other's Finder (file manager). Even my iPhone can navigate to them. The 10.5TB I have connected to my desktop is available to all my Apple devices. And I basically suck at networking.
You may be aware everyone is pissed at Plex right now because their self hosted media centre software's lifetime license just tripled from $250 to $750 just a year or two after doubling to $250. I got mine at $90, so I'm not affected, but a lot of people are mad. Rival Jellyfin announced they were quadrupling their price in response — four times zero is still zero, though. Jellyfin is free and will remain so, at least for now. However, Jellyfin isn't available outside your network. People use a thing called Tailscale which I only know by name, to allow remote access. It seems that it's a kind of VPN host that allows clients to act as though they're on the network remotely, and thus access the content remotely. By any chance, does your app do similar?
Again, I suck at networking. I understand some of the terms. I read your post and I read the description on the App Store and I understand some of the thing, but not all. I'm not looking to switch media centres, I'm just saying, if that's something your app offers, you might have a growing audience. Maybe your app is nothing like Tailscale and I'm way off, but I thought I'd mention it on the off chance.
If you have them side by side, and you have many of them tiled, I guess you could Alt-Tab through them, but I find it easier to click.
If I'm clicking between three windows and I have four open, do you really think it's quicker to Alt-Tab? On the Mac I just hit F3 which is Mission Control which I wish Windows had (it's basically a more elegant Alt-Tab; we have ⌘+Tab but that's only icons, same thing but not as pretty).
Hi, fellow chili-in-omelet fan!
I put other leftovers in omelets, too, but chili is one of the better ones.
Years ago I came in hot to a new team acting like I knew everything and the lead refused to teach me. Totally my fault for being a horse’s arse. However, I taught myself and got really, really good at it. The team lead had been doing it for four years. When I saw how he was doing it, I had to cringe. My way was way better. But if I tried to show him my way, it would have been like I was acting like I knew more than them. Had I come in more humbly, my contribution would have probably been better received. It didn’t work out with that team.
I don’t act like I know better than others so much now, if I catch myself. Sometimes their way works for them. And I’m not young. There are probably younger people than me who are faster. Maybe they use AI. I refuse to.
You’re never gonna be the best. Try to be the kindest.
Time to learn Jellyfin (not hard) and Tailscale (if you want access outside your network, as I understand it) if you don't have a Plex Pass. If you do... still might wanna brush up, because this feels like "if this doesn't work we shut down."
You're preaching to the choir on that one. I mainly use Apple stuff — I feel like, between Apple, Microsoft, and Google, Apple is the least evil. Some disagree. I always liked Macs though, and once GPU prices started going up... I bought one. Pretty good deal if you're willing to give up PC gaming. But I also realise Apple isn't that much better than the others, if they are at all. Linux is the real winner here. If I didn't need a whole new computer, I probably would have switched to Linux.
S8 and S9 were good. I liked my S3, but the capacitive buttons outlived their usefulness and should have been gone way before the S8. S7 seriously tempted me, but that was the year I switched to iPhone (not that the 6s's home button was any better; it wasn't).
My wife has an S22 and it's nagging her to upgrade. I told her to come to Apple. She won't. Maybe we can find a deal on an S24.
Unfortunately, "several" means they pump out so many phones a year... it doesn't mean Galaxy S flagships more than a couple years old are getting the update.
That's one thing that's always fucked me off about Android. The hardware is capable, but after a year or two of updates, they just cut you off, expecting you to buy another one. And that's fine if, for all the data collection and for how far behind iPhones they are in terms of performance (sorry, I know that's a sore spot among Android enthusiasts... but the numbers do not lie), you were paying much less for them. But for iPhone prices, if you can't expect iPhone performance, you should be able to expect a longer period of support. They say they offer 6 or 7 years of updates, but they aren't going that far back. My own Samsung phone is a Galaxy S10 from 2019, or 7 years ago. Let's see it get the update. But they won't do it. They could — the phone is certainly capable enough — we've all (iPhone users included, and perhaps especially) been sold on this lie that you need the newest phone every year. It's horse shit. The S10 is still a capable phone, and I imagine its iPhone contemporary is, too. (And I imagine that iPhone is still being updated, as it should be.) But they won't, because they just want you to keep buying them.
Android users deserve better.
At least the value depreciates faster than iPhones, so you can get a gently used one from a year or two prior for a whole lot less than an iPhone from the same year. Like for example a Galaxy S24 vs an iPhone 15. Or an S23 vs an iPhone 14 (except then you don't get USB-C, so I wouldn't recommend it, the hassle of getting Lightning cables has to be factored in).
