Yeah the lack of alternatives is real in many places around the world. A lot of it is just terrifying, dizzying monopolization. I don’t luckily have that issue, but it is undeniable.

Yeah I had a teenaged account as well. It’s gone now. I don’t really need any interaction from the website, just tracking, so TMDb is more than fine for my purposes.

There’s a really nice TMDb compatible Android app called ShowCase, btw.

Preach! For sure, been cutting down as much as possible. It helps that prices are thru the roof and I don’t need a lot.

I’ve always been a major thrifter, almost everything I own is second hand or hand me down, but I also happen to enjoy collecting, which is where the online element sometimes comes in.

Don’t get me wrong, I’ve only ordered from Amazon less than a dozen times, never had Prime, and most of my purchases have always been local.

I honestly love that folks are trying to wean off the toxic teat that is US technocracy. I can jive with it.

Yea I wouldn’t consider eBay to be a viable alternative here.

If you don’t like the discussion, you can skip it :) I think it’s better to vocalize the issue so we can look at it together.

I personally boycotted Amazon for several years around the 2020s before resorting to purchases I felt I needed and couldn’t get elsewhere.

After being burned so many times, I’ve certainly reconsidered my wants and needs overall - if Amazon is the only way, do I need it at all?

If you don’t think that’s anything, I don’t know what to tell ya.

Amazon already knows everything about you from your buying habits, down to menstrual cycles and toilet cleaning. What’s your favourite films on top of it?

(I hate Amazon, finally deleted my decades old IMDb account a while back. Now if only I could rid myself of Amazon… They’ve not fulfilled a single order for me correctly since 2020 so it’s not even the ease that counts any more… One day!)

I deleted my decades old IMDb account recently and migrated here. Meager protest against Amazon, I know, but tmdb is definitely good enough. Don’t miss a thang.

Show keeps you at the very edge of your seat. So exciting!

Based on the reaction it feels like the emotional distance between the new family members is pretty huge in that house. It’s like neither know what to expect from each other.

This is such must-watch tv. Halfway thru the season, and everything is up in the air right now. Can’t wait for the next episode!

The effects are kinda bizarre, btw :D

Unfortunately not open source from what I can see, at least not yet.

I don’t think Japanese X users are ever going to leave the platform, it is unfortunately a bubble within a bubble. A doubble, if you will.

Do think it is outright amoral to stay on such a platform, but if you don’t see the downsides, even if they’re apparent to others, it’s much harder to leave…

Also new is the NVidia tool PenguinBurner, which can now also auto scan for most optimal undervolts instead of just importing an Afterburner undervolt profile from Windows.

I’m going to preface this so I don’t get downvoted down to oblivion. So, don’t get me wrong, for the longest time this manga was on a generational run, and it remains one of the best romcoms of all time even with this final arc, but:

After it was announced the series was ending, I’ve just not enjoyed it quite the same as I used to. Every chapter was a revelation. I would go back to re-read chapters just to see the author’s call-backs and references. Instead, I’m now seeing readers say they prefer the new-ish spin-off. I think I’ve moved on, too.

So, yeah, I know why the manga had to end the way that it did - it’s to let Ichi complete his hermeneutic circle. But I would’ve :::spoiler chapter 190 been even happier for him ::: if the manga hadn’t meandered for the last 15 chapters or so!

You’re not wrong. He’s got socializing down to a T as an art form, but doesn’t have anything going on inside, so it creates these problems for him. People clearly assume that he’s deeper than he is, and are disappointed to find out.

I saw another commenter note that all the while he was bombarding Koyun with questions, we don’t actually know the first thing about his interests and hobbies. Makes sense to just assume he doesn’t have any?

That said, I don’t think he’s irredeemable because of the interaction with Miki. It’s not that he was completely in the wrong with Koyun, either, he couldn’t possibly know how deep her anxieties go. Only the viewers have had access to her insecurities so far, so the blow-up was at the very least unexpected if not unwarranted. Can’t wait for the next episode!

You caulin’ these ladies a compromise!?

Yea, lotta action in this episode. Things are really heating up with Minato getting several earfuls. At least he was very considerate of Miki’s viewpoint once she made it known.

It’s amazing how he simply can’t stop from stepping into landmines with Koyun even though he’s just trying to banter.

Well, I’ve seen it first-hand. The irc server cluster I’ve been uninterrupted on since the early 00’s has dwindled from 25-ish to 2. I think the userbase has shrunk from tens of thousands to a couple hundred. We might as well pretend IRC no longer exists. Do wish that it would.