DigitalPortkey @ DigitalPortkey @lemmy.world

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Oh I see.

I guess I'll wait with baited breath for when you're ready to hold people to that standard. I suppose until then you won't understand why this is just embarrassing for Musk.

That's the point of Twitter for users..."haha".

The people running Twitter should act like professionals. If I was Mr Beast, I sure as hell would not even reply to such a tweet.

You understand that what content creators get paid by the platform is never anywhere near what the platform gets paid by the advertisers...right?

Using completely made up numbers, if Mr Beast is paid $1 by Youtube for every thousand views, YouTube may be getting paid $6 or $7 by advertisers.

Otherwise the monetization would never work.

Musk doesn't have the funds or the revenue from Twitter to be able to compete with that.

Seriously...what a weird take. High resolution video is simply just nicer to watch, these guys are going a very strange direction with it.

"consumerism"? My dude, it's pre produced video files. With hardware acceleration it takes barely any real processing power to play back 4k video.

You are not changing anything or making any difference in whether the world is "going to shit". The Internet bandwidth you're getting is being artificially choked by your ISP...always.

It feels like you think it's some kind of moral victory and wanted to take some kind of arbitrary stand against "consumerism" and landed here.

Unless you actually have bandwidth limitations or don't have a screen capable of displaying the content, lowering to DVD quality is achieving nothing at all.

It is when you're publicly begging on said platform. The correct thing to do would have been to reach out over DM or even better, reach out to the production team that runs Mr Beast's channel and begin conversations.

You know, like any other serious company might do.

The only reason he did this publicly is for the attention.

If you want to make money and kill clones make your distro free but charge for official support.

That model just does not work. For the engineering that goes into RedHat (and all the contributions back to the community they send), they just don't make enough for that to happen. Everyone just wants to shrug this off as "Oh IBM has lots of money so that's not a problem". This "make it free and charge for support" model almost never works for FOSS yet so many people want to believe it does. On an enterprise level, it just doesn't. People who want to use an enterprise distro of Linux for free also likely don't want to pay for support either, instead wanting to support it themselves. Which is all well and good but that doesn't account for the fact RHEL does all the engineering, all the building, all the testing, everything, and then puts that release up for use. All of that has to be covered somehow.

There was never any promise that you'd always be able to create a "bug compatible distro". Ever. The GPL does not cover future releases or updates and never has, and even implying that it should sets a dangerous precedent of people being entitled to what you haven't even created yet.

Rather than hearing the emotional takes from people that want to turn this into "RedHat vs the Linux Community", I strongly suggest you listen to LinuxUnplugged: https://linuxunplugged.com/517?t=506.

RedHat is still contributing everything upstream, and CentOS Stream is not going anywhere. You have full access to the source of whatever you buy.

The only thing that has changed here is that the loophole that Alma and Rocky were using to create a RHEL clone and then offer support for it (Which is literally RedHat's own business model) is gone. Those two are throwing a tantrum because they got to set up a nice easy business model where they literally did nothing more than clone RHEL and then offer support for it and that free lunch is over. That's it. They don't contribute back to RHEL, they don't do anything to help development. They sold themselves as the "free" or "cheaper" alternative and now they're getting burned for building their entire business of the work done by RHEL.

Everything else in this story is noise, drama, and unnecessary emotion.

Not remotely.

Maybe certain people should think twice about setting up an entire business model of support based on having the current company do all the engineering work, cloning it, and then taking the support contracts for it.

Both Fedora and CentOS Stream are still very much upstream. Just certain CentOS alternatives are throwing a hissy-fit/tantrum that their nice neat little "cloned distro + support" business model fell apart overnight because they built their entire business off of what's basically (not entirely) a loophole.

You can actually take it one step further and directly integrate NextDNS into your Tailnet: https://tailscale.com/kb/1218/nextdns/

Private DNS. I use https://nextdns.io/, and then just change my phone's private DNS address to match.

Works great, easy enough to toggle off if needed.

I stopped messing with port forwarding and reverse proxies and fail2ban and all the other stuff a long time ago.

Everything is accessible for login only locally, and then I add Tailscale (alternative would be ZeroTier) on top of it. Boom, done. Everything is seamless, I don't have any random connection attempts clogging up my logging, and I've massively reduced my risk surface. Sure I'm not immune; if the app communicates on the internet, it must be regularly patched, and that I do my best to keep up with.

The progression of this app is just insane. Thank you again for all the hard work, it's just such a delight to use.

The performance difference is ridiculous...everything feels faster.

Thank you so much!

TCLs have phenomenal value for panel quality and price, and what you can get for the money just keeps increasing.

And with archinstall I'd argue it's about as easy to install as most "normal" distros these days.