I’m pretty sure any reasonable person will understand it when you say something like “I’m one of the polite and quiet Americans”.

I have several American friend. One of them was 100% certain he didn’t sounds American so I called it out a few times and he finally agreed.

I’ve also been ~10km across the boarder at a hotel. The bar staff called me out as a Canadian within 5 min. “It’s the way you say ‘house’”. I got them to say it, I said it, sounds EXACTLY the same to me but they said they’re certain.

Point being, people can tell you’re lying most of the time so it’s really not worth it.

Americans in the Netherlands will say Canada. Caught a few different groups doing while I was there.

Sir, it’s very clear you’ve got that Southern US twang, we don’t speak like that. “They treat us so much better when we say Canada”. How about you don’t do that and just be polite.

Fill it out if you’re American*

I found out about this a couple years ago when my wife started a conversation with me like “do you know some people can’t picture things?”. I had several follow up questions because I thought it was just a figure of speech for the first ~30 years of my life.

My internal voice is exactly like me speaking out loud. If I don’t “speak” in my mind there’s nothing, just like if I don’t speak I’m not saying anything out loud.

I almost never play games but I’ve bought a bunch of physical copies of games I want to play. There’s already SO MANY good games I haven’t played yet that If new games are digital only I’ll either go back to older consoles or piracy.

Put a stick in the window on the inside to hold it open, and a camera watching everything

I don’t use steam, but I did a quick search and I don’t see many articles of them removing a game you’ve paid for from your library without giving you a refund. Even then you can add games not paid for on steam, into steam so I’m not sure your point. You can add a disk game into steam.

OPP (Ontario Police) pulled over someone for speeding 2 days ago. Kind of surprising I haven’t seen the article yet.

OS doesn’t see it so it’s either dead, unplugged, or I have no idea.

You see it in the BIOS?

So I’m just an idiot when I guess if a battery is good by weight vs other batteries I have. Two heavy ones must be good!

Maybe I should actually get a battery tester…

Self-promotion posts advertising their product requires community participation, or they will be removed. No more than 10% of your posts or comments may be self-promotional, or your post will be removed. **F/LOSS Exception**: If your post is about a project that is completely open source & can be self-hosted *in full* without payment, your post is exempt from this rule.

How about

Promotional posts advertising a product requires community participation. If more than 10% of your history is promotional it will be removed. F/LOSS Exception: If a project is completely open source and can be self-hosted in full without payment, it is exempt.

Edit: we’ve come full circle. Let’s just do ‘don’t be a shill’ and be done with it…

Promotional posts require community participation or they will be removed. No more than 10% of your posts or comments may be self-promotional, or your post will be removed. **F/LOSS Exception**: If your post is about a project that is completely open source & without any paywalls, it will be exempt from this rule.

To me, this says, if you’re posting something behind a paywall (F/LOSS or not) they’re going to look at your post history. If you’re a shill, it will be removed. If you’re someone who self hosts and just wants to talk about self hosted apps, you’re fine.

Said another way, if all you do is post promo content it’s not welcome here. If it’s a one off then post it.

Look, if you don’t like the rule, make a suggestion to the mods on how to make it better. The spirit here is we all love learning and using new tools paid or not. If you want to share something new to you, like Plex, I’m 100% sure its fine. Post, promote what you love, start a conversation around Plex. The problem is if you only ever talk about Plex and promote it. It gets old FAST and it’s not a community I want to he apart of.

Symfonium is another paid example. Amazing app. Even with the new rules we can post about them. With that, I don’t understand your original complaint.

If you’re not pushing your paywalled stuff, it doesn’t affect you, does it?

Yeah, I understand that. I was suggesting saying the same thing without the exception wording. In the end, it doesn’t stop us from talking about paid software. I use Plex, etc, etc, it’s the promotion that’s the problem… That being said, maybe I’ve misunderstood non_burglar’s complaint. Unless they are a closed source dev looking to promote.

I think that’s the important distinction to make. Maybe get rid of the f/loss exception and explicitly call out the paid aspect. If you’re here to promote software that’s pay walled you get the 10% rule.

ETA: I’m fine with the new rules. Just trying to find common ground.

If someone gave me 21billion I bet I could only lose 1 billion, return the 20, and never be seen again.

This was my thought too. I’m going to wait and try and buy a used one, assuming some people will buy it, use it for a week and look to sell.

100% agree with you on all points.

Company I worked for was owned by private equity. We didn’t make enough money so they said we’re bankrupt. a month or so later my first child was born. It has been 9 months and I need a job. My résumé is very Linux, CI/CD, devops heavy. I’ve been applying to everything. No idea why a windows shop even considered me but here we are. I’ll be driving an hour away from home for the privilege of being abused, underpaid, and being away from my family.