Anachronism?

You can’t have “a kids”. You can have “a kid” or “kids”, but not “a kids”.

Not me, but for my older brother, my mom was considering the name Chad.

I wonder how that would have worked out, with the memes and all.

Back in December I spent $550 on a refurbrished home theater projector. After actually thinking things through, I realized that in my current living situation, the whole idea isn’t going to work. I went back to watching movies on my TV and sometimes even my monitor.

I still haven’t taken the projector out of the plastic wrapping, and I’ve been contemplating re-selling it on eBay so I can at least get my money back…but I highly doubt that will happen.

Modern electronic music is the spiritual successor to classical music

I don’t disagree, but can you explain your reasoning behind this?

Donations are the best way to keep all the Lemmy instances running.

If every active user donated just $5 a month, Lemmy would be able to thrive for years to come.

If Wikipedia can do it, why can’t Lemmy?

Astrology, biology, and geology. I find space, life, and the terrain very fascinating.

EDIT: Can’t forget about psychology! It’s interesting how the human brain works.

Sounds like you need uBlock Origin or Invidious/NewPipe.

You are being paranoid.

Assuming you’re using Github to publish your own free and open-source software, remember that this is one of the basic tenets of FOSS:

The freedom to run the program as you wish, for any purpose

Even purposes you don’t like or agree with.

If you’re worried about megacorps stealing your code without giving you credit, just licence your code under the GPL or AGPL. They won’t touch it with a 10-foot pole.

Sometimes I just don’t want my comments to live forever and deleting shouldn’t be impossible.

Due to the nature of the Fediverse, this will be very difficult if not impossible to implement/enforce.

“There is a difference between you and me. We both looked into the abyss. But when it looked back at us… you blinked.”

–Batman, Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths (2010)

Jerboa.

I already use it and have never heard of Boost.

Not really. I watch YouTube videos with Invidious and yt-dlp, I lurk Reddit through RedReader, and I occasionally lurk Twitter through Nitter (but only very briefly). Lemmy is the only social media that I actively partake/interfere in.

All too true.

!dadjokes@lemmy.world

“I was elected to lead, not to read.”

It can be easy to feel like a drop of water in a large ocean when it comes to national elections. But you should also vote in your county and state elections; you can probably make more of a difference there.

I’m not saying “don’t vote in the national election”, but just know that there are other elections to vote in, and thry are just as important as the nationals.

I just started being more conscious of my body and how I clean it. Showered more frequently and used more deodorant. Now, going commando is the norm for me and I barely even think about underwear anymore.

You know how Ctrl+F helps you find specific words in browsers? I want that in real life.

Maybe some special glasses with this ability built-in?

What services do you use?

• Best Buy
• Redbox
• Amazon
• eBay
• My local library

Whats your experience with any of these services?

From least expensive to most expensive:

• My local library is free to use, and they even have Blu-rays alongside DVDs, which is rare in my experience. However, their selection when it comes to Blu-rays pales in comparison to their entire shelves of DVDs, and they seem to favor DVDs. I sometimes donate a few Blu-rays to my library in order to get people to check them out.
• Redbox is the cheapest way to legally own movies. Like my library, the Redbox kiosk I go to (and most Redboxes in general) seems to prioritize DVD over Blu-ray, which can be a bit disheartenig. You can rent a Blu-ray at Redbox for $2.99/night, or you can buy it for $4.99.
• On eBay you can get some pretty good deals, though the condition of the disc may vary.
• Amazon is great if you want to pre-order a DVD/Blu-ray and want it delivered on the same day it releases. But then you have to buy it from Amazon. I don’t usually pre-order movies to be delivered to me anymore.
• And finally there’s Best Buy. If I want a newly-released disc, I’d rather go out of my way to drive all the way to the mall and buy the disc in-person at Best Buy than pre-order it from Amazon. The Best Buy near me is one of the few stores to still have a dedicated space for physical media, so I should feel grateful for that.

What do you do with your physical media?

Before I even put the discs in my player, I put them in my Blu-ray drive and make a backup with MakeMKV. If the keys to remove the DRM aren’t available, I’ll just torrent the BDMV. After the discs have been backed up, I watch them on my player.