sugar_in_your_tea

@sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works

Mama told me not to come.

She said, that ain’t the way to have fun.

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sugar_in_your_tea,

I don’t think it’s about the fines, it’s about the cost for Google to fight in court and perhaps setting precedent. It’s often just cheaper to pay the fine.

sugar_in_your_tea,

I’m against defederartion, but I also actively avoid their communities.

I don’t think the problem is with a majority of users, just a handful, but many in that handful are mods. As an anecdote, I got temp banned from a community there because somehow our discussion shifted to Russia, despite the topic having nothing to do with it, and the mod banned me for “anti-Russia” something or other (nothing I said seemed to violate community or instance rules), but I think the real reason was me challenging that user’s authority.

I’ve also noticed a lot of downvotes for well-cited but “against the left” comments, and the responses I get are often low-effort.

I’ve also had some decent discussion there as well. I’ve challenged people’s views and had good reubuttals, so it’s really not all bad. I’m guessing it’s a fraction of very active users that cause a lot of the issues.

So I’m against defederation, but I also recommend avoiding their communities. It seems to be a strong echo chamber, but those who aren’t interested in that do seem to branch out. So don’t throw the baby out with the bathwater.

sugar_in_your_tea,

Some instead do a Russian-style approach. It’s the same thing, but with posts from users critical of Russia.

sugar_in_your_tea,

In general, I’ve found myself happier and discussions more interesting when I replace a lemmy.ml community wo with one from another instance. When there are two competing communities with similar active users, i’ve found the non-lemmy.ml one to be better by pretty much any metric.

So it does work. Make a better community and users will come.

sugar_in_your_tea,

My kids have a crappy watch ($30-40) that has a camera. It’s not a technical problem, it’s just a stupid idea, it’s not an ergonomic place to use a camera.

sugar_in_your_tea,

Why? There’s no internet connection on it, so the only way to get media on or off is via the micro SD card.

sugar_in_your_tea, (edited )

What happened to “if it ain’t broke don’t fix it”?

sugar_in_your_tea,

I’ve been with Netflix for years and never had an issue.

sugar_in_your_tea,

I’ll have to check it out. I currently use DLNA on my TV, and the interface is pretty awful. But it works. I’ve used Kodi on my Raspberry Pi, which is pretty decent, but I haven’t tried Jellyfin.

sugar_in_your_tea,

Yup, and I use them. 512MB is more than enough for a lot of things.

sugar_in_your_tea,

Yup, single purpose servers really don’t need much RAM. If you just need to stream music, you could use a lot less.

sugar_in_your_tea,

My Mikrotik router at home (entry level enterprise gear) has 512MB RAM, and it can do most of what those bigger routers can, just a lot fewer connections.

sugar_in_your_tea,

And a battle pass.

sugar_in_your_tea,

At this point? It’s always been security theater at the TSA. I’ve heard countless stories of people forgetting about a handgun in a carry-on and the TSA missed it, and others where baby milk was confiscated.

I don’t know anything about the CBSA, but we (the US) should shut down the TSA, increase the liability of airlines for security, and let the airlines and their insurance decide what’s enough security. They certainly couldn’t do a worse job…

sugar_in_your_tea,

Agreed. We follow agile, and we have a team of product owners who know where the project is likely headed in the next 3 years. Our sprint to sprint is usually pretty predictable, but we can and do make adjustments when new requirements come in. The product team decides how and when to adjust priorities, and they do a good job minimizing surprises.

It works pretty well imo, and it hinges on the product team knowing what they’re doing.

sugar_in_your_tea,

Nope. My car doesn’t have internet and I don’t plug in any dongles from my insurance. Screw 'em.

sugar_in_your_tea,

My company sold a part of our business, and I casually mentioned to our VP that it’s almost enough to buy everyone in the company a lamborghini. He didn’t seem to think that would be a good idea, but that stock buybacks and a big dividend would be…

sugar_in_your_tea,

A car repair place loses business if they don’t competently repair your car. That’s apparently not true for large tech companies for whatever reason.

So if your car repair place sucks at fixing your car, you should find a better one or do it yourself. If your tech service sucks at protecting your data, you should find a better one or do it yourself.

sugar_in_your_tea,

Well, at a certain level of generation, adding more isn’t as valuable since the excess needs to be stored to offset the base need. So it makes absolute sense for the compensation to drop as supply goes up.

sugar_in_your_tea,

You can disable ads and AI in the settings.

sugar_in_your_tea,

What do you mean “built-in containers”? AFAIK, there’s no way to interact with the built-in containers without an extension to expose it. That was at least true when it launched (e.g. the Facebook container extension was awesome), and I’ve been using the multi-account containers extension ever since.

Here’s how I use it:

  • no container - no logins at all
  • "personal" - my email and related things
  • "work" - work email and related things
  • "shopping" - online stores
  • "financial" - banking and investments

And so on. Each group has limited access to cookies to scrape. I also have accounts at the same service in different containers and can have them side-by-side.

If this is now built-in, awesome! But I was under the impression that you need some form of extension to access it.

sugar_in_your_tea,

Huh, I just lost a lot of respect for IKEA…

sugar_in_your_tea,

Yeah, if you’re not applying updates at least once/month, you’re just irresponsible and probably deserve to get hacked.

sugar_in_your_tea,

Is anyone interested in seeing more posts here? If so, what kind of content would you like to see?

My goal here is to encourage a bit more engagement to encourage more people to improve their financial situation. Here are some options that I think I could contribute:

  • relatively regular, blog-style posts going over some aspect of FIRE - “simulation Saturday/Sunday” or something; community encouraged to provide their own
  • news articles with poor/mainstream financial advice - gives the community a chance to offer alternative perspectives, so may be more engaging
  • "back to basics" series - post links or generate OC to discuss the fundamentals of FIRE - savings rate, withdrawal strategies, etc

Or I could not bother. It seems a lot of the popular FIRE blogs are getting much less attention now, probably because they’re retired and stopped caring about the blog, but mainstream media seems to be taking this as “FIRE is dead because it doesn’t work.”

Anyway, thoughts?

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