This is how I do it.
I pay for Netflix, Prime (only really for the free shipping), Disney+, Apple TV+ and Spotify, if it’s not on any of these then I’m going to pirate it.
The whole exclusivity stuff is just rubbish, I get the reasoning but if you can’t make your content easily accessible then I just don’t want to pay for it.
YSK that YouTube Premium can be bought over a VPN for a whole lot less than the regular retail price, it’s a bit fiddly to set up but I’ve got a Nigerian based family account that costs me £1.76 a month.
Both of these.
American Gods really pissed me off though if they had stuck to the books it could have been an amazing series with great characters and weird but fun storylines in a unique setting. But they added too much stuff and there was a total mess with the show runners leaving so it all sort of fell apart before one of the best plot lines of the whole story.
I kinda want to rewatch it again someday though…
I have friends who are big time LOTR fans who absolutely hate it and didn’t get past the first couple of episodes.
Me - who has no context around the whole thing - found it kinda entertaining :/
It depends on which bit you’re talking about.
ChatGPT and SEO optimisation ruined the quality of results so sites who have no right to be near the top spot for particular terms get there by cramming as many pages full of tangentially related rubbish as they can.
The SERPs (search engine result pages, where you see the list of links) have been taken over by Google guessing at what you might be looking for, local results, shopping results, instant answers (which is usually aren’t relevant) and of course lots and lots of ads, leaving little to no room for the actual links you want.
If you are sick of it I would suggest trying DuckDuckGo, the results are a whole lot nicer :)
Obvious answer is obvious
Fight Club
Needed office for my Mac, internet was terrible and I couldn’t find it legitimately to download anywhere (these were the days before Office 365)
Took a shot at an eBay listing, got sent a burned DVD with an OEM product key written on it sharpie
It worked, but I wasn’t particularly happy
WhatsApp for family Discord for friends Slack for work iMessage / SMS for everyone else
Chef or content manager?
They’re all in test flight, an online search will usually throw up their GitHub page with either a link to their lemmy communities and the TestFlight sign up page.
That was also mine, didn’t really have a clue about what it was going in (other than it had Nick Cage in) and enjoyed it pretty much all the way through, great movie!
There are a bunch of options each with their pros and cons, here’s what I’ve found so far:
Mlem
Memmy
Liftoff
Thunder
Personally I think I’m gonna stick with Thunder for a bit, but I’m swapping daily at this point.
Given that any development on these really only kicked into gear in the last few weeks everything these devs are doing is incredible, they’ve all come a long way in such a short time!
They’re not, I have a social group I speak to daily in discord, weekly over zoom and in person every couple of months.
My commute is only 20 minutes each way so it isn’t terrible, I would probably have a worse opinon of it it took any longer.
I’ve not been asked to do overtime so far, I’m not really too sure how I would respond if they asked me to do it.
I recently left a tech job that was 100% remote for one that requires 2 days a week in the office.
When I started the remote only job it was good, I had people I talked to on a daily basis, we did all our ceremonies (bi-weekly meetings) over Teams, we were pretty productive and there were few distractions.
Over time though they pushed for more people to be back in the office, but as someone who lived the other end of the country this wasn’t really an option for me. I gradually felt more isolated, I started dreading the ceremonies because everyone else could have proper human interaction and they often forgot about the one or two guys at the end of the Teams calls.
I don’t love my new commute - it takes too long, there is too much traffic - and eating out in the city is expensive, I’m often distracted because of office chats that really don’t need to happen, and I don’t get to take my kids on the school run every morning.
But I don’t get forgotten about and I get to talk to adults who aren’t my wife and kids a couple of times a week.
So far it’s working and I’m pretty happy, but I really hope they don’t start wanting more than two days a week in person.
I’m finding mlem is a lot better than the web app… it’s no Apollo but I feel they’re doing their best.
Deleted my posts, deleted my comments, account will be active until the 30th then I’ll probably delete that too.
It sucks - I had some 20K comment karma on about 2000 posts over 13+ years - but they’ve burnt that bridge and I’m not giving them anything back.
If I need to create a burner account at some point down the road then that’ll happen but I just don’t want to engage with it any more.
Tears of the Kingdom: I seem to take ages to play anything these days (only just got down to Hyrule) but I really like it, seems very chill and that’s just what I want right now.
There is Mlem listed on https://join-lemmy.org/apps
It’s an early test flight build - and there are some bugs - but it seems to work at least!
The thing with the digg death was that there was already a Reddit community there; it was smaller perhaps but there would almost always be someone to read your post.
/r/webdev and /r/formulae are the main ones I miss.