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For people who can't or don't want to run a VPN app, Tailscale has the Funnel feature, which can... Funnel traffic into your Tailscale net.

I've only used it for light stuff so not sure how well it will work for video.

There are other Mesh VPN solutions out there - I've used Hamachi for close to 20 years on Windows, and it just works. There's a Linux client too, though I haven't worked with it in years.

Alternatively, you can setup a Raspberry Pi just for the Tailscale/Wireguard VPN, for say at your parents/friends houses. Cheap, simple solution, and it'll handle DNS for the devices in the Tailscale mesh. This is something I'm doing for family/friends for unrelated/slightly related reasons (I'm reproducing the Backup to Friends feature that Crashplan used to have, so all of us can have multiple backups in our own "cloud") , but they'll get the side benefit of video, which won't get backed up, just duplicated everywhere.

It doesn't even work right on the same net sometimes.

Google says you can't. It's a violation of their ToS.

Google ToS

Is it?

Have you performed the analysis on Plex reviews and know exactly how many 5 star reviews were posted by employees?

Because I don't, and that's a problem, as well as a Google ToS violation.

I hope their app gets dropped from the store, at least long enough for them to have to go groveling to Google to get in reinstated, especially since Google likes to drop OSS devs for undisclosed reasons, and make them jump through hoops to get back on.

Oh, ffs, really? That's kind of the reason for a download feature.

Pricks.

Mostly without being transparent, and stating they work for the company.

It's biased and problematic because they don't state they work for Plex.

Thing is, had they been transparent about it, at least we could give them credit for acknowledging that up front. Now we have to wonder how many reviews are from employees.

I stopped trying to use Plex years ago (like 10) when that shit was just painful... AND they wanted to charge me for the luxury of that pain.

I'm sure it got lots better, but it left such a bad taste in my mouth at the time I've gone without easy media watching instead, and tried all sorts of things.

Hopefully Jellyfin keeps improving. I'd rather donate to them every year than pay a sub to Plex.

Glad it's worked for you though, and I mean that. When Plex worked for me, it was pretty good.

I don't disagree with you, at all. But what's the $3/mo subscription you're talking about? I haven't had a Chrome/Firestick/whatever since like 2012, so I'm out of the loop

Hitchcockian study of human nature. Everyone should see it at least once, too fully understand the meaning of gaslight.

Yea, for some reason iPhone has ~50% of the US market.

I suspect the major portion of that is business users. It's what I use for work, because a work phone will be managed by the company, and I use it only for business contacts, calls, messaging, tools, etc. Since I wouldn't be able to use an Android fully for work (ftp, file management, etc), it's strengths aren't useful there.

But, why?

Seriously, if you understand how this came to be, I'm curious. I'd think they implemented land lines using extant hardware systems of the era, and the number structure surely was well established by that point?

Now I'm off to go down a rabbit hole of telecom implementations worldwide.

Mythbusters covered tires from trucks - tire treads at highway speeds can go right through a windshield (and have killed people this way).

I spend as little time behind/beside thm as possible.

Er, wut?

Have you read anything about Christianity? Not just criticism, but actual dispassionate, objective learning, like a 300 level Religions of the World course?

I have (I'm not Christian, not religious at all), and what you're espousing is completely antithetical to Christian thinking, and sounds more like projection of your own ethics.

Ifnyoure a Christian, you don't have a choice about Judgement - it's a fact for them. What you're espousing has even been addressed (by the Catholic Church anyway), and even part of why Martin Luther protested, and why Protestant religions even exist.

You should educate yourself before condemning what you think other people believe. Because everything you've described is from your own head, not Christianity. And don't tell me "Christian so-and-so said so", then they're wrong, and it's very well documented and clear. Again, this specific idea is even part of the creation of Protestantism.

I highly recommend any of the courses on religion from The Teaching Company, available in your public library. Each one is roughly 30 lectures, each 45 min to 1 hour. It's a recording of the college-level courses presented at places like Harvard. I know for sure there are close to a dozen courses in religion from TTC, maybe more.

I turn off so much crap as it is, and crank all animations down to 0.5 (I'd go lower but this is just fast enough to no have stutter). I don't need iOS-slow animations that "look cool", I got shit to do.

Blur is garbage I don't need.

Fix the crappy space-wasting nonsense.

Google is refining animations, adding blur

How about refining UI control back to the user's hand? Instead we have garbage that people with vision or motor-control challenges can't use.

The thing is, this change isn't new, it's been coming for a while (as in years, it started with at least Android 13).

Though it's weird, some apps still get full access, such as Resilio Sync, though other similar apps such as Nextcloud and Syncthing don't.

I recently setup a phone and when installing Resilio it asked for permissions to the entire SD card, so clearly there's still a mechanism, but only some apps are permitted to ask for it.

Something fishy going on.

The signs are often there. You know when they start finding time for you to do documentation, a layoff is coming.

Fine, I'll give you the upvote.