who is going to connect to a plex server outside of the home, and over public internet?

install tailscale to bypass this, or switch to jellyfin (though i have to admit i prefer the plex player UI)

if they can generate most of their electricity by wind, why is their electricity so expensive? you would think with so many energy sources, competition would be fierce and they would get cheaper energy

you are the one thinking it wrong. not everyone needs to deploy their vm under an elastic load balancer that automatically replaces their instances on an autoscaling group if they go down, and on top of that, do immediate failover to a different DR region.

heck, not even AWS does that. there use cases for both. everyone that went down past monday didn't have all of what i mentioned above. why? it's not easy, quick and cheap to have all of that. there's room on the cloud for all use cases.

well, the source is out there, so if the community really cares, they can rewrite it to be a native client with distro based dependencies so a snap is not needed

sometimes a snap makes sense because then it can be reused on more distros

I do like HEB but their locations in DFW are far too few and all of their locations are chaotic. I would rather get a Joe V which they only have 2 around the area.

so in the meantime i go to a walmart neighborhood market which i have 2 just 2 miles away. i wouldn't go that far to pay $100 a year just to avoid me going to the store. i don't want people choosing produce, meat and fruit for me

virtualbox is good but irrelevant to this conversation as it's not used in the enterprise so vmware doesn't care about it.

why spend resources on this? just grab one or two well established desktop distros, and ensure your packages work as good as possible. leave the distro itself up to the distro teams.

for good or worse, this means ubuntu. i have used arch before and i really like it, but it's not meant to be for the average user (if there's such a thing with linux)

i can't disable IPv6 on the google tv (huge android limitation). and i don't want to disable it on the router for every device, which means that the home screen can still easily get ads. switched to a different launcher and at least that's done. of course, can't get rid of freetime / prime / hulu ads

i have a hybrid. gets me around 450 miles. decent, although i should really be getting at least 500.

it was probably 15K more expensive compared to a equivalent gas only car, which is the thing i regret the most.

i will switch to electric once they increase the range to 500 miles and the company proves the cost of the electricity AND installing the charger is less than the gas cost.

football is the name of the game. every single country except one calls it football.

what you call football is what every single country except one calls it american football.

and if your garage is too old for this to work, you can buy a ~$35 device to make your garage smart to use this feature

there's a reason they don't do that. i would say most (90%) of deliveries would be delayed, causing a huge problem.

there's another solution amazon already has, and it's garage delivery. as long as you trust their drivers and are not in a hurry, this solves the porch pirate problem

depends on the job. i had a relative that worked on oil rigs. he was in charge of hiring. he said the indians were the best because even if they knew nothing at the beginning, they were willing to learn and do whatever to make their bosses happy. workers from other countries had lower motivation and thus lower performance.

anecdotal, maybe, but that's the point, it depends on the job and industry. same reason most construction workers in the area that i live are hispanic. they are the only ones willing to put with hard work. same can be said about most low level agriculture jobs. for a reason these workers could work even if not being legal during covid, because no one else would do the job

not expensive so that's good but wish it came with wifi6e as a default. while the software looks great this won't sell them if it's slow or doesn't offer good range

android doesn't support transferring application _data_ when doing a phone to phone transfer. that means that if i transfer an app via cable, not only will i have to login, but the app will open with no saved data at all.

  the only purpose of the file transfer seems to be to transfer your camera roll and some general settings

i wish google fixes this without requiring root and a third party app