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I was about to talk about it for my fellow citizens ; clearly an awesome app!

Fun fact, Bloctel, the service that was supposed to allow us to ask not to be harassed, leaked last week... https://www.universfreebox.com/article/596529/piratage-de-bl...

Putting aside the sycophantic wording around the orange leader and the total lack of details of how it's going to achieve what they are promising and what is actually going to happen, it's funny to see the distinction between gov officials and the Duke exec:

  Gov: valued at $129 million and reinvest that same amount in additional generating capacity


  Duke: will reinvest nearly $129 million in additional generating capacity, which may include

Aren't all DC equipped with gas generators as backups? And they have to run it for an hour every quarter to make sure they work?

  > The smell of fried croquettes

I have this on my way back how, well, fried potatoes/chips actually, and I hate it.

But yeah, this description matches the city I live in here in France.

  > I want a job without unnecessary friction, without interpersonal drama, even one that's low stress.

That's part of how I see an "easy" job. Where I can focus on working on the actual tasks at hand.

Doesn't matter if the actual job is filling glasses of water or building rockets; as long as I can focus on it for 100% of my working hours, I'd see it as an "easy" job.

I discovered it recently, and I find it quite funny

I'm not really into botany itself, but I enjoy their rants about how people manage "green" spaces

  > They also, for reasons I simply cannot fathom, go out and buy a green Range Rover.

I associate people driving green Range Rover with Dennis, so I'm not surprised that the people you're talking about love it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DgO0tgWNWYs

I see lots of small consulting companies doing weekly/monthly lunch/dinner events with "everyone" and then boasting about it on LinkedIn, with pictures of the tables.

You can clearly see who are the consulting people, and who are the HR/marketing ones based on who's got fake smiles, and who looks like they are dead inside.

Not only it's more of a redflag than anything, but also, since they are all doing it, what's the goal?

  > for example, you wouldn't hire a 70 year old writer for your commercial project no matter how brilliant they are

If you hire them, then you own the work you paid them to do, no?

The next closest region is Tel-Aviv, I guess it's pretty obvious they won't put their workload here.

And after that it's Mumbai, 2500km away. That will easily double your latency, which is someone that you can feel in usage.

Seems to be the idea to me: don't use a no longer supported +10yo laptop as a daily driver, but convert it to something useful for free.

Being a laptop, the power draw is almost negligible and it doesn't take much space.

That's what I meant, yes!

I always have a hard time with this one because, in French, it's not a towel that is thrown: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/jeter_l%27%C3%A9ponge

The French version version naturally comes to my mind, even when I'm thinking in English, and then I can't find the translation because it's too close, yet so different.

Thanks for the explanations around the Remote Watch Pass thing!

It was nice having a chat here because you felt more nuanced than in the article and we basically agree overall!

I currently have 10Tb of 1080p content and rescans takes a few seconds. The only thing that actually takes time is the intro detection on new content, but it's because I don't have a lot of compute power on the server hosting my Plex instance.

I just checked: my "com.plexapp.plugins.library.db" is 24Mb. Meanwhile, I have some custom apps with SQLite db's that are >10Gb and I don't have performance issues.

So I don't see how big a library have to be for its db to become a bottleneck?

Thank you for your reply

I can see how scary the price increase on the Lifetime pass looks, and I see it as a deterrent to push people to something like the 5 years plan which looks like a good deal to me

The pricing around Remote Watch Pass is a bit weird to me because I haven't got any complaint from people access my server, and I know they don't have any kind of pass, so I'm not sure why it should be needed?

But having to pay 30/year to access someone else's server, who's already paying a regular Pass and the infra, sure seems abusive

It means that I haven't slept enough to not make mistakes!

Weird article.

Not only does it acknowledges that Plex is still far better than Jellyfin with its whole ecosystem, but it also depict pretty nicely the entitlement of the users overall.

On one side, they paid $75 more than five years ago for a piece of software for which they still receive weekly updates. On the other, they talk about how leadership at Jellyfin decided to throw the blanket after a burning themselves out for free.

Up till now, Plex kept their promise regarding the Lifetime pass: we still receive updates, we still have all the features. So, unless they change that, they haven't broken their promise. It seems only fair from them to try to run a sustainable business, which you can do without renewed income. They have to find money. They raise subscription price: no impact on existing Lifetime pass owners. They add ad-supported features: no impact on existing Lifetime pass owners. I don't see a single add wherever I access my Plex library, I have hidden their "free" library. I still have 100% of the features I had when I bought the Lifetime pass. Except that I have now access to more features.

