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I mean, if they left it, possibly went to Mastodon, that sounds wonderful to me:-).

That's what blocking is for:-)

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Sooo... switch to Perl then? 😜

Oh that's no accident, nor do your words go far enough, unfortunately, bc they are doing stuff now that actually was fully illegal, back when the US government was more functional and pursued antitrust laws against Microsoft. :-(

I meant like a daily usage situation - e.g. working from a terminal, running MacVim, and things like Firefox and Slack etc. all work fine from a Mac - but I don't self-host, and I run actual Mac OSX itself, so my answers may be of limited utility to you.

If someone else is reading this I would look into running a Jellfin server from a machine running Linux, which can be connected to from a device running iOS or Android or whatever they want - but your kodi+mpd already sounds like it should do the trick.

Hopefully you can avoid running Mac OSX itself, but if that's not possible then perhaps at worst you could get a machine that does that and then partially isolate it on the network? (though that is beyond my skillset:-)

For TV I just an ancient ChromeCast (iirc it's a first-generation even!) and that works from everything (ironically one of the harder solutions was from Samsung mobile, though even ancient iPads have apps that will make it happen). I worry about when my TV and especially the ChromeCast dies what will I do - it will take so much time to investigate a replacement, it seems all/most of the newer solutions are trying to inject ads or whatever into the stream, or even just not working as simply as the old. Mine is security through obscurity, which only works for so long until the hardware flat wears out:-).

And I barely have a backup solution - just a single SSD that I put stuff onto when I think about it, and is aging so when it too wears out... I have so much catching up that I need to do, I'm setting myself up for pain most likely:-(. But also I tend to "stream" most things rather than "download", so my need for thus is extremely much smaller.

And soon memory issues as well.

I got 99 problems but Meta's Threads ain't one of those.

Oh yuck. I also switched away - half Linux, two-thirds Mac (hehe, all fun:-) - but not everyone can manage that.

Many people want that, but can't bc of their jobs.:-(

I haven't either... bc I've been privileged to not have to work with ~~Satan~~ Windows for almost a decade now.:-)

Hence the cognitive dissonance yeah, though those looking to (ab)use the document can still make it work for them even while maintaining the fiction that "we didn't change it".

One example is the recent SCOTUS ruling that iirc allows a sitting President to assassinate their political opponents if they so choose, publicly and openly, and yet the conservatives who pushed for and made that happen are still (atm) calling the USA as a "democracy" rather than a totalitarian regime. Meanwhile, the liberal side doesn't even bother with advocating for a platform any longer and instead focuses purely on attacking their opponent and shoring up the appearance of their own (independently of any specifics I mean) - a recent development for them (in the degree to which it is enacted, if not quite entirely), though conservatives have been doing that since at least Ron Desantis lost to Trump.

In short, "facts don't matter", to so very many these days, whereas what does is matters of presentation - tone of voice, who you know, how much money is backing you, etc. We see this all up and down the scale - in people trying to be famous on YouTube/Insta/Tiktok/etc., in the stock market, daddy's nephew getting the cushy VP job at the office, and the very presidency itself, as well as most of (all of the entrenched) Senators, Representatives, judges, and most other things down in-between. Our society has forgotten the past struggles that gave the people of the past reasons to avoid certain things - e.g. actual literal full-on Nazi-ism - therefore we will now commence repeating them, our only hope to learn from firsthand experience what we refused to learn from reading books and listening to those who were actually there. i.e. we won't take time to listen, bc we are too busy speaking.

Yes your variable names should indeed all be different from one another.

var Turtle1 var Turtle1 var Turtle1

just doesn't quite have the same impact:-).