This is my perspective as an American looking in. In other languages there may be terminology used for these items that do not reference firearms.

I’ll try and explain, but let me know if you don’t follow. In the US it’s common to claim the front passenger seat by saying “I call shotgun!” or simply “Shotgun!” The commenter is playing on a now common refrain where Americans use firearms and terminology to describe basic things. As far as I can tell, it’s true. For example: caulk gun, staple gun, nail gun, glue gun, tattoo gun, finger guns, ot phrases like “I’ll think about it before I pull the trigger on it.” Or “Shoot me your email and I’ll get you those photos.”

I don’t know how prolific this type of thing is in other countries though, so I can only assume we Americans arr outliers due to how deeply ingrained guns are in our culture. Hope this clarifies things a bit, let me know if not.

TLDR: Americans describing so many things: “So imagine a gun, but…”

The account is 2 years old, but hopefully @JennieBreeden@lemmy.sdf.org will be more active!

The fuck are we counting down to?

This is actually what I did. I never could get Samba working, so I setup Jellyfin and it’s been a breeze ever since. What an amazing piece of software! I just wanted to access my files, but having them categorized with images, cast and crew, ratings, and even recommended is just fantastic. The Xbox app works fine but it’s basically just a web wrapper, and the cursor never goes away which is mildly annoying, but it’s still a way better experience than the VLC Xbox app.

Thanks for the help!

It works (VLC on Xbox), but it’s definitely not that great.

Well that made it show up thankfully, but it’s asking me to log in. Any idea how to handle that? I don’t want it to ask at all so family members have ready access.

So I added the forward slash and now the folder shows up, but it’s asking me for login credentials now. I thought “guests ok = yes” would handle that but apparently not. Any suggestions?

All I’m trying to do is play videos on Xbox/Roku, so whatever makes that happen easily is fine with me for now. I would like to build a stand alone media pc/NAS later but for now just want to keep hosting it on my pc.

Well I tried the UI approach of right clicking the folder and going to share options, which is when I was prompted to install Samba, but there is warning that states “The permission for <folder> prevent othersl users from accessing this share”. I did some digging on that error, and everything I came across basically said that wouldn’t work. My next attempt was modifying the Samba config file, I added

[FolderName]

path = (file directory path I see in properties, /media/username/lettersandnumbersfordrive?/FolderName)

browseable = yes

read only = yes

guest ok = yes

create mask =0775

As instructed by a tutorial I found. When running testpram I don’t get any errors, but I’m not seeing the folder in VLC like I do when sharing from Win10. That’s as far as I have gotten. If there’s anything else that I can provide please let me know, and on that note, the drive I’m sharing from is NTFS if that has any impact.

Thanks again!

I straight up love my Sonicare. I never expected a toothbrush to be so satisfying, but it really is. It’s also nice to have the dental hygenist heap on the compliments!

It would be nice to refill them instead of taking 5 partials left over from previous trips.

Not to me, and not to them either. I already know, and Trump supports don’t care. These people don’t read history and were brought up through a poor quality education system that told them the US was the greatest nation on earth and we never did anything bad, and if we did, well, it worked out in the end didn’t it?

Your taun taun will freeze before you reach the first marker!

Take the ticket. Take it!

They mean that the Luigi Mangione community on .world will probably get banned.

Meanwhile Triumph TR4 is like, “What do you mean which side?”

What’s this?

There’s magic in the air!

The way I understand it, pagers are a one way device. When a message is sent to a pager it is broadcasted by the network for the pager to recieve, but there isn’t any sort of confirmation sent back to the tower, so they can’t really be tracked. That’s why they were in use prior to cellphones. These pagers ran on a AAA battery from what I understand, which wouldn’t last very long if it was having to constantly broadcast like a cellphone.

Well I don’t know about an acronym but it looks like “occasionally rains” but there are three Ns.