It’s not terrible. I would do the same as you before reading this post, and maybe I would after. I do think they have a point, though.

Mostly I’d watch it to see if it’s being used or not.

Maybe Jellyfin could come out with an option to make things semi-anonymous. You’d be able to just click it off, but it wouldn’t show you details unless you explicitly asked for them.

On the other hand, I’m very aware that if I were to use someone’s Plex that their “payment” would be the satisfaction of seeing their service used. I wouldn’t mind the stats they collect, but the fact that they collect them would be at the forefront of my mind.

This guy gives you a good glimpse into the realities of farming.

https://m.youtube.com/@blackbirdcoop

Including calling out the subset of bullshit “free range” farms.

https://store.ui.com/us/en/category/all-physical-security

He’s had to adjust quite a bit I’d say he’s thoroughly and well adjusted.

pet project

Which one?

I expected his first term to go much as his first term actually did. I expected his second term to be worse, but not this much worse.

If he was going to dismantle NATO, I would have expected him to do it shortly after Putin got him elected.

Make sure IPv6 is enabled on your router. What kind of router/AP do you have?

The native apps built in rust are pretty nice. It’s so nice to have basic apps just snappy af.

Just put your devices on a subnet that doesn’t have Internet access.

Does it come with a secret blocklist?

That’s a weird panel to battery ratio. Guess you’ve gotta work on that now. Got more room on your roof, preferably south-facing?

Though if there are ground systems that can aim the panels and you have room there, that could be really cool.

Build the mass transit first, then the apartments make sense.

Can your neighborhood communicate when the Internet goes down like Iran?

Two of the largest drivers are religion, christians wanting their Sharia Law, and Russia taking political control of the US.

Capitalism is in the top three, sure. It’s also part of the driver of that technology.

I don’t think we should worship capitalism as we have, but I don’t think getting rid of capitalism as a whole solves more problems than it creates.

Give me capitalism with heavy socialist controls and political separation please, thanks. The general idea of using money as a measure of what society owes you isn’t terrible. It’s allowing that measure to get so out of whack and have such inordinate control of everything that is the problem.

Parasites. Are those the ones that bring in a bunch of resources and give them to the host?

The complaint that got blamed on capitalism was:

The information age gave way for the misinformation age, where everything is fake.

and if there’s one entity/person most responsible for that, it’s Putin or the GOP. Most of it is political, and very little to do with capitalism itself. Except that capitalism surrounds and is intertwined with everything.

Still, if you get rid of capitalism, it doesn’t get rid of politics. I’d argue that the root of the issue is the GOP trying to hoard power (money and otherwise), and power is going to exist with or without capitalism. Is North Korea capitalist? Do they have issues with disinfo?

This Christian Sharia Law movement doesn’t exist for money.

Part of it is cultural and habit and that is something you can just decide to change. It helps if someone brings it up, like this post, or you might not even think of it.

I bought a $10 power strip / surge protector last week. It was the first time this occurred to me. I pulled out the manual to throw it away, and it was only my experience in writing technical documentation that made me stop and consider actually reading/skimming it.

Maybe I’ll change this habit. Maybe I’ll start reading these things.

Of course some of them aren’t meant to be read. But you can usually tell pretty quickly,

the 16-bit Windows on Windows subsystems, which allowed 32-bit versions of Windows to directly run 16-bit DOS and Windows programs

Jesus, what a scam. Why does anyone put up with this?

I feel like half of the blame capitalism gets is valid, but the other half is just society. I don’t care what kind of system you’re under, you’re going to have to deal with other people.

Oh, and if you try the system where you don’t have to deal with people, that just means other people end up handling you.