Joplinapp.org. Your link goes to a for sale dotcom domain

https://www.brewdog.com/uk/diy-dog

Walter’s Walk, Hats off to Roy Harper, Royal Orleans, Candy Store Rock, all the garbage drum solo tracks (Moby dock, bonzo Montreux ).

Granted, but you have to watch an ad every time you open an app.

It’s kinda fun watching liberals realize that Bolsheviks aren’t leftists

When they get to jaspers house you hear them say, “where is he we know he came here a few weeks ago” they had followed him there once and returned on the hunch that he may have came there.

Some metal and metal-adjacent instrumental bands I listen to a lot:

• Sunn O)))
• Russian Circles
• Pelican
• Lethe
• Explosions in the Sky

It’s been known that not only is it safer to do so, but that it’s much more common outside the United States, as evidenced by this article from 2016: https://www.vox.com/2016/8/1/11926596/safer-back-into-parking-spaces

Anecdotally, when I worked at Renault in Spain, we were required to reverse into parking spaces on all of their properties.

It’s easier than parallel parking, and provides extra safety, so why wouldn’t you do it?

I am thinking specifically of broadcast tv kids shows that I have no problem with my kids watching, but that are broadcast with kid targeted ads in my country. I much prefer to rip them and let the kids watch them without commercials.

Any content that exists solely to put ads in front of my kids is 100% fair game and not just ethically allowed, but creates an ethical necessity to remove it from it’s advertising.

The second part of my answer is how I go about it, as someone with some weird niche interests. I just try to get people to talk about their interests.

Sometimes though, people use safe standard topics as a way of setting boundaries, and that’s cool too. Especially in a work environment where competition for promotion exists, people aren’t very chill about letting their genuine freak flag fly. The same goes for weird awkward situations like the plus 1 conversation pit at a partners work (adjacent) event. Gotta be on the best behavior and talk about the ball game, the movie premiere, and the Hollywood strike instead of things you don’t know people’s reaction to when it could hurt your partner’s career.

But in truly social, zero stakes, situations, I just try to get people talking, and if they toss the question back to me, pick some interest of mine that seems less weird to chat about and see how they react.

I mean, your niche interests can’t be THAT weird if you’re looking to connect to people about them, so just stick one of them out there and see how it’s received.

I don’t mean this in any way to be condescending, but it sounds like your question could he rephrased as “How do you make small talk about something other than media consumption?”

And the answer to that question is to have interests outside of consuming media. Not only does it give you other things to talk about, it gives you other people to talk to.

Outside of that, in a more general sense, it isn’t hard to just prompt people to tell you about whatever they are into. You can literally just be like “So what are you into?” And let people just tell you point blank what they like talking about. From there it’s super easy to just keep them rolling along with questions like “how’d you get into THING?” or “that sounds cool, what’s a good way to get started in THING?”.

Everyone has SOMETHING they’re super into, so just get them to talk about it. It doesn’t have to interest you at all - it’s just cool to hear people talk about what they’re into - and it gives you a lot of insight into whether or not they’re the kind of person you want to get to know better just from how they talk about their interests.

I write about it in English at https://eatingasturias.com, assuming self promotion isn’t a terrible sin here

If MMOs count, EVE Online at well over 12,000 hours over the last 20 years.

If not, nethack has probably consumed close to 1000 hours of my life.

The history of food culture in Asturias in northern Spain.

Why read when you could just angrypost, I guess.

Why not defederate? How much friction is there in making a new account on their instance to:

• get support in an appropriate forum, and:
• keep a fire gap between that account that is a known consumer of Product X and your other account that has lots of other data that maybe shouldn’t be tied to your verified consumer purchases like a giant sign saying “triangulate my interests and sell crap to me”

Filecr.com

Dub Qawwali by Gaudí + Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan.

Can’t say I am a huge fan of Sufi devorional music or of London/Jamaica dub, but this album truly transcends both of those genres.

One of my favorite albums, and a unique musical artifact.

Fail2ban and Nginx Proxy Manager. Here’s a tutorial on getting started with Fail2ban:

https://github.com/yes-youcan/bitwarden-fail2ban-libressl