Draft legislation in Illinois, California, and Massachusetts

Me neither. Is it supposed to be a call of violence like “shorten the lives of the rich to today”? Or “shorten the lives of the rich by the end of today”?

Any particular recommendations?

Amazon is helping TimmiXyZ29 sell me a new washer. TimmiXyZ29 is not a certified salesman for Whirlpool Washers. Timmi is actually refurbishing old washers and selling them as new. My washer burns the house down. I think we all agree Timi is responsible, but where do I start?

• The manufacture says they can’t be responsible because Timi/Amazon aren’t selling certified Whirlpool goods.
• Timmi says he is just selling a product, it’s not his fault
• Amazon says they’re just selling a product, it’s not their fault

Now add an additional level; the order is fulfilled by Amazon. Timmi, Whirlpool and other sellers now give Amazon these washers, and Amazon keeps them in a communal pool and sends it on Timmis behalf. Now we don’t even know where the original washer came from.

What if amazon deletes, hides, or deprioritized disparaging reviews that showed the product was dangerous, and you now buy it?

There’s so many levels of possible problems that it can be hard to consistently ascribe blame to any one party when sold through amazon.

I do expect that if a party is selling goods that end up being dangerous, and users have consistently reported the failures/problems in amazon, amazon should perhaps be responsible if they did not block the seller/product or adequately raise awareness about the concern.

Hopefully you can find something that fills that need - but if it’s not possible you can always significantly reduce your usage of the visa in favor of better alternatives. Then just use the visa where you feel you must for insurance protection.

I think it has some sort of binary already in the archive. There’s a “start-tor-browser.desktop” you just double click to launch the browser.

Yes, agreed. The US stock market in part continues to be so profitable because people from all walks continue to invest in it. If folks invest elsewhere (EU, etc) it will help build there instead.

Youre right that this is financially related, but it was more to say - I’m not advising that switching to foreign investments is financially beneficial, just morally recommended. Folks doing this may end up with lower retirement funds in the end.

I mean, their 70% cocoa clocks in at 134% the mentiomed safe limit while the 80% cocoa from mast is at 14% (both reportedly for 1 oz of chocolate) according to the previously linked data. If the main determinant was the amount of cocoa, than I would have expected 80% to be higher.

Of course a company could be lying about the cocoa %, or using some type of filler, etc. But it seems plausible that there might be other causes. For example, perhaps some cocoa plantation locations have more lead in their soil, etc.

Tony’s did actually respond to CR, claiming these are not food safety standards. They did not appear to mention why their chocolate had any different levels of lead than other companies, just that leaf is absorbed from the soil.

I dont have a library that big, but I would recommend trying the Feishin desktop player if using navidrome. It’s a solid player in my experience, and has a smart playlist creator UI which the navidrome webui does not include.

This; Linuxserver Qbittorrent docker with gluetun to make sure all traffic goes through your VPN.

Thanks, I’ll check them out.

Thanks, I’ll take a look. Syncing is nice, but I’ll see how it fits!

Does anyone have current recommendations for an alternative to nextcloud file syncing/sharing?

I use it only for the below:

• synchronize some files/folders between some of my devices
• share files/folders with friends who don’t have an account; either with no password/account, or a password set at time of sharing
  • temporary/timed sharing so it is eventually no longer shared is nice, but not required
• use its webui like dropbox to upload files to my server from random machines (or download them)

And for that, nextcloud seems to be overkill.

This is the way

Symfonium on mobile Feishin on PC

I text my buddy, and say “hey do you wanna watch xyz, when you’re done with work?”. We hop on discord to chat and watch it. An hour or two timezone is not an issue, and for someone ‘local’ I’m probably not driving half an hour to their house after work. I do prefer watching together in-person, but thats not always as convenient.

Probably around 40% of my watching is via syncplay on Jellyfin, as I like watching with buddies.

Sans jellyfin you have to find a way for both of you to access the same file/stream and manually sync across snack/bathroom breaks or use the external and separate syncplay app.

I do like the external syncplay app but if I’m going to have to get the file to them anyways, why not just stream it synced? In my mind this is a really convenient feature.

It is not perfect, in my experience;

• on rare occasions, it gets ‘stuck’ and won’t sync correctly, so one will play but noth the other, pausing one unpauses the other, etc. Usually rebooting helps, but if not, I just manually sync
• there was 1 occassion which made no sense. I played a movie with a friend, we were watching together, but they were ahead of me by a whole ~15 minutes by the end of the film. Neither of us felt it was fast/slow or skipping anything.
• I haven’t had luck using syncplay on my TV. The feature exists but it doesn’t actually work.

But these are rare, minor gripes IMO. I’m glad Jellyfin has this feature.

I believe grayjay has a desktop app now. I think it may still be in testing, though.

https://grayjay.app/desktop/

Semi-related, but several years ago I had a good experience getting my audiobooks from audible with https://github.com/rmcrackan/Libation

It says it downloads songs from your Spotify playlist using youtube. Granted its not dling from spotify, but it is downloading the things you indicate on Spotify.