Sure, nobody forced them to say "Lifetime", but I don't see how I could be mad if they decided to release a completely new version that is out of the Lifetime scope. I would still have access to the old one, but if I was interested in the new one, I would have to move to one of their new plans, that looks more sustainable in the long run.

Plex is still the easiest one to use for regular user or for the people, like me, that act as IT support for their family and friends, and don't want to spend their evenings and weekends tweaking their aunt's TV just for the sake of using Open Source software.

  > and has full Postgres support from the get-go

I was like: why should I care?

Then I went on siloserver's website and I was even more confused.

What made the success of Plex is how easy it is to setup, how nice it looks and how easy it is to use.

Siloserver's marketing miss all those points because they focus on the tech stack, don't show a single picture of the UI and don't demonstrate the UX.

Even as someone who understands the tech written on the website, I don't see the point. So I can easily imagine how someone without the technical knowledge would feel about this...

I hate how I feel about this: the sole contributor's account is not 2 month old, and yet they have created an org for this project, with all the bells and whistles in the README.

To me, a project that young, with a unique developer at the helm, cannot look "that nice", so I can't resist seeing it as too nice to be true, and being actually a scam or whatever.

I know that, thanks to AI, a solo dev can not only orchestrate an actual projects in a few days, but can ALSO take time to make a good looking README.

When, in the past, the focus was first on the code, then on the README.

https://git-fork.com/ on MacOS/Win

https://sourcegit-scm.github.io/ on Linux

I've tried (all?) the AI stuff they published, it was awful; but I was able to easily uninstall/deactivate those features once I realized it was not helpful.

On my MBP M4 or my Linux laptop, I never get the impression that it's bloat.

Prior to using IntelliJ I had been a Eclipse user and I've never experienced even 5% of the pain I had with Eclipse since moving to IntelliJ.

When everything is going to shite, I welcome with pleasure my yearly invoice from JetBrains, thinking that, at least, there is a company pushing quality software that deserves my money.

Funnily that's the one feature I dislike in IntelliJ and thus relies on another GUI

Otherwise I like having everything in one place: code, containers, databases, remotes...

I'm in France using a French VPN and I'm being blocked by imgur (been going on for a few years now)

  > I’m also surprised to see that even Terrence Tao seems to use it in a way that resembles, in progression, how I use llms in my area of expertise

I didn't understood anything about the thread, but reading Terrence's messages was weird because it looked exactly like the discussions I have with LLMs

I've mostly seen people trying to oneshot a result, while I'll quickly experienced that going through steps/discovery was more effective and more satisfying, since you can always steer it back in the right direction; while oneshotting is hit (and it kind feel like magic) or miss (and you'll have to rework your prompt).

We'll have to wait a few years before they receive their first fine

Meanwhile they'll have time to grab billions

> There is a high likelihood that many countries of the "west" (the "global north"?) will outlaw, restrict, or otherwise control LLMs and the tools that enable them.

Why? Based on what?

I've seen absolutely no indication of this.

Only the US are playing this game atm.

Then they'll shift the goalpost: it's not free, someone is paying for it, which is every taxpayer.

Then you'll ask for receipts of what they pay to use the roads and they'll be out.

Regarding free transit, I think part of the reason it can fail is the socioeconomic situation. In places that rewards the rich and abandon the less fortunate, it's deemed to fail.

But also, I think that when people have to pay to use transit, they'll be less willing to act as a warden, so if they see someone doing something negative, they'll keep out, thinking that it's the responsibility of whoever is taking their money. Meanwhile, when we see public transit as a common good, we are more willing to act to keep it great.

I've never seen "group emails" working, even when amongst technical people.

Part of it is just how emails work, part of it is how each clients work, part of it is people not knowing/caring.

  You'll have:

  - the guy that don't use the group email address as recipient, but personal email address 
  - the guy that change the subject which starts a new thread/discussion
  - the guy that include all previous emails in their answer
  - the guy with a signature that takes two screens to scroll
  - the guy with an awful text font/color
  - the guy that CC their whole address book, including the group email address, for personal stuff
  - ...

I can go on. I went through this mess many times during the years, in various contexts; always the same result.

Buying a new computer at +$500 just to have iMessage access feels insane to me.

OpenClaw supports all the mainstream (and free) chat apps like Discord, WhatsApp, Signal, Telegram... None of them requiring a MacOS machine.

Is it a lack of knowledge from the users or do they really value iMessage integration that much?

Even the new ones are awfully loud.

But, yeah, they don't smell like the old ones thankfully