mosiacmango @ mosiacmango @lemm.ee

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Plex was bought out by venture capital and has been enshittifing for years. "Free" media stream sources added riddled with ads that you have to opt out of, opt out "everyone can see what everyone is watching" features, nebulous "we need to upload hashes of your media to skip credits" privacy issues, abandoning apps for various platforms like kodi, on and on.

I have a lifetime pass, but no longer consider plex a viable platform. The issues are not baseless, but rather based on what plex has decided to do to make money.

Meanwhile, jellyfin is FOSS with no profit motive, no privacy issues, skips intros and credits with no issue, pulls subtitles down and indexes media flawlessly, and has native kodi clients with Database sync support so a show paused in one room can be resumed at the same point in another room.

Hard to beat "slick, private and free."

The addons are great too. The intro/outro skip is slick and nearly flawless, background subtitle download is seamless, on and on.

This is the book, The song of Achilles. It is about Achilles and his lover Patroclus during the Trojan war.

I haven't personally read it, but I doubt aliens figure in heavily.

There is nothing preventing these cartels from retaliating in kind.

Drones are not difficult to source or build, and these orgs have weapons, manpower and 100s of billions of dollars.

They have nowhere near the arsenal of the US military, but this isn't an 800lb guerilla vs a toddler. This is an 800lb guerilla vs a 100lb guerilla. That small guerilla is still going to wreck unimaginable havoc in the US if the two fight.

Lettuce is a topping. It goes on top.

His "occasional voice" was often the opposite of how he voted. He said that J6 was impeachable, then voted against it, saying "He's been voted out, so it doesnt matter." He was voted back in, which a conviction wouod have prevented, so it very much mattered.

This of course was a convient excuse to sound reasonable and act maliciously. Almost any "principled" stance of his is countered by his actions.

Its also important to note they are striking right as the NY correction officers that flagrantly murdered Robert brooks with zero provocation were arrested.

That brutal murder, with 18 people involved, was done so casually that the governor is enforcing body camera usage for every inmate interaction, and a 400 million dollar spend to add cameras that cover all of the spaces inside NY prisons.

They are also striking because they won't be able to beat and murder people anymore.

"Corporations are people, my friend."

No, it applies to "anyone," its just that corporations can drag lawsuits on for years, so they get to make sweet heart deals for their crimes that the test of us dont.

This is the best description of quantum computing ive ever read.

To reiterate this, in the US, buying anything over 5% of a public company requires public disclosure to the SEC, as it means the buyer has immense influence on that company. At that point other shareholders, i.e other owners, should know about it.

Check out propublica. They partner with a lot of local journalists to tease out deeper stories, often in topics that aren't getting much press. They would absolutely appreciate a donation.

The president has some leeway, but our support for Ukraine was because we passed laws to support them.

The Trump admin cant pass any laws. Its why they are trying to go all in on executive power, even when its illegal. They lack legislative power due to a fractured congress, even in their own party.

They barely control the house, and many republicans actually want to support Ukraine. and will not be able to sanction Ukraine or materially support russia.

Can't say I agree about the hair or the mess. These are two different characters interacting with each other.

It looks like Kirks holding his hands over his hair in the 1st frame, but you can see the same "crown" baldness he shows in the 2nd, which is consistent with the character from the show.

The 3rd cell is an entirely different character, a hybrid of Kirks boss from the cracker factory that fired him and Dr. Manhattan from Watchemen, who killed rorschach. The comic is blending these two scenes together.

Dan is the best. One of the great old school YouTuber essayists. He really leans into a topic and interrogates it from every direction.

Hes got great videos on the metaverse, crypto scams and hilariously, the complexity of making cooking videos.

Based on the total lack of description, I thought this was an emulator for the music instrument at first.

That would have been something to see.

It doesnt. Its just shadow as an homage/tracing of the original comic, where rorschach has a black "smudge" on his head from taking off his black faced mask.

Incentivizing dividend payments are the same problem. They will want to make them bigger every quarter.

Its just line goes up in a different form.

Not when you charge monthly subscription fees, your app no longer fully supports the platform, and you haven't pushed a single change in 12 months.

It's acceptable to have 2 of the above issues, but not all 3 at once.

And, yes, ssh is in windows shell but many of the windows sysadmins I work with still refuse to use it. Some will even VNC to a Linux server to use the terminal there.

I'm currently looking for work because my "very much not Amazon" company just decided to pretend it's Amazon, and things like this give me hope.

That's madness. Simple, unwieldy madness.