MudMan

Not the UI, the UX. The UI may be editable, but if I have to make my own UI to be happy with what it looks like or works like, then that's bad UX.

I get that sometimes those terms are used interchangeably, but they're not the same.

Should I swap Audible for Steam and start another flame war? Is there a poll widget on this thing?

I am SO tired of everything being a revival where the characters you remember liking are old and sad now.

Not going to say it doesn't fit the mood of the times. Creativity is dead, all the money is with the middle aged people and everybody is tired and sad while society unravels.

I just... don't feel the need to pay to be reminded of all that.

It's pretty terrible, honestly.

Hm. I gave Jellyfin a try and the UX was a turnoff, so I ended up in Plex. The separate management of metadata does sound like a pain to me, too, but maybe there's a bit of sunk cost fallacy to that.

Either way it seems people are mostly fine with their choices and there is a viable free alternative, so... all good there.

Holy crap, I didn't actually know that. Striking is a constitutional right where I'm from. Fascism is obvious, but it's easy to forget that place was an anarchocapitalist hellhole way earlier than that.

Not that legality seems to matter much at this point, but still. I presume that'd affect this initiative as much as a union-driven strike, though, right?

If not framed as a general strike I suppose it'd have to be general mobilization and disobedience. In any case real action rather than... signature gathering.

Sure, just... use all the tools. Don't just use the one fancy tool that is more comfortable and forget about using the old tools.

This site is aiming to get 3% of people on board. A quick google tells me 10% are part of a union, and unions can typically mobilize non-members just fine.

New tools are nice and all, but the old tools are used because they work. I'm not sure how you mobilize millions of people if you just wait for them to state that they're willing to mobilize first if the mobilization isn't already out there for them to join. That seems backwards to me.

I guess if that's how democracy reads in the US it explains a lot to how smoothly this whole process is going for the fascists. Good luck with that.

I guess people jumping to unfounded conspiratorial conclusions while accusing the plebs of being the cause of all ills doesn't sit well with me these days.

I wonder why that'd be.

Americans aren't a "minority".

Well, if they move here they are, I suppose, and then it's whatever. Just like Russian political refugees seeking asylum I have no problem managing that securely. They have all my empathy. That's more deference than America will give anybody else.

As citizens of a hostile country participating in its hostility, it is what it is.

It really, really doesn't.

Yes, that's what the word "agree" means.

This is an amazing conversation.