If you obtain a book on the High Seas, is it safe to use Kindle as the Epub reader? Would it phone home to Amazon that you have an “otherwise obtained” book?
Yeah, amazon literally doesn’t care. The only thing that ever goes wrong when you use Someone Else’s epubs is it sometimes loses the cover art if you’re connected to wifi. Nothing else ever happens
There are some people that asked a similar question but I don’t want who gets raw revenue, but who gets the probably obscene margins (profits thus) from paying $10-20/year for linking a piece of string and an IP address?
If I block a user should it prevent them from coming up if I’m browsing “local”? There is a user just spamming gross porn…I blocked and refreshed but posts don’t go away from the “local” feed....
I’d recommend you switch instances if it’s all porn and Chinese. Like see where people you like are posting from (as long as the server doesn’t have mastodon in its name)
Health Ministry Takes Action: Investigating the Strange Disease Outbreak In a concerning turn of events, over 200 people in the Egyptian village of Al-aleikat, located in the Qena governorate, have been infected with a mysterious disease, causing alarm among the residents.
Climate is fucked, animals continue to go extinct even more, our money will be worth nothing the coming years… What motivation do I even have to care to keep going? The world is ran and basically owned by corrupt rich people, there’s poverty, war, etc. It makes me sick to my stomach the way to world is. So I ask, why bother...
I’ve ended up with a number of machines on my network, and a need to name them all in a somewhat logical way. For several years I had them named after the planets, which worked well until the PCs for myself, my girlfriend, servers and Raspberry Pi’s quickly summed up to more than the eight planets. I’ve broadened it...
Hello community, looking for your wisdom, I need a tool / addon / script / whatever free that works for windows to download videos from i.e. netflix or prime video. ty!
It requires an elaborate setup with knockoff capture cards and HDMI splitters with their drm compliance disabled. People who already have this upload Netflix movies etc to wherever you get the rest of your movies
Y’all should try it! I loved seeing it popping on other instances’ /instances page, and seeing it polling other communities. Also changing the background in my theme was lit....
Most of us in Lemmy know the importance of privacy and owning your devices in a big tech owned world (me included) but for once I thought to make the opposite question and ask if there are products by them that you actually use and enjoy them....
I love my Google Home and how it’s connected to my Phillips Hue bulbs. I love being able to just yell “hey Google, nightlight” when I stumble home after a long night out, no need to fight with switches and too-bright lights after drinking
Have any of you been able to reconnect with your inner child?
On the journey to becoming a productive member of society I had to compartmentalize my inner child....
It might be because I'm home alone 🤷♀️ (lemmy.world)
Computer chip with built-in human brain tissue gets military funding (newatlas.com)
Amazon’s palm-scanning payments coming to Whole Foods (www.fastcompany.com)
Does mastodon support groups or communities?
Does mastodon support groups or communities? like lemmy the users can make groups or communities and manage them.
Use Kindle as an Epub Reader?
If you obtain a book on the High Seas, is it safe to use Kindle as the Epub reader? Would it phone home to Amazon that you have an “otherwise obtained” book?
Google raising price of YouTube Premium to $13.99 per month (9to5google.com)
The price of an individual YouTube Premium subscription is increasing by $2 to $13.99 per month in the US for new and current customers....
What would you do if you won the lottery?
The Powerball lottery is up to $1 billion tonight. If you won it, what would you do?
Who profits from domain names fees
There are some people that asked a similar question but I don’t want who gets raw revenue, but who gets the probably obscene margins (profits thus) from paying $10-20/year for linking a piece of string and an IP address?
is the mastodon instance tech.lgbt federated with threads?
I’m planning to join but don’t want to join if I’ll see treads there
Question on blocking, seeing user in "local"
If I block a user should it prevent them from coming up if I’m browsing “local”? There is a user just spamming gross porn…I blocked and refreshed but posts don’t go away from the “local” feed....
Mystery Disease Outbreak in Egyptian Village Alarms Health Authorities: Investigation Underway - BNN Breaking (bnn.network)
Health Ministry Takes Action: Investigating the Strange Disease Outbreak In a concerning turn of events, over 200 people in the Egyptian village of Al-aleikat, located in the Qena governorate, have been infected with a mysterious disease, causing alarm among the residents.
With the way the world's going, is there even a point to anything anymore?
Climate is fucked, animals continue to go extinct even more, our money will be worth nothing the coming years… What motivation do I even have to care to keep going? The world is ran and basically owned by corrupt rich people, there’s poverty, war, etc. It makes me sick to my stomach the way to world is. So I ask, why bother...
Strong Men
Is there people on here who are old enough to remember when a man could take a punch and would physically defend other people's safety?...
What is your machine naming scheme?
I’ve ended up with a number of machines on my network, and a need to name them all in a somewhat logical way. For several years I had them named after the planets, which worked well until the PCs for myself, my girlfriend, servers and Raspberry Pi’s quickly summed up to more than the eight planets. I’ve broadened it...
Free Bird! Plexamp Spreads Its Wings for Every Music Lover | Plex (www.plex.tv)
So we got Free version of Plexamp :)
Looking for Self-hosted Bookmark Manager
Does anyone know if there is a self-hosted bookmark manager that has integration with Firefox/Chrome/Brave where I can import all my bookmarks?
Downloader for paid streaming services
Hello community, looking for your wisdom, I need a tool / addon / script / whatever free that works for windows to download videos from i.e. netflix or prime video. ty!
Self hosting my own Lemmy instance was so much fun
Y’all should try it! I loved seeing it popping on other instances’ /instances page, and seeing it polling other communities. Also changing the background in my theme was lit....
What's a big tech product that you actually find useful?
Most of us in Lemmy know the importance of privacy and owning your devices in a big tech owned world (me included) but for once I thought to make the opposite question and ask if there are products by them that you actually use and enjoy them....
Do you think Federated networks are the future or do you think Peer to Peer networks are the future? Which do you think is better?
Alright so I’m not an expert so I might not be explaining it correctly....