Sorta like the equivalent of explorer.exe in Windows but for your Android device. It provides the UI elements and interface to lay out your app icons and, well, launch them. I also like to think of it as the desktop interface to your Android device.

FWIW, they did say the push notification promoting a Nazi was an error that got debugged. https://arstechnica.com/tech-p...

What self hosted solutions have you been looking at?

I've used TTRSS ever since Google Reader went away, however long ago that was. Works like a champ, and there are one or two Android clients that talk to it.

Yes, exactly. Best Buy got Napster because they bought Roxio - the CD-Burning software company. LOL. "Roxio Toastt". Roxio was the first vulture to pick the bones of the original Napster, buying branding assets when the feds shut it down.

Invented virtualization.

Doesn't ANYBODY but me remember that "Napster" was actually RealNetworks? You know, the old Real.com that was the Internet's first scale, commercial streamer? Real became Rhapsody for several years. Rhapsody had no name recognition, so they bought the Napster name from it's owners... BEST BUY.

It gets weirder. Rhapsody had been Sonos' partner streaming service - and Rhapsody is also... I HEART RADIO. Now the whole Napster lot got dumped in the lap of venture capital vultures.

There is a school of thought which holds that past a certain scale, effective moderation becomes impossible. I've done moderation work and it took tons of judgement.

I know what that would do to my morale.

The story "Q. U. R." had an inventor simplify robots which were going insane from having humanoid features they had no use for. 1943.

My Briefcase was like Dropbox for your 3.5" floppy disks. I think I upgraded to a Zip drive around that time. YIPPEE!

Not everybody works like that, Tony. Some of us have hundreds of thousands of emails in their inbox (I use flags and read/unread to distinguish things that need attention).

Also rarely but sometimes you just want to scroll down 8 years back in an instant, just for fun to see what you land on, and delete a random spam email from 2016. That's information freedom.

I think it is and it's getting worse.. just like how Windows 11 is a huge step back from Windows 7 in terms of the user actually being able to control his/her computer. It's like there's this attitude by software companies that they are entitled to use the bandwidth, hardware, electricity, battery life, and user's time that the user pays for - without ever making a priority what the user really would like. Software lately is always doing 'extra' in the background while never prioritizing what is directly what the user is wanting or needing. I hate the whole industry right now. Heads need to roll for real change. Apple sucks, Google sucks, Microsoft sucks, Adobe sucks, and every other software company sucks.. and hardware companies suck for putting up with it. Ever notice how every device - even a damn TV - needs to make the user wait so 'an app can update' or ads need to load before the menu? Pick up a device you haven't touched in a week and that device will waste your time first doing whatever it needs to do.

The user needs prioritized more..

Seriously.. Microsoft can make billions of dollars without bundling or ruining the computing experience by spying on everyone and driving everyone into this fucked up paranoid world. Why do they have a need to do this? Is anything you do private at all? well not if you use Windows. Who the hell is making these decisions?

This seriously sucks.. It's like we can see we're all climbing onboard a train slowly driving us to hell.. And yet I type this on a computer running Windows 11.

I don't think it directly supports remote streaming

It does, but you'll need to route the incoming traffic through manually. For me, that involves having the router forward traffic on port 443 to the server and configuring a reverse proxy on the server to hand off traffic addressed to jellyfin.$HOME_DOMAIN to the Jellyfin daemon. In my case, Jellyfin is one service among many on a Docker host, with Caddy directing incoming traffic to wherever it needs to go.

It's not automated like Plex, but I've streamed movies and TV shows from across the country without any problems.

But they still quote "the pen is mightier than the sword", which in context is a superb description of good government:: "Beneath the rule of men entirely great, the pen is mightier than the sword". He should get credit. Besides, the opening of Paul Clifford was standard Victorian style.