PleasantAura

Lies. CDs are useful for ripping to FLAC and then putting away in a box somewhere never to be seen again.

At a glannce, my guess is that the tape jacks are an input but the headphone jack is an output.

I know I said "unionize" in another comment, but I've realized that might not be immediately helpful, so some other advice: if you're in a place where it's legal to record with one party's consent, secretly record the whole thing. If not, I still advise recording, but you'll have to say you're recording and get everyone's consent. Ask for everything in writing whether or not they allow that. Expect to be fired. Expect to need a lawyer. Get a lawyer. Expect that the lawsuit will take time and you won't get much of anything but you might be lucky enough to hurt them in the process. Resign yourself to the fact that without unionization or governmental change, we're absolutely and totally fucked if we're disabled, neurodivergent, or even just different. Then do whatever you have to in order to survive knowing that.

Unionize, then.

itch.io is fantastic. Mostly indie stuff with some bigger name stuff, but it's by far the best out there for devs.

Could be something weird going on with your cell provider and account there, could be someone has access to your iCloud. Check your iCloud and make sure you revoke access to any unauthorized devices and change your password to something secure and unique. If you're saving your passwords to a Google account or other password manager, change passwords there as well and change passwords to any email accounts connected to that. Could also be a glitch, but the average person takes about ten seconds of Google searching to "hack" because of bad security practices so I'd take the chance to update that stuff.

$50 to maaaaybe $200 if you're really lucky. More likely on the low end than the high end. Macs from that era and even a lot of newer ones pre-M1 have nosedived in price because Apple isn't supporting x86 going forward.

In certain parts of the world, you quite literally do not have a choice. For example: I'm in a rural community on an island. No one uses any other website to post anything, from local classified ads to events to important city/community stuff. The choice isn't to use a better alternative but whether a person here has social contact with anyone locally at all.

No, moving is not a realistic option, especially not moving as far as we'd have to move; even the biggest city in the province doesn't use anything else.

I mean, be conscious of your needs, but anyone saying "you're too sensitive" is pretty much universally an unhealthy person to be around unless there's some real nuance to the situation. It means they're dismissing your emotional reactions as unreasonable or otherwise not worth respecting and that's basically abuse 101.

Find people who get you and accept you as you are. If there's something about yourself that you struggle with, work on coping techniques and the like, but ultimately anyone who doesn't respect you is going to abuse or hurt you even if it's unintentional on their part. It's why we're several times more likely to be abused than neurotypical people: we're constantly told that we're being unreasonable and we tend to be far more accepting of others than they are of us, often ignoring abuse because we're taught to internalize self-hatred from a young age. At least that's my perspective as an autistic person with C-PTSD and a heck of a lot of trauma related to this sort of thing exactly.

The correct response to someone seeming sensitive or expressing a boundary is acceptance and respect, possibly followed by discussion on those terms when it's not urgently in need of addressing. Ignoring boundaries is almost always either abusive or neglectful. Slips are going to happen, of course, but "you're too sensitive" is an intentional attempt to dismiss your boundaries, not a slip barring exceptional circumstance.

Honestly, your instance has gotten worse over time in that regard too. Lemmy.ml used to be one of the better instances in that regard but the influx of Reddit users caused quality to crater and weird propaganda-ish pro-America/pro-capitalism stuff (and, not coincidentally, more racist/transphobic stuff) to start flowing from .ml. Probably not anything worthy of any block/defederation because ml still has decent content and a lot of good users but I sometimes am surprised by the stuff that comes out of there.

I didn't say "defederate them"; I said that I didn't know why other instances were defederated when that instance is worse. I intentionally didn't say defederation is bad or good because that's irrelevant.

Also, different people have different views on defederation and its relation to the Fediverse. In my experience, curating away from content harmful to your users is important to creating healthy communities.

This guy has been spamming garbage everywhere. sh.itjust.works is a terrible instance with no moderation and this quality of post is pretty normal from users there. I don't know why they haven't been defederated en masse when other less spammy/disruptive instances that actually contribute to discussions have been.