This isn't meant as a slight, but I take it you don't work in IT. You are way underestimating what it takes to run a service at the scale these large companies do. Homelabbing is cool and a great way to get off these providers, but we as individuals have completely different requirements. A proper cloud service is incredibly complex with multiple environments, rigid change controls, global availability, zero allowable downtime, etc. You can't just wing it with a few desktops.
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Oh wow, that looks even better! When I was looking into this about a year or so ago all I could find was the BedJet and it used air instead of water. There was another company but it went out of business, this looks like it might be it?
Do you know if the Chillpad Dock Pro has sleep tracking like the Sleep 8? A big seller for me is that it automatically prevents overheating/being cold, and wakes you up at the right time. The website says this:
Automatic Temperature Adjustments for Optimal Sleep Schedule automated temperature adjustments throughout the night to keep your bed at the perfect temperature for optimal sleep.
That sounds contradictory for it to be both automatic, but also scheduled.
If you don't own it or don't know don't worry, I'll research it more. I really appreciate you showing me these options!
Wow, I didn't know freesleep was a thing. I wrote the sleep pod off due to the subscription snd cloud reliance. Looks like someone is working on a Home Assistant integration too! This is definitely something I'm going to follow.
I'm conflicted though, as I really don't want to give money to a company with such a terrible business model, but they're the only ones who make this kind of bed.
It doesn't need one. Sleep Eight decided to make it that way.
I've been having a lot of trouble with sleep lately, and it's really impacting my work and life. Apart from working with my Dr I was seriously considering ponying up the big bucks for a Sleep Eight until I found that literally all of it's features rely on the cloud, and a monthly subscription, for no legitimate reason whatsoever.
Look, I'm for subscriptions when they make sense. Have a service that requires a lot of infrastructure? Subscription. Something that needs continuous dev work? Subscription. All I ask is that the subscription be kept low so that it's affordable and everyone can be happy. But that's not how it goes. Two things end up happening:
- They price the subscriptions at $10-15+ per month making it quite a large expense in aggregate. They're not being priced the fair cost of maintenance or development, they're being priced to make even more money.
- The device doesn't need cloud infrastructure at all, they just chose to do it that way to retain control and keep you dependant.
Both are what's happening with the Sleep Eight. You literally can't use any of the sleep detection features (things that run locally on a cheap smart band from 10 years ago) without the cloud. Its insane. There is no good reason that couldn't be done on device.
I refused to buy it because of their business model, but they're really the only game in town for this kind of product. They seem to be getting away with it, so I guess fuck me.
And I think circumcision should be illegal, but customs are very hard to change.
Definitely is. Some practice it and some don't, but it's traditionally part of it.
The traditional method of performing metzitzah b'peh (Hebrew: מְצִיצָה בְּפֶה, abbreviated as MBP[73])—or oral suction[74][75]—has become controversial. The process has the mohel place his mouth directly on the infant's genital wound to suck blood away from the cut. Many circumcision ceremonies no longer use metzitzah b'peh,[76] but Haredi Jews continue to perform it.[71][72][64] The practice poses a serious risk of spreading herpes to the infant.[77][78][79][80] Proponents maintain that there is no conclusive evidence that links herpes to Metzitza,[81] and that attempts to limit this practice infringe on religious freedom.[82][83][84]
He made corn flakes to purposefully be as bland as possible, as he also thought flavour tempted people to masturbate. Dude ran a sanitarium while being a total loon himself.
The Kelloggs cereal you eat today is way better because it actually has to taste good to sell.
If you're into long format videos/docs and want to more, watch this: https://youtu.be/hZ4ES8mOzYg
Yeah, it is an odd combination to be sure. One thing we haven't talked too much about is the emotional nature of sex. When you get down to it, urges, orgasms, dopamine rushes, those are all the biological components of sex and you're right, it can be accomplished solo.
The emotional side however is completely different. If you see sex with another as a chore, it does kind of imply you're lacking the emotional side of the equation, or don't enjoy intimacy. Do you like kissing or do you see that as gross? Could be more going on here than just yout libido. Maybe that's what you should focus on and the rest might come in time?
Interesting. Sounds like you're more towards asexual (I'm obviously no doctor). That will definitely be more rare, but I'm sure there are dating sites dedicated to finding like minded people.
With your desires being almost non existant, maybe it would be worth talking to a doctor to see if your hormones are in check. The people in this thread are talking about the far end of horniness because it's intense and therefore more explainable. If you had a slight imbalance and corrected it I don't think you will become a sex starved animal, likely you'd go to a once a month person.
