Didn’t Italy literally elect Mussolini’s granddaughter to parliament a couple years ago? And for all the stuff about Trump/Musk, a openly neo-Nazi political party is carving out massive support in Germany.

Honestly this is the kind of conversation I wish i had with my folks when I was younger. OP, you’re the kid’s parent, you’re supposed to see the bigger picture than looking “authoritarian” in the moment.

I know he was always a Fox News “bootstraps” type, but did Dave Ramsey just give up all appearances of offering “good” PF advice? Wtaf, this is so bad

PlexAmp is bar none the best app for selfhosting music. The movie and TV stuff is nice too

https://calmatters.org/housing/homelessness/2024/09/pit-count-analysis-2024/

What do you do for a living?

Plex kind of has to advertise itself as that because it’s real product is sort of in the grey area, legally speaking.

Essentially, a Plex server allows you to stream locally stored files from your computer to any clients running the Plex app. A lot of people use this as a way to watch pirated media.

For example, I run my server (desktop) in my home office and have several drives attached to it and in one of those drives is “Pride.and.Prejudice.2005.mp4” and because I have my Plex server attached to that file, I can go to my TV and watch Pride and Prejudice (2005) on my sofa. The movie file “moves” through my hard drive into my desktop, then goes through my router and gets streamed into my TV. (A bit of a simplification but it gets the point across.)

So, no payment necessary to stream media you own through Plex. There is a paid tier but the features it enables are nothing someone wanting to watch movies on their sofa should worry about, all the essential stuff is in the free option.

No idea on Lemmy tbh because my interaction with tech community is “something broke and I don’t know how to fix it”/// I don’t lurk because I have nothing to useful contribute lol

I’d look into the HTPC (home theater PC) community. Many of your problems have already been addressed. “htpc keyboard” on Amazon pulls of plenty of options for you to consider

E: If you’ve got the money to spend, there’s no reason to do something as unsightly as external HDDs>laptop>>HDMI>monitor when Plex exists and is plug-and-play. Throw your laptop and drives in a closet or a backroom and put a Roku (or Shield) on the “TV.” Much neater and you can navigate with the remote too.

Please tell me that you’re not talking about the Terry Crews commercials

Because “procedural,” the word we’ve been using for this for years, doesn’t fleece millions of venture funds from dumb hypeinvestors

Agreed that it’s a shame that normal (read: not excessive) body odor is seen as the worst thing in the world ever. Hormonal BO, like the stuff mentioned in the OP, should probably be addressed, but yeah for the most part I sympathize.

Disagree that antiperspirant is worse than stick deodorant though. Elaborated on that in another reply

“Aluminium is bad for you” has never been proven true for the general public and the association with breast cancer has been disproven for years.

On “deodorant is just perfume”, I should’ve been more descriptive. I mean [spray, liquid] perfume is better than white stick deodorant, which clumps together, forms a wax on your skin (increases perspiration) and stains clothes. And is expensive for the quality of fragrance you get.

I use CertainDri unscented antiperspirant under my arms and a Green Irish Twead knockoff every day and sweat less and smell better than anything that stick deodorant could offer.

I know I’m being pedantic but tbh all you really need is antiperspirant and some kind of perfume/regular laundering. Most deodorant, as in, the white sticks you rub under your armpits, is pretty awful… I think I’d just take BO over that

From the headline I thought he stepped on them or something, but no:

Cardi B took to social media following the big game and said Secret Service presence at the game forced her to do some walking, which ruined her $3000 shoes. Trump became the first sitting president to attend the Super Bowl on Sunday.

The musician then showed off her spiked high heels. Cardi B said the Christian Louboutin stilettos were damaged when she was forced to walk because cart services ended at a certain point in the night at the request of the Secret Service.

“Look how fucked up my shoes [are]. This shoe cost me three bands. All because of Trump. Now I like him lesser!” she said. “Now I like him lesser because you didn’t have to go to no Super Bowl. Fucking up my shoe. Now I don’t really like him.”

THAT was your breaking point?!

The ADL is a zionist organization that was literally founded to protect a pedophile and child rapist who was, with no relevance to those actions whatsoever, Jewish. Do not take any of their “stances” as being for social justice.

This is frankly a bit odd

The Residents pfp? Love it

Why is the Stealth AI Startup LinkedIn guy talking facts?

Boba? I don’t even know what the “point” would be without a straw tbh