His donations are a tax dodge. Besides this billionaire philanthropy is a way to say that the people should not dictate how funds are allocated to things like medical and scientific research, international aid, etc. it’s saying that we instead are okay with our wealth being extracted to pseudokings and allowing them to make these decisions on our behalf. Should we research aids? Space? Should we give food aid to foreign nations experiencing famine? We don’t get to decide, let’s hope one of the oligarchs shines their light on these plights.

Meanwhile it buys great PR to rehab an image. Bill gates is “the nice billionaire” who sends people 10k of Microsoft shit he didn’t even pay for through reddit secret Santa (eg an ad buy). No one then cares that was instrumental in making computers full of proprietary bullshit, destroying interoperability, eliminating competition and killing open source efforts (look up embrace, extend, extinguish if you want to get angry about 90s and early 2000s Microsoft), or even that he probably raped kids on epsteins island

This only works if minimum wage is enough to guarantee housing, food, healthcare, transportation, internet access, a small degree of entertainment, etc. you know, basic standards of living and not just modern slavery

Person you responded to said av1, I didn’t mean to imply you did. HEVC is good balance and quicksync will handle it as you’ve said. 10th gen stuff will handle 4-5 at the expense of more power (but less than like a typical gpu build).

Last statement you made is critical - usage dictates build

Just as long as you’re fine with your media server absolutely eating power all the time

Stop encoding in av1 and get a low power older intel chip around 10th gen or so with quick sync. Unless you have like 5+ users watching 4k media at the same time this will handle transcoding absolutely fine while using far less power than a dedicated gpu

3dtvs would’ve only had a chance if they were basically gigantic 3ds top screens

The glassesless 3d effect would be the only way. But then you have the issue of the display is then compromised in other ways (rainbowing, contrast issues, softer definition, etc), is more expensive because it’s basically 2 panels laminated together, and is a lot of compromise for something that ultimately had very little content, which was the other issue.

I remember people dragging me to 3d movies and hating it because I’m blind in one eye and having to make the choice between wearing 2 pairs of glasses (other eye isn’t great) or basically sitting through a blurry mess because watching without the glasses was a nightmare (though it varied, sometimes it was 2 small copies of the movie side by side)

Yeah, like I said, you have to do some work with FOSS.

Check logs, reach out to support forums, etc.

Alternatively have something that is more likely to “just work” at the cost of data collection and profiling and increasingly restrictive software licensing designed to drive you towards service delivery license models (eg monthly payments), at a minimum

is plex more mature? Yes of course, it has had injections of over 40 million dollars of devil money plus whatever they’ve raised from you. Jellyfin would likely catch up significantly with such funding, but remember that such funding always comes with obligations that compromise the product and fuck over the community that actually cares about usability and core features (see: Reddit, MySpace, Facebook, amazon, Google and every Google product, Netflix, etc etc etc etc etc)

Fuuuuuck plex

For the past like 5-7 years I’ve said consistently that the second plex took VC money the writing was on the wall and that they would eventually and consistently take actions hostile towards their consumers and doing what they can to both move to SaaS and alienate lifetime pass users as well as distance themselves from their core purpose of sharing collections of pirated media hidden behind the thinly veneered “for tobacco use only” bullshit of “actually you can just rip your own physical media”

Every time I post, whether it’s banning the ability to serve on hetzner, putting ads all over the app and starting to collect data, increasing monetization, etc and talk about how it’s inherently going to continue getting worse plex users inevitably come out of the woodwork to be like “well this is overblown, plex is so good it’s worth getting fucked, jellyfin is slightly harder since it’s not backed by 40 million dollars of devil money that demands endless growth until the product is ruined”

As long as those people who are willing to get walked all over exist, that demand a slightly easier existence over one that serves them, every product and service will continue to get worse and worse while a small group of people get fat off of endless subscriptions

In private company they call you slurs behind your back

I’ll change 100 of those batteries before I do another Apple Watch battery or lcd

What is an “extremist view” in this context? Kill sam Altman? Lmao

Welcome to the world of being an activist buddy. Vegans are doing it for a living being with consciousness. Your cause is just too, imo, but just like the vegan who feels motivated and justified in bringing up their views because, to them, it’s a matter of life and death you will be belittled and mocked by those who either genuinely disagree or who do recognize the issues you describe but do not have the courage or self control to change

Start with speaking when it’s relevant. Note that this will not always win you fans. I recently spoke to my physician on this issue, who asked for consent for LLM transcription of audio session notes and automatic summarization. I am not morally opposed to such a thing for health care providers but I had many questions: how are records transmitted, stored, destroyed, does the model use any data fed into it or resultant summaries for seeding/reinforcement learning/refinement/updating internal embeddings/continual learning (this point is key bc the language I’ve seen about this shifts a lot, but basically do they feed your data back into the model to refine it further or do they have separate training and production models that allow for one to be “sanitary”), does the AI model come from the EMR provider (often Epic) or a 3rd party and if so is there a BAA, etc

