It’s a lot harder to paint lanes in the sky

Something tells me they’d have the same opinion any other wait staff seems to have: they prefer tipping because they can earn a lot of money for unskilled labour with tips. It’s the reason some people make a whole career being a server.

But in those places you’d still be considered an asshole for not tipping, right?

I remember when I spent time in the US, tipping was the absolute worst part of the experience.

If I was with a big group going to a restaurant we would have a server constantly checking in with us, chatting and telling stories, getting us deals and freebies. When I would go out alone I would get ignored. If I dressed down I would be treated worse than if I was dressed up. One time I even waited an hour for a table before walking out as larger groups got seated ahead of me. How people are treated is based on how much money they think you’ll hand over.

Everything about tipping is greed and it’s gross.

All restaurants in the US require tipping. You’ll have to boycott all of them, and that won’t send a message about tipping. You would need the majority of people to still go to restaurants and not tip to send the message and that’s never going to happen because people have been brainwashed to think their value as a human being requires generous tipping. Comments like “if you don’t tip you’re an asshole” means the system is working as intended and will never change.

Technically recording TV on VHS is piracy, but in practice no one is getting sued for it.

Mine works when the internet is down. Why doesn’t yours?

So, it sounds like it doesn’t offer a remote streaming service like Plex then. You just publicly expose or use a VPN like you can with Plex.

You can get around this by extending your network with a VPN. I know that’s an extra config, but a lot of people who are setting up home labs are already doing this anyway.

How does jellyfin offer remote streaming without a VPN?

Reads to me like they are the “American ears” they are referring to, as if their world view is the default rather than the bias of an individual.

I feel like I’m witnessing a cliche here; an American discovering that other countries exist. Wait until they realise America isn’t the centre of the universe.

Did they watch Journey to the Centre of the Earth and think it was a documentary?

Your opinion is a bit of a paradox, isn’t it? If religion was always a private matter you wouldn’t be able to go to any country and tell what religion that country is.

Part of the problem is that a few religions tell their followers that they own specific land, so they are competing to have exclusivity of that land instead of just going somewhere else.

The expansion of civilisations has always encroached on religions as well. You basically have to choose a point in time to say “starting now religions are allowed to exist in the countries they are already in.” Should the aboriginal Australians just go somewhere else if they don’t like the multicultural/multi-religiousness of modern Australia? What about native Americans if they don’t like capitalist Jesus?

With what army?

Might makes right. The only thing stopping countries from violent hostile take overs is the chance a bigger country will step in to stop them. Now the US is showing they are happy to help countries to this, it might open the floodgates and China will just take what it wants as long as it stays within its timezone.

Got it.

That seems pretty cool.

I’m a little confused. It’s this a self hosted program? Following the link I see a monthly subscription cost.

Peer pressure isn’t a good reason to do anything.

I was using realvnc but I hit the 3 free PCs quickly. I’ve since moved to nomachine and run it “locally” over tailscale.

I assumed it was clear what I meant,

I don’t support a blanket ban because there’s no way for that to work. I do support the concept of separating developing minds from predatory media.

How do you do it? I don’t know. It’s easy to say the answer is parental supervision, but if it were that easy it would be an already solved problem.

The way social media works means that by the time you identify predatory behaviour, it’s already too late to prevent it. The way the government has gone about it is ignorant and embarrassing.

They recently did this in Australia. The method just doesn’t work. Most kids weren’t banned at all, other kids figured ways around authentication, and the ones that were banned just use their family accounts or use the services logged out.

What makes it worse is that kids who now access the services by getting around the ban are being exposed to content aimed at adults like gambling adverts.

I’m not opposed to the concept, but the fact is that there is no realistic way to enforce it. It’s an impossible ban but they attempted it anyway by putting the onus on the companies that have no interest in the ban.