I dunno. It’s plugged in directly to the modem/router provided by my ISP while my wifi is provided by a separate mesh setup, which is also plugged in to the modem/router 🤷‍♂️

Yea same I don’t even care.

It’s an old laptop, I have a backup. Go ahead, fuck it up.

I was going to try to host my music on Jellyfin, but I had an issue.

Since 2005 I’ve been curating my music collection with my old iPod that I still use.

I like my albums in release order so, with the iPod in mind, probably 80% of them are named [year] - [album]

Lidarr and Jellyfin won’t find them because of this and I don’t want to manually sort through 2000-some albums.

So I still use my iPod (20 years old next year!)

We have bins around our city for people to drop electronics off for recycling. I’ve taken a few laptops from there. You’re not supposed to, but ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.

One I gave to my buddy who needed something just for emails and web browsing and whatnot, one is running a server, and a couple more went back in to the bin because they were actually broken, but I took the hard drives for the server machine. I have one on a self ready in case the server machine dies so I haven’t gone looking for any new ones in a while.

I care more about how little rich people pay more than I care about how much I pay. I also care about my tax dollars being wasted.

DOGE could actually be a good thing if it were actually looking through the functions of government to eliminate redundancies, waste, and leakage.

But nope, it’s run by a man child who uses his idea of economics (which is informed by right-wing memes) to eliminate government programs that actually help people and the economy.

Ha!

My ISP sends me emails saying (paraphrased) “we’re only forwarding this email because we have to. We don’t track your data and your IP logs are wiped every 30 days. Your best option is not to respond because then they would know who you are.”

I’m not entirely sure tbh

Truth Social and Threads are just Mastodon instances, aren’t they?

Does it have to be though?

Another phrase like this one:

It is what it is.

No no. It is what it is because people made it what is. People can change what it is.

A donair from Pizza 73

Yeah. Her son came home from the park early crying because he hurt himself.

I am not a dev and most of that is beyond me. What does that mean to someone who uses their torrents?

Sorry what’s the issue with YIFY?

Yup. I’ve been using Firefox for 16 years and I just switched to LibreWolf the other day.

I’ve been posting about it periodically.

I’m pushing the “buy Canadian” angle by promoting Fedecan, the non-profit running Lemmy.ca and now Pixelfed.ca.

Also, reminding people that American companies are making money off your data, and these servers are Canadian owned social media, in a way.

I still have no followers on Pixelfed, but 🤷‍♂️

Are you serious? The cost of changing the oil on a horse these days is absurd!

I agree. I don’t know enough about all the different models, but surely there’s a model that’s not going to tell you “<whoever’s> government is so awesome” when asking about rainfall or some shit.

Yeah, but you have to run a different model if you want accurate info about China.

“A MUSICIAN”???

You put some respect on Lemmy Kilmisters name, sir.

I found a 2010 MacBook in a recycle bin. I happened to have a spare charger at home.

I took it, installed Linux, and now I have 3 rescued laptops brought back to life with Linux.

3 more and I’m going to start hosting LAN parties (WAN parties, I guess)