Twitter was always about limiting yourself, originally to posts about as long as a text. That was kinda the point. They increased the post length a while ago, but as a long time fan of long form forum conversations, I never saw much point in Twitter. Then this crazy nutjob bought it and it appealed to me even less. Still, these limits seem reasonable as he paid so much for it and it hasn't made him a profit. So yeah, I think anyone who wants to use it more than that should maybe pay... or find another service to post on.
What is Louisiana getting for those $3.3 billion in tax breaks?
You don't — before my wife and I paid ($5 each), it just had a banner ad at the bottom. The app is fully functional without paying a dime. I was just saying the ads have gotten a little more intrusive. But, if you're dedicated to not paying, you can just use it for free.
If you're on a rooted Android phone, you can probably block the ads with AdAway (at least, that's what we used 15 years ago, not sure if something better has come along). If not (Android without root, or iOS) you can use NextDNS (or something similar) but yeah, you don't have to pay.
My wife and I have been using the app for 16 years. What we paid is nothing compared to the value it's brought us. Coming in now? Hard to justify. But it can still be used for free.
OurGroceries (app for both iOS and Android) and a partner. It's an app that syncs in real time and does that very well. So what you do is, you make a list, you both have the app, signed into the same account. If one person pays $20 (used to be $5 per person but I guess they gotta eat too) everyone gets the ads removed. Be aware that the ads can add to the list, and reviewers have pointed out that it can happen automatically.
Anyway, you both go to different stores, and use anything from AirPods to plain old wired earbuds to keep the conversation going while you have the app open. You both navigate the store to each item on the list, and you call out the price. Whoever says the cheaper price puts it in their cart. The more roommates/participants you have, the more stores you can hit, the more you can save (assuming all three people are buying food — if one person is always shut out because their store was more expensive, that person's time was wasted, and you should not return to that store).
Ideally you've been lurking a while and have an idea of what the comms are called. Or, you come from Reddit and you know most of them are the same (e.g. Ask Reddit → Ask Lemmy).
Then you have a choice between a comm on an instance that is friendly toward yours (i.e. is not likely to defederate you/yours in the future) or one that is more popular. I generally like to post on dbzer0, quokk, hexbear, sh.itjustworks, and similar when I can. But Lemmy.world, Lemmy.ml, Lemmy.zip, and a few others get more traffic, so I might post to one of those if I want to get replies. But even if you're on a smaller instance and you post to bigger instances to get traffic, I think you should post on your own instance, at least cross post it, or contribute to your own instance in other ways.
So, in short: your instance to support it, the bigger instance to get visibility. For something like Meditation, maybe a broad comm like AskLemmy, and a more focused one like Buddhism (or whatever).
Ideally you've been lurking a while and have an idea of what the comms are called. Or, you come from Reddit and you know most of them are the same (e.g. Ask Reddit → Ask Lemmy).
Then you have a choice between a comm on an instance that is friendly toward yours (i.e. is not likely to defederate you/yours in the future) or one that is more popular. I generally like to post on dbzer0, quokk, hexbear, sh.itjustworks, and similar when I can. But Lemmy.world, Lemmy.ml, Lemmy.zip, and a few others get more traffic, so I might post to one of those if I want to get replies. But even if you're on a smaller instance and you post to bigger instances to get traffic, I think you should post on your own instance, at least cross post it, or contribute to your own instance in other ways.
So, in short: your instance to support it, the bigger instance to get visibility. For something like Meditation, maybe a broad comm like AskLemmy, and a more focused one like Buddhism (or whatever).
Looks like it can't block YouTube ads though. That sucks.
But yes, $2/month or $20/year (2 months free) for Pro. I looked into it.
Depends what the topic is, but generally you want forums. Forums are more geared to this. Reddit (and Lemmy, which is based on the Reddit model) tried to replicate and decentralise forums (whereas on a forum you have a small set of mods and an admin or two; on Reddit, each sub would have its own mods; Lemmy improves upon this with instances (for example, the one I'm on is more freedom of speech/anarchy)), but forums still exist. A lot of them have died out. One forum that tries to take itself pretty seriously is Ars Technica's. They can be a bit of a clannish bunch and they're a little distrusting of newcomers, but some of them have been there for 20 years.
https://arstechnica.com/civis/
Worth noting, when they say forum, they lean pretty heavily into the original definition of a gathering place where people would gather and talk, so there are similar themes throughout the site. But, if you like tech stuff and science, that's their thing (their name is Latin for "The Art of Technology").
I'm not a member. I was, a very long time ago. I had issues with some long standing members and they basically ran me off. But it was like 10-12 years ago. So who knows. Things change. People change. And I don't even remember what I was called then. But, for what it's worth, I would imagine if Arsians have a social network they use, it's probably Lemmy/Piefed, though I imagine it's more Reddit.