Plex was good for music for me until it started acting weirdly a few months ago. It started scanning my library nonstop and running my hard drives on full speed for days before I eventually caught it.

I was told it was the agent from Plex but changing that out didn’t fix the issue so I moved my stuff off there and have been working with Navidrome instead.

I have tried it but having Plex handle the out-of-home routing for me securely is a great feature Jellyfin doesn’t have but doesn’t for obvious reasons and I justify that as why I pay Plex. I have thoughts and better knowledge now about how to properly implement it, but I’m not sure I want to rebuild my current setup that just works with very minimal upkeep.

That and I am on someone else’s Plex server who updates it much more than I do. Mine just supplements theirs with stuff they don’t have and one-offs I’ve wanted and found. I’d still be using Plex even if I did rebuild with Jellyfin today.

But if these price increases keep coming, I may make the switch. It’s tempting to shell out the money for the lifetime membership, but I don’t have faith in companies, including Plex, to keep up their end of the deal on these things.

Depends on who you ask, but I think the biggest reasons:

• they seem to have contributed to making people dumber indirectly. You see a lot of street videos of people asking questions like where is this state or that country and they can’t answer those questions but they can tell you almost anything about the Kardashians. Because of that, some people hate the Kardashians.
• they’re rich and have no worries. On one hand, you have some people who hate for jealousy and others who think it’s gross how rich these people are.
• the reason why they’re famous. On the one hand, the late father was one of the lawyers in the OJ Simpson case, but the real reason for their more recent fame comes from Kim doing a sex tape and getting famous off that. To some people, that’s gross and a stupid reason to be famous compared to someone else who finds a cure or does work in the community or just someone who actually worked for their fame like a movie star or famous writer.
• the Kardashians are kind of a nasty bunch of divas. I mean, if you have seen some of the clips, you can see that most of them are not really good people who care about other people but themselves and their fame. And the people they’re connected to aren’t the greatest people either which speaks more about who they are as a family.
• they come off as stupid. Not as an insult, but legitimately dumb with some of the things they have said or done and that pisses some people off. If you watched someone have a hard time finding a word as common as “the” or determine what 2+2 is and felt some type of anger, that’s what some people feel towards them for some of the stupidity they’ve seen from the family.
• the fact that they are famous at all. To some people, it pisses them off that the Kardashians get a spotlight at all.
• scandals. Caitlyn Jenner is an extension of the family but the accident and death resulting from it and barely a slap on the wrist is worth hatred from some people. Scandals like those are among the family. You also have conspiracy theories like what happened to Lamar Odom’s death and some thinking they had something to do with it.

A whole lot of possible reasons depending on who you talk to.

I had the same “problem” and I’ve learned to just ignore those people. We were just being bored/curious which is natural for humans.

I think it’s older generations who were abused and trying to pass that off onto us as well.

Which is funny because staring at someone is rude. So either you be rude and stare at someone or you stare off into the void and let your mind wander.

I still do it. I don’t give a fuck.

My cat loves these videos. I put them on when he comes around and starts watching my stuff.

What updates is Mint getting in December?

Okay so you get the promise of cheaper premiums for now….

Insurance companies of all types are greedy as fuck. This is temporary. This will get increased in the next 5 years, and I’m being conservative with that number because these slimy fucks will likely be trying to increase prices the next day after this goes into effect.

Supposedly you’ll get a cheaper premium today at the cost of not being reimbursed to make you whole tomorrow. So what happens when these same companies come back and want to increase your premium by $10? Are you now going to make parties whole by the same percentage? Likely not. And the cowardly government is just going to let them step on the public again.

And how does this work for out of state drivers in New York? You get into a wreck and you’re just fucked despite supposedly paying more than a New York driver who hit you?

Lmao this is the future we all dreamed of as kids. Talking to an AI who’s only concern is your preferred pronouns than actually helping you with what you need 😂

I imagine a good chunk of it is due to the various medications they take. Whereas most younger people don’t take the same types of medications or in combinations.

I did not know that but thanks for the insight! That makes that more clear where this came from.

Every fucking time. Last night I was having a bunch of crashes after normal use. And yep, it was related to the Nvidia driver…

Fuck off pedo

Reminds me of this Family Guy cutaway https://youtube.com/shorts/B5Uct7k5FPw

This actually did happen in Seattle, Washington. There are quite a few real life “super heroes” that dress up and patrol their respective cities. This one was named Phoenix Jones and he had the whole comic book hero costume and everything. There was a law that allowed people to fight as long as both people consented called Mutual Combat and that played a big into allowing him to do what he did.

But he did end up being pulled into court and they forced him to de-mask himself and reveal his true identity. He even had an “origin story”, though not as dramatic as something like Bruce Wayne, but still. He’s an interesting character to look into.

Consider my comment as just a brief summarization of this whole thing as an answer to your question.

I think this depends on which region the court is in, but like in the US, if the hero is the defendant or plaintiff, I don’t think any court would allow the hero to remain masked and without showing their identity. Best they could do is only reveal to some parties involved in the court case, but the identity is still exposed. I think the only exception may be if the hero is a witness, and even then, maybe not and would need to identify to some involved in the case. This is because many courts around the world require people to know who their accuser is and lawyers often will try to fight against this since a secret identity cannot be truly verified for the best results in a court determination.

It doesn’t help when a good chunk of their customer base still goes on a regular basis. I often see long lines at drive thrus in my area despite combos costing $10+.

Mainly that it’s a custom ARM processor, not your standard x86 architecture like the Intel processors were that were also available in non-Apple hardware.

macOS runs extremely well on it and I think there’s not much demand for a custom Linux distro because of that. Plus the fact that your favorite distro would have yet another architecture they would have to support by adding this in. Asahi is an exception because the team spent time doing it but I haven’t heard of any others getting Linux distros created for it yet. As time goes on and the prices decrease, we’ll start to see more teams dedicating time to creating Linux distros that support it.

+1 on Mac mini as well. I just checked OfferUp in my area and M1-M5 are insanely expensive ($500+, M1 coming out about 6 years ago) but really good machines especially for their size and decent on power consumption too.

But downside of a M series is either you run macOS or Asahi Linux and nothing else yet.

So go for the Intel Mac Minis which are much cheaper and can run nearly any Linux distro with little to no issues as you would on a Windows PC. I’m seeing $50 range in my area as well. Older are good because RAM can be upgraded on some of them, but not all. Would be wise to do research on whichever seems right.

It’s unethical that these brands get you into buying their tools and force you into their specific brand of battery when you never encounter that in stuff like a GameBoy that can use any brand of AA battery.

There are adapters on Amazon, such as ones I got, that allow my Ryobi tools to use Craftsman batteries.

It’s just one of those weird things productions do because it’s convenient for story telling, especially when it’s for kids and it’s a sitcom. You’re not supposed to take it seriously or think too much about it.

More of a reason to use Linux. Fuck the tyrants.