Plex is available on many more devices. Jellyfin has PC, iOS, Android, AppleTV, AndroidTV, Roku, and LG TVs. But Plex also has PlayStation and Xbox, Samsung TVs, Vizio TVs, and many other smaller streaming boxes.

I used to run Plex. I even paid for a lifetime subscription years ago. I now run Jellyfin; it's been less of a hassle to keep it running and it puts less load on my server. I shut off my Plex container last month after switching my parents' Rokus over to Jellyfin. At home, I switched to Chromecasts (the newer ones that run Android TV) after having run OpenELEC on Raspberry Pi 3s for a while.

Plex also has better remote access support. Just enable it and setup a port forward/firewall rule. Jellyfin? Have fun configuring a VPN on each client to access it.

My Jellyfin instance shares a box with a bunch of other services. Caddy routes traffic on port 443 wherever it needs to go: to Jellyfin, to one of the *arrs, to Nextcloud, GitLab, etc. One rule at the router passes inbound port 443 off to Caddy. No VPN is necessary.

By comparison, there were more than a few instances where Plex's "it just works" networking configuration didn't just work.

The trick to understanding people who do this is to understand that they engage that magical thinking by default... but also there are less of them than there appears to be, it's the same ones making the same type of mistakes over and over, and exploiting the people who rush to help them stop hurting themselves.

I have no suggestions for how to understand the method though.

Also, there's technically no actual real snakes to extract oil from inside most computers.

Do any of your points feature anything other than motivational rhetoric? Serious question.

I think Southwest has a free checked bag and charges for carry on.

They don't charge for a carry-on or up to two checked bags.

Maybe he just understands how it functions, mathematically speaking, he understands that when crypto miners say 'work' what they mean is 'we threw away a lot of hashes', and that any blockchain based system generates 'value' through waste...?

Maybe the idea that a whole bunch of supposedly economically savvy people actually aren't and they're just posturing... is an argument you make yourself in other contexts. Think about it a little.

Known VPN services have identifiable server addresses that can be blocked. Instead, you can set up a cheap raspberry pi (or other) at your home and use an encrypted SSH connection to that [raspberry pi] from far away. Then turn on your SOCKS proxy (part of WiFi Details on Macintosh) and check to see that your IP address shows to the world you access as that of your raspberry pi. I do this all the time, including right now. It also helps to watch sports events.

absolutely.

It's kind of... revealing really, watching which of the world's businesses try to go all in on an unproven technology to replace the actual internal functioning of said business. Almost like they don't know how they actually operate... or the implications of giving away the infrastructure their core business runs on.

Truth is obviously an assessed property. I'm not sure why you think I'm arguing differently.

I'm also not disagreeing with you on the function of LLMs. I don't really think the other guy is either, he's just approaching it in terms of someone who has been tasked with integrating one into a pipeline and he's running out of hair to pull.

I'm not sure that you two are actually disagreeing with each other.

I don't think the idea that one cannot guarantee they buy more truthy data for more money is contradictory to the idea that data does not have truthiness.

I think you might agree that the technology is kind of novel, but the people building strategy around it think that it's, in function, something completely different to what it is... correct me if I'm wrong, of course.

while i appreciate your correct use of the fallacy

yeah look LLMs don't give a shit. They don't run on logical association, they just work on statistical relationships between words.

There is, unfortunately for everyone involved, an option apart from "paying more money will make the AI more accurate"

The Walmart nearest to me has been putting more and more products in locked cases. Not just laundry detergent (WTF?), but things like razors, most OTC meds, batteries, and liquor come to mind. I went to a larger store a bit further away for some things for the puppy I just got and found they'd even put dog collars and leashes in a locked case. Waiting for someone to come unlock the case (which often takes several minutes) is bad enough. On some occasions, they've even insisted on carrying the item to the checkout instead of just handing it over. For that kind of hassle, I'd just as soon fire off an Amazon order if I don't need it right now.

tl;dr: The way Walmart treats all its customers like would-be criminals isn't exactly endearing.

Bluesky looks set to replace Twitter

Bluesky is an echo chamber for shitlibs who can't cope. If you liked pre-Elon Twatter with its "trust and safety" commissars, you probably will love Bluesky.

Blueanons like rsilvergun have a hard time relating to reality.