You may sacrifice your privacy and porn viewing habits for the sake of convenience if you wish. I will not.

For what it's worth, I've switched to Jellyfin for now, and you're right - the UI is... nascent, for lack of a better term. It needs a lot of work.

Yeah it's really a waste. PleX really is the best home media server out there, at least in terms of the feature set. I'm currently using Jellyfin and I'm less than impressed. If you don't name your media files just the way they expect you to, nothing gets indexed properly, among other reasons. I think I'll try out Emby next.

I imagine they will. I was using Plex for about 5 years, and in that time, they've increasingly been pushing their "social" features more and more.

It started as a simple self-hosted media server. It's becoming enshittified as they desperately search for profits, because their original user base, people who host their own media files, are not profitable. I imagine they're trying to formulate some kind of exit strategy involving a buyout.

I dropped them a couple of months ago. Plex servers have a sharing feature whereby you can allow select friends to log in to a server you host and stream its content. Someone in their infinite wisdom decided it was a good idea to universally and unilaterally opt everyone in to a new "feature" that lets your friends (anyone with an account on your Plex server) know what you've been watching. Now, while the claim to have notified users and given them the chance to opt out of this "feature:, I can assure you, I received no such notification and was opted into sharing my viewing history with everyone who has an account on my Plex server. And yes, I have pr0n on there.

What they did was enable this sharing feature by default, and then made a half assed attempt at providing an opt out, by way of a modal popup at some point. The trouble is, with so many apps that the server can run on (my frontend was running on a Roku), they missed some, thereby opting people in to this without consent, likely violating federal law in a few dozen jurisdictions.

Once that happened, I dropped them like a hot potato, with extreme prejudice. They're a horrible company and care nothing for the end user. (Yes, I'm still pissed off about such an egregious violation of my privacy. To make matters even worse, the flat out lied through their teeth and told the world that everyone was informed.

Do not use PleX as a home media server. They will rape your privacy, lie about it, and they don't give a flying fuck.

https://www.404media.co/plex-u...
https://www.reddit.com/r/PleX/...
https://www.reddit.com/r/PleX/...

(I cannot link to their official forum as they deleted anything critical of this new "feature")

AgTiger posted a link to LiveATC in another thread. It was an Atlas Air aircraft, manufactured in 2015.

Touché

All money is already taxed money. My employer pays me with money they paid tax on when the earned it, and I pay income tax on it. The money I buy groceries with I paid income tax on, and now I pay sales tax to buy groceries. The money I bought my house with I paid tax on, on now the asset that taxed income bought me is taxed again with property taxes.

All money is already taxed, with the possible exception of gambling winnings (and even then, casinos pay income tax, and lottery tickets are bought with taxed income, so...). Your argument doesn't hold up.

Mod parent up. This is the fundamental problem with self checkout machines.

Done well, they're great. The problem is that they're generally not done well. My favorite example is two grocery stores near me. One of them allows me to search alphabetically for non barcoded items such as bulk produce. By the time I've punched in "ONI", there's five pictures of different kinds of onions, and it's easy to tap a picture for "Green Onions" from there; it takes about as long as entering a four digit code. The other store I commonly buy groceries from doesn't have this. You NEED that four digit code to ring in any produce. The hell if I know any of them. What ends up happening is I need a damned employee to babysit me as I ring in all the produce - or I need to holler over at them, asking each. and. every. time... for that damned code. The difference between those two checkout machines is astounding.

Then there's the ones that just treat you like an idiot. Things like not allowing you to void anything, or that insist on weighing every single purchase (god forbid I put that case of soda on the floor, or move a bag off the scale. Need an an employee then). If you want me to check myself out, then you need to actually trust me to do that. Then there's the ones that make me tap fifteen fucking different things just to pay and leave (Shopper's Drug Mart here in Canada is getting quite the bad rap for this).

Done well, self checkouts are great. The problem is that they're generally not done well.

I realize HP is not exactly loved - but it's mostly because of their printer shenanigans, and consumer marketed equipment. I have found their networking gear to be very good for the price point. And their support, at least for enterprise grade hardware (again, notwithstanding printers), is quite good.

When buying network gear, I default to two manufacturers - HP, and Juniper. I just don't get along well with the Cisco way of doing things, I guess. Now while I've found HP's network gear to be solid, they don't really offer much if you need more enterprisey features. That's what I buy Juniper for. I've found their configuration languages to be strikingly similar - almost to the point where they're interchangeable. I can certainly see the synergy here.

While I'll never buy or support an HP printer again (given the choice), I'll certainly give any new "Juniper but now HP!" switches / routers a try

You must be new here.

Oh, wait...

The theatre didn't sow it. Sony did.

Sony didn't reap it. The theatre did.

Non-paywalled link to TFA

It'll get really interesting when it's AI that's doing the judging.

And it will happen, to some degree, eventually.

I was reading the wrong article apparently. My mistake. The one I was reading was this , the last linked article.

Oops.

Or, you could read the article. The title here is pure clickbait (thanks, editors!)

The full title is "A new version of the CABLE land surface model (Subversion revision r4601) incorporating land use and land cover change, woody vegetation demography, and a novel optimisation-based approach to plant coordination of photosynthesis" and says NOTHING about increased carbon absorption.

This is amateur science reporting at its worst. This is how "Fake News" happens.

That is, assuming I can understand the paper well enough (there are a lot of acronyms I am unfamiliar with). It points to the under-estimate of CO2 uptake in some places, and the over estimate in others. If I understand the conclusings correctly, it is not proposing that we're sinking more carbon than previously thought, but that the inter-annual variation in carbon uptake and effect of greenhouse gases is more than thought - i.e. plants breathe more then we thought they did - maybe more in the summer, less in the winter, etc.

Again, if I understand correctly, this article concludes that temperature variations are more than previously thought - precisely the opposite of what the article would lead a casual reader to believe.