I don’t think any of them support RCS, for whatever that’s worth to you.

The only place I really miss that is with a fantasy football shit-talking group chat. Otherwise, I’ve tried to move away from SMS/MMS/RCS. It’s hard to pull people away from iMessage.

You still had doubt before this decision?

Do you have any doubt that they’re we’ll see the same scathing dissent headlines when they overturn the California redistricting law?

Also, the ones I’ve seen in stores lately hare only the trial offers that are only good for a couple days and have to be “replenished” with an online account to stay functional for more than a couple days. Mint wouldn’t even activate initially with an email alias. I called support and they said “we can’t activate it with that email, we need your real email.” I then told them no worries, I’d just return it to best buy. Then they “found a way” to activate it, but I would have needed to give a credit card if I wanted it to stay active more than the 3 days. Best buy didn’t carry any longer duration prepaid card in the stores.

You’ve taken an approach here where you intentionally hide the fact that a video file is (at least) 3 different technical formats that are independently variable. An “MP4” file can have a range of audio codecs, a range of video codecs, timed-text formats, additional audio, and so on. And there is no single standard composition that works everywhere.

When you simplify a matrix of user choices by making the vcodec, acodec, and timed text format choices on behalf of your users, you take on the burden of making sure those work everywhere the users want to playback. What you’ll find is that most devices on the market only support a very limited range of container+vcodec+acodec combinations, they are undocumented more often than not, and buggy as hell.

The oversimplification approach you’re taking is “ingesting anything, but output only ‘Value Meal #1’ for everybody.” This has value for some people, but it puts a big burden on you to make choices that playback mostly correctly on a wide variety of devices, and it mysteriously breaks things that don’t work everywhere (like surround sound, ambisonics, many timed text formats etc.). There’s a reason why all that choice exists, even if most people don’t, don’t want to, and shouldn’t need to understand it.

Not trying to dissuage you. Just sharing experience. :-)

Neanderthal and troglodyte might work

So easy a caveman could do it.

Most settings on iphone only turn off the capability for you, not apple. Wifi is a good example. There is litereally no way to turn the radio off, and the settting merely prevents your use of Wifi while Apple still continues to use it in the background (for Find My mesh and location traction among others).

I’m like OP from a few months ago. I joined ML because it was easy and sorta anonymous. What’s the story on ML? Who defederated? What am I missing?

The popular Jeeple greeting “You wouldn’t understand” proved that generations ago, right?

I gave it a look. And I’ll say that personally I’m not a big fan of card stack views, but that’s prob just me. The main reason I’m leaving the note here is to say that the app name bounding box in the cards seems to just truncates the app name. It works fine at 75% zoom, but at 100% zoom I only see the first 2 or 3 characters of the app name. Could be an artifact of the browser I’m using (Brave/MacOS), but figured I’d let you know.

It’s bonus depreciaton, not expenses, and it’s a business tax benefit, not an individual tax benefit.

Businesses can, and for a long time, have been able to deduct aircraft expenses. Nothing has changed there, and it’s not unique to this turd of a president. The return of bonus depreciation lets them depreciate faster, but again, depreciation is not new. It’s reasonable to removed about that, but you have to get every fact wrong to make that complaint.

Someone only got partway through the Mars snow angel it looks like.

They’ll probably still find a way to rule on California’s redistricting plan before the election though.

I installed AIO on an old machine (retired gaming PC) a few months ago. I use NC notes and file sharing, and have disabled other services I don’t need. It’s running behind a proxy server. It’s worked fine so far. I use Immich for photos though, not Nextcloud. I heard a lot of gripes about Nextcloud for photos.

Got it. Thanks.

Now true they could do that and not make it available to advertisers but the very idea is pretty fraught.

More than fraught… platforms are often contractually prohibited by the streaming apps from collecting and analyzing actual viewer data. Usually the meta-search and meta-merchandising (ie “recommendations”) are built from some agreed upon set of rules between the two companies. They often include some watch history, but it may be the streaming app feeding that into the platform rather than the platform doing the analysis. Contract terms are different for every provider though, so it’s a big ol opaque mess. Rarely just a recommendation algo at work.

You say “misinterpreting scripture” as if scripture has ever been more than some nonsense somebody cooked up to arbitrarily subjugate people.

I just installed Firefly yesterday, and I can say that the docker compose setup was easy. I’ve got no real opinions yet, just wanted to mention this for OP in case he reads your experience as it being easier. I imagine they’re both easy.

I’m curious, when you say you stopped importing, does that mean you were getting info from your banks, and stopped doing that? Why did you stop? My next step was to set up the automated importer for Firefly.

Last year after Trump was elected, liberalgunowners was a trending sub on reddit for quite a while. I joined briefly. It was pretty cringe, but it wasn’t hard to tell that a lot of people were buying guns out of fear (a fully rational fear I might add). This administration has been pretty transparent about it’s disregard for rule of law and it’s contempt for people of color and LGBTQ people.

Totally “shocking” that he’d go unpunished.

Yep. We seemed to quickly forget that Harris did campaign in the 2020 primary. She was trounced. She was polling something like 16th and withdrew well before the actual California primary.