i remember when you could get disks from netflix… 7 at a time! i would turn them around same day. it really helped fill out my movie collection

oh wow, not in a long time…well over a decade…almost 2! i gave up on live tv around then

im usin kodi/jellyfin (plex is proprietary) mostly for the ‘pseudotv’ plugin… so i can have a cable-like system from my local storage

with everything being web-based, windows is slowly turning into a fancy dummy term/thinclient. exactly the control businesses want.

linux on the other hand is being fleshed out as a true desktop pc with all the customization most of us expect of a daily driver.

ha, yeah… always keep a burner just in case. i installed a lot of these things. i remember having dozens of those white/blue ibm server disks

pretty damn reliable once up and running. i only ever had wear and tear failures… fans/drives

holy crap does that bring back memories

i would prolly try and get some kind of linux variant installed for containerized nonsense

why ask why, try bud dry

hell they could have called it anything… seems like they couldnt get past their egos to see the value in a new designation

no. the verse just isnt designed like that. you subscribe to remote content, you ingest remote content. its not laid out for you to discover the same content in remote sites.

the fediverse is not a simple ‘replicate all content everywhere’

its a bunch of servers that can subscribe to similar content from eachother as requested

when they get that content, they can do (display it) however they want.

find a remote instance that was potentially subscribed the community in which the post did live.

for example a community named ‘eyesuck’

if it was community was something like: deadinstance.com/c/eyesuck

you could theoretically go to lemmy.world/c/eyesuck@deadinstance.com to see those threads… again, assuming lemmy.world was subscribed to ‘eyesuck’

naw, what you do is write a small exe to play “youre the best” by joe espesito through the pcspeaker at 15% volume than you can trigger remotely…randomly until the user goes mad

“doesnt anyone else Hear that?!”

my favorite bit was how no one at microsoft actually understood their own licensing pricing. for decades, you could call microsoft for pricing and get different answer from people in cubicles next to each other or even from your own rep.

it was as if they were making it up as needed.

feels like this post was sponsored by Anne Hathaway

no. no reason to expand poor practices into linux because microsoft fucked up. we need ‘least access required’ methodology even at home because the world is full of bad actors.

if microsoft had correclty implemented security into dos/winx.x we wouldnt have had half the virus issues we did in the late 90s.

i think the other half was caused by activex

microsoft doesnt want to annoy people, but in a corporate environment this requirement is fully implemented on windows.

i was never under the impression macs belonged in a business environment. maybe apple just doesnt find that level of security important.

if youre using Emby/Jellyfin you would just need emby to access the folder with your music. users would be authenticated through emby.

i think you should groom your media before you drop it into a media broadcasting solution like emby. i use MediaElch for video, you could use picard for music management. im fairly certain picard has dup detection and rename abilities.

so you get all your music tagged, renamed and encoded the way ya want. then get them organized into files/folders… then drop that into your emby library.

lidarr is for obtaining media files and creating a process that automatically injects it into your library. you would want emby running correctly first.

theyre routing through a standard SMTP service either hosted by their ISP or an external service theyve sighed up for to relay their mail.

i push mine out through AWS SMTP service, for example.

cloudflare has a known habit of taking heavy users and forcibly converting companies from a $250/m plan to a $12,000/month plan.

some people would be happy for that to happen to bad entities like an online casino, but really, to cloudflare the business use is irrelevant and it could happen to any of us.

the lesson is to minimize your cloudflare dependencies. if you have to use it, use it in an agile method where you can move to something else quickly should you need to.

i am no fan of the proprietary model here, but i think they disingenuously compare it to the rabbit R1 device.

i love the idea of an local-llm-in-a-box, and they claim to have a working (minimal featureset) model that could be expanded. the rabbit device is a glorified siri

eh, i am a firm believe in if it aint broke, dont fix it.

im still on mint for app curation/compatibility. i have yet to have a process/task/server product not function as i need it to on mint. im up to 6 machines and a few ‘servers’.