This makes me wonder, what is the difference in the environmental cost of uploading/downloading this data vs. shipping a USB.

I would guess that shipping emissions would be higher than digital ones, but I don’t have any basis for that theory. (I’m just curious, not trying to say or imply anything here)

It’s a phone service and business communications. I have to use it for work

You people are paying for Windows licenses?

Something like Weylus?

Samsung tablets have this functionality natively, along with drawing tablet connections

Looks interesting, reminds me of a pared down Plexamp

So what did you think of the game .

I think context matters a lot. Green Day’s “Dominated Love Slave” isn’t very political, and to be honest it would be kind of dumb to try and make it out to be. Similarly, for “Pulling Teeth” by them as well - they’re just stories about them. “American Idiot” on the other hand is political, and it would be quite dumb to argue that it isn’t.

As such, all things can be. Now, if the argument is that everything can be made to be analogous to a political statement, like how “I’m all busted up, broken bones and nasty cuts, accidents will happen but this time I can’t get up” for domestic abuse and our current state of the government then by all means yes though our human perception we can make that jump, but I wouldn’t necessarily say that it was the point even if I would agree. Exactly the way I likely would for someone’s argument about “American Idiot” not being political, like argue all you want but objectively it’s false.

Anyway not really sure what my point here is. I guess not everything is political, but it can be if it is reconstructed through multiple lenses. Kind of like memes!

From a humanitarian perspective I think he’s already shown how he would act.

Palestinians - they’re great people but not for America, it’d be a shame if someone were to…

We don’t need his rhetoric :(

All I know is he’s got Ma Thias craving some socks

Good luck but as someone who is techy, Linux drives me insane every time I use it. Yes, it’s a skill issue. I think that’s sort of the nature of the problem regarding Linux adoption.

I’m capable, a quick learner interested in learning, good at following step by step instructions, and am really good at teaching others once I’ve learned it.

I’ve been on and off Linux for at least 8 years now and I feel like I end up hating it more and more each time I work with it. I will say, all of them are hobby projects of things that I just want, or tried to replace something from Windows by using my server.

I’m sure if it was just basic web browsing it would be fine, but I inevitably want to do something so I look for how to do it, follow a guide or the documentation and inevitably 5 steps in something goes wrong. Like, I genuinely can’t think of a single instance where I’ve been able to follow a step-by-step outside of the Steam Deck and have it actually work the first time.

That aside, usually the amount of networking that has to be done manually is what gets me, bonus points if you are double natted.

Docker has made things better but it’s still a pain in the ass for me. I enjoy working with computers and software but more often than not I do not enjoy my time working with Linux and by the time I finally get something working I am just wishing I hadn’t wasted all my time trying to get it working, and wishing that I didn’t care so much about this. Cause if I didn’t care I could happily live without home assistant and my server. But I do care, so I have to work on it.

It’s genuinely frustrating. Something as simple as Stable Diffusion - literally a git clone command - something I’ve set up a dozen times on Windows installs, just will not work on my server because it decides something is wrong following the install.

This whole time running Linux there have only been 2 things that I rarely have problems with. The first is Plex, since I first installed it on a RasPi using DietPi I’ve had nothing but good, smooth experiences. Once in a while there would be a hiccup but it was straightforward enough. The most difficult Plex has ever been is on my recent server build with an NVIDIA card, just getting hardware transcoding to work (which it at least recognizes the GPU now so I think it is). Oh, and stupid fucking permissions. God I hate permissions.

The other has been my Steam Deck, where I’ve had no issues through and through, from modding to random installs.

Anyway, I’m ranting like this because I’m so frustrated with Linux’s ease of use/access. Technology has gotten so much easier to use that it feels insanely archaic being forced to tell Linux every specific little thing to or not to do. What’s more frustrating is when you are following the documentation and it never mentions what to do if ______ doesn’t work, it just continues on.

So all told… As someone who is confident with technology and familiar with Linux, I just have a hard time believing that someone who can hardly use an iPhone will have an enjoyable experience trying to, say, watch Netflix on Linux. I’d like to believe it, maybe my experiences have me biased.

