Teach her the wonders of Jellyfin and Stremio

Plex is already starting to add subscriptions for BS reasons.

Too bad that whenever I’ve tried it, its eaten my battery

Over the ditch here, New Zealand isn’t much better and like many countries only getting worse. The insane amount of personal information that essential companies (e.g. electricity, property managers, etc) is getting out of control and our digital privacy laws are still in the dark ages.

Its just less setup for me. My personal domain is shared with other people so I can’t set a domain level catch all. That and its less setup for me. I have no automated way of easily creating new emails (and my email settings would get very cluttered with hundreds of different emails). With a generic email address that I use with a +, its just one email and whatever comes after the + will go to that email. Then I have more options for what to do with those emails in mail clients. In my case, I have different mail filters to send them to different mailbox folders. But I can also tag them, auto delete, auto forward, etc. Whatever your mail client filters can handle.

A savvy spammer can do that anyway by brute forcing whatever is before the @ for any email address at all.

I’m less concerned about spammers (which are annoyingly inevitable after a while) and more concerned with data breaches. Thus if I can see where my leaked email address came from, I know who to blame and its also a lot easier yo change my account logins.

And yes, some sites annoyingly disallow them but in that case I can create another email address for those since they are few and far between.

I use a custom domain with a personal email address that I only use for communicating with actual human beings. e.g. myname@example.com Then I have a generic email address that I use with a + for different services e.g. email+hfu2sb5d@example.com or email+ebay@example.com I use Bitwarden as my password manager and that can automatically generate a + email using random characters but I sometimes use the latter + form if I want a human readable email. This way I can see exactly what website/service has been breeched/sold my data if I get spam emails.

Thanks, that list is really helpful :)

I have, but I find it easier to understand if there’s a human being explaining things as well. I can flounder pretty quickly now if I’m just dropped into it without any guidance :(

I’ll have a look into that, thanks! :)

Have you had to deal with refunds yet? I see that as a criticism and I would have to agree that the official doc’s way of handling them is not ideal for our situation or the way refunds are handled in my country. Interested in knowing if anyone has come up with more creative solutions.

Once upon a time yes. But then once upon a time the whole internet. I used to hate watching videos for learning but I have cognitive issues now that makes visual learning easier for me. Actually written is now extremely difficult for me. So I will use reviews of things to see how they work before I try them out myself. Just a shame that its so hard to find a real human being to learn from online anymore.

Multiple videos that have the same style of thumbnail (AI generated face excepted). Multiple videos with a very similar thumbnail and exact same wording. They’re all within the past year, mostly within the past 6 months (this software has existed for many years, why all of a sudden do multiple channels want to do vs or review videos of them). They’re all short videos and its just not possible to give a proper breakdown of feature or a review of budgeting software in that amount of time. The few videos I tested used AI voices and all had a similar start (I didn’t waste my time watching the whole video). The faces on the videos look AI generated or modified…

https://www.registerguard.com/story/news/local/2025/11/11/flock-camera-locations-map-eugene-springfield/87202411007/

You’re very naive if you think only propaganda is controlled solely by right wingers lol

This is one of the things I don’t get about any of this shit - if we were talking about physical items, letters, a hard landline, physical art, written medical information, etc. this would require a warrant, court order or whatever. Why the fuck is digital anything viewed as a free-for-all by govts, AI techbros, data brokers et al. How do they not understand that just because something is ‘digital’ it doesn’t deserve the same protections as before?!

Unless you’re using GrapheneOS and then the answer is “Mostly but it depends”.

The arguments around piracy are less about legality (in most places its copyright infringement which is NOT “stealing” but is illegal). Its more the moral and ethical arguments. Is it moral for a service to remove something that you’ve paid for? Is it ethical for people, through no fault of their own, to not be able to afford entertainment. Is it moral for large corporations to price gouge and continuously Make Line Go Up while offering a continuously worse product? Is it moral to copy software not available in your country? Is it ethical for companies to force people into subscriptions for the sole purpose of making more money when they already have loads? Is it ethical to pirate when companies refuse to support the operating system you have? Is it moral to copy software when the company that makes it is not just unethical but has been found to be taking part in things like genocide? Is it ethical for huge corporations to manipulate democracy and laws to serve their profits at the expense of everyone else? Is capitalism itself ethical?

Most people I know who are anti-pirate just lack an understanding of why people engage in copyright infringement. Calling people “scum” and “thieves” without understanding the very big moral and ethical considerations behind what drives people to piracy is reductionist, ignorant and Othering for the sake of self-superiority.

Not saying that your partner thinks that way, just that its a very common example of thinking that misses the important points and that its not just about what’s legal and what’s not (because there are many things that are or have been illegal that are completely unethical.)

I keep meaning to sign up so now is as good time as any!

Last time I used Acrobat via WINE, it was more work than it was worth to get stable and running without issues :/

I tried doing print to PDF but it flattened the resultant PDF so the layers were lost. Almost all of the software I used to try converting altered the PDF layout in some way and patterns must not change at all, otherwise they get messed up :/