I’m an antenna engineer and anyone who vaguely knows what that means asks if I’m a ham radio operator. Nope.

LOL. Yeah, we’re animals man.

Absolute agreement there.

I know he’s Australian. I was suggesting he use his talents on another dictator. And yeah, I’m pretty sure the world DOES revolve around the US. That’s the problem. But thanks for the passive aggressive response.

Could be. Really thought it was pizza. Gonna be hard to unlearn this.

Hmmm, I’ve “known” that for a long time. I know pizza in Italy is not the same as pizza in America and is typically eaten with a fork and knife. Maybe that’s what I was thinking or maybe I’m confusing it with a different supposedly Italian food.

That was awesome. Wish he would do one on TACO.

Couldn’t agree more except one little nitpick. Pizza was invented in America.

I’m pretty sure I disabled/removed it when I got this phone. I don’t specifically remember doing it but when I get a new phone, I watch some YouTube videos on how to purge all the crap I don’t want.

I read an article that mentioned using command line stuff to eliminate it and it kind looked familiar. I think I did this. I really should write stuff down.

I can’t find Gemini on my phone.

Why the hell would anyone apply for a visa to come here?

Forrest Gump.

Only Lemmy.

Just Facebook! LOL

I disagree. I believe that billionaires control the world. It is their attitude that is pervasive throughout government that allows the hunger to continue. Not to mention the number of uber rich people in the various governments, riding around in limousines while their people starve.

Also capitalism requires a large body of poor people to support it. Those cheap T-shirts aren’t made by highly paid labor. And who benefits most from capitalism?

I can probably come up with numerous other connections between the ultra rich and the state of poverty.

Yeah, the comment was just intended to highlight how bad things are getting here now.

I’m sorry, did you say China or the US?

He seems to have united the world… regrettably against us.

Also the word “bigly.” I use it all the time.

As I mentioned, I didn’t really know where to post it. I guess my lemmy-foo isn’t up to snuff. I saw that this appears to be in lemmy.world, but only 10 options came up when I tried to post and none of them really seemed right. Advice?

Thank you for the thorough response. After looking carefully at what you wrote I didn’t really see a difference between the term self-hosting and home network.

You said you have software that automatically downloads media. The way I see this using movies for instance, if I own the movies and have them on my machine, then I can stream them over my network and have full control. Whereas if I “own” them on Amazon and steam it from there, they can track the viewing experience, push ads, or even remove the content completely. I understand that… But if I want a NEW movie, I’m back to Amazon to get it in the first place (or Netflix, or Walmart, etc. I get it). I’m fact, personally I’ve started actually buying disks of the movies/music I like most so that it can’t really be taken away and I can enjoy it even without an Internet connection. Am I missing something? Unless of course the media you are downloading is pirated.

I know I’m asking what seems to be a huge question but I’m really only asking for a broad description, sort of an ELI5 thing.