And before anyone comes at me, I hate and get frustrated with Windows too, but I use it because when I try and do something it works, usually in a quarter of the working time. Surprising considering it’s Windows, but of all the projects I’ve tried to do on both Windows has a much higher success rate. Like almost 100%. Off the top of my head the only thing I couldn’t get working was DizqueTV on a Windows-Plex server (which ended up being why I moved it to Linux). Funny enough, DizqueTV wouldn’t work on my Linux install either because of my ISP.

FOSS takes your time, not your money.

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R.E. politics, the tail-end millennials (me) grew up during the death of education which I think is a huge factor. For every good part of our education was two dying branches of it. Funding going down, extracurriculars being cut, food quality going down, strikes in colleges for pay and I mean so, so many others. And I grew up in California where education was a heavy focus, especially for anyone who wanted to get out. But despite all the shortcomings of our education system, we had teachers who cared and some students who wanted to learn, these teachers were mostly all within a decade of my age now and so they were fairly young and politically minded. Some were Teach for America staff so they were literally just out of college, I’m sure many remember what it’s like to have that mindset. We also grew up in the Obama years so we had the full range of “holy shit first black President representing us!” to “oh God he bombed Syria” which pretty heavily politicized us (and then we got Trump who appointed Betsy DeVoss as Sec. of Education which set that politicization further). I can’t speak for all millennials of course but I feel like all this led to us being hyper-aware of our politics making it especially easy to see the insanity that Fox News peddles, and more recently the transition of CNN from biased but informational to Fox News lite. All in all it’s a pretty strong foundation for young leftists to form some convictions.

It seems to me that Gen Z did not have these foundations by design. In 2016 with the appointment of Betsy DeVoss as Secretary of Education our school system was absolutely butchered. Fox News wasn’t even under the guise of news anymore, it’s just “pundit” talk shows providing “statistics” that they use to push hate. They grew up with the tail end of Obama culling any possibly early sense of hope that the millennials had. That apathy only further onset when Trump was elected, but not just apathy. Since in red states where the changes to education hit the hardest it became identity politics, now the identity of an individual has become politicized, something that has only been exacerbated by our media. IMO that’s why the events of Kyle Rittenhouse went down how they did, a child was politicized by their area and family and instead of being politically minded about it they made it about some identity that doesn’t exist. And nevermind the societal changes they grew up with, as they’re the first generation to grow up fully inundated with technology and the Internet, getting barrages of >1 min clips that can never tell the full story.

I agree with you overall in that millennial and gen Z are closer generations than most, but I do think there are some important distinctions that likely influenced how each of these generations grow up to interact with the world. I also think that it seems likely that these polls probably won’t get as many responses from certain demographics due to potential lifestyles. Someone in a liberal city may not answer the poll because they’ve got the city life to live, whereas someone who gets the poll and they’re done with their school day and the neighbors are 40 minutes away… sure, nothing better to do let’s fill this out. So I don’t think Gen Z is entirely set to be conservative, however I do think their elders have been heavily gearing up to try and brainwash them with their archaic mindset. I don’t particularly see a reason why a group of highschoolers would campaign for conservatives otherwise.

That’s a tricky one. Wages in games don’t have to be low necessarily, it’s just corporations that make that more common.

Luck is a big factor, but look at the dev of Lethal Company. Wages in games is huge for them!

Oh shoot I-i mean,

You wouldn’t download a game.

Everyone knows the real rite of passage is not just deleting Windows, but destroying the Linux install.

Bonus points if it’s both.

Something you haven’t touched on that is a big part of it too is sometimes users just want to discuss. I’ve found that mega threads, while kind, are generally useless for that.

The user is making the post because this is roughly their first discussion about distros and just reading through the other 15 posts with responses isn’t the same as your post and your questions being responded to, even if they are pretty much the same.

That ends up being the issue. The megathread doesn’t get consistent replies and so it feels like asking your questions into a void, making a comment on a different existing thread about the same thing feels like hijacking, and so we’re left with making a new post about their journey and questions.

We have a Hisense Roku TV and it’s extremely slow compared to the external Roku device, which is super snappy. What I do instead for the TV is just have it plugged into the downstairs computer. My partner uses the Roku TV as normal (mostly she uses YouTube) and for everything else I just have it set to the computer input or it’s a different device on my AVR (Steam Deck, Switch, record player). Whenever I want music or media playing I just open Plex in browser or with the Plex program with either the mouse or the Steam Controller. On the upstairs TV we have the Roku Express and the Plex UI is nice with a couple extra options that aren’t always available on other TV UI’s.

