I paid for a lifetime membership to Plex in 2012–$75. I stopped using it around 2015, mostly because I hated that I didn’t have access to software running on my server, meant to serve my media, without an internet connection. I knew that meant worse was coming in the future.

I don’t regret switching to Jellyfin.

I think this is the third time this pic has got me.

“Evil attacks”, like we’re killing puppies, or something.

It’s vandalism against machines, and the only victim here is the insurance companies.

They’ve become sentient, and are committing suicide.

<Reads something I needed to know, nods head vigorously in complete understanding, closes tab…>

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FUCK!

Shhh. Let them stay at home, I don’t need the competition.

Only when the pain of bowing to Microsoft, and their increasing intrusions and demands, exceeds the (IMO) minor pains (multiple) of switching to Linux, do people make the jump. That threshold is low for some, and high for many.

I’m a Linux Mint exclusive guy for one year next month, and I’m never installing Windows again. No, it didn’t “just work”, but it did work 85% out of the box, and the rest I was able to figure out. I’m NOT “an IT guy”, and the only OS I used before Windows was MS-DOS (so, yeah, I’m old).

I play Fallout 4, and Half-Life 2, and run Gimp, Inkscape, Blender, LibreOffice, Calibre, Jellyfin, Forge AI, PrusaSlicer, Meshroom, SABnzbd, etc. etc. Everything works fine, now, and I’m perfectly happy without Microsoft all up in my shit.

Oh, and, BTW, Gimp 3.0 is the shit. I’ve used Gimp off and on over the years, as a Photoshop user for nearly 30 years. Gimp doesn’t do everything Photoshop does, but it now does everything I ever used Photoshop for as a graphic designer for 20 years.

Amazon doesn’t sell anything you can’t buy somewhere else for the same price. You have no excuse to keep using Amazon. Correction, I’m sure people who buy from Amazon have excuses, but they aren’t good ones.

Intelligence and knowledge are two different things. Or, rather, the difference between smart and stupid people is how they interpret the knowledge they acquire. Both can acquire knowledge, but stupid people come to wrong conclusions by misinterpreting the knowledge. Like LLMs, 40% of the time, apparently.

It removed itself after becoming sentient.

I’ve never had a Discord account. It’s gamers, right?

I use StartPage because it does image search, and none of the AI BS.

This should be illegal.

More directly comparable, is the Ring cameras inside the house.

This is the same sort of BS that led me to leave Plex. I use Jellyfin now. I know it’s not the same as Roku, or the others, and that’s why I use it.

I’m not contributing to some CEO’s mortgage to be spied on and have my habits commodified.

I’m answering two months later, just for the sake of keeping activity up on the site.

I need to scrape and paint the fascia on the East side of my house. I need to do the same to the garage door jamb. I need to repair a corner post on my back porch, and finally, I need to re-finish the ceiling of my back porch. All small projects, but small projects make up most of the work I do on my house.

We had one here in my small suburb town a couple of days ago. I was surprised, and pleased to see it. There were only about 50 people, but there was 50 people.

Imagine Trump, or any other billionaire, saying something like this. Can’t do it? Me neither.

Actual free market at work, as opposed to the shit we have in the U.S.

I often need to remind myself that Harry Potter, and Lord of the Rings are not recent movies.

It’s the same as being a kid in the 80s, which I was, and thinking The Seven Year Itch was a recent movie. Now, I had seen that movie on TV, because my parents liked it, and I thought it was funny, but never did I think of it as “recent”.

Still, you can’t tell me that Harry Potter movies didn’t happen in the last ten years.