Exactly my sentiment too. I already paid for it, may as well use it until they make some move that makes the jump to Jellyfin worth it. Not to mention Jellyfin is still fresh on the scene and I personally think it still needs a few more years to make a more seamless changeover from Plex for me and everyone else I’ve granted access to.

They make profit off of that UI style and that’s all that really matters. Only a matter of time as I said.

It’s developed by a previous discord developer and looks exactly like Discord. Only a matter of time before they shut it down if it gains enough traction.

Waiting for a C&D from Discord. I’m avoiding on that premise alone.

Dr.'s hate this one trick - tell them you’re facing issues peeing and you’ll get recommended to a urologist. Even with my family history of prostate cancer I couldn’t get one until I started having issues with my stream. Sure enough my prostate is slightly enlarged even at 40 and am now on meds for it.

Good points. I have been trying to spin up my own instance because the alternatives are still not up to snuff but Matrix seemed a decent alternative if self hosted.

I just saw another article today about XMPP which was going to be my last ditch effort, but that will be my next foray it seems!

Isn’t Matrix open source? And wouldn’t hosting your own instance unfederated resolve that concern?

I saw the Chris Hemsworth one on YouTube the day after the bowl. It really made no sense to me as a “buy Alexa” ad because all of the outcomes are very possible at some point with misguided or badly deployed code.

Thanks. Turns out I only spun up the web client. Explains why I wasn’t really “connecting” to my own server in my testing!

Going to give this and Stoat a try, but I did like the little I saw of Matrix in the public server.

How can you do this? I just spun up an Element container but am still learning about Matrix as a whole.

I only grab movies in 4k anymore, and that’s even reserved for those worthy of it (LotR or OG Marvel for example). I used to grab series in 4k but the size consumption is not worth it. The same goes for movies but you need to consider that one season of a series is equal to four to eight 4k movies in size depending on the episodes in the series. I used to grab 720p series for those not typically watched, but since H265 was introduced I find many releases where 1080p is similar and sometimes smaller in size to a 720p release.

I’ve installed a more recent version of Win11 without network and local account was still working. I also recently found that the IoT Enterprise version cuts out Copilot AND the Windows store in the base install. So IoT + Massgrave ftw.

My local Sam’s is hit or miss. Half the time they ask me and other times they don’t. I have admittedly stormed past them without providing proof in the past while they call after me lol.

This is what I hate about these places. You need your membership card to check out. All the items are too big to fit under your coat which thwarts shoplifting to some degree.

Why the hell do you need to see my card at the door? Just put a scanner with turnstiles at the front of shop if it’s that big of an issue.

I’ve already found recent emails in my gmail account for right-leaning news sources I’ve had to opt out of. I’ve been lax on my gmail management until last year I went on a major cleanup spree, so I know these new emails were automatically added somehow, and this article likely explains it.

I recently set up quite a few friends and family with Windows 10 IoT Enterprise licenses thanks to MassG. Told them if they don’t get updates past next Tuesday to let me know.

Learned something new today, thank you internet stranger.

Holy shit, I love you wind taking abilities. I too had no idea who he was but thankfully don’t have to deal with confronting propogandized family members.

So you called out a shitty boss\employee to upper management and they fired him. I’m pretty sure that response means they actually do care about these kind of situations. Sorry you dealt with a manager that didn’t understand an applicable HR situation, but that doesn’t mean the whole company is trash. Hopefully they do react the same for this situation.

You can’t DPI a VPN tunnel because it will break the tunnel connection.