It was far less bad than people make it out to be. I was on a stream watching and so many comments were talking about how he looked, and I’m sitting here thinking… y’all realize he’s listening to Trump speak right? Anyone actually listening to what that monster has to say is going to either look befuddled or dismayed. He looked both. He definitely had some weak spots, but compared to Trump who wouldn’t even answer a question and blatantly lying every other second.

It sucks. People were basically cheering him on online, the most against him comments I saw were “they’re both so old”. Not commenting on the insanity or the racism or the lies, just memeing on old Biden. Which yeah he deserves it but the rhetoric is reminding me of 2016 and it does not inspire hope.

Happy Cakeday, ours is in the same week!

This makes me wonder, what is the difference in the environmental cost of uploading/downloading this data vs. shipping a USB.

I would guess that shipping emissions would be higher than digital ones, but I don’t have any basis for that theory. (I’m just curious, not trying to say or imply anything here)

FWIW I don’t want to pay $30, so you still have a market!

There’s also an app for iPhone that’s similar, called Super Local. Don’t let it get you down – look at what features these are missing and implement your own! All sorts of visual designs, custom mapping, all kinds of stuff could be done :)

This is my understanding as well, I would say this is correct

So what did you think of the game .

Well of course, if hateful people aren’t using it they can’t be sold things. We can’t have lost profits, nosireee

Thank you. I wish more people in my country would understand this.

“Whoa! Fascism in 4 years or in 50? How dare the Democrats move towards fascism, let’s not vote/vote for Trump instead!”

How this logic makes sense to anyone is beyond me. Domestic terrorism was the highest it had ever been through 2016 to 2020. People always say the left sleeps when it’s a democratic president, as if the right weren’t committing murder when Trump was in office.

That’s what I don’t understand from the don’t vote crowd.

Okay, nobody left leaning voted. Now what?

Tell that to his ketamine prescription.

My mistake I have no idea how I misread that lol. Maybe I got excited for math

Yes. Many, many people. Latest “average stats” for 7 day primetime viewing in 2023 were a bit over 500,000 CNN viewers and 1.8mil Fox News viewers.

Of course, we have to guesstimate as these are likely Nielsen ratings, as well as including things like how many TV’s per airport.

If we take the ~5,000 public airports and divide that by CNN’s 550,000k viewers (over 7 days) that would be 110 TV’s per airport needed to be playing CNN. Given that I don’t think most airports have this many TV’s, specific playing CNN, I think it’s fair to assume that there are actual people watching the news.

Coming across this 5 days later - That’s tomorrow!

Try this one

Including other causes of death… Such as not having hospitals due to being bombed?

That’s even worse.

I don’t disagree with that either. It’s a consequence of itself. She, like all these dinosaurs, felt the need to “just go one more term”. Whether the reasons are power or political plays it doesn’t fully matter. I think another example of this is Ruth Bader Ginsburg, had she left her position in 2013 or even before we wouldn’t have been in the position where she “felt like she had to stay” during Trump’s presidency, only to die anyway.

Two things can be true. It can be wrong of all of them to keep politics as an old person’s game and simultaneously be a shame that none of these people get to experience retirement. Just because they’re being inhumane doesn’t mean we need to be.

I’d say that’s a good comparison however I would argue that rather than a “team”, political agendas (literally not the stupid co-opted meaning) are comprised of micro-teams based on any given measure. As such, you have the occasional partisan bill where you are directly working with members of any party, or a variety of measures inside the party, but with overlapping groups.

But you’re absolutely right, I think the staunch example is obvious Mitch McConnell, who notoriously will not vote outside party lines even if it’s the right thing that benefits everyone. That’s not a team, there’s no intention of being one. And it seems like all the old people in politics are just like him, just not nearly as long in stay because they force the younger politicians to “wait their turn”. It’s bullshit, young people in politics would help immensely and they know that.

I feel like Feinstein is a sad glimpse at what we have to look forward to from our future, where rather than getting to retire in peace these people are kept in the system and paraded instead of being allowed to gracefully give up their position. I say that with respect to her autonomy, it’s abysmal that she never reached retirement because of how politics has been forcefully designed to be an old person’s game. These people should have been out of politics 20 years ago :(

Being from Oakland a lot of us also know that she’s totally fine jailing people for weed, you’d think that a rationale move you would try and step away from the “just doing my job DA” to “Vice President of the People” by pushing for policies that prevent unnecessary jailings.

But you’re right, I didn’t even really realize until now that Kamala has been almost seemingly less active than Mike Pence as VP. You’re probably onto something with the long term campaign, although I also wouldn’t be surprised if it was “suggested” that she let Biden take the lead or something.

