Professorozone
@Professorozone@lemmy.world
- Comment on What is Docker? 4 weeks ago:
As I mentioned, I didn’t really know where to post it. I guess my lemmy-foo isn’t up to snuff. I saw that this appears to be in lemmy.world, but only 10 options came up when I tried to post and none of them really seemed right. Comments?
- Comment on What is Docker? 4 weeks ago:
Thank you for the thorough response. After looking carefully at what you wrote I didn’t really see a difference between the term self-hosting and home network.
You said you have software that automatically downloads media. The way I see this using movies for instance, if I own the movies and have them on my machine, then I can stream them over my network and have full control. Whereas if I “own” them on Amazon and steam it from there, they can track the viewing experience, push ads, or even remove the content completely. I understand that… But if I want a NEW movie, I’m back to Amazon to get it in the first place (or Netflix, or Walmart, etc. I get it). I’m fact, personally I’ve started actually buying disks of the movies/music I like most so that it can’t really be taken away and I can enjoy it even without an Internet connection. Am I missing something? Unless of course the media you are downloading is pirated.
I know I’m asking what seems to be a huge question but I’m really only asking for a broad description, sort of an ELI5 thing.
- Comment on What is Docker? 5 weeks ago:
Wow! Thank you all for the civilized responses. This all sounds so great. I am older and I feel like I’ve already seen enough ads for one lifetime and I hate all this fascist tracking crap.
But how does that work? Is it just a network on which you store your stuff in a way that you can download it anywhere or can it do more? I mean, to me that’s just a home network. Hosting sounds like it’s designed for other people to access. Can I put my website on there? If so, how do I go about registering my domain each year. I’m not computer illiterate but this sounds kind of beyond my skill level. I’ll go search Jellyfin, weird name, and see what I can find. Thanks again!
- Comment on What is Docker? 5 weeks ago:
I’ve never posted on Lemmy before. I tried to ask this question of the greater community but I had to pick a community and didn’t know which one. This shows up as lemmy.world but that wasn’t an option.
Anyway, what I wanted to know is why do people self host? What is the advantage/cost. Sorry if I’m hijacking. Maybe someone could just post a link or something.
- Comment on Why hasn't congress passed a law saying that you can only deport people *back to their own country*? 5 weeks ago:
Because they are sociopaths that have zero empathy for those they deport.
- Comment on As a US citizen who was born in the UK, how risky is it to leave and reenter the US right now? 1 month ago:
Why would you come back?
- Comment on Consumers now face "tariff surcharges" for some goods as companies pass along costs 1 month ago:
I know some of the tariffs have gone into effect but can any product sold today possibly have been imported in the last couple of days? Sounds like they are getting a premature jump on the upcharges.
- Comment on US small business owner says China tariffs endanger her company: ‘I could lose my home’ 1 month ago:
No. She’s supposed to CREATE the factory and make jobs, you know, immediately.
- Comment on Which actor did not have a single bad film? 1 month ago:
Eyes Wide Shut. What a piece of crap.
- Comment on Which actor did not have a single bad film? 1 month ago:
He DOES have some bad movies, but not many. I really don’t like the guy either, but I like a lot of his movies. You forgot Oblivion and Jerry Maguire for instance.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Better than lying and feeding him a line of BS that he can be president or an astronaut or something when the likelihood is so low. Tell him he would make a great accountant. Is he good at math. LOL.
- Comment on What is your favorite movie? 1 month ago:
“And you know what? I mowed that lawn for free.”
- Comment on Couldn't be worse than what we have now... 1 month ago:
Great. So we’re stuck like this?
- Comment on Couldn't be worse than what we have now... 1 month ago:
I heard that NASA upgraded the likelihood of Earth being hit by an asteroid and I thought to myself…that might not be so bad.
- Comment on I was a British tourist trying to leave America. Then I was detained, shackled and sent to an immigration detention centre 1 month ago:
I’m sorry, but this is NOT the kind of person I want in prison. AND I don’t want prisons profiting off her misery.
