Fear not, because a single person doesn’t constitute a community. And Madthumbs gets talked about every six months or so, when a batch of new users discover them. Everyone then completely forgets about them until the next cycle.

Are you new here? Madthumbs is a little loose on the old rocker. They got themselves banned out of, pretty much everywhere, because they would inject themselves in every other community spamming hatred. Some think it is just a troll, but I fear it is genuine. They do hate Linux and FOSS, and the community associated, yet insist on staying here in some sort of holy crusade against open source.

Many engaged with them in good faith years ago, but they are just out of touch with reality and any rational conversation is virtually impossible. Now they just exist alone in their own echo chamber where they just interact with themselves. The rest of us learned to leave them alone and avoid interaction if you don’t have them blocked already.

There are studies on this. Extensive research shows that physical punishment stops immediate behavior, for a very short time. In psychology it has been established for a long long time that punishment doesn’t extinguishes behaviors. In practical terms, the behavior just resurfaces when out of the source of the punishment. In cognitive terms, punishment creates resentment, emotional disregulation, that leads to revenge behavior.

And millions of drivers would disagree. The study is clear. If a driver doesn’t fear hitting something they mostly disregard painted lanes. Without protection, bikers fear the lane with good reason.

Paint is not infrastructure, no surprises there.

Super Duty is a branding term, not based on absolutely anything.

I recognize the complexities involved. But as long at data centers are fueled by a fossil based grid and use clean water for cooling, this amount of paper is not hurting more nor less. OP is fine, if they want to save trees the move is to stop corn and palm oil in products. That’s what is destroying forests.

Before full paperless, a college semester for me was a quarter of a small closet stack of paper. By the time I graduated it was a couple of notebooks and a tiny binder not larger than yours. Paper is super recyclable, paper is not what is killing the rainforest, if that is your concern. A single Google data center kills more and wastes more resource than all the tiny paper stacks of each student combined.

“I hear what you’re saying, but have you considered losing your convictions and compromising your principles?”

— average politician

Nuclear was killed by Greenpeace, not only did they take tons of money from shadowy donors to bad mouth nuclear (they turned out to be fossil industry related), they did it via spreading misinformation and plain lies. Everything incorrect the public thinks they know about nuclear power derives from a Greenpeace campaign. The worst part is that coal has killed more animals and people than all of nuclear incidents combined, including the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Wow, that’s a lot of projection on a single comment. I didn’t disagree with any of the comments. And I’m not attacking anyone. Chill down, we are talking about software ffs.

Always remember that the point of this scene is that the guy saying “I don’t think about you at all” is an insecure prick who is constantly anxious of losing his power and status. He thinks about it all the time, this scene is just bravado to keep up a façade of suave indifference, but inside he is spiraling out of control because the other dude took a project away from him. So, this meme doesn’t say what you think it says.

Pangolin then.

There’s only one, well, now two with yours, comments about that. Any negativity is being brought here by you. Sure, people who use jellyfin advocate for it whenever they can. Just like Linux users can be seen as insufferable by windows only people. Or self-host fans can be felt as insufferable by people happy giving their data to google, Microsoft, meta and apple. But then, you fucking missed your turn, this is self-host, what do you think people were going to talk about here?

I didn’t say fallacy. I said sunk cost. I’m not judging. It’s a legitimate sunk cost if it is indeed rationally better to keep using it rather than stopping.

After 22 hours and 291 comments, I can see that 80% is sunk cost, 15% never bothered to look at their Jellyfin client’s settings, and the rest use a device that doesn’t have a client for Jellyfin yet.

When setup with tunnels, cloudflare doesn’t see any media traffic. Cloudflare only needs to serve the auth and handshakes. The actual traffic is IP to IP, TLS encrypted if you setup a domain correctly. Or just use something like tailscale that sets up the certificates and domains for you.

That’s a per client behavior. Wholphin for Android, for example, does it the Plex way.

My chances of sharing a Plex library with grandma are also zero. I would still have to set it up for her. That’s a non argument.

That’s not how you calculate car costs.

You only accounted for gas. Which is only part of the running costs. I also think that 46 mpg diesel is ridiculously optimist. Double check the source’s numbers. They seem off.

What you do is count in the total cost of the vehicle and amortize it over your use case in a given period of time. Count in all running maintenance costs. This is the cost of purchase, plus insurances, registration, oil changes, scheduled maintenance and fuel. Over a period of time, divide by the total kms done or expected to be done in that time. That would be the real cost per km.

Do the same with the ebike and realize the difference is magnitudes more than comparing fuel and battery alone. Also, there is cualitative analysis to do as well. You’re comparing an ebike, assuming it will be used as an electric motorcycle exclusively. An ebike with a dead battery is just a heavy bike, you can still pedal it. A car without fuel is a useless steel hull.

If you were to do the cost analysis this way to a plain old bike, even including food costs. It comes out to be virtually free, except for the most expensive carbon fibre performance bikes.