Polderviking @ Polderviking @feddit.nl

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Dare I assume you are aware we have "industry" because we consume?

I'm aware of this, but it still mostly just something for people speculate on. Something people buy, sit on, and then hopefully sell with a profit.

Bitcoin was supposed to be a decentralized money alternative, but the amount of people actually, legitimately, buying things with crypto are highly negligible. And honestly even if it did serve it's actual purpose, the cumulative power consumption would still be a point of debate.

Or just personal definition, i see you use spicy, but I just call everything that can give me the sniffles "hot".

When I say something's spicy I'm usually referring to literally a large amount/variation of spices, which aren't necessarily hot at all.

You're not wrong with the comparison, but the whole point of the computer having control over the vehicle is that this doesn't happen, despite the driver's abject negligence.

That it's controlled by a few is only a problem if you use it... my issue with it starts before that.

My biggest gripe with AI is the same problem I have with anything crypto: It's out of control power consumption relative to the problem it solves or purpose it serves. And by extension the fact nobody with any kind of real political power is addressing this.

Here we are using recycled bags, banning straws, putting explosive refrigerant in fridges and using led lights in everything, all in the name of the environment, while at the same time in some datacenter they are burning kwh's by the bucket loads generating pictures of cats in space suits.

People are lazy. Getting people to sign up for a forum has a much MUCH higher inertia than just clicking join in a group on a platform they already have an account for.

People will subsequently evidently just "deal" with it's inadequacies.

Reddit has the same advantage, you have one account and subsequently have access to a billion and then some communities. Ditto for Discord versus self hosted solutions like Teamspeak.

Lemmy kind of adresses all of this, but actual forum software I think is still mostly the same as it was in the early to mid 2000's when I used it. It's demise is a shame but not a surprise.

Well, yeah. That’s life as an admin under the best circumstances.

I don't disagree, but I don't see the reason in tempting/inviting work to spawn. Especially in the cases where windows itself is optional.

I also think it's interesting you're not convinced it's a reasonable risk. I've had updates break things on clients under my control on several occasions, particularly post Windows 7 with the bigger feature releases.

It's definitely a "when", and not an "if" to me.

It's also worth pointing out Microsoft has already actively been working against allowing you to bypass the requirements. It's very clear to me they want to go towards some kind of hardware lifecycle management and I would definately not put it past them they deliberately make windows stop working on unsupported platforms at some point.

I'm good with hot food, to the point I actually occasionally use nasty sauces like the infamous Da Bomb on things I legitimately eat, but I'll never get people that say sriracha isn't hot.

Maybe I buy a special one or something, or it varies wildly from person to person, but i like to put a good juicy squirt of sriracha on my cheese sandwiches and it definitely still clears my sinuses quite effectively.

Also IT guy. Hot take indeed. I've done this but won't support this. I will almost guarantee some update will break shit at the most inconvenient time humanly possible and the people you've done this for will need your help, all at the same time.

I'm using this opportunity to expand Linux market share.

Most people only use a browser these days. People that ask me about Windows 10 eol get pushed towards Linux. There is really no need to spend money to replace a machine mainly used to browse the web.

Only if they need stuff that won't work on Linux or they really really want Windows to use Chrome or Firefox on for some reason I'll recommend complying with Microsoft's hubris.

But not before suggesting Apple sells pretty and user friendly computers as well. Because I really want this to hurt Windows's market share and by golly I'll do everything in my power to help.

Farm things?

Just don't go at all.

There's some inertia that needs to be overcome, but it's coming. UK and Germany already posted (rather tame...) advisories.

"Freedom of speech."

I hope we give a real advisory and just straight up mark the country yellow, possibly orange for anybody not hetro or white instead of just telling people to "check visa requirements" so papa US doesn't get angry...

Mexico's been yellow with orange area's for years while crime rates in some area's are totally comprable.

They are losing it and we'd to well to remember there are more weapons there per capita there than we have bicycles.

(The scale is green, yellow, orange, red, for those that don't know what i'm on about. Green obviously meaning (relatively) safe, and red essentially being a warzone.)

Not sure where this is coming from but people are not only refused entry. People are detained. Even with valid documentation, evidently.

Germany also revised their travel advisories to reflect the fact you can basically arbitrarily be detained.

They don't issue these kinds of advisories for countries with normal visa procedures where nothing of note happens...

Your rant seems somewhat out of place.

As surprise to absolutely no-one. Me buying a Samsung panel with tizen on it one of my bigger regrettable purchases in my home theater life.

So lazyness is the real answer. ;) This is fair enough, to be sure, but logically I continue to have problems with it when looking solely at the wife factor.

My wife sets nothing up, that's my area of expertise. My wife's a user. This is true for Jellyfin but also things like our home automation that she very much enjoys but has no clue to how I made work on a technical level. She just taps things in the Home Assistant app as desired and things happen.

I would also argue setting up Jellyfin, though more a complex proposition as Plex, is a lot easier then setting up things like an *arr strack or ripping the media you eventually play back with it.

Plex does very little in a vacuum so despite it being easier to set up, it would be equally unlikely she ever would.

So far I've had no problems using jellyfin on basicly anything that exists in my house which includes a Apple TV, Xbox SX and a Xiaomi TV Box S.

But I can see there's probably no Tizen app for things like Samsung TV's.

I use Pop!_Os currently. Also has an "nvidia distro" and have a comparable experience of it mostly "just working".

Setting jellyfin up is for the technically inclined, i'll agree there, but once deployed I don't really see where Plex fundamentally excels over Jellyfin when it comes to "the wife factor"?

You open the app, app shows library, you click on desired media item, desired media item plays. What am i missing?