I have a house and a pretty sizable retirement account.

I will GLADLY take a lower home value, higher taxes on my retirement, higher taxes in general, so long as the ultra wealthy are also taxed accordingly.

If I’m going through the trouble of self hosting one, it better be open source.

I mean…

It’s been so long since I’ve been to the movies that I didn’t even realize that theatres now have assigned seats.

I’m not opposed to a lemmy-based tracker but will admit I’ve never made one before.

I have extensive dev experience and would be willing to learn.

My constraints would be time honestly.

Link to the printer?

Very very eye opening. Thank you

As I am learning it makes sense but here’s how I think about it.

I’m very supportive of sex work. But I don’t want to be tricked or misled.

If you’re offering “exclusive” pictures that are taken just for me, I would expect that you don’t sell them to anyone else. At that point, I’m contracting you for a specific job and paying for the product.

The crazy ones I’ve heard about are women looking for sugar daddies on dating websites. They set up profiles like any woman would but as you strike up a conversation, you find out that they just want someone to pay their bills.

So if an OF model is chatting with her fans, you go girl and do your thing. But don’t make me think that I’m talking to you when really it’s some low-wage employee in the Philippines who’s gonna get fired because their upsale didn’t work on me.

That was the key to know it wasn’t really the model. She was trying to sell me on buying a photo set. I asked her if they were exclusive to me, to which she replied yes.

Then I asked her to do a custom pose (nothing scandalous; wanted to see how exclusive this was) and she said she couldn’t do that.

At that point I said to her thanks but no thanks

But I agree. If she would have done that I probably would have paid for it. But not for pictures that everyone else.

I had a very interesting interaction with an OF model. I made an account years ago to support a friend who was starting out there. I logged in a few days ago to see another model that had advertised on a different platform.

I get a notification of a message and it’s one of the models where they have a free OF but everything is PPV.

I figured it was a bot and just ignored it but then got another notification. I figured I could just reply and say hi.

The model in question is a porn star (i.e. has videos on major production companies) but also has an OF. I subscribed because she’s totally my type.

Anyway I’m having this back and forth with her and I’m wondering “this isn’t a bot but…is it really her?”

And I got the sense that these professional models hire people to chat with people on their OF. That’s nuts! I get that porn sells a fantasy. That’s a given but I didn’t expect that they would hire people to pretend to be them.

Hey, we’re not here to kink shame.

Nah he’s useful as long as he has money.

For a brief moment in history, they sure created a lot of shareholder value.

Troy and Abed in the Morning!

Nights

I agree with this. Self-hosting requires the user to understand their network, their software, how it all interacts.

If you provide a hardware product and call it a solution, people are going to expect a turn-key solution like a plug-and-play router.

You’re going to end up supporting a bunch of newbies who, by no fault of their own, can’t tell you an error code in the console let alone whatever UI you give them.

I think a better solution would be a course that walks newbies through self hosting.

Does it leverage AI?

I really don’t know the architecture of fmovies but my guess is that it works similarly to sudo-lol but with specific providers instead of a long list of available providers.

Even still, I’ve wondered how those providers load new content since I’ve never seen a way for end users to upload new files.

Shows like Last Week Tonight get uploaded almost the same day.

Anyway, to answer your question, I think fmovies is back with their .lol tld though I’ve moved over to sudo.

There’s always going to be a replacement because clearly there’s a market for it. If only the people who actually hold the rights would realize that.

Dyson’s are overpriced pieces of shit. They are about gimmicks and often perform worse than other brands. What they lack in performance they make up in their advertising budget.

I personally have a Shark vacuum that I got on sale at Costco. It was $200 cheaper than the Dyson and much lighter.

Chicken thigh with Roasted Vegetables

• Pan fry chicken thigh, making sure the thickest part reaches 165° F
• Season to taste (I recommend a pinch of kosher salt and a good helping of black pepper but that’s just me. You can also go savory with rosemary sprig for the last 5 minutes of cooking)
• While chicken is cooking, put chosen vegetables in a bowl, lightly cover with olive oil. Sprinkle salt
• bake in oven at 400°F for 45 minutes

If you’re feeling adventurous:

• sear both sides of chicken in a Dutch oven (or cast iron)
• while waiting, season vegetables as instructed above
• once both sides of the chicken are sufficiently browned, add vegetables to the Dutch oven
• Cover and stick it in the oven at 375°F for 30-45 minutes depending on how done you want your vegetables

If you use the latter method, be sure to cook the chicken all the way through. Vegetables will be soaked in chicken fat.

I’ve been on a low fodmap diet for a while. This is a really broad question without some parameters but I’ll give it a go.

It also depends on what the goal of the low fodmap is (e.g. weight loss, diabetic control, etc.)

That said:

• a quick and easy way is to assume all processed carbs are out. This isn’t 100% true across the board but helps you draw a line somewhere. Processed carbs being things like bread, candy bars, pasta, etc.
• nuts like walnuts and peanuts are great snacks
• eggs for breakfast or if you want something more filling you can do oatmeal with some oatmilk. Not regular milk
• for meals, do whole foods like a chicken thigh with some peppers or a lean steak with spinach
• since you love potatoes, a great trick is to make a ton of roasted cut potatoes and put them in a container. Add them to dishes as you see fit. Even though I don’t do low FODMAP, I still do this

Have you tried listening to them at 1.5 or 2x speed?

Much easier to listen to.