Hey, sometimes AI does actually give you the right answer…

I use Emby instead of Plex or Jellyfin; mostly because it has an Xbox client, and I’ve already got a lifetime licence. One of my most active users only watches via Xbox.

Really don’t like Plexs centralised user system or the overall direction they’ve been headed for years, so I moved away from that long ago (8+ years ago at least). Jellyfin wasn’t up to par at the time (though they’ve made leaps and bounds of progress in that time), and Emby has always supported more types of devices\clients. Their device limit (the client count limit with premeir) has never come into play for me, but I know there are larger user bases out there where that is a problem.

Embys development is extremely slow though, taking YEARS to implement simple features or even address major concerns. Plus their support sucks without the community stepping in and providing it on behalf of the staff. Luke (the main dev) is better at copy+pasting candid responses than he is at actually interacting with human beings.

That icon didn’t show up until I installed another voice app. FUTO voice is what I’m using now alongside Heliboard. Seems to work nicely so far.

Emby has a decent xbox app for media streaming. TBH I’ve just been using an HTPC lately though.

Noone is 100% trust worthy. I’ll still appreciate when they fight for the right things.

Thanks! That seems to integrate into Heliboard nicely, activating with the voice button that’s now on the toolbar where I expected it.

I wasn’t expecting this to be two separate components/apps, but I guess that makes sense.

This seems to be kind of the consensus. I’m not interested in moving from one theiving shitstain of a company to another. So gboard is a no-go.

I can’t get voice input to work on Heliboard though. The option is there in toolbar settings, but the button doesn’t show up on the toolbar and there’s no microphone permissions…

Do you have to do something to make voice input exist?

It’s listed as an option in the toolbar settings but the button doesn’t appear on the toolbar. Even with everything else disabled and just the voice input button enabled: the toolbar is totally empty…

There’s also no microphone permissions…

4.4k forks now. They can’t sue us all (I’d love to see them try though).

The blood of the foes who have fallen before you.

They haven’t brought up any saftey concerns, simply ‘you didn’t ask first, so now it must come down’

Their initial letter about it only mentions aesthetic issues. Someone doesn’t like how it looks and is flexing their position to get it removed.

Paywall/login bypass: https://web.archive.org/web/20260516212820/https://www.thedailybeast.com/white-house-reveals-secret-new-hospital-for-donald-trump-79/

It’s a similar burning feeling to keeping your eyes open for too long; so, the eye balls I would think.

Pihole is a self-hosted DNS server that filters out domains that serve ads, as well as malware and tracking domains. When clients try to access a blocked domain, the DNS request fails, so the client doesn’t know where to connect and the ads/malware simply fail to load, while the rest of the game/webpage loads just fine.

Highly customizable, either manually or with various online lists of known domains. It’s also a handy tool to create local-only domain names for accessing your own self-hosted services.

Alternatively there’s Adguard or Nextdns; public dns servers that perform a similar function, but give you much less control over what is or isn’t blocked.

For the record: pihole blocks those ads, along with most mobile app ads. (in games too)

That’s going to make such a mess though.

“I’m tired of listening to people complain about their or their friends lives being uprooted and my indifference to those problems”

I see far more people screeching about AI than actual AI generated content at this point.

Good, it’s working. People are shying away from creating/posting AI content, knowing it’s very vocally unwanted.

I’m actually going to make a separate point from my other comment:

Art is a matter of perspective.

Maybe you don’t care about how your toothbrush was designed; but someone somewhere sat down and made decisions about how to best shape it, what materials to use, what kind/how many/what thickness of bristles, how to color it, etc. Those were decisions made from experiences that person had which they chose to factor into their designs.

Someone else out there is interested in what led to those design choices, perhaps to design their own with improvements or changes, perhaps just out of curiosity. They can’t ask an algorithm why it made the choices it did and have a discussion about the details; but they could with a person.

What some find disinteresting, others immerse themselves in. AI destroys those opportunities for human connection. Human connection we already struggle to find as a species.

You might not care how this site was created, but some do. The use of an LLM has made it impossible to discuss the choices made, because there weren’t any decisions, just an algorithm spitting out letters one after another…

True; however many of the current use cases for AI aren’t utilitarian, but are instead forcibly replacing artists while stealing their work to do so. Ontop of this, the infrastructure behind/supporting these tools is destructive and measurably making a significant amount of peoples lives worse.

These factors have jaded people against AI as a whole; as support for AI is seen as support for the destruction and instability it’s brought with it.