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Trainguyrom, to asklemmy in Who doesn't use an adblocker and why?

I’m completely disconnected from what new movies and TV shows come out after years of blocking all ads. I can see wanting to change but ads have only gotten more annoying so I have no desire to change yet

Trainguyrom, to asklemmy in So, who or what ruined Christmas this year?

The fun part is that not only do you skip the line with Genie Plus but also the folks letting people into the ride will legit let an entire stream of Genie Plus payers in before letting someone who waited in line go. With the old fast pass system they were really good about alternating lines if there was a line for both fast pass and genie plus

Trainguyrom, to linuxmemes in Linux too mainstream for some 🤷

Java is famously cross-platform. It even means you can run a Minecraft server on Arm64 without issue. I currently have a heavily modded Minecraft server hosted on an Ampere Alta VPS without a single hitch

Trainguyrom, to asklemmy in What are your "poor person" money life hacks?

I live in an area with a Sams club a inconvenient distance away and no Costco, Sam’s has been getting less and less worth bothering with, as the prices are getting less competitive, and the product quality degrading as Walmart’s distribution takes its toll (don’t even get me started on the shit quality of Walmart these days) plus dealing with large quantities of product when you have a small home can be very annoying. At this point I only buy soaps, toilet paper and baby wipes at Sams Club and that barely comes out ahead of the membership cost, and I’ve already had to stop buying one of the soaps because they switched to only selling a container that would simply be too inconvenient at home.

Aldi seems to have the real food savings, although my last trip I noticed the prices had crept up a little, they still beat Walmart and the local supermarket chain on prices by far

Trainguyrom, to memes in Everything I need is still in in the old settings windows that haven't changed in 23 years

I’m trying to remember but some Microsoft Office product did something entirely unexpected when I hit Ctrl+P to print. I wish I could remember the details but it was absolutely soul crushing seeing even basic keyboard shortcuts remapped

Trainguyrom, to lemmyshitpost in IT support work be like

I learned 3 things very quickly in one evening:

  1. My cheap electric razor throws a ton of noise onto whatever electrical circuit it’s plugged into
  2. How to sort out ZFS filesystem errors
  3. That the bathroom socket I plug my razor into and the plug across the house that the main desktop is plugged into happen to be on the same electrical circuit

So that’s fun!

Trainguyrom, to lemmyshitpost in Crypto genius

If all of the defaults occurred >7 years ago and there’s been no credit activity since the individual would have no credit score because of no credit history. I know this because I’ve literally seen it happen. What you do then is apply for a secured credit card (basically you pony up some cash to secure an extremely low credit limit) then after you’ve established a payment history and a credit score you can move on from there. As far as I know financial institutions do not take into account one’s felon status when determining elgibility

Trainguyrom, to lemmyshitpost in Crypto genius

The money I work for has value because its almost entirely held in banks insured by the United States Federal Reserve and those dollars are backed by the full faith and credit of the United States. If that money becomes valueless overnight the whole world is in for a very rough time, and I definitely won’t be alone in my plight. You can’t say any of that about cryptocurrencies

Trainguyrom, to lemmyshitpost in Crypto genius

Debt is super weird. In some cases you can have thousands very much just disappear after 7 years, in others they’ll hunt you down mercilessly over a $25 copay they mailed you a “this is not a bill” letter about 2 years ago. My wife was pretty deep in debt when we first started dating and I literally have seen both extremes and everything inbetween.

Trainguyrom, to gaming in Hold my beer - Bungie

There’s legal protections against retaliating against unions. How much teeth those protections have will vary wildly, but there are protections that do exist

Trainguyrom, to mildlyinteresting in A very useful guide to buying gelato from a Italian local

50¢ a scoop is pretty cheap for any kind of ice cream?

Trainguyrom, to linux in How to get Nobara to STOP overriding my Firefox homepage??

By memory it had a Firefox extension it installed and relied on to make a few things slightly smoother like h264 video, but that was a good decade ago and Mint today doesn’t like you said

Trainguyrom, to asklemmy in How Many Streaming Services Do You Have?

I presently have 4ish:

  • Netflix because there’s always something we want to watch
  • Disney+ (in the Disney+Hulu bundle with no ads in either. I’ll be dropping hulu soon for lack of content) for the kids to get their Disney movie fix, plus it also has quite a few movies/shows we generally want to watch
  • Nebula because it costs very little and directly supports creators I already watch
  • Amazon Prime because I order just enough on Amazon to be worth keeping Prime around for plus the video service.
  • SiriusXM because I live in a rural area with crap cell service and I don’t like country music so AM/FM radio isn’t a option
Trainguyrom, to linux in I'm so frustrated rn.

To build off of the above poster, some things sometimes take some tweaking to make work. When you distro hop you’re really just hopping to a different set of defaults and maybe a few relevant library differences. Learning what to do and how to do it can be daunting but when you get it its brilliant and then you have some idea what you need to do the next time you encounter a similar issue

Trainguyrom, to piracy in PC died. Trying the legal options.

Bruh I’ve always been a goodie 2shoes and gone legit, but the current streaming wars have pushed me over the edge and I’ve been shocked at how easy it is to just do a quick search on qbittorrent and yoink down some content

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