In my case my provider could answer exactly 0 (zero) of these so I refused consent and am actively monitoring to ensure they are continuing to not use it at subsequent appointments. They are a professional so they’ve remained professional but it’s created some tension. I get it; I work in healthcare myself and I’ve seen these tools demoed and have colleagues that use them. They save a fairly substantial amount of time and in some cases they even guarantee against insurance clawbacks, which is a tremendous security advantage for a healthcare provider. But you gotta know what you’re doing and even then you gotta accept that some people simply will be against it on principle, thems the breaks

The USA had every opportunity to be the manufacturer of panels here as well. Funny you mention this. This is one industry that made tons of sense for the US to keep within America as the green energy boom was starting to take hold. The first solar cell was made here. It is a labor light industry, overall.

But starting in the 1990s as it was becoming clear this was necessary what was our response? To mock green energy, political gridlock, and to push the concern to private industry who mostly ignored it in favor of chasing fossil fuels a bit longer. Then US did what it does best and offshored production of panels it did make, weakening manufacturing capability even further (while strengthening China by starting to develop their supply chains, which they later invested billions in)

886 gigawatts of solar too, adding about 250GW a year lately. They’re building solar at a rate that outpaces most countries entire capacities

US has about 200GW (estimated, no official number) and until 2020 was adding about 20GW a year. This number increased significantly and about 120-130GW was added between 2020-2024. This was record growth for the US mainly due to economic policy (which came to a screeching halt in 2024, surprise). But even before 2024s return to coal times China was outpacing us by 2x the growth we saw in a 4 year period in a single year

This does not cover most of the other key quality of life metrics people complain about in America that China has made strides on: poverty and wealth inequality (which the article is obviously about), housing access, healthcare reforms, as you’ve mentioned significant public transit investment. Are these things perfect? No, but considering where China was in 1990 or even 2005 they’ve made significant strides because of active investment in their populace and infrastructure.

In that same time America has spent basically 0 time and money on its populace or land. Income inequality has worsened by 2-4x, our infrastructure crumbles, our healthcare system is failing while mortality rates and prices climb, etc

But point this objectively true data out and you’re a “tankie”. Just let the neolibs handle it, they’ll do the same thing they’ve been doing since 1992: taking bribes from corporations, insider trading, and convincing fucking dummies that they’ll fix it in a few more years if just a few more people vote, because it’s the voters fault you see. Don’t google the increase in my net worth since I took office 5 years ago please!

Don’t enable fascists and you won’t be caught in the crossfire

Sure, that’s a better phrasing. I agree she was ultimately gaming to take over the party post Trump and it backfired on her miserably. Oh well, fuck her

Polling got to her I bet.

That’s what happens when you run as a maga ally and then suddenly grow a backbone. I’m sure she’s seeing internal polling that shows her base has abandoned her and based on her absolutely toxic rhetoric and past she’s not picking up much in terms of votes outside of the maga crowd.

So she saves face and resigns rather than facing the embarrassment of getting destroyed in a primary

This is a good point. Home assistant is not going to work for your application

Check your shit then bc it’s a long page with docker containers and venv distributions, blog, about, sources, etc.

That said I don’t know this project. I do know home assistant though. If you want voice control at home that is secure use that. You can use their hardware or different hardware. The important thing is voice commands can be processed entirely locally, eg without internet access.

My iot setup, including voice commands, is restricted to a physical switch that has no internet access and itself is on an isolated vlan. I can view cameras remotely by forwarding the service through headscale, which is only turned on when necessary. It’s not a perfect system, nothing is, but it’s essentially airgapped when I am home and I do not have to worry about “cloud servers” with rogue employees that look at unencrypted data (which is sold as encrypted but often only encrypted in transit but unencrypted at rest so they can sell you out to the cops) or lazy cybersecurity staff that leave gaping holes in their massive targets for ransomware attacks or whatever

What would this look like in practice? I’m betting money laundering so that corporations can double dip; they passed the tariff charge onto consumers through higher prices but somehow it will be justified that the vast majority of any refunds will go to corporations because they ultimately paid the tariffs directly. So you paid the tariff indirectly that way then you’ll pay again via taxes because everyone knows they’ve pissed away whatever money was raised through this dumb shit.

If they’re smart they’ll earmark 1/4-1/3rd of it to send out $1000 refund checks. It won’t make up for what tariffs have cost the average american household (barely half, by many estimates) but it’ll be enough “free money” to convince idiot voters to come out in numbers especially if well timed

At first this wouldn’t load and was just the spinning thing but a bit longer than normal, probably because of some network issue on my part, but I thought for a bit that you had really expertly trolled me.

I mean the meme is good too, iap and subscriptions dumb (it would also absolutely have obtrusive ads) but man that would’ve been great

Awesome thing to do in a country where life expectancy has been falling year after year and is currently 78.4 years

Enjoy those 3.4 golden years