I got that idea from the times when I couldn’t stream to my TV in my home while my internet was down. Switched from Plex several years ago though

Easier sure, but it comes at the expense of all traffic (even streaming to a device on your local network) going through their servers. If you have an internet outage or their servers go down, you can’t even stream media locally with Plex. No such issues with Jellyfin.

Edit: apparently my frustrations about this were based on something I set up incorrectly, so +1 point for Plex working locally without internet, -1 point for ease of use/setup if I had this wrong for years without knowing it or finding the fix on my own.

I mean, if you had 7000lb of weed to burn you wouldn’t just throw it all on the fire at once, would you?

Yea the “safety concerns” are basically completely unfounded and any industry professional knows it.

As an electrician in a non-union state, my impression of the IBEW is that they can be pretty conservative/reactionary at times. Still wish I could find work under the IBEW here though…

I find it funny, in that context, how the human characters in SC almost universally deride the minds and drones as machines, scap heaps, buckets of bolts, etc at some point. Like, they recognize fully that their way of life is 100% dependant on the minds, but in no way does that mean they deserve respect the way a human would. In the same chapter you’ll have a description of a drone’s personallity or how they do something very human like keep secrets for fun or whatever, then you’ll get the human character outright call the drone an annoying pile of gears or describe how it’s social suicide to have a drone follow you around all the time.

It’s at the same time a very different context than what we know of as AI, while also mirroring how many people feel about AI today. I’ve only read the first few culture books, but it hits that wonderful mix of fantastical SciFi and at the same time very relatable on the human element.

I started reading the Culture novels recently and have been quite enjoying them. Even though technosocialism and intelligent machine utopianism havent really appealed to me IRL, i think the way he uses them as literary devices to highlight the human (or pan-human/post-human as the case may be) stories is actually really brilliant. His prose is also very highly regarded for it’s beauty, but that takes the back seat compared to the stories for me.

I was thinking A Sand County Almanac, but that’s more Green Anarchism

They spend the whole article trying to walk back the headline because foreign officials can’t take part in law enforcement activities in Mexico according to the constitution. The official stance HAS to be that the Americans weren’t involved. Sounds like the cartels know better.

Despite what you may have been led to believe, anti-genocide groups have never spent “all their effort” on electoral politics. You’re choosing to spend your time right now bitching about those fighting oppression rather than joining the fight.

Good work.

Wtf are you talking about? Free Palestine protesters are still actively organizing their communities and providing support where they can. The same groups are literally still staging actions and fighting for the freedom, liberatation, and survival of Palestinian people at home and abroad. Who do you think you’re clowning on with this meme? The people fighting against genocide didnt just give up because we have a new worse president.

Xi’s also an imperialist and implemented a hierarchical government. Nothing I said was paradoxical. Fuck 'em all.

Fuck all imperialist and hierarchical power structures. Fuck colonialism and fuck the police. Fuck fascists and the libs that enable them.

From what I’ve read both arch and debian stable aren’t vulnerable to this. It targeted mostly debian-testing.