Oh yeah, that is a cool remote. My observation about the awkwardness of a laptop in the living room is more about furniture and the layout of most media rooms. A second screen or a place for the laptop usually isn’t quite right, or downright bothersome. Even a desktop can be a problem.

My media server is hiding in the tv stand because it is NUC sized, an old mac mini. It could directly play to the tv, but for various reasons I wind up with apple castoffs, so an apple tv running Infuse is the front end. If I didn’t have that gear I would be running a modified android player.

I wind up in a lot of living rooms mucking around in their media systems and the furniture aspect matters to a lot of people. Also convenience is paramount, they want a media appliance in front of the couch, computers are for desks.

I know my family is grateful that I no longer force them to mess with a computer to watch something. Inconvenient and frustrating.

This is awkward in most living rooms and the remote control sucks. Source: my house, and my job.

Less awkward, ironically, when using airplay to an appletv.

Oh, you don’t use the dressing room?

Well you are right, at our local pool you leave shoes at the racks before walking barefoot down the hallway to the dressing rooms, but when leaving the pool I still go sock-shoe because that is a public outdoor shoe mat.

Similar principles to food-safe cross-contamination prevention.

If the floor is wet like at the pool, it’s sock shoe sock shoe.

Any other time it’s sock sock shoe shoe, because I am not tracking the outside world into my house or bedroom, and the shoes are at the front door.

Anarchists: “Let them fight.”

I have a friend who was a carpenter and musician and got a phd at 45, wound up head of a university department 10 years later, moved to a prestigious university then retired. He could have kept working like a lot of profs but the second career was long enough.

Maybe you need to rethink what a farm can be. Many apparently wild landscapes that you are familiar with have likely been managed as a kind of agriculture for a very long time, and most people have no idea.

There are many ways to cultivate food.

Anyone who hosts websites can check the logs and see the bots hammering away at wp/admin primarily, even if you are not running any WordPress. Low hanging meat? Fresh fruit?

1. Monal (on a mac)

2. Marketing, sadly , actually works… plus network-effects

Ah, you are right, cranky is inaccurate. Corrected.

I upvote many of your comments, but you are in fact often cranky touchy with people on here. This here is kind of a thin skinned comment you are making. No one has their fingers up your butt.

edited for accuracy

One thing I kind of hate is the abuse of the voting system, I kind of miss slashdot for its enforcement of a justified moderation for voting on a comment.

So it’s annoying, but sometimes I just go around counteracting user-targeted revenge downvotes, even if I don’t totally agree with the comment. It feels like being the janitor.

It’s kind of obvious that you are being vote brigaded, some deeply immature emotional framework is stalking you.

This is what tagging is for! There’s hope for some people even if they make dumbfuck comments and think votes are popularity affirmation.

Dude was being a toddler in an adult discussion and got called out for it because it’s just as annoying as it would be in meatspace… some people have trouble understanding basics like that so we try to help.

I really don’t think that that is representative of a standard Lemmy user, they’re just loudest.

Well, you are getting downvoted and it’s probably because “liberal” or centrist viewpoints are seen a bit like skeet shooting for some of the hard left on here. They seek ideological purity and are looking for a safe space.

But you know life is full of dogmatists eh. Some of them need blocking, and some of them need mocking. And some you can actually have a discussion with.

I use the Voyager app and it allows me to tag user names so that I can avoid blocking the borderline cases. I don’t mind people who are having a bad day or are just cranky, or maybe have attitudes I find annoying but not fully disturbing. I will of course block extremist authoritarians and such.

Since it’s a smallish social media community, I don’t really want to block all the discomfort away.

If I know what to expect from someone’s posts, it’s more entertaining than jarring when someone is being abrasive, and it helps me interject if things get out of hand.

I like that Lemmy/piefed is topic oriented, and not nearly as emotional as a microblogging space like mastodon, which is full of personal branding and ego and frequent annoyance at discussion when all someone wanted to do was make a posturing statement without friction or the jostle of other egos.

Voyager app checking in with all systems green: your wish is granted.

Thank you for the helpful context!