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turmacar , 14 days ago to Technology in Five Men Convicted of Operating Massive, Illegal Streaming Service That Allegedly Had More Content Than Netflix, Hulu, Vudu and Prime Video Combined

Last time I looked at Jellyfin server setup was fine. It's getting non-techies to a place where they can access it that was rough. They're getting better with 3rd party app support but Plex has a huge head start.

turmacar , 19 days ago to Technology in SpaceX's Starlink May Be Keeping the Ozone From Healing, Research Finds

As fun as it might be to harp (ha) on them. It's unlikely that a 30 year old atmospheric research station is a bond style earthquake machine.

turmacar , 27 days ago to Technology in EVs Could Last Nearly Forever—If Car Companies Let Them

It's not a mystery which of the car might've been available in East Germany.

Trabants aren't exactly known for being long lasting.

turmacar , 1 month ago to Technology in Intel’s Anti-Upgrade Tricks Defeated With Kapton Tape

It's been at least since the "big iron" days.

Technician comes out to upgrade your mainframe and it consists of installing a jumper to enable the extra features. For only a few million dollars.

turmacar , 1 month ago to Selfhosted in Why You Should Self-Host Everything

Is your home connection down that much? I'd think that even syncing once every day or so would populate everything fine, and if you're at home it should update over wifi.

I might just be spoiled because I'm the only one using mine and only for a handful of devices.

turmacar , 1 month ago to Technology in Elon Musk laid off the Tesla Supercharger team; now he’s rehiring them

He let the crazy veil slip a bit during the Thai cave rescue drama, but Covid seems to have really pushed him over the edge.

turmacar , 1 month ago to Technology in How rental ‘libraries of things’ have become the new way to save money

So you just didn't read the article?

One person hired a metal detector to hunt down the wedding ring they lost when camping in Sussex and found it within 20 minutes. Another rented a planer at £11 a day to fix two doors in her flat

A handheld pressure washer is £12 a day, while garden shears are £3.50

Renting is the "subscription" you're complaining about. You're right that rent-to-own is a scam at best, but unlike most digital subscriptions you're using the thing to do something. Like with all rentals there's a break even line where you would've been better buying the thing if you use it often/long enough. But the service existing is not itself a bad thing.

turmacar , 1 month ago to Technology in How rental ‘libraries of things’ have become the new way to save money

This isn't new, everything has it's place.

We rented a trench digger for the day from Home Depot in the 90s instead of buying one for thousands of dollars. That trench didn't magically go away when we returned the tool. That we didn't have access to the tool anymore was the plan.

Renting a U-haul for a move is incredibly more efficient than daily driving a giant box truck. Somehow, the things stay moved once the truck is returned.

turmacar , 1 month ago to Technology in Stack Overflow and OpenAI Partner

The working solution being 5 child comments deep on a wrong solution flagged as correct is my favorite.

turmacar , 2 months ago to Technology in Innovation or Overreach? UH Research Casts blame on OceanGate's Submersible Design says: Low quality carbon fibre lead to the accident

Fair enough.

Top to bottom the design of the thing is just a testament to arrogance and "engineer's disease".

turmacar , 2 months ago to Technology in Innovation or Overreach? UH Research Casts blame on OceanGate's Submersible Design says: Low quality carbon fibre lead to the accident

It bugs me that everyone harps on the controller. It's far and away the least suspect part of this.

Multiple generations of hardware iterations by many competing companies, well defined and understood software interface options, literally billions of hours of testing, easily replaceable, several axes of control, and a huge portion of the population has at least some experience with one.

There's a reason the military uses them when they can.

turmacar , 2 months ago to Technology in The Verge shows how Google search is useless

Anything post-2022, and probably post-2020, is suspect on Reddit because it became abundantly clear how steerable it was and how easy to generate sales as long as you didn't do anything too "suspicious". Current 'ad guides' tell advertisers not to link things because just saying the name reads as more authentic.

Before that it was legitimately people discussing, e.g., the best flashlight for x-y-z purposes. But a decent amount of old stuff has been gutted by people deleting their posts/accounts.

turmacar , 2 months ago to Technology in All the ways streaming services are aggravating their subscribers this week

The trash-guides they posted are for a majority of the "arr" stack (Sonarr, Radarr, etc) that monitor stuff you ask for and automate a lot of the download handling.

Jellyfin is a FOSS media server alternative to Plex. They each have their minor pluses and minuses. Personally plex has been easier to get non-techie friends/family to use.

Docker is a containerization system. Basically instead of setting up a physical computer, or one or more virtual machines, you have a self contained bundle of everything a program needs to run that is linked to storage/network stuff on your actual system. Then they talk to each other.

One thing to keep in mind is that this is all immensely scalable. Especially if you don't care about long term storage of a bunch of shows/movies. You can set it up on your personal PC and it'll work fine. Set it up on a dedicated machineand it'll be a bit more reliable. Moving stuff around is generally pretty painless. ( as long as the trash-guides or some similar standardization is followed )

turmacar , 2 months ago to Technology in Tesla to lay off everyone working on Superchargers, new vehicles

I wonder if they miscalculated the install + maintenance cost vs the charging fee they're giving customers. Like if it's not balanced correctly they could be losing money on each charging station. Maybe the stations require more maintenance than they anticipated?

That seems like a super basic thing to do if you're running the business, but so much of the initial rollout was about availability and low cost and do-it-now that maybe that was a secondary concern or they thought there'd be higher adoption by now. It also seems like a simple fix, raise charging prices and say why. But maybe either the discrepancy is too big or they're worried about customer/media backlash.

Or maybe it's another example of "move fast and break things" running into the real world and not being viable.

turmacar , 2 months ago to Technology in Can an online library of classic video games ever be legal?

There is a lot of abandonware and stuff where the companies just dissolved and ownership of any IP is questionable at best.

But also I don't think there's a way to give Nintendo/Game Freak money to play Gen 1 Pokemon at the moment? There's plenty of stuff like that. Sega and SquareEnix and some others have done a decent job of licensing/re-releasing some games. But there's plenty out there that they 'could' release and seemingly have no interest.