Woah, just reading iSerial Reader brought back a flood of Mac piracy memories from the depths of my brain.

I don’t typically use a VPN so take my advice with a grain of salt, but I’m pretty sure what you’re looking for is split tunneling. Set it so that all traffic goes through your VPN except the IP of your NAS.

Being on a video call while operating a motor vehicle is dangerous and should be illegal in any sane jurisdiction under distracted driving laws.

I don’t own a car, but my bicycle is named Aneth. It’s French for “dill”, pronounced the same as the name “Annette”.

I like dill and “Aneth la bicyclette” rhymes.

Not particularly, and while I admit this can seem hypocritical, the verb “to google” has just become a generic trademark.

When someone says band-aid, or kleenex, or jello, I think of bandages, tissues, or gelatin desserts, not of a specific brand of these products. Same goes with “googled”, it just means “searched the web” now rather than specifically using Google.

Yeah I’ve noticed this user basically inserts a “kagis” into like 2/3 of their comments, it always slightly irks me because it makes me feel like I’m getting advertised at. I’ve never felt the need to proclaim which search engine(s) I’ve used to research any particular comment on Lemmy, and I find it odd that the one person who does so regularly is doing it for a paid service.

Apart from that, their comments are usually pretty good, so I’m not accusing them of shilling or anything, but I find it super peculiar.

I used to pirate movies my older neighbour wanted to see and burn them on blank DVDs because she felt way more comfortable having discs than streaming. That could be an option if you have a tech-averse person in your life you care about.

She had a bunch of empty cases too, and would make customer covers for each movie with a sharpie and a piece of paper.

Yeah because making clearly false claims and refusing to back them up is totally in good faith and the peak of civility. I don’t tend to be civil with people who’d gladly take away my rights.

I know what you’re selling too, and don’t consider not having to talk to you to be a loss :)

I’d love some examples if you care to share!

There is a difference between “calling everyone a nazi, racist, and transphobe” and calling out Nazis, racists, and transphobes, and a lot of people fail to grasp that nuance. From what I’ve seen so far in your comments, you’re giving off the vibe of someone who either doesn’t understand that nuance, or willfully avoids it.

Again, would love some examples if this isn’t the case.

I work in a café and the comments I overhear men saying to my feminine coworkers are insane. I get some weird comments sometimes (I’m pretty visibly queer) but it’s nothing compared to them. I honestly don’t know how women deal with it.

I’m very curious at to what these “far-left” extreme views that the media (owned by billionaires) are espousing. The only news I see is either aligned with fascists or the milquetoastiest of liberalism.

(I’ll bet anyone here 5$ that this guy considers “racial minorities and trans people deserve human rights” to be an extremist position)

Thanks for not participating in the vehicular arms race!

I think this advice made more sense when the majority drove reasonably-sized vehicles rather than the huge trucks and SUVs that pollute our roads now (at least in North America).

I wouldn’t be surprised if this bit of advice contributes to the problem in OP.

I love how all of this was just to avoid asking a family member “hey can I change some settings on your router to fix the Wi-Fi?”

I mean, I get it. More often than not you’ll either become the de facto tech support or they’ll find a way to blame you the next time something doesn’t work.

What’s your go-to brew method for camping? I find the Aeropress tough to beat.

Although my favourite camping coffee memories are with my parents’ beat-up old moka pot and pre-ground beans from the grocery store. I love me a good cup of coffee, but sometimes the best cup isn’t about the beans or the brew. It’s about the time, space, and people you share it with. Some of my all-time favourite cups of coffee came out of that piece of crap moka pot.

Seriously, “most modern songs”? In the era with the most new music being produced in a massive number of different genres and styles that would have been unimaginable just a generation ago?

I like the oldies as much as anyone else, heck I only really got into listening to music after discovering The Beatles and '70s prog rock as a teen. But if you can’t find good music being produced in 2025, that’s not a problem with the music industry, that’s a problem with you.

If anyone reading this struggles to find new artists they like, I recommend checking out NPR’s Tiny Desk concerts as well as KEXP’s live performances on YouTube. I’ve found a lot of artists I love from these sources.

You don’t need 5 posts a day for a community to survive here. There’s not that many people on Lemmy, things are a bit slower paced.

I mod [email protected] and we’d be lucky to have one post per day, yet I think it’s still a relatively healthy community, with a decent amount of engagement on most posts.

Your comments would have been fine in answer to someone seeking support for porn addiction/dependency, but it’s completely irrelevant in a tech community on a post about people circumventing silly restrictions.

You clearly came into the thread with a specific agenda which was irrelevant to the thread’s topic, and spammed the same comment in multiple replies. What did you expect? I don’t even entirely disagree with your opinions about pornography but do you seriously think this was the best way to communicate your point?

Alcohol, I’d open a bar and then I’d have money to buy whatever drugs I want. Probably weed.

I’m super cute, generally a mess, and emotionally unavailable.

I’m definitely my type.