My point still stands.

There are no real alternatives to YouTube really. Their video library is orders of magnitude larger than all the competitors combined.

I’m usin Mullvad and also don’t remember ever being asked to prove I’m not a robot.

Nearly all public mixed saunas - even in Finland - require you to wear a swimsuit. It’s mostly among friends and family that people go to the sauna naked when both sexes are present.

As a Finn I’d say that being naked in the sauna is a tradition - not a rule. I don’t go gatekeeping on people based on what they wear or not. If someone feels uncomfortable with nudity, then wear a swimsuit. I’d rather have them join in the sauna wearing that than not coming at all.

I get this too from time to time and usually refreshing my VPN fixes it. This is a bug of somekind.

The Linux community here on Lemmy is extremely helpful but as a complete novice I’ve found ChatGPT to be quite useful tool for this as well. I can ask it how to do something and if I run into trouble I can just take a picture of the terminal window and it’ll tell me where the issue is.

People would probably advice not to insert code into terminal, given by an LLM that you don’t even understand but the alternative is to put that same blind faith onto a stranger on a messaging board. In my experience the options are either to do that or not use Linux at all - unless you first spend few years learning it all yourself.

I’m not a huge gamer myself but the handful of games I do like to play every now and then all run on Linux.

What a coincidence - I stopped supporting it too!

Probably so, but that still doesn’t justify it in my view. There are better ways to handle this. For example, they could inform the customer that the issue needs to be addressed before they proceed, offer to mask the control panel themselves for an extra charge, or simply ask if the customer really wants them to paint over it - which they almost certainly don’t.

Doing subpar work under a “not my job” mentality isn’t just unprofessional - it displays poor character.

As a contractor who takes pride in my work, seeing things like this baffles me - and honestly, it’s not that uncommon either. I just don’t get it. Even if they somehow manage to get the client to pay for this, there’s no way they’ll be hired again. Meanwhile, about half of my clients are repeat customers. No wonder it’s so easy to stand out when the bar is this low.

That’s pretty dishonest summary of what I said. Nobody is selling anything here.

There are valid reasons to restrict the visibility of your content to registered users.

I post nudes on a certain site, where I have the ability to choose who can see my pictures. The options are: everyone, friends, registered users, and VIP members (paid subscription). Nearly all of my pictures are set to be visible only to registered users, with the spicier ones restricted to VIP members. My reason for this has nothing to do with trying to force people to create an account, let alone pay for a subscription. I have no illusions about my content being completely safe from outsiders. I simply want to create a small amount of friction to prevent complete randoms from easily accessing my content when they have no personal investment in the site. I see putting myself out there as the price I pay for free access to everyone else’s profiles. If you want to see my pictures, I expect you to do the same. I’m taking the risk of potentially being recognized - I expect you to take that risk too.

Many of them. Personally I’m just using my adblocker for that since I’m only using Lemmy on Firefox.

“Opposing fascism is more important than following posting guidelines”

• Internet activists, probably

But for real, I agree. Forcing US politics down the throat of everyone just builds resentment and makes people completely check out from it. I have content filters set to hide all of it. I’d like an option to show me the most important ones but that is not an option. It’s to either be firehosed by Trump and Musk articles or blocking it all. I choose the latter.

The only company I’ve ever truly been invested in is the one I’m running myself. I’ve never seen working for someone else as anything more than trading my time for monetary compensation. The only reason I ever cared about a company’s success was to ensure I still had a place to earn a living from.

If it were a small business where I felt valued, then maybe it would be different - but not when we’re talking about a company that employs hundreds and the CEO doesn’t even know me by name.