Might want to take another look at Jellyfin. My experience has been that as long as the video file s are at least somewhat reasonably named and organized, Jellyfin has no problems identifying a file and looking up its metadata.

haha. And their current website is improved over the one I opened 20 some years ago! I think it took me a few weeks of poking around in the shell they provided to fully figure out what they were about.

The SDF started back in the late 80’s as a anime dial up BBS. SDF is a reference to the anime Robotech, A show released in the 80’s but that I grew up watching as a kid in the 90’s.

In the early 2000’s, I was trying to figure out this thing called Linux, I found a site that would give me access to a unix machine for free and it had a name and logo that reminded me of the anime I loved as a kid. While poking around I found that they had a fairly active message board, were willing to give me an email address, usenet access (albeit, limited), and would host small personal web site for me if I wanted. They were my primary email address through most of the 00’s before I, regrettably now, switched to gmail like everyone else.

Fast forward to 2022, and I find out that there is this thing called Lemmy and it’s supposed to be like Reddit but better. So I put up my own server… and it crashed and burned. Mainly due to my own stupidity. I failed to make backups and borked an update.

While I was playing with my own server, I found something interesting. Not only was the SDF still kicking, but they had decided to host Lemmy and Mastodon servers as well. So I signed up for both and started donating to the SDF again. Been here ever since. Good place, decent folks. I don’t see myself going anywhere else for a while.

How does one company have that much impact?

Because they are a very good CDN and provide excellent DDos protection. They then expanded to do a whole host of other things, to the point where they do pretty much everything. Basically, they have become the first name most folks think of when they want to put something on the internet. A one stop shop for your web hosting needs. Wouldn’t surprise me to learn they rent servers and VPS’s as well.

Been seeing it in the selfhosting communities and subreddits for a while now. “Oh I want to put this selfhosted service on the internet. I should put it behind Cloudflare!” Most of the time it’s not needed in that context.

Do you think that’s concerning?

Well, they did just take out “half” of the internet today so… In general, if it seems like “everyone” is using a single service, it’s probably a good idea to see if an alternative exists and will suit your needs. Which reminds me, I should probably start looking for a replacement for Tailscale. They’re starting to look a bit like Cloudflare to me, in the sense that “everyone”, including myself tends to recommend them as a VPN.

Avoiding the usual toilet paper and paper towel answers, Bluetooth speakers.

Decent sounding ones can be had dirt cheap, but I’ve found that ones made by power tool brands tend to last longer and be more reliable when abused. I’m more than happy to pay double price if it will last me 4 times as long before it fails on me. I haven’t had my current one very long, but the last one lasted almost 6 years of genuine abuse before it died after falling into a vat of used motor oil. The usual life span for bluetooth speakers is about 6 months (general abuse) to a year or two (battery failure). I’m a bit rough on my kit.

Matrix would probably be one of the better options, but xmpp is a pretty good choice as well.

If a bot isn’t declaring itself as a bot, yes. Report it.

KDE default, so it opens the start menu, or launcher. Whichever you want to call it.

I’ve been usingPrivate Email for the last few years. Run by NameCheap, I think. Got the account same time as my domain. No complaints so far. Haven’t heard anything troubling about them either.

It has a web ui if that’s your thing, but I’ve never used it.

Swap mvp with mplayer, and this was my setup for several years before I discovered VLC and then later, setup Jellyfin.

Each cat their own rat.

Take their money. Give your very best every moment you’re at work. And find a job that you can better live with. Or better yet, build one.

Your first priority should always be to take care of and protect yourself and your family. Build systems that enable you to be as self-reliant as practicable. You can’t help others if you, yourself, are are constantly being knocked flat on your ass.

I did notice there are no conservative subs

They exist on Lemmy, though your home instance may be blocking them or their home instances, or you just may not have seen them. lemmy.world has a fair few instances on their block list. I’ve had to block a few of the more egregious MAGA communities myself.

Remember, Lemmy (as a network) is censorship resistant, not censorship free.

In my experience, only a few care about size. Most, just care about whether a guy is able or willing to get them off.

So, what would be the community that is the opposite of buy it for life?

Seriously, I get that internet is ubiquitous in some areas, but everything should have the ability to function correctly without internet access.

If I had to guess, never having used it myself, is that it has a decent UI that simplifies sometimes complicated operations and it has been around seemingly forever.

Well, I own, but what I would do is go ahead and rent the new place and then give notice on the old place. You’ll wind up paying rent on two places for that month, but on the upside your move won’t need to be a chaotic rush.

Usually nothing. When I do have breakfast it’s either pancakes and eggs or milk and cereal. Every now and then I get a wild hair and have oatmeal.

2,500 to 3000 miles per month. Mostly commuting to and from work.

Tidal uses a higher quality codec than Youtube. Personally, I can’t hear the difference, but I also have nearly half a century of accumulated hearing damage. YMMV.

Middle aged me calls it a science trick and understands at a basic level how it works. 8 year old me would have said “Hey man! Hey man! Hey man! Check this out!” not having a clue how it worked, but it’s cool because it involves fire and magic. And promptly proceeding to set the town on fire.

Ditto potato guns, soda bottle launchers (top half a soda bottle, a coffee cup, a little water and a firecracker), Mentos granades (coke and mentos), flamethrowers (just hairspray and a lighter), vacuum cannons and other things that burned, went boom or did something else exciting.

Give the kids a break, they may not be able to communicate their understanding in standard language, but they understand far more than they, and their test scores, realize.