I’ve definitely trimmed some artists from my personal music library over their politics.

Honestly don’t remember the names, its been… Quite a while. I’ll have to open and check.

Iirc it was also some I stored as gifts that became unknown or something, and I wasn’t able to send them.

The bigger issue to me are games that were removed from steam and I can no longer get.

Which is why I don’t bother buying on steam anymore. If I’m buying, its DRM-free only.

Yup, xmpp is the way to be still IMO.

Yes but it wasn’t marketed that way. Which is why there is more interest.

Apple has been blatantly obvious that they want it to remain proprietary and exclusively on their hardware.

Because imessage is proprietary and apple is against it being publicly available and a standard.

https://iceshrimp.dev/

Yeah but… Who is wall mounting smaller than a 55" these days?

You want to put plywood blocking up, which screws into the stud, and mount to the plywood.

And yes, cable pathway, methods, etc all matter. As well as ensuring the mounting looks straight and level when neither the floor nor the ceiling are level. How the cables are managed behind the TV. Its a lengthy list actually.

There are actually quite a few books written in AAVE…the earliest I’m aware of is their eyes were watching god, from the 1930s. The Color Purple, Beloved, The Sellout, the books of Chester Himes…

If it was done right, you don’t see it without looking for the patching of the drywall in the original picture, you won’t in a compressed screenshot.

Though your second sentence finalizes for me that I have no interest in your posts/comments, since you’re continuing to just be incredibly wierd, for literally no reason other than being upset that someone clearly knows more than you do. So… Goodbye then.

What the giant wall of text tells me is exactly what I understood to be true - you are a layman playing expert.

I can guarantee there are actual experts in display positioning, sizing, mounting requirements, pathway, etc. Yes, they do notice the difference.

You do not, because you don’t know what you’re talking about, while pretending to be an expert. Please just stop. Hi, I am one of those experts in this field! I don’t physically install, hell I don’t even do the drawing work anymore, but I can tell you right now you haven’t got a clue.

So please, move on. Stop being weird.

Edit: I’ll give you a free tip. Mounting to the stud is not what you want to do. What you want to do is straddle studs with 3/4" ply for blocking, which is what you mount to.

Right, so you don’t understand what’s being discussed then. Thanks for the confirmation I guess.

I don’t think you understand the leveling process in the context of display mounts if you think a paper template has any relevance.

What you see isn’t the issue with proper mounting, its what you don’t.

Leveling, positioning for cable pathways/junction box positioning/planning, heights for good viewing, proper blocking for support, so on. And someone who foes this for a living is going to notice.

And slrpnk.net, the Lemmy instance, is about working towards a sustainable future (solarpunk concept), so that’s the only thing that instance is selling is a climate friendly future. Well worth checking out some of the great communities on there.

Windows? Mouse without borders

Linux/Mac/mix of that and windows? Barrier.

If, of course, you can install things on your work laptop.

Yup, all visible. The only exceptions are fully private instances (or mostly private, with limited federation) and local only communities.

kbin/mbin also make all these votes public, so you could even just be on an mbin server and see all the votes. So right now its like… jumping over an 8" high hurdle. Or doing the limbo under a pole at 5’. You have to do something, just not much. I wouldn’t call it completely non-trivial to do, but it isn’t rocket surgery either.

As far as I know right now, IP and such details are your instance only.

Votes, however, are visible across any instance. I agree its a transparency issue. Right now I think a of of folks believe their votes to be anonymous (or only visible to their instance admins at most), but that’s not true at all.

Anyone can stand up an instance though. So its available for anyone to look at right now.

I don’t think it should be made easier, but I don’t think its fair to suggest its currently private in any way, shape, or form today.

Because it is decidedly not.

I absolutely agree that its a problem. The problem is there is nothing stopping companies/governments from doing that now, and I don’t know if its feasible to make them actually private on Lemmy.

Right now, they aren’t private, you just need a few extra steps to see it all.