Funny thing is, sometimes I’ll do this out of the blue days later and my wife picks up on it immediately.

Thank you. I was freaking out. Isn’t this what they call a stream of consciousness?

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?

Because they are sociopaths that have zero empathy for those they deport.

Oh no! That’s terrible. Anyway…

Probably when Tasha asks Data if he’s fully functional.

Maybe it’s a good thing? It’s not like he was doing any good anyway.

Like what else would they say? Nope he has cancer and Alzheimer’s. Won’t last the term. Even if it were true, their not going to say it.

Funny, I said that long before this was an issue and for me it meant Christmas and New Year’s. I wasn’t really thinking about Hanukkah or anything else but figured hey, the more it includes, the better.

Yeah, you’re right.

So strange that they think this war on Christmas (and I guess I’m Easter) is real. I honestly don’t know a single person that has a problem with someone wishing someone a Merry Christmas or celebrating it in any way.

Just like guns. I have MANY democratic friends and almost all of them own guns. When Obama left office five gun laws had been passed, all of them loosening restrictions. Can’t they just look something up for crying out loud?

This guy fought harder than our democratic leaders.