Anyway, wish you the best of luck, I found this interesting :)
I think women more often have responsive sex drives like I mentioned earlier. This causes an imbalance where they are perceived to "not want sex" because they don't seek it at the rate men do. Mix that with social norms over the years where women's livelyhood was tied to men and it's natural they would bait men with it in some capacity. This is a broad generalization of course, but lines up with the anecdotes you heard growing up.
How often is too often for you? Once a day, week, month? Are you just out of your teens, young adult, or middle aged?
It sounds like you're describing having a responsive sex drive. That's usually attributed more to women, but is still completely normal for guys from what I've read. My GF is the same in that she can get in the mood from attention, but the desire doesn't come to her often out of nowhere.
I come from the spontaneous sex drive side, so it's hard to imagine not being in the mood or not having these thoughts come up all the time. I go to porn because my mind craves the sexual energy. Sometimes I'll watch or read it without masturbating because the feeling of arousal and mental stimulation is so enjoyable.
I like and accept who I am, but honestly if I take a step back and look at things objectively, would I recommend having a high sex drive? Probably not. When you see random people walking down the street you check them out. When you get introduced to a coworker's friend you immediately think of fucking them and try to keep your eyes off their tits the whole night. You know people are more than objects, but your caveman brain is still there telling you otherwise. It's kind of a biological curse, but it can be a lot of fun. If you're happy with what you have then that's probably fine.
Wait, you're not certain what horniness feels like, but you consider yourself somewhat of a porn addict? Now I need YOU to explain how you feel :P
I've read through most of the comments here and many of them ring true to me. Especially this one: https://lemmy.ca/comment/19383774
I am that pervert. Not outwardly, but inside my head? Yeah. Sex is on my mind often, and I use porn as an outlet to kindle and experience those urges when it wouldn't otherwise be appropriate. I've started taking ADHD meds and a lot of that day to day horniness has gone away, simply because my mind isn't idle as often, and when it's idle or bored that's when it reaches for the junk food: lust. Porn (or sex), when I'm in that state, is the most interesting thing in the world. I could, and do, watch it for an hour or more to draw out the experience because sexual energy is so mental for me. It's what makes kinks so attractive because sex becomes a mind game.
So, with that aside, can you explain to me what exactly you find attractive about porn to the point you think it might be an impediment, if you don't feel really horny? My GF has a low libido and as a result she rarely watches porn, so I'm not sure how the two mix. She also enjoys orgasms, but doesn't seek them, and when she does watch porn to get off she does it quickly and doesn't really relish it. She definitely doesn't have an addiction, but maybe you can still help me better understand her, and other perspectives a little better. Because yeah, in my mind porn has always equaled horny.
I don't want account sharing either, except theres things like Google homes where you can't sign in with more than one account. People sharing the same account in a TV aren't trying to, it's just the natural way they use it.
Exactly. I see that it can happen, I am seeing it happen first hand. I still don't understand why it's happening.
Yeah. I use Nebula and go out of my way to watch there whenever possible. The app isn't great, but I still recommend it.
How much do we need to pay though? Most content creators I see have their patreon around $7 CDN/mo. Add even a couple and you're now at the cost of a streaming subscription with much more content. I would have no problem paying content creators if the fees were more reasonable, but right now I only subscribe to a couple.
Should a creator's patreon drop in price to $1 or $2 a month, or should the viewer pay a small fee per view? What new monetization system would make sense where the consumer doesn't have an unaffordable pile of subscriptions, but the creators still get paid a fair rate for their effort?
A quick way to test would be installing the Flatpak version of FF. As far as I know it should contain everything you need in one go, plus super easy to uninstall.
The data would have to be scaled back, no doubt about that. Right now they collect everything under the sun because they can. Remember, this would be data they otherwise wouldn't get at all.
If I were to predict how it would work I would say they would continue to send back full fidelity data over Wi-Fi the same as today, but mesh would be used as a fallback if nothing is available. That data could be bundled to once a day, or week or whatever they decide makes sense and would only include summary information like, how much time spent on each channel per day, SSIDs scanned in the area, etc.
Are you using Linux? Do you have the right codecs installed? Firefox shouldn't be jerky.
We were originally discussing why subscriptions can make sense to fund ongoing costs and you replied:
My response was based on the original topic of services provided by large companies, not self hosting for individual consumption. I also run a proxmox server and have similar requirements to you, but this is not indicative of the type of infrastructure a larger company with higher SLAs and demands would require.
Saying you can slap together a couple proxmox servers and have something equivalent to what it takes to run Netflix is highly disingenuous. Saying you can do the same and have an alternative to Netflix for YOU is true, but not what we're discussing.