I’m curious though, what about Plex do you think wouldn’t replicate the streaming experience? Get it set up, get your hard drives pointed to the *arr services and set up a watchlist hook, something like Ombi or Overseer. I’m pretty sure you’d find it to be pretty much indistinguishable from HBO/Netflix/Amazon outside of the fact that each of those shows are now in one spot?

Once those 4-5 programs are set up, (Plex, Sonarr, Radarr, Jacket or Prowlarr, and Ombi or Overseer) your downloaded content is viewable on Plex, anything you watchlist on Plex is set to be downloaded.

If it’s the “browsing through junk until you see something interesting” that you don’t think will be replicated, there’s various ways to do exactly that. Personally I went from looking at useless title cards and frivolous 1-2 sentence descriptions about the show to looking at the cast of shows and movies I already have, then adding whatever else they are in to the watchlist. But it’s entirely possible to just point a “top viewed in last month” list via IMDB or trakt.tv and have those automatically downloaded. That should effectively solve the new/upcoming/popular media.

I find Plex to be far better than the streaming experience. I like to put together smart collections, like the Star Trek/Star Wars series, any new movies coming out would automatically be added to it - and their respective TV shows are shown in “related collections”, like the Marvel movies and shows. Or if you want TV shows of a certain era, like an 80’s specific playlist that you play in order or randomized. You can also set up other services like DizqueTV which allows you to create channels, so rather than putting your 80’s playlist on random you just “change the channel” and some show is a few minutes in - the good old TV experience. It also has far better details about the media, from the actor list to showing panels for featurettes. It’s like the better parts of Amazon Prime’s information (although Plex doesn’t have the trivia details).

Compared to self hosting other services, Plex is trivially easy to set up and to run on older hardware (sub $100 used). It is a little bit of overhead to get it set up, but from there it is only as much tinkering as you want it to be - I’ve personally had my server running for over 3 months now without restarting it just because I haven’t felt like “maintaining it” (keeping it updated, tinkering by adding other services etc.). And when I used it with the Raspberry Pi it never went down until I took it offline.

Overall I think the most unreliable aspects of Plex are user error, subtitles, and then the online authentication.

User error is easy to avoid because Plex itself is so simple. For subtitles, as long as you provide your own you’re probably golden. If you don’t, Plex does have a very good way of adding subtitles easily however for niche content it can be hit or miss, also you need the “version” of the media it’s subtitled for. So if you happened to get a movie with a movie production company cip that wasn’t cut out suddenly your subtitles are a good 5 seconds off and * likely all of the ones you download will be like this because you have a different movie file*. Luckily this is also pretty easily avoided by using movie files you own cough getting a different edition cough. In reality this doesn’t happen often, but it can be annoying when it presents itself and is just a byproduct of non-official sources.

And finally, Plex’s online authentication. I’ve actually had Plex pass since 2013, I got it on one of those $79 deals in college and I can honestly say in all the years of reading about people’s issues with online authentication I’ve personally never had it happen to me even during times where it’s genuinely down for everyone.

I don’t know if I changed the setting that’s supposed to fix it and I don’t remember, or if it’s because I’ve always had my Plex server running over my local network or what. But whether my internet is up or down and Plex servers are working or not, I’ve pretty much always had Plex able to access and play my media locally (I rarely use remote streaming, which may be a factor). That’s not to say I don’t understand the frustration, I’m just very thankful for not having to deal with this particular one.

Also, much of the positives are true for Jellyfin as well, though I don’t think there’s smart collections to the same extent and it’s a little more manual to get the networking aspect. Other than that though it’s a serviceable program, I just don’t use it actively.

If it’s something else about Plex that you think won’t scratch the streaming itch I’d be curious to hear about what it is.

They also don’t have plastic housings which is nice from a waste perspective

The real solution is to cut a square cube than the square needed by the end of travel, cut the large cube into a sphere and then transport it then cut the sphere into the cube with the right size.

Or use wheels.

Alrighty then, lol.

I’d be stoked to find the Crayola art and edge image server. So many good prints from that line.

That said, those are also worth buying because the paper is good quality and they’re only ~$8 for usually 40 sheets. But there’s ones from years and years ago that aren’t sold that I haven’t been able to find.