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Bizarroland

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  • What's a good piece of hardware to run a jellyfin server?

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  • If you can get a 7th gen Intel or even a halfway decent basic El cheapo Nvidia card then that will help with transcoding but outside of that anything that runs the interface should be fine.

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  • And the same for a domain joined PC. Fresh install of Windows 11, open edge, find that you are already signed into edge on a Microsoft account that Windows helpfully created for you that mirrors your domain account.

    You told edge that you do not want to transfer over your data. And it says okay but you'll notice a little blue hyperlink that says manage above that.

    And if you click that it tells you all the stuff it's going to copy over anyway.

    So you sign out of that and you untick all of the boxes and you close edge and you reopen it and you find that you are still signed in to your Microsoft account that was created for you with your domain credentials in Bing search and you have to sign out of that as well.

    Edge has created an account for you, signed you in in two separate locations, and automatically set itself to ingest all of your account credentials and it does not even tell you what it has done unless you click through multiple paths to find it.

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  • The regulators get more money the longer this goes on.

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  • They're not going to step in to fix it. They have no justification for daring to stand up to a 3 trillion dollar company.

    They might throw a 5 million fine at them or something, but nothing that's actually going to stop this horrible anti-consumer monolith of practices

  • Microsoft stole my Chrome tabs, and it wants yours, too

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  • I have a couple of websites that I go to that do not like working in Firefox but work just fine in Chromium browsers.

    The worst offender is Microsoft admin 365. It will open, and it will work, but if you edit a user and save your edits you can't click on the back button inside of the window that has popped up for editing and instead you have to close the entire section and reopen it to go back to the main screen.

    Aside from that, for netdocs you have to open the local host port of your netdocs app in firefox (https://localhost:(port number)) and approve to bypass the security restrictions in order for netdocs to work.

    There are a handful of another apps with similar issues and most of them are from software vendors that I have to use for work.

    There's one that I can't mention because it would dox me that if you don't use it in Chrome it simply does not work because the JavaScript that they use for generating the app checks to see if you are in a Chrome browser and straight up fails if the user agent does not return Chrome.

    I can work around that for myself but I can't work around that for all 17,000 of our employees, and since the entire business runs on this application then we are locked in.

  • So SBCs are shit now? Anything I can do with my collection of Pis and old routers?

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  • Elitedesk 800 g4s can be picked up for $130 or so depending on where you look

  • So SBCs are shit now? Anything I can do with my collection of Pis and old routers?

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  • Very much this. The allure of raspberry pis was that they were $30 toys that could actually be used to do things that were equivalent to much more expensive computers and computer control systems.

    Somewhere along the way they lost the plot, probably when supply chain issues drove their prices sky high along with the compute modules being used for home lab servers, and now cheap knockoffs based off of Rockville chips or ESP32 are just as capable as raspberry pis for a fraction of the cost, and at the same time actual desktop computers in miniature form factor have become so cheap on the second hand market that they are incredibly competitive with the raspberry pi.

    Don't get me wrong, pi is a great platform. But the use cases in which it leads the pack have become incredibly narrow.

    Actually I can't think of anything that raspberry pi does that can't be done better by a less expensive alternative.

    Even the pi5 with the nvme hat is not currently price competitive with a 4-year-old HP ultra small form factor as far as I know.

  • VMware customers face uncertain future as Broadcom ends VMware partner programs

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  • I've already dumped my esxi servers and am using proxmox and hyper-vm instead.

    That's one less customer for them.

  • DOJ Slams XCast with $10 Million Fine Over Massive Illegal Robocall Operation

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  • Is the word "slams" appropriate in this context?

    This is not fucking WWE hell in a cell, this is them fining them for breaking the law.

    A slam would be the "value of the company", not a small percentage of the money they made off of breaking the law.

    You can fine Amazon $130 million.

    To "slam" Amazon you got to hit them with 130 billion dollars

  • Do you also find that speech/video is only bearable at 1.25x-1.5x speed?

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  • I can and I won't

  • Do you also find that speech/video is only bearable at 1.25x-1.5x speed?

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  • When I found the video playback speed controller extension for my browser, it vastly increased the amount of video I could consume.

    There is a downside to it though, once you reach the point where you are watching video at 3x speed, you have to remind yourself to take frequent breaks.

    Otherwise, your brain clock will synchronize with the 3x speed and after a few hours of being exposed to that the rest of existence will feel unbearably slow for quite a long time.

    Ask me how I know this.

    I'll be glad to explain to you in detail the sensation of lifting my arm to close a video and feeling like it took a solid minute for my hand to move from my arm rest to the mouth to click the button.

    How it felt to drive home from work once I had synced up and doing 65 mph on the freeway and feeling like I barely had the vehicle in idle.

    That shit is great for absorbing a lot of information but actual fucking body horror to experience outside of that narrow use case

  • Polish Hackers Repaired Trains the Manufacturer Artificially Bricked. Now The Train Company Is Threatening Them

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  • Poland ought to ban that company from ever working or operating or selling any products inside of its country and any trains made by that company that are not currently owned by Poland should be prevented from traveling on the tracks that cross through Poland.

  • I can't see how anyone thinks ADHD is a superpower.

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  • The one thing that is super handy for me about ADHD is that I tend to fall into fits of hyper focus, and I like learning, so contrary to what many people have said, ADHD makes me potentially a better student.

    I don't have another me without ADHD to cross compare it with but the fact that I can easily sit down and read a 400 page textbook from cover to cover in a couple of hours and retain the majority of what I've read has been incredibly helpful.

  • Netanyahu: Defeating Hamas will make prophecy of Isaiah a reality

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  • Unfortunately, squeaky wheel gets the grease

  • I love YouTube

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  • If money could stop things from enshitifying, there would be very few shitty things on the planet.

    If everybody on the planet subscribed to YouTube premium they would still become enshittified.

    Even with 8 billion monthly subscriptions at $10 a month or more, Google would raise the prices and provide less service.

    They would do whatever they have to do whatever they can do to extract the most amount of money they possibly can out of the product.

    This is not just because Google is a shit company, this is because greed knows no bounds. The only way for a company to stop being enshitified is for the company from the top down to be radically opposed to enshittification.

    Only a good King can stop enshittification.

    There are no good Kings in Google.

  • TIL that France and Spain are in the wrong time zone because of Nazis.

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  • Fuckin nazis. It's almost like they're the reason why we can't have good things. Every time you turn around you find there's something bad that happened and of course it was the goddamn Nazis that did it.

    I hope whoever started the whole Nazi thing gets shot in the head.