This is what I think as well. I understand there are people out there with that opinion, but I think their message is getting signal boosted by people trying to sway the election.

Live here. Very accurate at times

Purely Mail, yes; so long as you’re comfortable with one guy running the service.

Thunderbird for desktop and K-9 for Andriod. Only because they were the most recommended and completely fit my needs.

Yeah, there are plenty of stupid takes and ass-backward ideas here too

Have you heard about moonlight and sunshine? You might be interested in that

My only issue with piracy is it doesn’t add to the number of streams. So it might cause some studios to cancel shows they don’t think are performing well.

Know:

• Python
• Matlab
• Halcon
• VPM
• basic
• C/C++
• C#
• JavaScript/Typescript
• SQL

Want to learn:

• Rust
• Go
• Kotlin

Have you looked into Purely mail? This is what I use for my custom email needs. I don’t remember all the pros and cons, but the big one that scares most people off is it’s run by one guy. So if something happens to him, you’re potentially SOL. You could probably migrate to a new service, but could potentially be a huge pain.

I volunteered as tribute to be one of these ‘Friends’

Can I donate $60 bucks to double amount of winners? I don’t have have much time to game, but I thought this was such a kind way to help out the community that Id like to help out as well.

Not OP, but I run both because Plex was/is easier to setup non-techy family members and easier to get on their TVs/devices.

Plex has been pissing me off though and I’d like to move to Jellyfin, but sounds like a PITA to transfer everything over. Gonna have to get clever with that probably

This was more of the point I was trying to hit but couldn’t think of

Off topic slightly, but I’ve seen on Lemmy lately where people are saying “get rid of gerrymandering” and I’m curious about the argument for this.

Honestly, I’d love for it to happen, but I assumed it was impossible in a Representative Democracy because of how the system/math worked. Kinda of an inherit problem. Mostly because the ways I’ve heard to remedy this issue is to distribute districts in such a way that they more closely resemble their population ratios. However, isn’t this also a form of gerrymandering? Districts are getting set to way we think they should be. Not saying that wrong persay, just feel like a bandage solution. Like we’re beating a nail in with a wrench. In a way though, this reminds me of the Observer Effect in a way

I’m not as well read as you, so I’m not entirely sure how these stack up against your list, but I enjoyed:

• Steelheart by Brandon Sanderson. It’s a YA-Sci-Fi book mostly about what if superheroes were real. Similar vein to The Boys, but not as graphic imo. It’s pretty good and you might enjoy that. It also apart of a series called the reckoners

• To Sleep in a Sea of Stars by Christopher Paolini. Paolini wrote the fantasy series “Inheritance” which I though was great and gave this a shot. It’s was pretty good, a little slow, but I think that was more to show how slow would be in space even at >C travel.

• Probably missed it, but have you tried any of Andy Weir’s books? I really enjoyed Artemis and Project Hail Mary has been in my queue.

Harry Wolfe IV