- Comment on What are some countries you’ve visited that shocked you with unexpected friendliness? 1 month ago:
Yeah, I would say the same thing about Americans (yes I know you’re Americans too. I think we all know I mean the US). If you meet MAGA on the street in a non-political way, they might be super nice. You might have a great interaction. I have traveled around the world and I maintain that food service personnel in the US are the friendliest. I’m guessing many of them are MAGA.
- Comment on Are Nintendo's $80 online game prices a result of tariffs or is Nintendo just using them as an excuse to price gouge as corporations do? 1 month ago:
Well that was my point. Tariffs give greed the opportunity to metastasize in the darkness, because people expect the price to go up anyway.
- Comment on What is your favorite movie? 1 month ago:
- Forrest Gump.
- Shawshank Redemption.
- The Marian.
- Dances with Wolves.
- Comment on What are some countries you’ve visited that shocked you with unexpected friendliness? 1 month ago:
Ah, don’t be so hard on yourself. I’ve only had great experiences traveling in Canada and I like to think of Canadians as our brothers. There’s good and bad everywhere. I might have had a miserable trip to New Zealand if I had left just an hour later. Who knows.
- Comment on What are some countries you’ve visited that shocked you with unexpected friendliness? 1 month ago:
New Zealand. So wanted to stay there. Made Canadians look a little rude. LOL.
- Comment on Are Nintendo's $80 online game prices a result of tariffs or is Nintendo just using them as an excuse to price gouge as corporations do? 1 month ago:
This is the problem with tariffs, it’s an opportunity for greedy corporations to increase prices MORE than the tariffs or on products not covered by the tariffs and no one will be the wiser.
- Comment on Today's Survey. One point for everything that you have NEVER DONE 1 month ago:
Ha!! I’m not old at all. I got 21 points!
- Comment on Rocky rock rocking 2 months ago:
Is it? Could be a pebble. We don’t have a scale after all.
- Comment on Is it better to leave a country, or stay behind to fight for it? And what about the ethics of fleeing instead of staying behind? 2 months ago:
Well, yeah, this is essentially why I’m not running.
- Comment on Is it better to leave a country, or stay behind to fight for it? And what about the ethics of fleeing instead of staying behind? 2 months ago:
RUN! I don’t know why people get so attached to a piece of land, especially when it can cost you your life. They are artificial lines created on the globe. The real question, is where to run.
- Comment on Who gets all the tariff money about to be collected from US citizens buying products from Canada? 2 months ago:
Well the US collects taxes and a tariff is a tax so yeah, it will generate funds to run the government. I think this is why Trump likes them. He sees a huge influx in the taxes collected. Plus his followers are so stupid they think China/Canada/Mexico is paying them. Win/win for him. No wonder he thinks it’s the greatest word in the dictionary.
- Comment on He thinks they'll just GIVE him money? 2 months ago:
Ok so I checked these numbers and they don’t seem to line up. According to Equity Atlas there are about 3.28M Americans with a net worth of $5M. According to credit-suisse.com/…/global-wealth-report.html there are 8.4M people worldwide with a $5M net worth. So 8.4-3.28=5.12. So 5.12M x $5M=$25.6T.
I’m just using the logic presented here. Of course, that would require every single person on the planet with a net worth (not disposable cash) to actually buy one of these visas. If you assume actually 1% of these people did this, and I think that’s probably a high number, then we are talking $256B.
I’m not trying to defend Donald Trump here, but I don’t want to be one of those people who only immerses himself in liberal media and swallows everything they say as true just because it supports my opinion. That would make me the same as them.
I’m guessing the reality is closer to the original post. I’d be surprised if more than a small handful of people actually did this and that doesn’t forgive the horrible idea-made-real that citizenship is for sale, that only rich people are welcome here, that they are better than common people and all of the other reasons this whole thing is tasteless.
- Comment on He thinks they'll just GIVE him money? 2 months ago:
Where did you get $10M? Did he already up the price? He does that you know.
- Comment on UK’s offshore windfarms to be painted black to protect birds 2 months ago:
But how are they going to stop the noise from causing cancer?
- Comment on Stop touching your stuff! 2 months ago:
LOL. Must learn to think before I speak/post. So hard.