I can’t believe Lemmy doesn’t have a “Mute this post” option. I’ve gotten 300 notifications of Very Smart Lemmy Users posting their disdain for Reddit. You’re all the same person, I swear.

In fairness to Plex, I bought a Lifetime subscription during a Black Friday deal over a decade ago and it’s still serving me well to this day.

I have jellyfin set up ready to go but Plex has the UX down at this point. I’ll keep using it whilst my lifetime subscription remains valid.

Reddit blocked third party apps but they didn’t block personal-use API access. With the help of some apk-editing tools that I won’t mention here, you could import your own API key into a third party apps and continue using it fully (including posting and commenting). I’m using Reddit Sync still.

My API key still works, but my understanding is Reddit recently blocked the generation of new keys. So at some point my key will probably die too. At that point, that’s the end of Reddit for me.

they realize that a significant number of power users on the site are still using old.reddit.com

Wonder how they feel about people like me, who use a third party Reddit app on Android? They get no ad revenue from me, and I don’t contribute either.

The enshittification continues.

It’s complicated, and something to bear in mind if you’re American is that our right wing politics is more like your Democrats party. In fact I think the only truly left wing politician you guys have is Bernie Sanders. Happy to be corrected on that though.

Labour are predominantly left-leaning and thus always supported being in the EU. It was the Conservatives (our main right-wing party and who had run the government from 2010 to 2024) that did the Brexit referendum and subsequent negotiations. However, it was Nigel Farage (our far-right, immigrant-hating, russian-backed Trump-lite grifter) who has been pushing the idea of moving away from the EU and closer to the US for decades. Farage is often touted as the guy who painted Brexit as a means for the UK to “take back control” and all the other usual right wing nationalistic bollocks.

Brexit was incredibly divisive but it’s been long enough now and there’s enough proof that the Brexit that we got has harmed the UK economically. This comes to no surprise to the people who voted Remain in 2016, but hey ho. The conservatives and the far-right somehow succeeded in framing any attempt to question Brexit as “disregarding the will of the people”, so the 2024 election Labour were too cowardly to actually speak out against it for fear of hurting their chances at winning.

Now it’s nearly 2 years of Labour cleaning up after the mess of the conservatives and they are clearly signalling a push towards the EU as a means to help the UK economically, which most experts are concurring with. That’s where we’re at currently.

But “rejoining the EU” is complicated. There are different levels of being in the EU, and the UK in particular had a really unique deal with our membership. A deal I doubt we’d get back. Labour would struggle to sell “let’s give up the pound and take the Euro currency”, and they’re also not going to risk another referendum on it.

So that leaves Labour doing what it can to improve our relations with our neighbours, getting the most benefits it can whilst in power, and then in a future General Election they’ll run rejoining as part of their mandate (effectively making the GE a rejoin referendum).

Some people think the 2029 GE will be Labour’s time to push for rejoining, but I personally think it’ll take longer than that and it may be the following term.

The big thing Labour needs to focus on right now is proving to the UK that its economic policies and infrastructure investments have improved the average Brit’s life. Trump and Putin are making that a bit easier by highlighting two things - how Farage and the Conservatives would’ve dived straight into Iran alongside Trump, and how breaking our dependence on fossil fuels is the most important thing to get energy bills down.

Didn’t Americans decide that dead kids in schools was an acceptable price for the right to own guns, specifically so you can overthrow your government when needed?

You guys aren’t even striking yet. You’re just gonna allow this to happen. You guys elected him again, after it became clear he was a paedophilic capitalist working for the elite. America is lost.

AV1 is right there. One has to wonder why all the device manufacturers rushed to implement HEVC but allowed AV1 to dillydally.

It’s in their best interests to continue the downward trend of education in the US. They literally forced children to say a pledge of allegiance every morning. US has been indoctrinating children for hundreds of years and the only thing stopping them continue that effort are liberal teachers.

American culture? What’s that then?

Protect myself as best I can financially from the coming recession. Little else I can do. Thankfully I live in a country with decent worker rights and benefits systems so even if I lose my job I should be able to bounce back. Not like capitalist dystopian USA.

Maybe not equally but they will need to take a good chunk of responsibility for this.

Americans saw his first term, his attempts to bomb Iran were thwarted back then.

Americans watched as he tried to steal the 2020 election.

Americans and democrats had 4 years to punish him for this.

What did Americans do? They gave him an even bigger mandate in 2024.

Assuming the 2024 election was valid, this is an American-wide problem. You’ve all got to own this and you’ve all got to be the ones to do something about it.

Thanks for ruining the world, Americans. Holding you all responsible for this.

There’s no way Starmer pulls us into this war, given the current political climate in the UK.

The two far-right party leaders called to join the war in Iran as soon as it started - they’ve both had to backpedal now due to the UK public categorically not supporting the war.

It’s given Starmer some much-needed good press. His actions on the world stage have been consistently brilliant and I don’t see that stopping yet. He should be able to keep our noses clean during this, but I suspect we’ll be hit with the recession regardless.

It’s only been 6 weeks or so since this prick was questioning whether the US needed NATO, and even said that the UK “will say that they helped out with the war in Afghanistan but they actually stayed way back away from the frontline”, now he’s bitching at UK right-wing media about Starmer saying no to the US using UK bases for his illegal war?

Fuck off you stupid paedophilic prick, and fuck all of you Americans that got him where he is today. You stupid dumb pieces of fucking shit.

We already know that Trump approves of killing young girls.

Yeah you wouldn’t rename bestiality pornography even though the animals in that can’t consent.

Yeah but if you were a YouTube Premium subscriber surely you’d disable the adblocker on youtube.com so you never get this issue.

Given it’s a suite of tools designed specifically to download copyrighted content, why are you surprised that descriptions are coy and elusive?