daychilde

@daychilde@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Overseerr & Jellyseerr to merge into Seerr⁩ ⁨⁨40⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve tried to set various of these apps up in the past - I used to do tech support; I am a geek - and for whatever reason, I could never get all the parts working right. I assume many people can since they’re popular, but it just never clicked for me.

  But I have a pretty good workflow - a seedbox running rutorrent which allows me to send magnet links to it just clicking them in Firefox, with emby installed so I can stream from the box - or easily connect via FTP to download when I prefer.

  That’s the nice thing - there’s a number of ways to accomplish the goal, so finding the one that works well for you is what’s important.

  That said, I don’t remember which ones these are, but I think it began with “Sonarr” to download music and the various somewhat-similarly named projects are about finding and downloading various forms of media automatically based on rules or searches or keywords or whatever. Which is nicer than my system of reminders that stuff should drop and I should go look for a torrent for it. :)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Borrowing money against their stuff to get more stuff to borrow money...⁩ ⁨⁨55⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago⁩:

  The oligarchs in the US are the utlimate power behind the destruction of our democracy. They have stolen the wealth from us for decades. And yet so many of our citizens defend them because they might be rich one day. Which they won’t. Because the ultrarich already there won’t let them.

  Guillotines are long overdue.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Parents opt kids out of school computers, insisting on pen-and-paper instead⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago⁩:

  The way I read their comment was pointing out that the employer (the school district) should be providing sufficient printing. :shrug: But there’s many ways to interpret, I suppose

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tune a fish⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago⁩:

  Try google, because their sources are better than yours.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tune a fish⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s no one single reason, but the top theories:

  1. Tuna oil was a thing before “tuna fish”. Yes, people could have said “tuna” but they didn’t. That’s language for you. People say “ATM machine” and “PIN number”, too.
  2. “Tuna fish” has a slightly sing-song pattern to the stressed/unstressed syllables that probably contributed
  3. For whatever reason, “tuna fish” tends to refer to canned tuna, whereas “tuna” can include fresh (or frozen) tuna.

  It’s… just how language evolves.

  I think, however, that “tuna fish” is slowly dying out in favour of just “tuna”. As a 50 year old, anecdotally I have seen the usage decrease in my lifetime.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tune a fish⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  pealed

  Your eggs are too loud.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If yours looks like this you better hope that you are in high school⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Considering that in the US our oligarchs have stolen much of the wealth of the entire nation, a significant percentage of the population has a negative net worth. This is by design. They are essentially getting as close to indentured servitude as they can.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon's Ring and Google's Nest Unwittingly Reveal the Severity of the U.S. Surveillance State⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s why I only buy Chinese.

  dude, buying people is illegal!

  ;-)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon's Ring and Google's Nest Unwittingly Reveal the Severity of the U.S. Surveillance State⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s kinda hilarious that propaganda in the US talked about “EU is always watching you” as a part of the propaganda against government regulations. While some places over there are starting to see the rise of fascist parties, I think awareness of the US’s fall into fascism is hurting their cause as people are a little more aware than they might otherwise be.

  And while I don’t generally like any government monitoring, if I had to choose, I’d choose EU monitoring over US monitoring any day, considering how our democracy has long been secondary to capitalism (with our own special twist of that old socialist phrase, for us “Taking the resources of the many to concentrate in the hands of the few ultra-wealthy”)

  Our oligarchs have corrupted the entire system, and our government allows us just enough to survive while funelling all the resources up to the oligarchs. They have more than they could possibly spend, and they still demand more More MORE M O R E.

  Back to cameras: In this case, more data, more control, more intimidation, more fear.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon's Ring and Google's Nest Unwittingly Reveal the Severity of the U.S. Surveillance State⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I know a lot of times replies are viewed as “You’re wrong!” but this, if anything, I think reinforces your comment:

  I went looking for statistics and couldn’t find any, but did run across these assertions:

  1. CCTVs of undefined/all types aupposedly increased crime clearance rates (“solved”) by around 20%. I suspect most of these are higher-quality ones in businesses or on public streets
  2. Amazon claims 55% reduction in crime in pilot programs with doorbell cameras but a study by some org of that situation found no statistical difference

  Certainly people are becoming more aware of those cameras and perhaps covering up to disguise their identity. So at most they might deter someone from going for your house, but as they become even more common, that effect will probably drop off.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon's Ring and Google's Nest Unwittingly Reveal the Severity of the U.S. Surveillance State⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  But what if some stranger loses their dog? You could have helped, but NOoOOOOooooo you had to be selfish with your privacy you MONSTER.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Welp straight to the bin⁩ ⁨⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  The trick is just to pepper them in normal conversation. Otherwise people get too salty about them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In a blind test, audiophiles couldn't tell the difference between audio signals sent through copper wire, a banana, or wet mud⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I love seeing this story… it reminds me of 30 years ago when I worked in the telephone industry. Heard about telephone copmanies rolling out service in very very rural areas - running signals over barbed-wire fences because it was too expensive to run dedicated cables. That did degrade the signal, but it worked.

  I know it’s a completely different thing entirely, but it just gave me nostalgia remembering hearing about that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google criticizes Europe's plan to adopt free software⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  The good folks in the USA have lost faith in the USA. Alas, the bad folks remain in power. heh

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google criticizes Europe's plan to adopt free software⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s worth saying again: Google can fuck itself.

  And I generally like Google’s products. But they make plenty of money off of my data to say: Fuck Google.