That’s a tricky one. Wages in games don’t have to be low necessarily, it’s just corporations that make that more common.

Luck is a big factor, but look at the dev of Lethal Company. Wages in games is huge for them!

Oh shoot I-i mean,

You wouldn’t download a game.

We have a Hisense Roku TV and it’s extremely slow compared to the external Roku device, which is super snappy. What I do instead for the TV is just have it plugged into the downstairs computer. My partner uses the Roku TV as normal (mostly she uses YouTube) and for everything else I just have it set to the computer input or it’s a different device on my AVR (Steam Deck, Switch, record player). Whenever I want music or media playing I just open Plex in browser or with the Plex program with either the mouse or the Steam Controller. On the upstairs TV we have the Roku Express and the Plex UI is nice with a couple extra options that aren’t always available on other TV UI’s.

I’m curious though, what about Plex do you think wouldn’t replicate the streaming experience? Get it set up, get your hard drives pointed to the *arr services and set up a watchlist hook, something like Ombi or Overseer. I’m pretty sure you’d find it to be pretty much indistinguishable from HBO/Netflix/Amazon outside of the fact that each of those shows are now in one spot?

Once those 4-5 programs are set up, (Plex, Sonarr, Radarr, Jacket or Prowlarr, and Ombi or Overseer) your downloaded content is viewable on Plex, anything you watchlist on Plex is set to be downloaded.

If it’s the “browsing through junk until you see something interesting” that you don’t think will be replicated, there’s various ways to do exactly that. Personally I went from looking at useless title cards and frivolous 1-2 sentence descriptions about the show to looking at the cast of shows and movies I already have, then adding whatever else they are in to the watchlist. But it’s entirely possible to just point a “top viewed in last month” list via IMDB or trakt.tv and have those automatically downloaded. That should effectively solve the new/upcoming/popular media.

I find Plex to be far better than the streaming experience. I like to put together smart collections, like the Star Trek/Star Wars series, any new movies coming out would automatically be added to it - and their respective TV shows are shown in “related collections”, like the Marvel movies and shows. Or if you want TV shows of a certain era, like an 80’s specific playlist that you play in order or randomized. You can also set up other services like DizqueTV which allows you to create channels, so rather than putting your 80’s playlist on random you just “change the channel” and some show is a few minutes in - the good old TV experience. It also has far better details about the media, from the actor list to showing panels for featurettes. It’s like the better parts of Amazon Prime’s information (although Plex doesn’t have the trivia details).

Compared to self hosting other services, Plex is trivially easy to set up and to run on older hardware (sub $100 used). It is a little bit of overhead to get it set up, but from there it is only as much tinkering as you want it to be - I’ve personally had my server running for over 3 months now without restarting it just because I haven’t felt like “maintaining it” (keeping it updated, tinkering by adding other services etc.). And when I used it with the Raspberry Pi it never went down until I took it offline.

Overall I think the most unreliable aspects of Plex are user error, subtitles, and then the online authentication.

User error is easy to avoid because Plex itself is so simple. For subtitles, as long as you provide your own you’re probably golden. If you don’t, Plex does have a very good way of adding subtitles easily however for niche content it can be hit or miss, also you need the “version” of the media it’s subtitled for. So if you happened to get a movie with a movie production company cip that wasn’t cut out suddenly your subtitles are a good 5 seconds off and * likely all of the ones you download will be like this because you have a different movie file*. Luckily this is also pretty easily avoided by using movie files you own cough getting a different edition cough. In reality this doesn’t happen often, but it can be annoying when it presents itself and is just a byproduct of non-official sources.

And finally, Plex’s online authentication. I’ve actually had Plex pass since 2013, I got it on one of those $79 deals in college and I can honestly say in all the years of reading about people’s issues with online authentication I’ve personally never had it happen to me even during times where it’s genuinely down for everyone.

I don’t know if I changed the setting that’s supposed to fix it and I don’t remember, or if it’s because I’ve always had my Plex server running over my local network or what. But whether my internet is up or down and Plex servers are working or not, I’ve pretty much always had Plex able to access and play my media locally (I rarely use remote streaming, which may be a factor). That’s not to say I don’t understand the frustration, I’m just very thankful for not having to deal with this particular one.

Also, much of the positives are true for Jellyfin as well, though I don’t think there’s smart collections to the same extent and it’s a little more manual to get the networking aspect. Other than that though it’s a serviceable program, I just don’t use it actively.

If it’s something else about Plex that you think won’t scratch the streaming itch I’d be curious to hear about what it is.