As a finical instrument for investing it’s fine. Makes total sense to have some of your money in gold.
As you describe, being a part of a prepping plan for the end of the world. It’s really dumb, and a total scam.

Install has gone fine.
Having trouble getting OpenRGB working. Might just have to turn off lights in BIOS for now.

And I’m also a hobby photog. Lightroom and Photoshop. I’ve tried Darktable and GIMP on Windows before. As much as I complain about Adobe, they’re still miles ahead of the OSS alternatives.

Thank you. My only real concern point now is running Adobe stuff in a VM. Other than that I think I’m good to go.

I’m into Star Trek, and all set to switch to Linux this weekend!

She is a name. She is popular.
But that’s just because she’s realy pretty.

Most of the best actors aren’t realy the Big Stars anyway. The biggest stars are always mostly about their looks.

Please! She’s not remotely terrible.
She totaly mediocre, midrange, or mostly adequate.

Go see The Room.
That’ll recalibrate your concept of terrible acting.

And it’s always 42. No matter what, or when, or how.

Perhaps some day, if someone understands the galactic economy well enough to explain why it’s always 42 money, we’ll be able to stop fighting and arguing with each other long enough to come together united for once. And share in the beating of that smug smart ass who thinks they know everything.

So? It’s their company they can sell it to whoever they want.

But your saying Peertube should have all the forum functionality of Lemmy, and the endless short video scroll of Loops.

rgluilis suggested a generic server idea, where the media and experience differentiating is done at the client app level. That could work well. But that’s an entirely different concept and structure.

And that’s great! Everyone gets what they want. But suggesting Lemmy, Pixelfed, and Peertube, etc. should all try to do it the way Friendica does, is a bad idea.

So like a single ActivityPub instance that hosts all the data, but users can have a Pixelfed app, Lemmy app, etc. all connect to that one server and use it to give the experience they specifically provide.

That’s a cool idea. I can see how that would work.

Why would you follow the same accounts on multiple platforms?
Or do you mean one person who has accounts on multiple platforms?

I think you might be conflating two things. Right now the Fediverse largely looks like you just described. It’s in it’s infancy, trying to copy what it sees around it. Eventually it’ll become a rebellious teen and forge it’s on seperate identity. That’s inevitable. I wouldn’t worry about it.

It’s a very different thing though, saying all the apps need to integrate all the features and experience of every other app, so they’re all largely the same and there’s never a need to use more than one. That sounds like a terrible idea.

Is it?
Because that seems really dumb.

Why would any specific niche service want to duplicate the features and functions of every single other niche service? The whole point is to have different experiences and uses, that might be able to (however works for them) interoperate as they see fit.

It’s a terrible idea that they should all try to eventually do all the same everything.

Oh! You just don’t like movies unless they’re exactly what you want them to be. That’s so booring. But okay.

You want to buy an IMAX theater?
I’m sure if you just talked to them they’d be happy to sell you one.

I imagine it’s about trying to minimize the alcohol smell.
But I don’t realy know.

I just couldn’t help thinking it was just a new version of Pocahontas.

Literally every movie is just a new version of X.
There are only a couple dozen stories. At all. They’re all remixed and reimagined versions of something that’s already been done.
Even Pocahontas, I’m sure is just a version of some ancient Greek story we’ve never heard of.

Do you have sources you can cite?
In English if possible. Though I’ll understand if not, and make due with what you have.

When I read the headline without context, I thought casting directors were just casting actors unseen over the phone.
But this is worse.