GoodPointSir @ GoodPointSir @lemmy.ca

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The way I read the article was that all Belarussian and Russian applicants for renewals of visas / residency were rejected.

Edit: the US visa rejection rate is around 15%. This really doesn't seem like news at all... After reading some other sources on this topic, it seems that it would have been only around 8% of applications, So yeah, seems you are correct. I stand corrected. Seems like this is barely worth an article in that case, countries reject visas all the time for arbitrary reasons...

I'm saying the Russian invasion doesn't justify deporting Russians living in Lithuania for no other reason, just like how the war with Japan didn't justify putting Japanese people in concentration camps.

The Russian government are using Russians living in neighboring countries as an excuse to invade them, but it's not like they wouldn't have invaded Ukraine if there weren't any Russians there. It's obviously a pretense, and has nothing to do with the ACTUAL Russians living in Lithuania.

That small difference is one is being said by the government to justify its actions, and the other is said by someone generations after the act was done, to specifically highlight the racism.

The actual statements produced by the American government would have sounded a lot like your first quote, and the Lithuanian forced deportation could also be summarized as "once a Russian, always a Russian"

1. Yes, the US paid reparations to the Japanese for their racist policy against them. I'm pointing out what they did was racist and shitty, just like what Lithuania is doing is racist and shitty.
2. I'm not arguing for Russia's invasion, I'm arguing against forced deportation of Russian people from Lithuania.
3. Whataboutism is using one evil to justify another evil. I'm using one evil to HIGHLIGHT another evil. In fact, bringing up the war in Ukraine to justify deporting Russians in Lithuania is Whataboutism.

except I'm explicitly saying that we recognize Japanese internment as racist and bad, and should also recognize mass Russian deportation as racist and bad.

Read my comment, then read your comment again. It doesn't even make sense. I'm not saying the US invaded people so Russia should too, I'm saying it was wrong to discriminate against the Japanese for being Japanese, and it is still wrong to discriminate against the Russians for being Russian.

So basically the same reasoning the US had for throwing all their Japanese people into concentration camps during the second world war. Guess it's ok to be racist now as long as it's towards people of Russian descent.

Why not get both (free teir on Plex), and decide for yourself?

If you want another opinion from an internet stranger though:

tl;dr: Plex if want simple seamless integration, and are prepared to spend money.

Jellyfin if you want FOSS, but are prepared to spend time.

I run both Jellyfin and Plex, and I only use Plex. It's more polished, has more clients, and has less bugs than Jellyfin. Plus, there are more community applications that are built around Plex vs Jellyfin.

For example, if you want to share your Jellyfin server, you have to manually forward ports, setup DNS records, dynamic DNS services, maybe reverse proxying, just to get easy access outside your network. Meanwhile, Plex is more or less plug and play (you might need to forward a port if the automatic port forward doesn't work)

That being said, I have the lifetime Plex Pass, and I don't think the monthly subscription for Plex is worth it.

I have a ton of friends that use my Jellyfin server instead of Plex, just because the Jellyfin mobile apps are free, so I keep Jellyfin running even though I don't personally use it.

If you decide to go with Plex, I would highly recommend getting the lifetime pass instead of a subscription.

I hate how much Apple has purposefully handicapped the iPad. It has such capable hardware, but the software doesn't even come close to taking advantage of it.

But God forbid the iPad actually becomes a viable daily use computer (What's a computer?)

Aside from personal websites and maybe some Lemmy instances, I can't think of a single application that's NOT using distributed computing. Hell, Lemmy as a concept is still distributed computing even if individual instances aren't necessarily.

That then introduces ease of use problems. You won't be able to log in to another device without copying your key over from an already logged in device for example.

Web browsers don't usually allow access to local files made outside the browser, so even logging in between browsers would require having your key on hand.

Not to mention if you lose the file containing your key (hard drive craps out, etc), you'll lose access to your account entirely. So users would be forced to backup their keys.

Not issues that would make the product unusable, but enough of a hindrence that 90% of users would just go find something else (like threads) to use instead.