Dojan

What is the point of Plex? I just went straight for Jellyfin and it does everything I need and then some. Is it just that people went with Plex initially and then stuck with it as it got enshittified?

Personally I don’t enjoy setting things up. I do enjoy not being tied down to evil corporations.

Aaah, okay I see! Sadly this goes for pretty much all companies. It’s an inherent problem in capitalism. Money matters more than lives, so a company will happily throw people into a meat grinder if that’s going to pad their bottom line.

There are no good corporations.

I don’t think the U.S. has properly democratic elections due to problems like the FPTP voting system and the presence of gerrymandering. It’s simply not democratic if the votes can be manipulated in such a fashion that not all voices actually count.

I think I said it elsewhere, but the bar is in hell, and settling for that is unacceptable.

I feel like putting the U.S. and “democratically chosen” in the same sentence is a little bit of a stretch.

Are you sure that’s what they’re trying to do?

I often see people waving away the incremental enshittification of social systems in my country by saying “at least it’s not like the U.S.” but to me that’s burying the bar.

China and the USA are both run by nasty regimes, they suck in different ways (albeit increasingly less so), but you couldn’t pay me to live in either place.

Apples to oranges, but since they’re both rotted what virtue is there in accepting either one?

It amuses me that expressing understanding with the retaliation is forbidden. I definitely understand why a militant extremist group has arisen after decades of oppression and genocide.

Like, how do you negotiate your way out of that peacefully? Where in history has oppression on that level been defeated through diplomacy?

I seem to have forgotten the part where the allies defeated Nazi Germany by asking nicely. Surely no war was fought for recognising black people as humans in the U.S.

Perhaps Ukraine should put down their weapons and ask Russia to pretty please stop invading their country and killing their people.

Ugh.

Oh yeah, absolutely not saying that the content should be dismissed, just surprised that any vegans would touch the platform. I’ve just not heard anything good about it.

Isn’t substack a Nazi site? Feels kind of weird that vegan content would be on there.

There’s nothing wrong withwith WiFi 6, you can do perfectly fine transfer rates with that. It’s all up to Nintendo. The 3DS and Switch didn’t need to be limited to dial-up speeds but that’s what we got.

Those aren’t the D-words I would use.

Waste of silicone. I shan’t type out what he really deserves because of the rules, so let your imagination fill in the blank.

The 3DS and original Switch had terrible WiFi performance. I hope that’s sorted with the Switch 2, particularly given the extremely premium price point on it.

I don’t get how it costs almost as much as the PS5 Pro.

I got the original Switch, but honestly if there’s anything on the Switch 2 I’ll want to play I’ll probably just emulate it.

Why is half the video some shitty machine generated song?

Ah, I see. I’ve not tried Snaps, been avoiding Ubuntu because of Canonical’s weirdly corporate angle. Once they baked in Amazon into Ubuntu I was out.

I like the bundling of deps. Sure it’s inefficient, but it runs, and storage comes cheap nowadays anyway.

What do people have against flatpaks? I like them.

Was listening to my go-to podcast during morning walkies with my dog. They brought up an example where some couple was using ShatGPT as a couple’s therapist, and what a great idea that was. Talking about how one of the podcasters has more of a friend like relationship to “their” GPT.

I usually find this podcast quite entertaining, but this just got me depressed.

ChatGPT is by the same company that stole Scarlett Johansson’s voice. The same vein of companies that thinks it’s perfectly okay to pirate 81 terabytes of books, despite definitely being able to afford paying the authors. I don’t see a reality where it’s ethical or indicative of good judgement to trust a product from any of these companies with information.

That’s fantastic!

There loads of practical real world applications for machine learning, but it’s not what the big corpos tend to push because the usefulness is generally more niche. They want to sell you universal solutions to problems that don’t exist.

So as a cock and balls man, where do I go?