Bongles
@Bongles@lemm.ee
- Comment on Plex now will SELL your personal data 6 days ago:
“Grab an app called jellyfin, type in this number, pick the profile with your name, password is X”
It’s not that different than “Grab an app called plex, here’s the username and password, pick the profile with your name” (or sign up yourself and I’ll share it with you)
- Comment on He's always been there for me 2 weeks ago:
“Child” includes some years where they can drive.
Being an adult doesn’t mean you will never need help from your parents again.
If mom is at work, why is leaving work the preferable option to dad leaving fishing? That also doesn’t mean she hasn’t been told.
They’re driving their mom’s car, they obviously are still living at home and probably don’t have a ton of money for a taxi, especially since dad could just stop fishing and come pick them up.
Married couples are usually both owners of their vehicles and on the same insurance plans, so dad could most likely handle insurance and accident related things.
- Comment on Would racism in the USA still exist if humans had automated robots in the 1800s? 2 weeks ago:
Yep, even happened in the US with Italians and such.
- Comment on Watching "They Live!" has opened my eyes to how often the movie is referenced, as if I put on the same sunglasses 2 weeks ago:
I noticed too that when I bought my car, I started seeing a lot of them in my area. It’s probably the same phenomenon.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
You can discuss politics without engaging in it 24/7. There is nothing wrong with going to something like reddit or Lemmy and not wanting to add it to the list of places where all you see is politics. It’s easier on reddit, because the sheer volume of content, but it can be done here too.
I don’t personally care here on Lemmy, it’s a better format for discussion than some places (not that I discuss it, though I’ll read it). But in my case, I used to go to imgur all the time. For me it was a place to share memes and other jokes, you got a bit of community, it was smaller than reddit, Twitter, and all that. But it got to be non stop politics. They even added filters you could toggle on to the site, including a political one. It helped but even then the stuff still got through. Over time I stopped using the site and eventually deleted the app as it wasn’t my funny little meme site anymore.
And i largely agreed with the overall community, like most places it was a circle jerk most of the time. But being like this didn’t accomplish anything (as we all can see). At best, maybe some people there didn’t “switch sides” when Donald showed up.
Maybe the poster just wants a place where they can get a break but still be social. They’re not getting at X or bluesky, they’re definitely not getting it on Facebook or threads. Reels, TikToks, and shorts are dependent on the almighty algorithm and aren’t very social for most users. Mastodon, yeah i guess, but i know i find it’s harder to find communities than on Lemmy (plus your points, which are valid, apply there too). Where should they go.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
There was a huge influx of users when reddit broke third party apps, I have to imagine that was larger than reddit bans. But then not everybody stuck around so who knows.
- Comment on That's all folks, Plex is starting to charge for sharing 4 weeks ago:
Can you point me in the direction of doing this in jellyfin? I keep finding guides and things for tailscale and whatnot but I too would like to just be able to install jellyfin on something and connect to my server.
- Comment on Chances for the fediverse? Elon Musk takes hit as Europeans ditch X in droves 5 weeks ago:
Anecdotally, I watch reels on Instagram (i know) and the vast majority of meme pages that it shows me are the exact same setup around a slightly different premise, with the same purchased comments pinned from the same accounts or the accounts comment saying something like they’re too broke for paid comments please like.
80% is probably high but I wouldn’t be that surprised.
- Comment on Microsoft CEO says up to 30% of the company's code was written by AI | TechCrunch 5 weeks ago:
I vaguely remember talk about companies like Google having software that fixes/writes code and that was ages before LLMs.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
I think that reeses peanut butter cups aren’t very good. Make that political.
- Comment on 🌊🌊🌊 5 weeks ago:
Sure, but i enjoy not knowing and maybe being caught off guard, rather than reading every scene with a character like “is this it? Is it happening now?”
(Are scenes still called “scenes” in a book?)
- Comment on I can't believe it let me do that 1 month ago:
Having been with android since it’s first mainstream phones (and not rooting), a lot of those were made up non issues over the years and I’ve consistently been at parity or better with ios, with one exception - God damn fucking Google recreating their own messaging apps to be separate and worse and then shutting them down when they fail! Now with every company’s nonsense AI push you have Google replacing assistant with Gemini, which does less and their LLM is clearly the worst (hence the Google search result memes), and this messaging thing. Modern Google is the worst thing to happen to android.
- Comment on In heat 1 month ago:
- Comment on It's no longer easy to play April Fool's jokes on Americans because their reality is so chaotic that it's no longer easy to tell what is real, funny, fake or sad. 2 months ago:
It’s a stretch, but i wonder if things like the onion, with us laughing at the insane stories has had any impact on the general reaction to what’s happening now. Like people don’t really care.
- Comment on Would it be a bad idea to show up at a protest outside a Tesla dealership with a sign that says "Deny Musk, Defund Doge, Depose Trump"? 2 months ago:
That’s what pushes it over into a threat I believe. Just using the other words would normally be fine and protected speech.
- Comment on YSK, that on most smartphones, if you press the power button 5 (or more) times in quick succession, you can quickly call emergency services. 3 months ago:
So cops can’t hold your phone in front of your face to unlock it if you do this.
If you have android (and probably ios too) give your phone a quick restart if you have the opportunity to achieve the same thing.
- Comment on Bluesky Becoming New Social Media Sensation As Millions Of Americans Snub X Over Musk's Support To Trump 6 months ago:
If you avoided Twitter, why would you think you’d like its alternative?
It’s just a microblog site. Depending on what you’re interested in, it can be good for news, social movements, updates from companies (i followed game devs and would see patch notes and things), keeping up with celebrities or content creators, following topics or hobbies you’re interested in (like you might here), or like when nearly everyone was on Twitter - just seeing what trending things people are talking about. If something is going on, like the Mike tyson Jake Paul fight, seeing everyone’s takes on it, jokes, memes, can be fun for people or make them feel connected.
- Comment on What's Mastodon precious? 6 months ago:
The way sign up currently is, probably not. It would still default to bsky.social and your average person isn’t going to think about it.
- Comment on Microsoft wants $30 to let you keep using Windows 10 securely for another year 6 months ago:
For what it’s worth
“Recent comments at Ignite about Windows 10 are reflective of the way Windows will be delivered as a service bringing new innovations and updates in an ongoing manner, with continuous value for our consumer and business customers,” says a Microsoft spokesperson in a statement to The Verge. “We aren’t speaking to future branding at this time, but customers can be confident Windows 10 will remain up-to-date and power a variety of devices from PCs to phones to Surface Hub to HoloLens and Xbox. We look forward to a long future of Windows innovations.”
https://www.theverge.com/2015/5/7/8568473/windows-10-last-version-of-windows
- Comment on We should have elections with no candidates. 7 months ago:
What stops them from just saying what people want to hear, then doing what their party wants? There’s no accountability because you wouldn’t know that the party that lied last election is saying the same thing this election.
- Comment on Update: Bitwarden posted to X this evening to reaffirm that it's a "packaging bug" and that "Bitwarden remains committed to the open source licensing model." 7 months ago:
Current Lemmy will circlejerk about the end of any company or product with the smallest nudge.
Every slightly negative post above a certain threshold of views will have comments about abandoning whatever thing it’s about.
- Comment on Should i be giving a shit about my posture? 8 months ago:
Only in that direction.
- Comment on YSK: You don't own your Kindle e-books. 8 months ago:
Is there an ebook service like GOG is for games? DRM free so you can keep the books regardless of what happens to the service?
(I know it’s easy enough to remove it, but I’d rather support a service like that if I can)