It’s fine. Websites break on it less often than I would have expected and the “nuke your cookies and history" button is a fun feature. I’ve mostly moved to Firefox, though, just to get away from Chromium (although I realize the irony in that; my fingerprint is almost assuredly far more unique than if I stuck to Chromium).
Your explanation makes sense, but I disagree that banning a product from sale is a good approach to phasing out the use of inefficient technologies. The curmudgeons are a small minority and probably can’t be convinced to change over anyway. The bigger demographic to convert are, as you mentioned, penny-wise, dollar-foolish folks who don’t understand that an LED bulb will save far more money over time than the price differential between it and the incandescent bulb. Subsidies to lower the cost of the LED bulbs to match the prices of incandescent ones would be effective, as would education campaigns about cost savings. Neither of these options would restrict citizens’ rights the way the proposed ban would, nor would they feed culture war blowback.
Why not just subsidize LED bulbs to make them cheaper? Banning Americans’ rights to buy things as innocuous as certain kinds of light bulbs is petty government overreach.
Yeah, it’s been a real pain for a while. All my media drives are external WDs connected directly to the laptop running the server over USB 3.0. It’s a fairly beefy Win10 machine with an i7-7700HQ and a GTX 1070M. I’m running it on bare metal and the computer is set up to never suspend\go to sleep. I also disabled the power-saving USB suspend settings, and the drives stay accessible over file explorer and Jellyfin, so it seems like a Plex issue.
I occasionally run into the issue where I try to play a file, but after some buffering, I get the message “please make sure the drive is mounted.” The drive with the file is still connected to the server and is accessible through file explorer, so it’s not that the drive is asleep or anything. I usually have to completely uninstall Plex and reinstall it in order to fix this, and it often coincides with the bug where the languages of my libraries are totally blank. I’ve actually started to use Jellyfin most of the time because Plex has become so unreliable. Any ideas as to what’s going on?
The Demi Lovato talk was hilarious to watch. She’s an utterly charmless narcissist and literally asked a guest the question, “How bad would you have felt if I really had killed myself?”. It’s incredible no executive pulled the plug on it at any point during its production.
Lemmy is one of the most intense echo chambers out there. It’s very funny that a self-professed anti-hierarchical, decentralized message board site like this falls in line so neatly behind whatever candidates the corporate media tells them to and then browbeats anyone who dares to consider alternatives. Americans’ refusal to vote third party plays a big role in why the two major parties are so completely unresponsive to the public’s interests and desires. They won’t win, of course, thanks to FPTP, but voting for them pressures the two parties to change their platform to win over their voters.
This is precisely why the corporate media is so invested in vilifying third party voters. Every election from now until the end of recorded history will be “the most important election ever” (or “the last election ever,” as they’ve been painting it recently) and anyone who refuses to vote for the lesser-of-two-evils candidate is a willful apostate who’s worse than a Trump voter. And the masses buy into it, and then it’s naked tribalism and hysteria from there.