Funny thing is I’ve been calling Superman an illegal immigrant for decades. All of the sudden it’s not a joke anymore. It’s a friggin comic book hero for crying out loud.

LOL. Yeah, we’re animals man.

Absolute agreement there.

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.

You make a good point.

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

I never played the others. I play with my friend overseas every Monday. He chooses the games. He may have chosen it because it is cooperative, online and not PvP. IDK.

But we also play, Aliens, Grimm Dawn, all of the borderlands games, like literally ALL of them including Tiny Tina’s Wonderland. Two is my favorite.

Diablo 4. I mean, I know it is easy, but I felt the version of Halo I played was way easy and it has a good reputation.

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.

I see. Well…

Fuck!

Oh you can also use coconut oil. I guess some people say it has a good flavor but I have to say I don’t notice any real olive oil flavor in my popcorn but I really use very little. My popcorn is pretty dry, which is how I like it.

Nope works fine. But you can’t use extra virgin olive oil. It has a lower smoke point. Also I’ve found you can do a small bowl or a regular bowl but a large one is best done in two shots.

I used to just use a brown paper bag. Put about a teaspoon of olive oil in the bottom and a little less than a 1/4 cup of popcorn in the bottom (it will start to bleed through, so I put it on a paper towel), put a couple staples in the top (no they won’t spark) and nuke for maybe a couple of minutes.

This did not produce enough popcorn for my addiction, so I started using as plastic microwave popcorn bowl someone gave me. It was more or less the same recipe but I was able to up the quantity a little bit. I didn’t like cooking in plastic though, so now I use a Pyrex bowl with a square plate over the top. The square plate is too keep the popcorn in but still have a little space for the steam to escape. I like not having plastic in the equation anymore but there are some drawbacks.

1. It takes about 5.5 minutes now(1st world problem).

2. The bowl gets really hot so you MUST use oven mitts to handle it.

3. The salt, which I put in before popping, seems to stay more in the bowl than on the popcorn.

4. I’m constantly worried that at some point the bowl is just going to explode.

I hope so. I admit, I didn’t read the article.

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.

Wow! Thank you all for the civilized responses. This all sounds so great. I am older and I feel like I’ve already seen enough ads for one lifetime and I hate all this fascist tracking crap.

But how does that work? Is it just a network on which you store your stuff in a way that you can download it anywhere or can it do more? I mean, to me that’s just a home network. Hosting sounds like it’s designed for other people to access. Can I put my website on there? If so, how do I go about registering my domain each year. I’m not computer illiterate but this sounds kind of beyond my skill level. I’ll go search Jellyfin, weird name, and see what I can find. Thanks again!

I’ve never posted on Lemmy before. I tried to ask this question of the greater community but I had to pick a community and didn’t know which one. This shows up as lemmy.world but that wasn’t an option.

Anyway, what I wanted to know is why do people self host? What is the advantage/cost. Sorry if I’m hijacking. Maybe someone could just post a link or something.

The pictures also shows french fries and popcorn. In my house those are literally just potatoes and olive oil and popcorn and olive oil respectively, maybe some salt. Bad for me? Maybe, but ultra processed?

Oh no, I feel really bad for him… Anyway…