That’s a nice start, but it needs to be free for all kids, like at least my state

I imagine there’s a significant chunk of users who don’t know or care how to properly open their server up to the world and are relying on the Plex proxies

That seems like the obvious place to put a subscription that won’t get people upset. Or maybe it’s in the presentation.

When HomeAssistant started a subscription, they renewed their commitment to opensource, added new remote features with obvious costs under subscription while still letting you do it yourself, plus made it clear this funded continued opensource development. I happily pay this and haven’t been disappointed. Did Plex fumble a similar opportunity?

The lab leak theory was a Sinophobia distraction at the time. Why get angry at your government not doing more to protect you when you can hate China.

And it didn’t matter at the time. Our needed actions would be exactly the same … unless we wanted to start an actual war.

Now’s the time it does matter, if it wasn’t disproven. Now you can look back and try to pursue criminal action, if it were rekevant

Yeah, but those were over the right to infect others, to spread disease, harm and even death. Why should I be inconvenienced when all those don’t affect me

/s

Where do you get those? Or is it just for a few models?

My car has nice LED projectors but my old car that my kids are driving has older xenon bulbs that were bright when new but insufficient in the face of modern glare. I’m tempted to get the glaring ones because then at least my kids could see but if I had a way to upgrade the right way I would

I only know that for me, driving with windows up, radio quiet, I don’t hear most loud pipes until too late. It’s probably not a good idea to startle drivers just as you’re passing them

Yeah but a single blinding light doesn’t make for good visibility. They’re supposed be much more visible with multiple lights

It’s by state. I’ve always lived in states with relatively strict inspections, at least compared to other states, but I’ve never heard of them checking lights or window tint. They’re supposed to

I suppose it’s good that they focus on more urgent things like brakes, emissions, that there be lights, tire treads, and windshield chips/cracks, but I wish they’d do everything

Actually it’s mildly annoying that I have to pay the same for inspections that include the emissions check, with my EV

Found the euro …. Is that even approved in the US yet?

I mean, sort of, but I live in a place with narrow winding roads that all too often don’t have a line painted on the edge of the road.

There’s definitely a strategy to look down at the edge of the road until the perpetrator has passed, but that assumes you have something to look at that will help

I thought the same, until my teens started driving. Both of them complained they can’t see in the glare and ask me to drive at night sometimes, LoL

That’s my feeling as well, but it would be great if any data exists. Most of the intentional LEDs may be super tight but also have very sharp cutoffs, no problem

How many of these blinding headlights are

• idiots driving with high beams
• idiots with aftermarket LEDs that should be illegal
• idiots who raised their truck enough that headlights can’t be aligned correctly

Many USAmericans are pessimistic because we were finally taking a medium sized step in the right direction, and somehow half the country thinks that’s a bad thing

It’s like politics, hahaha. Those who don’t trouble themselves with too many details remain content with whatever they their emotions dictated while those who do research, sort out real facts, read reviews, understand the platform details live the next four years in constant anxiety

It’s actually a good point. To scale up we need to reach beyond nerds , find a populist voice

But once we need our over whatever we’re overly focussed on, we’re back to being the only ones in the computer lab at 3am

We need to bring enough nerds together or bridge the airgap, translate the jargon, find our unifying furry identity

What are those?

limbrols

Huh, I read this so differently than you guys intended. I was imagining different subscription profiles or something where the day is pleasant with things like c/awww but I get my rage on at night with c/politics

Or maybe the web UI really needs a widget to simplify whatever the syntax is for linking communities

I like this idea! I still don’t see how the more narrowly focussed servers would benefit me. I went with Lemmy.world because size matters in a forum, and the admins have been outstanding with reliability. The most likely reason for me to jump ship would be if that reliability fell.

That being said when I was new I had no idea what hexbear was or Lemmy.ml or whatever, and there’s only so much a description can do. I know the difference after reading many discussion threads

But I so would have jumped on Lemmy.nerds over Lemmy.jocks or Lemmy.preppies. Multiple servers with clearer sub-audiences may help a new user onboard easier. That being said, I realize I could just do that if I wanted to. I also realize that may just amplify the echo chamber effect. And I’ll stick around for the reliability and scale

Maybe it’s personal bias but I’d put a lot more weight into the comments about

• too few members
• wtf is multiple servers?

While I understand the power, the ideal of multiple federated servers, I still see it as an impediment for use. I know there’s online descriptions but I fail to see why I need to research and choose a server, especially when none really have the membership to support smaller communities yet

I was going to make a crack about you inventing MacOSX, which is at least “Linux adjacent”, but I don’t know how to work without a command line on either Windows or Mac. Some functionality is just so much more inconvenient or even impossible through the GUI, even on those