Reddit didn’t grow in it’s early days like it does today. To use an analogy for what you’re saying: think of a snowball rolling down a mountain and turning into an avalanche. It’s easy to forget that the snowball started it.

We don’t really have a choice, unfortunately.

This platform has the downside of day 1 bots, unlike reddit of yore.

Don’t worry, the enshittification of both is proceeding well.

Replacements are inevitable in time. This one is growing.

I think most people probably have a lifetime plex pass for their plex server, or they are using alternative servers.

Lifetime pass grants licenses to all clients, at least it used to unless this changes that.

My server has many users and nobody has paid anything aside from my original buy of $120 in 2019. So far that comes out to about $1.67/mo for unlimited users and unlimited updates.

I’m not saying I really like the updates though. I think they should have remained slim, but someone is trying to make more and more money by branching out into bullshit beyond private media serving. All that trash should be separate products that are divorced from the private media server / client product.

All this being said, check out Jellyfin, little reason to use plex over it for private media but it has some limitations if you need subtitles or cannot relocate file structures.

Jellyfin is absolute dogshit though.

Sauce: I just installed it on my media server that concurrently runs plex. I run the app on a fire tv cube to use it… and it crashes* constantly.

Edit: More stuff :)

-My media library when imported immediately showed seasons of shows as separate shows, it doesn’t intelligently automatically merge it like Plex would.

-Subtitle options are not consistent or robust. I MUST have subtitles due to having a multilingual family which is largely ESL, if they speak English at all. This is the problem I tried moving to jellyfin to fix.

not that long ago, a single working man could provide for a house, 2 cars, a wife and 2.5 kids.

While women worked for pennies on the dollar, people of color weren’t allowed to go to school with white people and women didn’t go to college, they went to secretarial school. Plus tons of people were dying from all manner of health conditions because there were no regulations for practically anything.

The “golden days” have some serious nostalgia but they were far more fucked up than people remember. Buying a home from 0 has always been like living in poverty for almost everybody in the US. Only the top earners have ever had vast excess of earnings.

When houses were 35k people were making $3500/year or much, much less.

Didn’t he just make stupid billions from his ponzi coin scheme?

allegedly influencing the 2024 election

Where are the damages again?

There’s tons of alternatives out there now that are as good or better.

If he gets it then clearly it will be the Confederate States ChatGPT.

This almost certainly will go nowhere.

Good to know that our elected officials in the legislative branch are no longer able to create laws that are actually enacted.

This shit is outside the scope of the presidency.

Can confirm, lead feasted.

Nah that’s just him defrauding the people who voted for them after they are no longer of use to him.

Voters are of no consequence on a second term when your political party is literally a cult of personality. I can’t believe the republican party sold out so quickly for a cash grab like this.

We’re all going to really be hurt by this shit

Indeed. I love our maple syrup cartel neighbors. Sweet death is vastly preferred to this mutually assured destruction of ‘tariff’ sales tax bullshit.

What do you think Tariffs are? It’s the Trump Sales Tax.

It’s a shame that you can’t copyright the output of AI, isn’t it?

she was a terrible candidate, but how in the world did Trump not motivate people to vote for her?

Easy, as you said: she was a terrible candidate

They wanted to get that first woman “status quo” president again. It lost them more votes than it won. I can’t believe they didn’t even have another round of primaries.

When they shut out bernie they really fucked the party. This timeline is their fault as much as anyone else’s.

HQ wise: Musk exited to Texas.

Oracle is in Texas.

Microsoft is in Washington.

Amazon is in Washington.

Google, FB and Nvidia are in CA.

The tech bros don’t want to hire people in CA because salaries are too high. They do because that’s where a lot of coding talent is, but they also tend to have offices all over the world and produce as much work as possible offshore where labor costs are minimized. It’s why basically nothing is manufactured in CA, let alone the US. When things are manufactured here it’s almost always in places that use the $7.25 federal minimum wage, not states with a $16.50 minimum wage or where transportation costs are prohibitively expensive compared to local labor.

Every major decision in this country seems to end up going the way the wealthy want.

They definitely want this to have maximum punishment to deter copycats.

This will never happen. You won’t find a jury in the country that will unanimously give a not guilty verdict. Best case is a hung jury twice in a row leading to a mistrial. Worst case they find one of the loopholes that lets the judge decide or they unanimously declare him guilty.

They don’t worry about all the school shootings because their kids go to private school which is a big reason why nothing is done (24 private school shootings vs 392 public school shootings for the past 25 years or so.) The working class families are the victims, so nobody in power really cares beyond lip service.

I’m fine with prices going sky high so long as we are eliminating exploited labor.

The reality is though these folks will seek jobs elsewhere and without any social safety nets they are in for some harsh times. I can only hope they have enough friends and family here to make it.