Thank the gods for these Indian men. They’ve saved me countless times with their simple solutions to incredibly specific problems.

Haven’t tried streaming, but I have Chromecast devices set up with the jellyfin for android TV app to stream from the NAS over LAN to any TV in the house. Basically don’t have any subscription service so these things are just Jellyfin + YouTube devices.

audible mouth clicking

Hmmm… okay it sounds like the subscription model does actually make some sense for devices that need to maintain an internet connection/IoT applications. Thanks for taking the time to enlighten me.

I agree that IOT things need to be secure. Is it really too much to ask that apps/devices are made secure from the ground up?

To stay on the thermomix, all the subcription is is a connection to their servers to give access to their live step by step recipes. Surely that’s just a secure end-to-end encrypted connection? I’m not a developer but it doesn’t sound like buyers should be expected to pay the manufacturer to maintain beyond buying a thermomix/upgrading to new versions of the hardware when they want to access any new features.

I completely agree with you in principle for people who want their software updated, but there is some software that is standalone and doesn’t depend upon changing codecs/APIs etc. Something like myfitnesspal or a thermomix shouldn’t be a subscription, there is no major updates to how someone tracks their exercise uses a hot blender that justifies it beyond users being locked in.

In the example of thermomix, you’ve already paid top dollar for the hardware, getting locked out of functionality you’ve paid for stings.

We’ll always be dissatisfied with either government, but if Dutton is running the show then I hope the libs don’t get in. I’ll be voting green as usual, we’re still not seeing enough climate action in this country.

I know a lot of people who should go! They won’t of course, but it would be great if they did.

Fewer cabbages

Are there any good resources to read about this claim? It sounds interesting and counterintuitive.

I might get downvoted but, why are all of the comments here and in other threads in support of the (what seems to be) authoritarian regime? Always looked like Lemmy users trend Anti-Authoritarian and I’m confused what legitimate reason there would be to be cynical of wanting transparency around the vote.

I’ve been meaning to download the manuals of everything I own from here for my NAS. This website is a treasure.

I’ve heard dmca is an issue there. I’m not sure how stuff stays up there.

I used the wiki on r/usenet, which was pretty helpful.

From my understanding, you need 3 things:

1. Usenet Provider (these are servers that host all of the content - you pay them to have access to download the content)
2. Indexer (this is kind of like Google but for the usenet providers - they will find and give you the .nzb file which will be used to access the content from the usenet provider above - you pay the indexer for their service)
3. Usenet client (This would be akin to a torrent client like Qbittorrent - it is the program which you use to download the content from the provider, using the .nzb file provided by the indexer)

Benefits of Usenet I believe are the high speed of downloads, generally accessibility to older and more niche content, and ease of use. You don’t need to fish through torrents hoping that the seed/peer numbers are enough to actually get all of the content in good time. I’ve found a lot of stuff there lately that I have not been able to find via torrenting sites, but are important childhood media to me/my wife.

Fair enough, I was under the impression that if you are using SSL, all an ISP or VPN provider could see is that you are connected to whichever backbone provider you were connected to. I.e. The content of what you are downloading is encrypted.

You could be downloading stuff that is not illegal, and I don’t think that is necessarily knowable by anyone except yourself.

I may be way off here, I’m not an IT person, but that was my understanding of SSL.

I have wondered this as well. Seems like it is pretty linked.

Tbf, Usenet and indexers are strictly speaking, legal.

And your 2FA seed phrases

This seems the most ethical to me. Don’t pirate smaller stuff. I would say it’s ethical to also pirate where the artist has passed away and it’s just their estate who get the money, but I’d take that on a case by case basis.

That update bugwas so ridiculously poorly timed for the Linux community. Especially considering he said Pop OS was beginner friendly

For people interested in tech edutainment he’s alright and has mass appeal. My favourite videos have been more of the interesting ones showing how fast his ridiculous fibre connections are in his house.

So much terrible click bait has meant I haven’t bothered clicking in a year or so though.