Soapbox1858

@Soapbox1858@lemm.ee

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Movie reviews that had me laughing⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I had no interest in this movie either way, but now I want to see if its even remotely as bad as people are claiming it is.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Should visitors to a country (tourist / visa-holders / people staying temporarily) have the right to criticize the government? When should an immigrant have the right to criticize the government?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  The USA is supposed to be a “free country.” Everyone within its borders should have the right to criticize the country, or anything at all, and not face repercussions from the government.

  That doesn’t mean they won’t face repercussions from everyone else in the country, who also have the right to criticize them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The only way to use Adobe products on Linux are the web apps (which are limited) or in a windows virtual machine (slow) or by dual booting into windows (annoying).

  You can run really old versions of Photoshop via Wine. But if your needs are that simple, you can probably just use Photopea.

  For my use case of Lightroom for accessing and editing final photos across my computer and phone, and occasional photoshop use (mostly for printing) I am able to get by with the web apps, and windows virtual machine.

  I would love to drop adobe. But the Lightroom Mobile cloud storage sync feature is too invaluable to me right now and there is no other option that comes close to that feature.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Today's Survey. One point for everything that you have NEVER DONE⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  0 points

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Nah it’s usually a RAM Cummins turbo diesel with an “I’d rather be cummin than stroking” sticker across the back window.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why I recommend against Brave.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  At this point there is a pretty solid list of reasons to avoid Brave and use another FOSS privacy focused option.

  Personally, everything I’ve read about Brave makes me trust them even less than Microsoft, and Google.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Plex is increasing Plex Pass prices and paywalling remote playback for personal media at $1.99/month or $19.99/year.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The most infuriating thing about Plex for me was when they shifted to force you to start with their BS streaming service at open. I only used Plex for my personal media collection. So having to jump through a bunch of menus to get to the only thing I want to use in their app was the biggest reason to switch for me. Maybe there is a way to fix that, but I could never find one.

  Jellyfin just does your personal media library and opens right up into it when the app starts. Its simpler, faster, and FOSS.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Plex is increasing Plex Pass prices and paywalling remote playback for personal media at $1.99/month or $19.99/year.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Jellyfin is so much better anyway. I used plex for years and it has steadily enshitified.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Return of Digg, a Star of Web 2.0 (Gift Article)⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I have a lot of fond nostalgia for Digg, and Kevin Rose, especially from the Tech TV days.

  But reading this article doesn’t exactly spark much excitement for me. In the end, it’s just another centralized capitalist venture (now with AI slop from the start) that will end up enshitified in the pursuit of shareholder profits.

  We are already using the alternative. Lemmy is the way forward for this format.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gulf of Make a Report to Apple⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I can’t be the only one who feels like this is the absolute lowest priority of dumb shit to resist the regime over. It’s just filler. Another thing he is doing to flood the zone. But one that really doesn’t hurt anything. It’s a distraction. Ignore it and focus on the actual damage he is doing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can you eat soap for acid reflux?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe. If you want to trade heartburn for intense diarrhea.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Some people are smarter than others. Some people are so smart that they struggle to be interested in school unless it’s a challenge, and can simply skate by like your roommate.

  I certainly can’t say I am anywhere near that level, but I was smart enough to coast through a lot of subjects I was interested in without studying.

  I also learned from a young age that I could pass a multiple choice test on a subject I knew nothing about just by intuition, looking for context clues, and guessing. Ask me to write an essay on an unfamiliar subject, and I was screwed, though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When people say the AI bubble will burst, what exactly does that mean?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The big players will likely continue to develop this tech. “The Bubble” is more about the marketing and speculative investing in anything with “AI” tacked onto it. There’s no reality where everything AI is being ham fisted into is going to be successful. There will be some winners, but there will be a lot of losers when the bubble bursts.

  In the meantime, we have to put up with every company and product marketing that they now have “AI” in their product, whether it’s actually useful or different from it was before.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Agreed. Automotive repair is a big exception to my video tutorial hatred. It just makes more sense as it’s something being worked on in 3 dimensions. It would probably work well for home improvement stuff as well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I watch a ton of YouTube. I love it for entertainment and some news. I absolutely hate YouTube for tutorials or guides though. If I’m trying to figure out how to fix a computer issue, I just want to read about it and have screenshots I can look at. I don’t want to have to constantly pause a damn video or scroll back and forth to find info.

  As far as tiktok style videos go I just hate everything about them. I hate the auto play, I hate the vertical aspect ratio, I hate the stupid auto voiceovers, I hate the dumb floating captions and comments overlay, I hate the lack of volume adjustment or the ability to pause and rewind or seek. I hate the types of brainrot content that people make to work the algorithm. I hate that the format has infested YouTube and IG with no real way to be rid of it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  My problem with tiktok/reels/shorts is not that they aren’t federated. It’s the entire format/concept I hate.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What Ever Happened to MSN Messenger?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You nailed my experience. Though AIM was preferred. I begrudgingly used MSN too for a couple people who weren’t allowed to install AIM.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Improving online advertising through product and infrastructure | The Mozilla Blog⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t mind simple static ads on websites as a way to keep them free to use. The reason I use an ad blocker is because websites use ads that flash, play video/audio, and dynamically resize causing the text you are trying to read to jump around and change, making the site unusable. Even with an adblocker, sometimes the only way to use those sites is with reader mode. I disable the adblocker on sites that display reasonable, mostly static advertising. People putting in the work to make the content deserve to eat.