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It sounds so dramatic and I know people roll their eyes when I say things like that, but it’s absolutely true.

The deeper I’ve gone with Linux over the years the more Windows seems (aside from the obvious privacy concerns and generally being trash corporate citizens) like an intentionally convoluted and overcomplicated mess.

We’re gonna find out this is the original inspiration for Tenacious D.

“Rock Around My Crotch”

“I Got My Right Hand”

“Funk-y Butt”

Every one of those sounds like it could be the name of a Tenacious D song, or part of the chorus of one. 😂

Well, I can tell you how Jellyfin differs from a directory full of files, but I can’t help you with understanding that other people have different preferences and desires than you which are neither “conditions” nor “addictions.”

You’ll have to make it to that one on your own.

You are imagining how to use a computer filled with video files.

Now imagine having your own personal netflix available on a variety of devices, using just that one computer full of video files.

Emby

Jellyfin exists because Emby was only open source until it wasn’t convenient. Some of their own devs pointed out they were violating the license, and their response was… non-ideal.

So Jellyfin was forked with the last fully open-source Emby code.

At least that’s my recollection several years down the line.

I decided then that no amount of headache from Jellyfin (and let me say that I was an EARLY jellyfin adopter AND former Plex user) would be enough to get me to use Emby. (Because things like that are important to me, though I realize they aren’t important to everyone.)

And reading this thread I’m apparently a super-genius because I have my Jellyfin behind a reverse proxy and serve it to my elderly parents with a simple login and an app they were able to install, and never found it to be a headache. (Which, if I’d read this thread only, I’d conclude was just not possible without voodoo magic)

No headaches along the way, and whereas Plex had already begun the march to enshittification when I left, Jellyfin has done nothing but steadily get better.

Anyhow, longer answer than intended, but I’d go back to Plex before I’d go to Emby, just on principle.

Odd, since my Jellyfin sits behind a reverse proxy.

This is what they mean by “meet people where they are at” right?

I have no idea what it would take for Israel to lose that association of anti-israel = anti-jewish that they’ve got protecting their every action.

I mean, I know what it took for me. It’s a shame so many in Gaza had to die for it, but I’ll never look at them the same. Changing all of Germany/Europe may take longer, but surely what’s happening is just as plain to anyone with eyes over there as it is over here in the land of the Mango Mussolini.

Hell never have I listened to RATM so much as I have from 2017 onward. Wish they would reform and put out a new album.

Well known, largely followed, and often roasts the Trump admin. Same with Mark Hamill. (and yes, GT being gay and open about it does not help!)

where am i wrong?

Apparently somewhere here people have finally convinced you that you are entirely wrong about the origin of twitter.

But the word you’ve been looking for (which also describes Mastodon, Calkey, etc) is microblog.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microblogging

The only thing I’ve personally noticed is we seem to have received another burp of magas recently.

It takes very little effort to keep that shit out of your feed on Bluesky if you don’t want to see it, so I usually only see the magas when they crop up in comments on George Takei posts and similar.

I’m a big proponent of the “block early and block often” mindset in the fediverse and bluesky, so I do tend to notice how much time I spend blocking magas, and I hadn’t needed to do so for weeks until recently. I figured it was from 4chan imploding.

Oh there is no worse shift. I feel you.

Such my fucking mood right now. Last half of the last day of the holiday weekend was ass, and sleep was absolute ass, as if the world conspired to ensure I could not be allowed to start the week with a good night’s rest.

As a result, after several interruptions, have been awake since long before my alarm went off, and just sitting here with a black cloud over my head. In precious few minutes, the weekly grind will begin.

I didn’t either.

A little google led me to this article. The bit above is within that article, but I can’t be bothered to give a shit about anything windows related enough to read all that.

http://the-witness.net/news/2012/12/finding-and-fixing-a-five-second-stall/

Well of course they do and this is exactly the sort of thing that Republicans voted for by 94%.

Remember to thank your local Republicans for ensuring ALL the marginalized or disadvantaged people in your life have a harder time than they would have before, and fewer people to help or advocate for them.

Shush you! 😁