US, mid thirties, and I not only drive a manual transmission, I go out of my way to insist upon it. For example, I own a truck and an SUV made in the '90s because it’s difficult to find newer ones without an automatic.

Jellyfin is to Plex as Lemmy is to Reddit.

It keeps track of which files you’ve played (e.g. to automatically pick the next episode in a series), it automatically downloads metadata and cover art so you have a nice browsing interface, it manages multiple profiles so that e.g. you can limit your kids’ access to only G and TV-Y or filter out genres a user doesn’t like, it lets you set parental controls to limit the amount of time watched in a day (or disable it at certain times of day), etc.

One man’s “battery drain” is another man’s “built-in UPS.”

Ride a bike.

“Very dark. Likely be eaten by grue.”

Nope, Star Trek Online.

The majority of the gameplay is committing war crimes in the name of galactic peace, but the players know the real endgame is space Barbie.

(It’s probably not my favorite game of all time, but it’s the MMO I play most often.)

https://www.eff.org/issues/eff-europe

For the umpteen-thousandth time, Stallman was right, LOL.

Aww, alternativeto.net isn’t that bad…

No, I’ve got that. Piped links give me a choice of LibreTube or Firefox, while YouTube links give me a choice of those two plus NewPipe and YouTube ReVanced.

Nah, on mobile more of my alternative YouTube frontend apps recognize plain YouTube links than recognize piped.video ones.

Or, specifically, should be required to be opt-in only.

Yes, in the same way that folks should be allowed to sell themselves into slavery.

Oh wait.

(In other words, some things are so inherently exploitative they should be prohibited even with “consent.”)

Do you want demigods? 'Cause that’s how you get demigods.

Unfortunately, it isn’t. There’s also a bunch of corporate types who like Linux merely because they enjoy exploiting other people’s free labor.

Alabama white sauce is hardly “mustard based.” One teaspoon per cup of mayo is nothing; you’d barely taste it. It’s Carolina-style sauce you have an irrational hatred for, not Alabama-style.

The “shareholders” are the managers of large mutual funds, who are in the same 1%er good-ol’-boys club as the CEOs. They’re the ones voting the huge blocs of shares within the mutual funds.

The middle-class folks who actually own the shares indirectly via the funds in their retirement accounts have been completely disenfranchised.

The commenter overstated the situation

Yeah, by a whole fucking lot.

So did the people making the initial accusations, which twisted RMS’s words past the breaking point of credibility.

For the record — since almost nobody seems to have bothered to read what he actually said, instead preferring to blindly believe the character assassins’ secondhand interpretation — the only thing RMS did “wrong” was failing to conform to the societal assumption that the teenager involved had zero agency just because she was young and should instead be treated exactly the same as if she were a small child. He didn’t even claim she did have agency; he just refused to discount the possibility out of hand.

In other words, he got cancelled for being too respectful and feminist toward her (along with using careful logic and not jumping to conclusions unsupported by facts just because the topic was taboo).

I mean, this is a guy who was inventing neopronouns before it was cool. He’s literally the most egalitarian-minded person I can think of, and is about as far from a male chauvinist as you can get!

Frankly, the whole situation reeks of wanting to weaken the Free Software Foundation and bend it towards corporate interests by discrediting the most prominent copyleft and users’ rights hard-liner. But I can’t prove that, so I’ll stop short of actually claiming it.

(I also won’t claim that the speed at which people were willing to believe the accusations at face value was due to their latent ableism and lack of understanding towards autistic people. Although RMS certainly acts autistic IMO, to my knowledge he’s never claimed to have been diagnosed with that condition.)