A lot of people have already weighed in, but allow me to give my opinion as a blind person very familiar with debates about what media a work is consumed in.

Most blind people today do not know braille and rely on text to speech to consume written material if they can’t use magnification. Braille is bulky. A braille bible takes up a shelf, and an encyclopedia (I was shocked to learn they exist) takes up an entire wall or more.

Braille is also expensive. A Perkins brailler, a typewriter used for writing braille, is north of $600 last I checked, and a refreshable braille display, a text terminal for reading computer output, costs at least $1500, and usually double that.

Last, braille is slow. I’ve heard conflicting claims about top reading speeds, but it seems the absolute peak just about hits the lower bound of a literate print reader.

Taking all these points together, it can be easy to see why many argue braille is dead. Audio in the form of text to speech is easier to produce, faster to consume, and only requires software.

Where this intersects with the question at hand, whether listening is the same as reading, is that reading braille activates the same regions of the brain as reading print, while audio does not.

Having said all that, I primarily use audio via text to speech for long texts, and magnification for shorter stuff. Braille was my first literacy medium, but my school pivoted to print when I was in third grade because I was struggling. Braille can be a tactile sensory nightmare if you’re sensitive to that sort of thing, and I absolutely am. It also involves more physical movement, of the hands and arms, compared to reading with the eyes. I do still try to read braille now and then, but I’m painfully slow. Currently working my way through The Hobbit, and can only manage a page or two per session.

The writers couldn’t have made anything good out of what little they were licensed to use, IMO.

But the main complaint online, that Galadriel is abrasive and bossy, doesn’t gel with me because that’s literally part of her character growth. I’m too lazy to look up the exact passage in the Silmarillion, but the reason she joined the Noldor’s exodus out of Aman was to set herself up as a ruler. By the time the Fellowship meets her in LOTR she’s thousands of years wiser.

Two things for different reasons.

I had a meal plan in college that drew from an account linked to my university ID. There were vending machines that could charge your meal plan account when you swiped your ID. I bought a bag of spicy Cheetos, orverdrafted, and had to pay $50.

I cracked my tooth on a lifesaver and had to get a crown for $1000.

I love Tolkien. I don’t like what Amazon did with Rings of Power, but I just didn’t watch it, simple as that. That’s how the free market works. People make a sucky product. You don’t buy the sucky product, they stop making the sucky product. And if they don’t stop making the sucky product, you make your own hopefully less sucky product. I don’t have the energy to complain about it online.

Are we talking just links to off-site videos or video uploads? A lot of fediverse servers probably don’t have the resources to host a lot of video content I’m guessing. When Imgur stopped being served in the UK I actually switched instances because my first Lemmy account was on a very small very specialized instance and I didn’t want to clog it with unrelated uploads.

There’s a lot I probably don’t understand about how AP works and how it distributes content though, so 🤷

I like it and want to see it spread. I think if you tally up all the deaths indirectly caused by air pollution from fossil fuels they’ll exceed the people killed in nuclear accidents by orders of magnitude.

Non facies machinam in similitudine mentis hominis!

I like the fact that Starfox is actually portrayed as the mercenary band they are, rather than just doing good for the sake of being good.

I noticed this too. Some reviews were complaining that Fox is abrasive and more self-interested, and I’m like duh he’s a mercenary.

No proof of this but I suspect it started with Twitter as a way to get around the character limit. Yes the accessibility or lack thereof is frustrating.

The Reddit APIcolypse of 2023. I came crawling back to Reddit a few weeks ago though. Lemmy doesn’t have the size to support the kind of niches that Reddit has, and Reddit has a much broader user base as well, so conversations are more interesting because I can’t predict what 80% of the responses to any topic will be.

Importantly, they tend to fly private aircraft, which I have recently learned are not as safe as commercial airliners. Commercial flights are subject to countless safety checks and have redundancies for days.

The titan sub failed in part because stockton Rush (I couldn’t think of a more posh name if I tried) assumed the similarly impeccable record of submarines was due to something other than scrupulous safety margins.

Because I like the idea of Lemmy and the fediverse, so I hang on despite its issues.

Yes, but this is just the cherry on top of a steaming turd sundae of other issues I have with Lemmy that I won’t rehash again here. It’s not like my complaining will change anything anyway.

Compare these reactions to the Ubisoft subreddit, which granted are going to skew fanward. On /r/games the conversation seems to be mixed, with a few dancing on his grave, most expressing dismay at his death while still acknowledging the harm he did to the company and industry as a whole. Plenty of people are simply discussing the dangers of small aircraft.

This is why I hate Lemmy sometimes. “It’s wrong to wish people dead, except for ‘them’. ‘They’ are fare game.” It’s the same BS we’ve been doing for the whole history of our miserable species.

Since you’re just sharing things within a small group, I think it’s safe to give out your IP or a domain pointing to it. However, you need to put your services behind a DMZ. Make a separate VLAN on your network and put the Pis behind it. Make sure traffic from your private LAN can enter the DMZ but nothing from the DMZ can go to your LAN unless it’s return traffic for a session started in your LAN. If a machine in your DMZ is compromised, it shouldn’t affect your LAN.

👆 This

It goes back to what I said earlier, that yes you can do what you need to if you’re willing to put in the effort. But I don’t want to have to build a hammer every time I need to drive in a nail, even if I know how to build that hammer. I want to grab an already working hammer from my toolbox.

I think its no accident that the majority of desktop Linux users are software devs. Using Linux at home in a way serves as job credentials, because you have to be intimately familiar with the OS in a way that Windows and (especially) Mac users don’t have to be just to get by.

My latest (and so far longest) streak of daily driving Linux was with Mint. The bluetooth worked perfectly out of the box for the first time… and then never again. My headphones would simply never pair, and my Wacom tablet and xbox controller would constantly connect and disconnect, causing popups every time it did, and no amount of terminal magic seemed to solve the problem. Of course that’s not what pushed me back to Windows, as always that honor goes to the lack of a usable screen reader and magnifier.

Linux works great as a server precisely because you’re supposed to know what you’re doing, but a consumer-facing OS is supposed to be fool proof.

Good to know.

Private email. Very nice 👍

I’m gonna sound like everyone I complain about here, so feel free to ignore me. How did Proxmox break? I’ve been hosting a bunch of Proxmox containers on a 15 year old crappy laptop and it’s been smooth sailing for at least a year and a half.

Not trying to shun you for using windows or discount your personal experience with Proxmox or anything, just genuinely curious. If you prefer windows, use it.

Are you hosting on win server? I’m genuinely curious, not trying to shill Linux though I prefer it on the server side, believe me I’ve been on the receiving end of that for desktop Linux. How do you manage it? Do you have your home LAN set up as an active directory domain? Do you use mostly Powershell or the GUI? What do you have running on it? It just seems like everything on the server side assumes you’re using Linux and the only stuff that runs on Win server is stuff made by Microsoft like MS SQL server or IIS.