For added convenience, skip the VPN and get a seedbox. If you consider the cost savings in hardware you spend even less.

Archive link against the pay/subscription wall

I have no collection whatsoever. Everything that I watched gets deleted from the seedbox. A maximum of 900GB are stored on there at any given time. It’s cheap and no hassle to maintain.

And then realize that tiling in popos is inferior and start using i3 or sway

I am glad you liked it. Can’t take the credit for this one though, I first heard it from Ed Zitron in his podcast „Better Offline“. Highly recommend.

I feel this is all just a scam, trying to drive the value of AI stocks. Noone in the media seems to talk about the hallucination problem, the problem with limited data for new models (Habsburg-AI), the energy restrictions etc.

It’s all uncritical believe that „AI“ will just become smart eventually. This technology is built upon a hype, it is nothing more than that. There are limitations, and they reached them.

82.2W average for which I pay 144.6€/a at the moment. That’s for a Ryzen 7 3700X, some hard drives and SSDs and the fiber connection to my basement. I outsourced 90% of media consumption to a VPS though, that’s another 84€/a.

Aah, the good ol‘ wooden variety

I also don’t understand. Sometimes the answer to a question is equally or more interesting than the reason a question is asked

Wow, what will they think of next!? A subscription for air? For using my own toilet? I hope this company dies quickly…

Wow, what will they think of next!? A subscription for air? For using my own toilet? I hope this company dies quickly…

This does not need to be a 8 minute video. Read your tldw instead. Thanks, OP.

Huh… so you can. That’s interesting, I did not know that. Thanks.

I am still angry at google for killing Play Music. You could upload your own files, back in the day. It was a genuinely awesome and unique product that I used every single day.

That’s exactly it! The sad thing is that it’s more convenient to pirate than get 5+ subscriptions and an extra app on your phone to stay ahead of disappearing content.

You may think they would want to use all that money to make people not need to pirate things. but here we are.

Good!

They are probably referring to the streaming services bit

Why would grandma want to do that? I have set up computers for tech illiterate people with Linux quite successfully. You just tell them: „if it wants your password, you did something wrong. Never enter your password, unless you know exactly why“ Set and forget.

I will do that, once OP contacts me and gives me some measurements.