pivot_root @ pivot_root @lemmy.world

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Sch... school? They're dismantling the public institutions keeping education accessible. If they get their way, it's going to be straight to the farm, factory, and then Republican ballot boxes 18 years later.

"Tremendously attractive. A TRUE American model. Doesn't ask questions, just listens. I say, "Lexi, come here," she comes. I ask her to sit, she sits. NOBODY obeys like Lexi. Lexi KNOWS a leader when she sees it. When she's around, everybody calls me the alpha dog. It's true. I can grab her by the pussy, no complaints, no issues. JD tried that once. It didn't work, he got scars. BIG scars. Me? Lexi lets me do whatever I want. Anything. Everything. Any time of day. Real leadership. That's me. The STRONG lead, the weak OBEY. The Democrats, they THINK they're strong. They're weak. They obeyed. Lexi won't listen to a Democrat. You heard it from me folks, when she saw BIDEN, she growled. Lexi obeys me, and lexi won't obey Biden. Democrats are NOT leaders. Lexi knows it, I know it, you know it, everybody knows it."

Why buy a Tesla when its quality is awful and Elon Musk is a horrible human being? When its autopilot is lethal?

In these not-unprecedented times, the correct answer is "a personal desire to gargle Elon's balls"

"GOP rep discontinues private party meetings, switches to private prerecorded video Q&A on X"

I actually jumped ship a while back. I agree that Plex is a business and they do deserve to get paid for development and infrastructure costs, but it's the blatant enshitification that I have a big issue with.

They chose to lock a previously-free feature behind a paywall for everybody and asked for even more money to get it back. The less shitty alternative would have been to ask only the users who needed to use the relays to purchase a Plex Pass. Or, if they wanted to make it seem like a positive thing, they could have made the new subscription into an "enhanced quality" remote streaming experience that enabled higher bitrates over relays.

They gave their users the middle finger by picking the most transparently greedy option that they could get away with justifying.

Fair enough, although that actually has worse optics IMO. It goes from "this costs us money, so pay us" to "we need money, so we're creating an artificial reason for you to pay us"

The self-hosted servers use UPnP and NAT-PMP to automatically forward the port used for media streaming.

Very, apparently.

They use UPnP and NAT-PMP1 to have clients directly stream the media from users' own self-hosted servers. It costs them almost nothing in bandwidth to do that.

Software costs money how would they continue to developed it if not getting paid?

Apparently a hot take as evidenced the downvotes on my other comments here, but by adding things people want instead of taking away things people already have and charging more for it.

They don't even have the excuse that they need to pay for the bandwidth costs of relaying video from servers to clients. Video is streamed directly from the user's self-hosted server, using UPnP or NAT-PMP to make the server accessible from outside the local network.

And this isn't a new feature they're adding. Remote streaming was already implemented and generally available to users.

I don't discount there being a cost in maintaining code over time, but it's not as though they have to spend any significant employee time on improving it. They already support UPnP and NAT-PMP to have the clients connect directly to the self-hosted servers.

It would be nice if they added NAT hole punching on top of that, but it's evidently good enough to work as-is in its current form. If they're not even running relays to support more tricky networks (which the linked support article has no mention of), keeping this feature free costs them literally nothing extra.

No, it's still wrong.

We have ways to do NAT traversal and hole punching on consumer routers. Failing that, UPnP and port forwarding exist. Or, god forbid, IPv6.

In the rare case that literally none of those are an option, they would have to use TURN to relay between an intermediary. That is a reasonable case to ask the user to pay for their bandwidth usage, but they don't have to be greedy fuckers by making everyone pay for it.

This is enshittification and corporate greed. Nothing more, nothing less.

make them all meet in the same place

Ye of little faith. The next step is replacing all physical offices with a broken phone tree and an "(AI) agent" queue with an artificial wait time of 7-16 hours before entering the actual queue—to deter the scammers and fraudsters, of course.

/s but that's probably exactly what will happen.

Of course. It's just efficiency. The only way it could be more efficient is if they closed down all the offices.

No claims + no employees = no expenses.

The man did it again. He plugged the teeny tiny hole that let wealth "trickle down" and saved the billionaires millions in taxes. America is so much better now /s

Even if they do, protests and boycotts need to continue past it. A lot of his wealth is in Tesla stock, and he's going to benefit from the shadows if the public moves on and TSLA recovers.

Regex is great, but PCRE deserves a special place in hell. You don't know unreadable until you've encountered regex that uses recursive matching, backrefererences, and subroutine calls.

Is it really necessary here, though? I understand Twitter or Reddit where the loudest jackass in the room gets the platform above the sea of propaganda and trash. But for Lemmy, you don't need to be loud to stand out, and most of us are already progressive and open to considering that politicians on both sides have intentionally failed society for their own benefits.

You're not being downvoted because you're wrong.
You're being downvoted because you're acting like an asshole.

Edit: To clarify, a lot of people are unaware of just how useless the corporate neoliberal party is. Being hostile about it doesn't support your position. It just pisses off everyone else.

Nowhere close. Wireless anything needs to share a band across multiple devices. With fiber, you can either have an exclusive run to the service provider or, at the very least, to a connection point shared with some neighbors.

Weeks of setbacks is not enough. When it's years of setbacks and all his companies are insolvent, then we might be free from his Nazi influence.

Comparatively speaking, politicians here are pretty inexpensive. It only took one twat a couple hundred million to own the president.