Canadians expect 20% tips. I’m sure others do as well.

Edit: You can downvote if you like but it’s still true

The numbers vary from study to study. The one cited here says 67%.

https://www.investopedia.com/living-paycheck-to-paycheck-youre-not-alone-67-percent-of-people-are-in-2025-11812027

For real. Most people live paycheck to paycheck, including people who make $100k+ a year. They just have bigger bills. Living within your means is one of the most essential adult skills there is. It’s also lacking in most adults.

I get the anxiety but you can actually just voice this concern out loud. Tell your story then when you’re done say something like “I didn’t say that to make this about me, but rather to express that I empathize with your situation and I am here to help if you would like”.

People generally understand that shared experiences provide the foundation for personal relationships. If you make it clear in some way you are trying to build that foundation rather than shift the focus away from their problems you will be fine. The easiest way to do that is just to straight up say what your intent is.

There’s other good speculation on the reasoning but I wonder if it’s due to the younger staff put in charge of posting this notice. Maybe they pestered management about the specific reasoning until they determined that hard liquor did not meet the provided definition of restricted items, then added the last sentence as a form of protest.

There are certainly things you can do with a server at home that would be off topic for this community, right?

I don’t want to hear about hosting CSM but anything else is fair game imo

Would you be into a little bit of raping at a 9? Or is that just “I love kids in a non-creepy way”

If you click through some of the options on this page: https://jellyfin.org/contribute/

It links to a donation option here: https://opencollective.com/jellyfin

If you use it weekly it shouldn’t be free to you, certainly if you use it more frequently than that. Give money to the projects you depend on or they will disappear.

This has been my experience. I am pushing 40 and the last few years have beaten the optimism right out of me, and I already thought that was long gone.

I have often wondered if this is what most people have experienced throughout history or if this another fun millennial game we were forced to play. I’m sure every generation has had their stupid trends and societal problems but watching a country collapse under the weight of it’s own stupidity seems less common. Not new, but certainly not something every generation deals with.

Copy/paste from another comment I made a while back:

Look into docker containers in general. If I was going to start from scratch in your position this is what I’d do:

Install a Linux distribution on the computer you plan to use for self hosting. This can be anything from a raspberry pi up to a custom build but I would recommend starting with something you have physical possession of. I found Debian with the KDE plasma desktop environment to be pretty familiar coming from Windows. You could technically do most of this on Windows but imo self hosting is pretty much the only thing that a casual user would find better supported through Linux than Windows. The tools are made for people who want to do things themselves and those kinds of people tend to use Linux.

Once you have a Linux distribution installed, get docker set up. Once docker is set up, install portainer as your first docker container. The steps above require some command line work, which may or may not be intimidating for you, but once you have portainer functional you will have a GUI for docker that is easier to use than CLI for most people.

From this point you can find the docker installation instructions for any service you want to run. Docker containers have all the required dependencies of a given service packaged together nicely so deploying new services is super easy once you get the hang of it. You basically just have to define where the container should store it’s data and what web port you want to access the service on. The rest is preconfigured for you by the people who created the container.

There’s certainly more to be said on this topic, some of which you would likely want to look into before you deploy something your whole family will be using (storage setup and backup capability, virtual machines to segregate services, remote accessibility, security, etc). However, the above is really all you need to get to the point where you can deploy pretty much anything you’d like on your local network. The rest is more about best practices and saving yourself headaches when something breaks than it is about functionality.

I’m gonna shove something in your gap but it ain’t a pillow

Any publicly displayed religious / political mashup. I’m thinking specifically of those “stand for the flag, kneel for the cross” bumper stickers but there’s other stuff in that category too. It seems to indicate a person who can’t think in terms other than tribalism.

I think part of the reason some of those people live that way is because they don’t think through the effects of everyone else living their lives that way. Perhaps the stat boost to INT would give them the ability to follow that course of action to it’s logical conclusion and therefore choose to live differently?

It’s always been that way. Even most people who used the internet “way back when” have no clue how it actually functions. Terms like DNS and IPv4 are vaguely familiar concepts at best outside of professional or hobbyist circles.

There’s nothing inherently wrong with that either. There’s too much stuff for any one person to know. You learn the stuff that interests you and ignore the rest, which hopefully means somebody is interested in all of it. That’s why it’s good that there’s all different kinds of people out there.

I do, but unfortunately the dog just refuses to shit on the wall

In this case… I’ll allow it

Same. I’m working on electrifying everything. I have geothermal HVAC, a heat pump water heater, and an EV running off the solar panels. Only the gas stove remains.

There’s petabytes of free porn on the internet and yet tons of weirdos pay for subscriptions to porn sites. Such is life

Could be worse. At least you’ve got a computer and some sort of building to put it in.