In the beginning the Universe was created. This had made many people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move. – Some Hoopy Frood

Others have already said it, funerals are for the living. As long as you’re honest with yourself (this doesn’t seem to be about religion, rather shitty family) and you understand the consequences of your actions, you’re an adult, do what you want.

Will it cause a scandal if you don’t go? Probably. Is that something you’re prepared for? Can you deal with that fallout?

The people in this thread exclaiming you must go, it’s family! likely don’t come from families with shitty relations and themselves feel some societal obligation to go to a funeral no matter what. Geography doesn’t matter for honouring the dead. You go to comfort and commiserate with the survivors. If that’s not important to you, do it in your own way. There is no wrong way to grieve or mourn someone’s passing (obviously within reason).

Trump Administration: “No”

“I am not discussing what I have or haven’t been eating or drinking. Am I being detained or am I free to go?” Field sobriety tests are always voluntary, but you might have to go to the station for a blood test.

If they continue to ask questions, “I am invoking my constitutional right to not answer questions. I won’t be making any other statements without a lawyer present.”

If they ask you to step out of your vehicle, you do have to comply. “I am complying and stepping out of my vehicle. I do not consent to a search of my person or property. Am I free to go or am I being detained?”

Never talk to the cops brought to you by Shut the Fuck Up Friday.

Not saying don’t use Lemmy, but check out piefed and mbin, both similar but different platforms to reach this corner of the fediverse. They all interact with each other, and have their own pros/cons. (I’m responding to you from piefed, for e.g.)

Welcome to the fediverse! We have options and don’t lock you in, and the karma doesn’t matter!

Yeah, I already buy the tri-colored carrots, and the purple are my favs.

Ordered delivery from across the street because it was raining and I didn’t want to…

One of my favourite f-droid apps is droid-ify, which markets itself as a clutter-free f-droid client. So, I use that instead of f-droid itself.

I don’t know if you use their Assistant, but you can limit it to specific sources. The first option after the entire web is the fediverse. They also have the small web, which just shows you things made by actual humans, not something trying to sell you something.

Which is why women get hysterectomies, to remove the hysterical bits.

That’s why I still use them as my main. I can’t close tabs, so between their workspaces with tiled tabs and tab memory management not keeping 200 processes open (I know!) it’s been amazing for me. My only reservation is it being chromium.

Not that Firefox’s back end is better rather that every other browser out there is some form of chromium which means Google getting to control the internet.

It doesn’t help anything, but I’ve started finding the remaining or recreated web 1.0 corners of the internet. Like creating a gopher hole and joining a pubnix server. Something about being nice to not have the modern internet always trying to track me or sell me something. Dunno.

Tailscale is a layer on top of wireguard and is a VPN. Don’t open your home to the outside world, that’s just asking for trouble.

Tailscale is a great choice for you at this stage for accessing your stuff from anywhere and not worrying about anyone else. Downside is if Tailscale decides to enshittify some day you (a lot of us) will have to figure what our next move is.

For the casual and/or beginner, it really is an excellent service even at the free tier.

I started in vim and now moved into evil emacs

No, it’s not just you. Mint and Ubuntu get thrown around a lot by people recommending them to new users, and they’re fine, but they are a bit dated.

Bazzite has a couple of non-gaming sisters: Bluefin (gnome) and Aurora (KDE). Like Tumbleweed they’re immutable so you can’t mess with the stuff they keeps it running which is why it just works.

I remember what it was like, newly adrift on the high seas. Ping me if you need help. ✌🏻

Well, Synology is a brand name NAS aimed at beginners with their own “OS”. Unless you were planning on dropping a decent chunk of change to buy one, it’s a moot point. But because it’s a popular option among people starting out, I was curious of that was your situation, in which case that link would walk you through everything you needed to know, including its quirks.

I replied to someone else in this thread on how to get started with Usenet if you’re interested. It boils down to two subscriptions and another container running with your arrs stack.

You need two subscriptions. One to an indexer (https://nzb.su/) which acts like a search engine, and two to a Usenet that hosts media (https://frugalusenet.com/). These two aren’t the only two options out there, but I’ve been using them for years. YMMV.

Once you have those subscriptions, you need to run sabnzbd in a docker container near your arrs, and point your arrs to the indexer as well as to sabnzbd. Tell Sonarr you want to find a show, it uses the indexer to see where it can be found, tells sabnzbd to acquire it using the servers you paid for in the Usenet group, downloads and pieces it back together and then files it where Sonarr tells it to. Jellyfin notices that media folder has something new, and you can watch it wherever.

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