Developer and surfer of the web
Feeling morally responsible for the actions of an entire nation sounds like a great way to give yourself ulcers.
But seriously, even in a “democracy”, there is too much shady shit going on behind the curtain to really hold the general public accountable for all of it.
I think “integrated” is a better term for my usage than “addicted”. My phone is an extension of my digital presence, and although I work from a desktop computer day-to-day, my phone is an integral part of my ability to automate and operate my tools, hardware and software. Besides work stuff, it’s also fully integrated into my home life since it’s my interface for my home automation as well as my primary means of staying up to date with news and info I need.
But I don’t really play phone games, and I don’t do social media (other than KBin at the moment, anyway), so I don’t find myself using it in an addictive way too often.
It scratches my scrolling itch. I haven’t really been back to Reddit other than when Google lists Reddit as the best choice for some info I need. But I’ve really enjoyed KBin and the communities that are popping up here. I hope it continues to grow.
No more cancer. Life is hard enough as it is.
They should absolutely exist. Negative feedback is feedback, and expression of only one side of the emotional spectrum is a strange and unrealistic facsimile of actual life.
I cook 6-7 nights a week for a household of four adults. I work a full-time job, but it’s WFH so I don’t have commute time. This is part of the strategy, but I could do and have done it while commuting to and from work each day as well.
Each Monday, I plan out the meals for the week. I write them down. The meals are based on ingredients we have on hand as well as things which are on sale from the local ads, or which someone from the household has requested.
If any ingredients are needed for the week which we don’t have, they are added to a mutual shopping list and someone picks them up while they are out.
When I’m done with work, I relax for 30-60min and then it’s time for cooking. I bring out all the ingredients for the meal and get them set up near my cooking station. I bring out pans, cutting boards, utensils - whatever I feel I will need.
I try to fill “dead” time with prep for other parts of the meal - that way time is used efficiently. Sometimes I’ll rope one of the others into cutting veggies or doing other prep, but i usually like to fly solo. Just some music to keep me moving and maybe a beer.
As I’m cooking, I’m also cleaning up. Utensils which are no longer going to be used are getting rinsed and put into the dishwasher. Pans are getting rinsed and set aside for washing up later. Counters are getting wiped down as needed. The idea is to have as little to do at the end as possible.
After the meal is ready, if stuff needs to cool, that’s a great time for a smoke out on the porch. Then back in to eat.
Rinse and repeat. I enjoy cooking, it keeps me centered at the end of the day, and a good meal at least once per day is important. The key things I have learned are mainly to prep everything in advance which you can, to clean as you go, and to buy ingredients which overlap for multiple meals in a week.
Bonus: Make a few extra helpings and freeze them. Freezer containers are cheap, and it’s generally only a small extra cost for the additional food. Then you have ready to go meals when you don’t feel like cooking.
I have:
-Netflix (included w/ phone plan)
-Hulu + Disney + ESPN (bundle)
-Shudder
-CuriosityStream / Nebula
-Spotify
Then I have my own personal Jellyfin server for everything else.
Nice - yeah, the API is just a convenient way to access the data. The truth is that if a browser can view reddit.com, a script can pull the data and put it somewhere else.
Personally, I’m working on a script to scrape certain subs every few days and display them in a page I’m self-hosting. Who needs their API? All I really care about over there anymore is tech related info I need for my job.
You could probably do this yourself with a decent copy of the movie, just turn off the audio channel for the music.
Seconding - you can actually squeeze a surprising amount of use out of a Pi4 running Docker.
After many years of tinkering, I finally gave in and converted my whole stack over to UnRAID a few years ago. You know what? It’s awesome, and I wish I had done it sooner. It automates so many of the more tedious aspects of home server management. I work in IT, so for me it’s less about scratching the itch and more about having competent hosting of services I consider mission-critical. UnRAID lets me do that easily and effectively.
Most of my fun stuff is controlled through Docker and VMs via UnRAID, and I have a secondary external Linux server which handles some tasks I don’t want to saddle UnRAID with (PFSense, Adblocking, etc). The UnRAID server itself has 128GB RAM and dual XEON CPUs, so plenty of go for my home projects. I’m at 12TB right now but I was just on Amazon eyeing some 8TB drives…
This exact situation is why I eventually shut down access to my media server to only my household. I had the same setup for many years and it just got to be a clusterfuck of people messaging me that things were broken, not working how they wanted, need to have more features, aren’t working fast enough, etc. I work in IT. I get enough of that when I’m clocked in, I don’t need it at home too.
Good luck though, OP.
When it comes to personal stuff I only use Firefox, regardless of device. But as a web developer I end up having to use them all at various times, and Safari isn’t too bad.
I personally don’t mind seeing a link to the artist’s patreon or website or whatever on a post, as long as it’s not over the top or inserted clearly as an ad for whatever is being sold. I feel like it’s OK for that to be there for the people who want to see more of your work or purchase something. What I don’t like to see is my feed getting filled with what I perceive as advertisements. So I think there is a happy middle ground.
Yep, there was a time when streaming services actually became easier than piracy. That was when there was basically just Netflix and Hulu. If you had both of those, you had everything.