Since the company that manufactures usually is different from the loyalty card provider, it’s probably safe to just take a screenshot of the loyalty app with the card being visible, and then just using that screenshot during checkout.

Even if you do not plan on actually cashing in on the benefits (which, if you shared the card, might be considered fraud), just presenting the card and creating random and unusable profiles could be a fun thing.

Personally, I would only consider using these screenshot for cash transactions, as credit card payments might be traced back to you.

“I’m fine, thanks. Who are you?”

My first week at the MAGIC school! 💥🏰 | Vlog, Room Tour, Teacher tier list I feat. @hgranger and @ronny_w

This is probably a good time to remind everyone to set up the registration lock.

Winning the lottery. Not “acceptable” maybe, but a valid reason nonetheless.

Thanks for the tip!

I don’t mind paying for the music. What I do mind, however, is the kind-of hostage situation that I am in with Spotify. I understand that they have costs that need to be covered. (Though, podcasts - especially exclusive ones - are NOT what I ordered.) I want to be in control of my data, and be able to easily transition to competitors and/or self-hosted solutions.

I guess one of the more difficult things to have “free” is the music that could be of interest to you, but you do not already own it.

I was contemplating to go back to reading album reviews and music news myself, but that seems like a larger time invest.

That is a very good question.

• What would it cost if I was to acquire the music in my library?
• What if I wanted to sail the seven seas instead? Where would I get the music from?

As for the algorithm, a lot of the suggestions for new music is probably also available to non-premium users (e.g. “Discover Weekly”) and could be scraped/downloaded from the API.

I believe there could be a rise in demand for a solution to migrate away from these audio walled gardens, especially with the upcoming price hike.

Being able to choose the best fruits/vegetables when shopping for groceries. No more moldy Avocados.

I know that there are indicators that I can already use to determine this, but I want to be able to just pick the best ones every time on first try without even thinking or touching them all.

Thanks! The page seems to put more focus on “custom builds”, whereas the other page linked has more granular presets for the builds. I’ve bookmarked them both and will try and cross-reference my selected hardware and compare suggestions.

Wow, that looks awesome, thanks!

Neat. Did you come up with the configuration yourself or did you use some reference, e.g. Lemmy?

I plan on doing the same in autumn/winter and I want to make sure everything’s compatible.

My observation during Covid was that once they are “hooked” on a certain conspiracy, they go out of their way to discredit/ignore any facts that state otherwise. My assumption is that the longer this goes on, the harder they are fighting to stick to “their truth”. They rather accept obvious false news than accept that they were wrong initially.

Why? Because they would need to go back and acknowledge being wrong, " loosing their face" in front of a lot of people. They may have had angry conversations over the conspiracies with loved ones and may have even cut ties. (Experienced that first-hand with family.) The further down the rabbit hole they go, the higher the “costs” of going back up.

I tried to avoid going into details, but they started to say something among the lines of, “Well, things are not like your media wants you make believe…” (aka “The press is lying to you/us”).

They seem suspicious of mainstream media. How they find their Telegram channels to be more competent is beyond me.

I wish it was that easy. That part of my family is a bit more remote, so I don’t see them that often. Still, I hurt thinking about how this misinformation was able to divide us like that. There’s also little point in arguing with them. We simply don’t talk much anymore, and if we do, we keep the topics light and refrain from politics and/or other world-news topics such as climate change. (Which is not really a thing, if you ask them, but I think you get the idea.)

For us, the topics just changed. After Covid, they started to talk Pro-Putin bullshit, probably Q-Anon related. It’s honestly shocking to see people who I once thought of as intelligent turn brainwashed. We rarely talk anymore, and if we do, it’s very superficial.