Stop I can only get so eShrekt

Best advice that I forgot to include because it’s been a while since I needed VNC for anything. @akunohana@piefed.blahaj.zone, please follow @ianhclark510@lemmy.blahaj.zone’s advice here!

VNC server on her computer. VNC client on your computer. Make sure password is very strong since you’re opening this to the wider internet. Open a port for VNC to pass through on your moms router (and possibly your own as well), and then connect remotely.

TigerVNC seems to be available for all platforms, including Windows and Linux. TigerVNC includes a server and client. (Client is sometimes called “viewer.”)

https://tigervnc.org/

https://github.com/TigerVNC/tigervnc

Thanks for the clarification, I’m old and sometimes my memory is more fuzzy on those details. But yeah, it’s always been a license, and back then it felt more like ownership because of the honor system.

“Piracy is a service problem.” Truer words have never been spoken.

Let’s be real though, technically software has always lived and died on licensing instead of ownership.

I remember software in the 90s having limits on how many computers you could use an application on (however rarely enforced), and making backup copies of software that you owned (like copying a CD for backup purposes) was a hard fought right when the DMCA was being implemented. But even the backup only helped so much because especially in the last 20 years tech has grown at lightning speed since the introduction of the iPhone in 2007. A CD backup of Office 1999 isn’t really helpful in 2026 anyway.

I’m not arguing this is how it should be. I’m just clarifying that technically this is how it has always been. We’ve never had full rights to do whatever we want with the software we buy. It’s why Free (as in speech, not as in beer) Open Source Software is so important, and why open hardware is so important by extension.

The same companies that rose to dominance using an environment with weak regulation and enforcement while also maintaining that hacker attitude of “routing around bad legislation” have now been using their dominance to make an environment of tight regulation and enforcement, now that they’re at the top. They have spent endless amounts of lobbying money to get this environment to benefit them where you’re locked in via hardware and software to the companies rules on how you use your hardware and software… because the software was never really ours, and now they’re leveraging that to make our hardware not ours either.

The only way out is through. FOSS.

OH! Then he can parody MetaFilter’s own plannedchaos Scott Adams, who lost his ability to speak for about three years.

It’s the christian conservative version of the onion, the Babylon Bee, thus the “BBN.”

Tim is going to do that voice so long it’s going to accidentally become his real voice

How will they protect that content being trained for AI models on third party piracy sites where dumps of Patreon subscriber content get published without a paywall. On those sites, there’s no protection.

Like that’s the unfortunate part about a lot of this is a lot of people pay for Patreon access and then just pirate the content out. I’m not against piracy, but I do see the nature of the piracy sites being wide open with no controls or protections from AI scraping that even with Patreon doing this, many are likely to still have their art scraped.

Texted from a giant steampunk spider robot

Needs five more hot dogs.

Oh another fun (although flawed) romp was Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die

Friendship is funny, but only if you can stomach an I Think You Should Leave comedy sketch for two hours.

There’s also a cute indie(?) British film I quite enjoyed called Time Travel is Dangerous that’s both funny and really cute.

Tim Travers and the Time Travelers Paradox is a goofy little low budget sci-fi.

Also Cunk on Life may be just an entry in the long-running Philomena Cunk universe, but it is also technically a film, whereas much of the prior Cunk media were television shows.

Hundreds of Beavers is deeply unique and one of the funniest films I have seen in my life. A combination of video game mechanics, looney tunes physics, and well, hundreds of beavers.

Comedy movies still exist, they’re just different than how they used to be, I think. Also I didn’t go to the theater for these because I’m poor but I wish I had! (also some of them were direct to streaming and never hit theaters, like I’m fairly sure was the case for Time Travel is Dangerous, Tim Travers, and Cunk on Life)

If you ever liked any Lonely Island stuff, whether on channel101 back in the day, on SNL, or one of the various movies directed by Akiva with Jorma and Andy, you’ll probably enjoy this as Akiva is directing. There’s nice little touches as well such as at least one joke that is only seen if you are watching with subtitles on.

It really, really is.

Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie

I was writing a top level comment here an hour ago or more and for some reason it didn’t post. Sad.

I just love your normal posts though! I want more of your unique style with your name on it. I don’t usually feel like I have anything worthwhile to say about them, but I always upvote them when I see them!

Please don’t stop with your own unique style, your art deserves to be seen.

Now I want an of operator to exist