I will always vote and support laws that allow children access to proven medical treatments without the permission from the parents.

They aren’t pro-life. They are forced birth. It isn’t about the baby, it’s about power over women.

There are a ton of really cheap Chinese IP cameras out there. Those are less secure then ring or wyze cameras.

Agreed. Better to make it a month or two. This gives you time to find replacement companies and then hopefully never return to Amazon.

I got banned a few weeks back for an anti-trump post.

That account was 11 years old and I was very active over those years. But nope. Don’t talk smack about the orange god.

It solidified Lemmy as my permanent reddit replacement. No ragrets.

100% agree

Dancing dudes with beards and round tits on the beach?

Sharing files isn’t that hard. I’m using Win10 pro so it’s as simple as right clicking a folder, selecting properties, selecting the Sharing tab, clicking the share button. Then select the user and the rights they have. Since it’s just media files over a local network I usually select “everyone” but only give them read only permissions.

I use to give read/write permissions but I’ve accidentally deleted files using the trackpad on the wireless (fat fingers). I figured read only is fine.

The added plus side to this method is I also have a monitor and computer in the bedroom (I’m an insomniac). From there I can access the same shared files on the “media server” computer.

To find the files on the network, open Run and put \name-of-computer and hit enter. A list of the shared directories will open and you can map these (right click and you’ll see the menu option) so they show up in “my computer”.

The only other thing you might have to deal with is the firewall in Windows. But there is a pretty easy option to allow file sharing in the local network.

And yeah, you need the right space for a projector. Start with an appropriate size monitor and upgrade as needed.

Also, the Win10 computer I’m using in the living room and bedroom are just really basic computers. They don’t need much power since they’re only playing movie and music files and sometimes a browser. You can find Lenovo ThinkCentre computers for dirt cheap and they’re tiny. These work really well.

My media server computer is actually one of my older desktop PCs with a hardware raid card and a bunch of drives in RAID1 array. RAID 1 is two drives mirrored so if one fails you don’t lose anything. I’ve been collecting moving and music files for 20+ years so I figured it was nice to have a little redundancy on my collection. But you could use anything and upgrade over time.

I have a projector hooked to a Win10 computer in my living room. I also have another computer on the network stuffed full of music and videos. I’ve shared these media folders as read only on the network. I use a small wireless keyboard and trackpad to drive it (Logitech K400). I play the video files in VLC. The music I usually just use winamp. Super simple.

In the past I’d tried using the media center servers like MediaPortal, Plex, etc. They’re pretty, but I found them to be more problematic than just browsing files in directory. I also watch youtube stuff from time to time so I just open a browser on the WIn10 computer.

The girlfriend sometimes gets a Netflix account for a few months at a time and we watch via a browser instead of using a smartTV app.

I’ve been doing this for years and it works well for us.

Mosaic was awesome. Netscape 1 was pretty cool, but Netscape 2 and animated gifs… zowie! That was a day to remember.